Many years ago I attended a seminar by Gary Ault at the Middle Creek environmental center and he stated that a bear estimated to be over 1,000 lbs. was tagged with a radio collar in the Promised Land State Park. The bear dens under a summer cottage and the owners of the land had no idea it was there. It’s no surprise to hear about one this size. There are definitely some big ones in the heavy laurel and swamps of Pike and Monroe counties. The Pa. records are scored by skull measurements not gross weight. The record at this time was set in 1998 at 22.13. This bear actually weighed less than the previous record of 22.4 set by a friend, Chad Reed in 1991.