In late December 1974, 2,064 hunters prowled the woods and fields of 37 Pennsylvania State Game Lands in search of their quarry, the whitetail deer. Over the next three days, these hunters would tag 65 deer, only four bucks. In terms of the impact on the overall season, this was a drop in the bucket, as hunters would bag 125,891, including 54,963 bucks, during the entire season. But those three days were about more than numbers; they were about tradition-old and new.