![]() ![]() Moose (Bull) 1,330 lbs., field dressed, Willard & Sterling Waterman, New Gloucester, ME, 1982, Marsardis. Chase Lodge/Wilderness Variety proprietor Sherri Skinner hunt witnessed by Kevin Pagnano. Live weight certified by Warden Scott Martin and Mt. dressed), Paul Reed, Jr., Durham ME,, Mt. Agatha.īlack Bear (Crossbow): 577 lbs., live weight (est. Whitetailed Doe (Antlered): 222 lbs., six points, Justin Ridlon, Wayne, ME,, Wayneīlack Bear (Firearms): 699 lbs., Matt Knox, Waynesboro PA, Guided by Grand Slam Guide Service, Greenville 9/7/12īlack Bear (Archery): 540 lbs., field dressed, Justin Cook, South China, ME, 08/25/14, New Sharonīlack Bear (Sow): 334.5 lbs., field dressed, (estimated 384.8 lbs., whole) Tom Sullivan, Portland, Conn., August 28, 2006, Mapletonīlack Bear (Sow): 355.5 lbs., whole weight, (estimated 303.2 lbs., dressed) Mary Lepley, Charlestown, WV, Augusta 27, 2014, Shirleyīlack Bear (Sow – Archery) 328 pounds, Kyle Stokes, Annville, PA,, St. Whitetailed Doe (Bowhunting): 172.2 lbs., field dressed, Shawn MacFarlane, Dixfield, ME, 10/18/12 in Dixfield Whitetailed Doe (Firearms): 185 lbs., field dressed, Steve Letourneau, Turner, ME, 11/11/04, Lower Enchanted Township Whitetailed Doe (Firearms): 185 lbs., field dressed, Luke Arsenault, Lisbon Falls, ME, 11/1/92, Seboomook Township Whitetailed Buck (Crossbow): 252 lbs., field dressed, 7 points, Hunter Ingersoll, Embden, ME,, Embden Whitetailed Buck (Bowhunting): 268 lbs., field dressed, 8 points, Andrew Brazier, Acton, ME, 10/1/18, Charleston But to turn around and have something like this happen? It was totally awesome, just totally unbelievable.Whitetailed Buck (Firearms): 355 lbs., field dressed, Horace Hinckley, Augusta, ME, 1955, Concord ![]() "I always dreamed of shooting a big buck out in the Midwest or somewhere. "It's so exciting, because this is my life, hunting and fishing, you know?" Burkhardt said. Those who do might someday find themselves experiencing what Burkhardt and Whipkey did the rush of taking a monster black bear with a bow. It's just up to hunters to take advantage of the opportunities. In the northcentral region, for example, the vast majority of bears killed each year spend most of their lives on public land, Ternent said. But the northeastern Pocono region has public land interspersed with private holdings, and the northwest and southwest corners of the state have plenty of public ground too. The northcentral region of the state - commonly referred to as the "Big Woods" - has more contiguous acres of public land than anywhere else. And the Game Commission owns more than 1.4 million acres of Game Lands open to public hunting. State parks account for another 300,000 acres most of them open to hunting. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has 2.1 million acres of State Forest, all of it open to hunting. Such bears are available to anyone, too, given Pennsylvania's massive amount of public land. "When you seen an animal that big that close, it's awesome." To think that you're chasing an almost 600-pound animal on the ground with a bow, it was pretty amazing," said Whipkey, himself a still-hulking former college football lineman. "It was the wildest part of my hunting career. It emerged from one of those hellish thickets to step onto a gas line clearing, where Whipkey was able to get an arrow into it from just 20 yards away. Whipkey was bowhunting with Ulery last fall in Indiana County in southwestern Pennsylvania when he shot a bear that weighed 571 founds. The tangles hold you up," said Tim Ulery, one of Whipkey's cousins and a man who has shot several bears in Pennsylvania and once led a group of 13 hunters that killed eight bears in three days. "There are a lot of places we drive that when you fall, you don't hit the ground. Others, like Bryon Whipkey of Wexford, a suburb of Pittsburgh, hunt them like they do in the rifle bear season, by placing some hunters on stand and having others drive bears by pushing through the thickest, nastiest, most inhospitable tangles to be found anywhere in the woods. Some, like Burkhardt, hunt from stationary stands. ![]() "I would guess it's simply a matter of people who are bowhunting for bears are not focusing on Pennsylvania." It's funny that bowhunters haven't stumbled onto a few of those," Hisey said. "I know from scanning the Boone and Crockett record books that Pennsylvania produces quite a few big bears, in terms of body weight. The fact Pennsylvania does not probably scares some hunters off, he said. The top record-book bear states and provinces, namely Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and Wisconsin, all allow baiting. That's almost certainly due, at least in part, to a state regulation that prohibits hunting bears over bait, said Pope and Young's executive secretary, Kevin Hisey. ![]()
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