The state dropped the size limit a few years ago because of the dificulty on judging the size of a live bear. People would shoot a bear and then leave it in the woods if they didn't think it was going to make the 100 pound mark.

i don't have much trouble judgeing them.

Most people haven't seen as many bears as you

there is that to take into concideration. i've only looked at a couple of hundered

Thats it...

well concidering i've been hunting them for almost 16 years and can remember a couple of years where i was under 30+ trees with bear in them.

So if you see a bear in Pa you can shoot it
I don't think that is a good thing
I think someday that will hurt the bear hunting there

They want to take more bears out and start to reduce the population. A lot of the prime bear habitat is being built up (doesn't that sound familiar?) and they are having more and more bear/human conflicts than ever.

This is my first year bear hunting.I went to Wv saw 3 bear's and know just with
a quick look 2 were over 100 pound's 1 was just a litte one 70 to 100 pounds
So if I can tell a live bear is over 100 pounds you must be a dumb #$$ if you can't tell that dead is over 100 pound's

thank's

if it looks like mickey mouse let it go cause it's a small bear . i like to get on the big mean ones, i'll leave the little guys that are close to 100lbs to hunt another day when they grow up.