BTB, I do go through those woods regularly. I am down there atleast once a week. I have heard that bears eat corn, could that be why he is there? He is pretty much surrounded by cornfields. pabearhunter, yeah, his tracks came off and went into a strip of brush probablly 80 yards wide and 300 yards long. It looks more like texas sage brush. It is a bunch of bushes/crabb apple trees with trails going all through it. The brush is probablly a good 10 feet high. You can easily get lost in the stuff if you aren't careful. You can only see a couple feet in front of you at a time.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
P.S. Only Chuck Adams can sit at home and see deer so get into the woods. =;^)

sounds like the bear has a good area to hibernate in. concidering the mild winter we are having. how was the acorn crop this year in that area? rememeber that big bears like thick areas. if i was u i would scout that area out to find out where he might be denning up at. look for old bear sign or fresh sign, like scratches on trees,scat and old logs. i found that bears like old logs.
or dead trees. like alot of other members said on here, the bear could be a male and he might leave the area when the breeding season comes in. but i would find out alot about that bear before next season come in. good luck to u.

Edited by - pabearhunter on 01/27/2002 10:36:36

Wow! There's only a 3 day black bear season in PA?....We have 2 month's here in MN...and the limit is 2 bears! If your season is only 3 days I would suggest that you find the bears den, drug him and report him to authorities...He'll probably get a short prison sentence,as most first time drug offenders do... hopefully in the prison behind your house....if you do it now he should get paroled just in time for the 2002 november bear hunt...and you'll be waiting...good luck!

How many points did he have????
The Viking!!

Viking:
LOL Luv your sense of humor.

Hard to beleive there's a place with only a 3 day bear season. With our year round, three bears a year season, I can't imagine only having three days to hunt 'em.

We've always looked at black bear hunting as the filler sport. We do it when we are not hunting anything else, or when we just happen upon a nice one, while hunting something else.

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I think I should move to Alaska! I have a huge passion for blackbear hunting....My partner and I run about 16 bait stations each year...we try to get a look at every bear possible over the two month season. Usually we end up hunting right up to the last week of the season...it's great! By the time the last couple of weeks role around, just about everyone has given up or harvested thier bears and we're left alone with the big, smart ones...it's a challange, and has been very rewarding when we get a chance at a real trophy. I've harvested about 20 Minnesota black bears with bow over bait, the largest to date was an eight year old, boar...19 2/8 b&c, and he tipped the scale at a bit over 500# field dressed....

How many points did he have????
The Viking!!

Viking:
Wow! That's a big bear.

You're probably getting bored with tree stands my now, so you'll have to move to ground blinds

I've never hunted from a tree stand in my life. All my bear have been spot and stalk bear, or run into 'em by accident bears.

This year, for the first time, I and a buddy of mine, are going to go into a very secluded area, that no one else knows about, and build a very large platform high in the cottonwood trees on this particular lake, overlooking a heavily traveled bear trail (both griz and blackies).

We will haul all the material in by snow machine, and complete construction before spring season starts.

When it comes time for the bear to be moving again, we will actually be camping up on this platform, with all the necessities for staying several days at a time.

With Alaska's 24 hour daylight, it will be really cool to see all the activity in the surrounding lakes, and to film what we don't shoot.

Trick is to stay quiet while up there, but that's not a problem with us, as we're both long time hunters, and use to quiet and solitude. We'll even have a porta pottie up there with us. Might have to use the biobags to bomb bears that are trying to climb up to us

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lol, yeah there is only 3 days of bear hunting in pa. but you have to know that pa bears were not plentiful years ago. there use to be only one day of bear hunting back 30 years ago. but like i said, the bears are on the rise and there are more human/bear complaints every year. we also have over 100,000 hunters that hunt those 3 days. the game commision estimates about 20 percent of the bears are killed from the population of bears in pa. i won't get into how they figure that out, but it is from the tagging of trap bears and the killing tagged bears that were trapped, is how they get this number. but anyhow u have to scout hard and then ur not really sure u will see a bear. there are alot of hunters where the bear sign are. so no bear sign goes undetected here in pa. it would be nice to have a longer season like some of you guys have. but i guess i will have to visit some of you states to bear hunt. right now i am looking at maine to hunt bear. but anyhow, i like this forum, i have gained alot of information on here about bears. keep it up you guys.

i have a prob w/ bears. my dad has a 81 acre lease in tn and a bear got in on it and tore our feeders to peices.

Hog Hunter:
I have to laugh at this post. It does me good to know that we Alaskan's aren't the only ones that suffer from bear vandalism

Many of our cabins are routinely trashed by bears. We typically fasten planks with nails driven through them (nail tips up), onto the floor of the porches when we leave, and we will do the same on all the window sills, and we also board the door up with heavy timbers.

Those damn bears will try to get in through the roof if they can reach it.

Once in your cabin, you can kiss everything inside goodbye. They seem to take great joy in trashing a place.

The only thing that I know of that is worse, is wolverine, and that's only because they piss on everything that they don't eat.

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so that means if I hunt up there I should put all my important thngs in a steel box?<img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>And that reply about the wolverines urinating on everythingthat they don't eat,I almost died laughing about that!<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>