for hunting in your area, i would say it should be easy.. go to your oak forests, your apple orchards, preferably those that are wild, but most of all CORN FIELDS. you won't mistake the damage a bear will make in that corn field for a racoon, that's for sure. and if you can sit there, even for just a few nights, in a row, if the conditions are right, you'll have it. corn first, apples second, nuts third for me. find a spot with two out of the three available, and you'll really have something happening. and remember, they like their corn just like we do, ripe, but generally not early. around here in vt, apples around the beginning of the season, or berries and nuts( early sept), corn, then apples from mid sept on.