I'm new to the area from Georgia and I used to hunt a lot of wild boar back in the day. I'm keen to get back into hunting and I wanted to know if there was anywhere to hunt boar in SE PA? Particularly in the Chester County area, but I am willing to travel.

Short answer is no! There are a few places that have populations, none in SE PA, the the PGC wants killed but the problem is access, those who have them want them for themselves. If you want to hunt hogs, PA is not the place to do it. I am from SE PA, I hunt hogs, I go south to where they are.

What OT said... While there are a few pockets with hog populations, there isn't really hunt-able population. I saw one once in Indiana county, but it was gone before I could process what I'd seen and react... We were putting on a deer drive and it came flying out of the brush and right back in a few yards later. Several people in the area saw hogs that year, and rumor was they had escaped from a farm. But again, not a huntable population. Good deer, turkey, small game and Bear hunting in the state though..
-Jake

Well, if there's turkey around then I suppose I still have some game I can go after. Maybe deer as well. I'd love to try bear hunting, actually, as we didn't have a whole lot of it in Georgia. When are they usually in season?

Go to the PGC website here. http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/portal/se...unity/pgc/9106 click on seasons and bag limits or the hunting digest and find bear season. There are several starting in Sept in a few management units for archery, then a muzleloader season and a regular firearms season with some extensions. If it was only one season I would have just posted it, I got it from my digest.

While there isn't a LOT of wild hogs in Pa YET---They are making their way up there. But living in Chester county, you have LOT's of deer there and can get many tags to fill your freezer. But unless things have changed, it is a shotgun/muzzleloader only part of the state.

There are lots of deer in Chester Co., however getting access to land to hunt is a problem.

Na, the Amish folks around there are super nice as long as you treat them respectfully. I never in 20 years had a problem getting access in Chester or Bucks. They actually give you a big ole Amish grin if they see you pullin out an old smoke pole or a re-curve! But I always helped them out with some work during the summer. Like barn raisings and such. Always had a kind word for them and they for me (for a "gentile"). Especially when they would see my big ole carcass climbing out of my truck and strapping on a tool belt

You have not been in Chester or Bucks county lately! Both are bedroom communities of Philadelphia and anti hunting sentiment is rampant. If you do not know anyone with property, you will not find a place to hunt and the small amount of public land is over run with hunters. I don't know how long it has been since you were in that area but there are few Amish, land is far too expensive for them to buy to farm and what there is is minimal. I live next door, I also know the reason the area has too high a deer population is because of lack of hunting access.

Same thing around Pitt. If you can find land, you'll be into deer. But finding land is tricky.
-Jake