|
|
Post by bula on Nov 23, 2017 8:46:40 GMT -5
Got in last night, slept 10 hrs ! We now have a bigger collection of scat and track pics. One guy, our most youthful and energenic, did jump one but things happened too fast for a shot. Still, bearable weather and good friends and food. We got a hoped for visit, COR came up Sunday to visit and got drafted to hunt with us Monday. Spent all day in the laurel jungles. He let us try his beautiful 500 L.. Thanks COR, guys talked of it later, wowed. Oh, Happy Thanksgiving ! this webforum on the list of things thankful for.
|
|
|
|
Post by contender on Nov 23, 2017 21:49:25 GMT -5
A bad day hunting,, is better than a good day at work.
Seriously,,, sounds like you had a good time!
|
|
|
|
Post by seak89 on Nov 24, 2017 4:27:43 GMT -5
Love living in the bear woods here. Black bear is only closed three months of summer and five months to hunt brown bears but I'm mostly a watcher now and leave them alone unless they start something. Have taken thirteen with handgun and three with rifle so I'm content to watch or help others get on one. There is nothing and then a bear just appears and you scratch your head wondering how you didn't see them get where they are,love it.
|
|
|
|
Post by bula on Nov 24, 2017 8:00:29 GMT -5
Penn really has some BIG black bears. Due to restrictions, success rate is 3-4% though. No baiting, no dogs. So locals gather groups up to the allowed 35 man crews and do big drives. Our camp has never really hunted bear seriously, more a training/scouting for deer thing until this year. Will send Doug a pic in a bit of a very big Penn bear. Not mine.
|
|
|
|
Post by seak89 on Nov 24, 2017 12:52:40 GMT -5
Yep Penn has big black's and bean field rifles
|
|
|
|
Post by dougader on Nov 24, 2017 13:30:44 GMT -5
Pic of a huge blackie from Bula/Steve:  . |
|
|
|
Post by bula on Nov 24, 2017 13:54:12 GMT -5
To be clear,this not my bear. There were some busters checked in. This one I was told/sent. Beanfield rifles a Carolina/Georgia thing. Penn folks hunting bear with there deer stuff and doing drives in the thickest bleep they can push thru. Laurel jungle like in the pic. A M1895 45-70 with bayonet the way to go.. or a 480..
|
|
|
|
Post by squigz on Nov 28, 2017 10:24:30 GMT -5
Bear camp was not a successful one for us this year in NEPA. Last year we had 5 bear down and at the station on the first day and the second day we took three more. This year we didn't even see a single bear and barely any sign of them at all. At least I still have another week to hunt them, in our WMU we're allowed to hunt them through the first week of deer season.
|
|
|
|
Post by bula on Nov 28, 2017 11:49:30 GMT -5
Luck ! You guys seem to be WAY ahead of the averages with your success.
|
|
|
|
Post by squigz on Nov 28, 2017 15:36:13 GMT -5
Luck ! You guys seem to be WAY ahead of the averages with your success. We have a heck of a group with perfect farm lands with corn fields all around and thick heavy pine and spruce trees down in a valley between all the fields to protect them. Also there's 4 swamps in total on all the properties we go on, so we usually go through with hip boots during the push. Quite a dedicated bunch. For whatever reason we got skunked. First time they said since the mid 90's that they didn't get a a bear while hunting. The bear numbers themselves were way down from P.A. GameCommision supposedly so it must have been a slow year all around. Lots of deer, two wall mounter bucks I had standing in front of me at 25 yards.. Also like they knew they weren't in season and I couldn't do a thing to them. |
|
|
|
Post by bula on Nov 29, 2017 8:22:57 GMT -5
Funny, sorta, in the 3 days hunted I saw more legal bucks than I've EVER seen in Penn.. Bear sign, one jumped. We had fun, the usual rain/snow stuff.
|
|
