Biggest bear taken in PA this season weighed 772lbs!

http://rackemupblog.com/2013/11/30/7...nd-black-bear/

WOW! Look at the head on that brute!

PA kicks out some very big bear. I have an old Navy buddy that grew up in Galeton, PA. He is a member of a club that has about 15000 acres and they take at least one 500+ lb bear a season. I hunted whitetails with him once and the club photo board was impressive when it came to bear. Mostly they hunt them by conducting drives. I never did a bear hunt there but I'd like to.

NC also kicks out some 600+ lb black bears every season.

That's a hoss of a bear. But, being born and raised in PA, doesn't surprise me at all. We put up a few 700lb bear a year. Remember the 880lb crossbow bear from 2010?

We got a 300 pounder this year.

Was that the bear that was handfed and raised by some guy?

Those eastern black bears spend their lives feasting on crops and limitless acorns. No wonder they get so huge. Very few fish fed coastal blacks in AK ever reach that size and in the Rockies forget about it.

Something like that. It was a wild bear that was killed on State Game Land by legal means. But, it is true that a maintenance worker at the Fernwood Resort used to feed that bear on a regular basis.

That does not make it a tame bear or domestic or a pet. It is a legal game animal and, if anything, a bear that needed to be shot before it killed someone.

I'm not saying that you were going in that direction, just that there was a lot of controversy and some people thought the thing was a pet that was shot in its kennel.

Was he feeding it by hand? Certainly the bear wasn't afraid of humans if he was, and wouldn't use his natural instincts to escape when close to a hunter.

That's why it's illegal to feed any wild animals in Colorado. Not that it stops jerks from doing it anyway.

I don't think he was feeding by hand. He was just throwing food off his deck. Twinkies were mentioned in a couple articles.

The bear was shot in the woods on state hunting land, a good distance away.

So, when that bear saw a hunter he thought Twinkies instead of getting out of there.

Someone should shove Twinkies up that guys butt. No doubt he was some tree hugger.