Pennsylvania Preliminary Two-Day Bear Harvest Results

By AmmoLand Editor JE

USA -(Ammoland.com)- After two days, 1,893 black bears have been harvested as part of Pennsylvania’s statewide bear season, according to preliminary totals released Monday by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Archery and other early bear season harvest data is not available at this time. Bears have been harvested in 53 counties during the statewide season so far.

Four bears exceeding 600 pounds were taken on the season’s second day, Nov. 21. The top 10 bears processed at check stations on the season’s first two days were either estimated or confirmed to have live weights of 610 pounds or more.

The largest of those bears – a male estimated at 700 pounds – was taken in ­­­Barrett Township, Monroe County, by Chad D. Nauman, of Cresco, Pa.

He took it with a rifle at about 7 a.m. on Nov. 19, the season’s opening day.

Other large bears taken in the statewide season – all with a rifle – include: a 666-pound male taken Monday in Leidy Township, Clinton County, by Ryan Grieb, of Leesport, Pa.; a 662-pound male, taken Monday in Homer Township, Potter County, by Grant Ruhl, of Lebanon, Pa.; a 642-pound male taken Saturday …Read the Rest

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