PA Bear season
 

Ok, rifle bear opens tomorrow. Good luck to everyone hunting.

Here's numbers from the early seasons.





-Jake

First two days have a pretty good harvest so far. Some big ones for sure.

Wishing I had more time to be out. Took kids to the check station today and saw two bears while there. Kids had fun.

Updated numbers after Monday.





-Jake

Sure wish they'd let us bait or hunt with dogs here....:nonono2:

Why? It isn't like we need dogs to reach harvest goals in PA.

Strictly personal greed & wants. Humping it up & down the side of a mountain through mountain laurels and swamps for low-success opportunity isn't my bag.

Two things I doubt we will ever see in PA, chasing bears or deer with dogs.

I personally think there are already enough folks (cheaters) in pa that use bait to kill bears
I personally like the system we have now, I think its fair and keeps the bears from becoming less of a problem
as taching them to eat at bait in so many places we have house's just seems like asking for problems with trash cans and other thinsg to increase,a s they will associate so many things with bait yr round humans toss in trash


more remote places I can see baiting being a option to get numbers in check, and less problems from doing so!

as for dogs, never been a fan of using them to hunt big game period, but where legal I have NO issue's, but again wouldn;t want that here in PA
I'd worry too much about some trigger happy idiot shooting a dog
or again, maybe chasing a bear into traffic and causing an accident, as just too many small places near humans bears live in PA! IMO

You are probably right.