bear hunters

leaving wed for 2 days archery thurs fri,hunt sat opening day,drink do again mon and tues if needed, return home wed am prep for deer camp. man you gotta love this time of year

Headed up Thursday afternoon and setting up the tent and spread in our usual spot along Salmon Creek. Friday morning hopefully kick up some grouse, followed by some holdover bows on the fly rod before dark. Saturday morning begins with a lovely hike up heartattack hill into bear country. Only staying til Sunday. Might hit up Cougar Bobs for some of the Steeler game before heading home. Good luck to all.

Will be archery tommorrow and Friday. Smethport area. Hope to drag something out Sat. with the rest of the gang
till Tues. Good luck all.
O ya , pixs please.

GOOD LUCK and SAFE Hunting to all you guys..please post pics of fun and success!!

ORIGINAL: heyiknowyou

heard rumor of a new possible state record being harvested already, along with pictures...

 
Lots of speculation going on with that one. 

Supposedly PGC investigating circumstances of the kill.  Nothing official yet, just loads of rumors. 

Many of the archery kills are followed up on.  Many times the hunters most show a officer where the bear was killed. 

Took a bear in Maine a few years ago with the bow. NOT an 800 lb monster but a very acceptable bear. The bow was a very quick and effective kill ( heart shot). Would think that an investigation would have some sort of complaint involved, but there are always guys who "know" and will spread any kind of talk about someone elses good fortune. Even when they were miles away when it happened-they KNOW..
Had permits to hunt a farm in Ct years ago and when the locals luck started to run down they KNEW we were killing ALL the deer and told everyone they could find all about it. The sport shops , local range and local enforcement. They even knew exactly how many deer we had illegally killed. Fact of the matter was we had hunted that farm very little and had NEVER taken a deer there.

 Blaze- hope your dad scores-its the hunting not the killing but now and then you gotta score

dpms you could tell them you killed it anywhere.MY cousin husband talked to a wco the other day in game lands 51.He told him that they can't make you take them to the exact spot.How would they know the exact spot you killed it you could killed it on one mountain and take and gut it out on another.The wco also told him that 9 out of 10 archery bear are baited.I guess they don't give bow hunters much credit.My bet is he used one of them amazing things called a trophy rock

Will be in Potter county Sat and Mon and then back to work.
Good luck out there, lots of bears around, don't think we will have any snow to help us this year.

If you were hunting the same area I KNOW that you would also be fined for hunting as there is no set distance you have to be away from bait know it or not. The PGC will not cut you no slack. I see a decrease in the amount of archery bear hunters to come simply because of cases like this one.

ORIGINAL: 270wbmag

after riding more than 100 miles on saturday, I see no significant increase in bear hunters, many miles of woods, no hunters at all..heard 1 shot in quehanna while i was pulling camera's for over an hour..lots of cubs being shot....check in station don't weigh them any longer so people don't get all upset..just put estimate weight...and juvenile..how can you shoot a cub???
beyond my belief...

 
So let me get this right.  There are very few hunters and very few shots, but they are killing all of these cubs.  Interesting....

BOZO DEAD,a pet bear fed for 17 years,thanks guys for killing him,you make us all look like SLOBS THAT YOU ARE,I hope you guy's are proud of the great EXACUTION. Read the real story and see the pic's of Mr. Lewis feedig and hugging his pet bear,you don't put 9 arrows in a wild bear,it would run.

Maybe some of you guys should go to a check station....100 bears checked in on sat/sunday..record for elliot park check station..at least 10 per cent were cubs..wow..what a trophy..for you uniformed...there are more hunters out than in the area i travel..most went home sunday..hardley seen a car on 30 mile ride this am...some cubs shot were not 30 lbs...great trophy huh?????? shoot too many bears and no more saturday openings I would bet...worm, you probable shoot cubs...right?????...mighty hunter you are...

Lil G. writes
"Maybe some of you guys should go to a check station....100 bears checked in on sat/sunday..record for elliot park check station..at least 10 per cent were cubs.."

Well then that means that 90 of them were adults. So that doesn't seem like to bad of a ratio to me. The ratio of fawns killed to adult does is much higher and there are still plenty of deer around.

Lil G/270WB why is your glass always 1/2 empty?

Mike