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big bear harvested at camp!!

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  1. Scotty Overkill

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    Congratulations to my good buddy Craig on a great Pennsylvania black bear he shot yesterday! This bear was harvested 7 miles from my home.

    Hunting bear in PA isn't easy, no bait or lures are used. It's just old fashion hard work in the mountains.

    The bear weighed in at 415 live weight, so I'm told at the moment. I hunted bear with this crew for MANY years, I know the hard work they put in driving and posting the steep, laurel and rhododendron-packed terrain we hunt. Can't wait to go to camp and hear the story!!!

    Craig with his beautiful harvest!
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    Beautiful coat...
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    Craig and his wife, Lori. Two fantastic people I consider extended family!
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    The group hunting that day
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  2. Smokinpiney

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    Wow that is a big ol bear! Congrats to your friend!
     
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    Nice bear! Do they allow hounds?
     
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    I was gonna ask the same question Backwoods.
     
  5. Scotty Overkill

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    No. You're allowed driving, pretty sure a roster of no more than 20 or 25.
     
  6. Will C

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    It looks like he shot it with a Winchester 88-a true Pennsylvania Classic! There was 4-5 of them in my father's hunting gang back in the 60s and 70s.
     
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    That has to be some tough bear hunting!
     
  8. Leadfarmer

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    Some reason pics won't come up. This sucks
     
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    Yes, that does suck. If you PM me your email I can send it to you.
     
  10. Leadfarmer

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    Thanks for the pics buddy
     
  11. Scotty Overkill

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    Just on this post or the pics here in general?
     
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  12. Leadfarmer

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    Scotty would you know why pics arnt loading with my tapatalk they are on another site
     
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  13. Leadfarmer

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    All pics on fhc
     
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    Pennsylvania holds some massive black bear!

    Great hunt, congrats to your friend! :)
     
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  15. Scotty Overkill

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    Maybe Grizzly Adam can help. They work for me, but I'm not using tapatalk
     
  16. Grizzly Adam

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    I think with tapatalk you can do different setting for different sites. I would check that out.
     
  17. Leadfarmer

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    It has always worked before, I even shut phone down an that didn't help....daygum phoney things anyway
     
  18. Grizzly Adam

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    I dont know, i have pretty much no control over how tapatalk interprets our site.
     
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    I was gonna third the question on dogs. saw my answer.

    They still con hunt bear with dogs here. There is a 2 week season 1 still hunt one with dogs. I think there is 3 counties you can legally bear hunt here. There is 2 populations of bears here, the coastal ones and moutain ones. Only the mouthing population is huntable.
     
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    Oh boy. A few weeks ago that woulda optimally been the most accurate autocorrect you ever typo'd......
     
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