I hav'nt seen any posts from you va. bear hunters yet this year?,,,,,Has anyone seen any bear,,,and if so when and where? Im gonna try to devote the rest of the season to bear hunting the GWN forest and any other area open to the public even if i have to drive for hours,,,I just got pictures of the bear that my dad got in Pa. yesterday and it really has me stoked up,,,any tricks of the trade will be greatly appreciated,,,Good luck hunting!

I haven't even seen any bear pics in my local hunting stores

i know west of the blue ridge people were seeing a lot in the early season...my grandfather's bunch treed 11 in one day during their best training season day

Picked up my venision from my meat processor yesterday in Augusta County and he was skinning a deer then.I asked if they had been busy and he said to busy with lots of deer and a lot of Bear brought to them yesterday for processing. Mike

here in the valley there are lots of bear being killed in the past week my friends have killed a 180lb,220lb,280lb,468lb,480lb and a 600lb bear. all within 3 miles of my house. i killed 2 bear back in sept on crop damage tags. if i were going to hunt bear here i'd go to the national forest between harrisonburg and montery along the virginia ,west virginia boundrys. i' m not near any national forest,i live 1 mile from the shenandoah national park which is a great safe haven for bear,but the corn fields are below my house . so we get lots of bear here. i just heard an hour ago that some other bear hunter friends killed 3 on NF yesteday while running dogs . they didnt say how big they were.

I've hunted them in alleghany with no success, but a ton of sign so i know they are there

The best advice I can give you is to try and find some private ground that is near or borders the SNP. We've been covered up in bear this year and last.

i've never killed a bear or even seen one in the wild. if anyone has any land and wants to fix me up on a hunt, I'd gladly bring you some deer meat in exchange for a day.

Had a few friends kill some in I think in Chesapeake then up here in the mtns. so far. Haven't been bear hunting in a few years though, too many rabbits to hunt