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In North Jersey, hunters moving in on black bears | Philadelphia Inquirer |
Two days earlier, the trio had made the nearly two-hour trek from Camden County to participate in the state\’s first black bear hunt since 2005. They took a week off work and bagged their first trophy on the third day. \”We were crawling around all night to get this one,\” yelled Bonamassa, 43, an electrician from Mount Ephraim, as he jumped from the truck. His friend Chris Brennan, a carpenter from Bellmawr, had been waiting for hours around the swamp, near the Catfish Water Tower in Worthington State Forest, when the bear lumbered into sight. He hit it from 70 yards with a 12-gauge slug, Brennan said. The bear fell, got up, took another slug, and ran off. The group searched for the dying creature until nightfall, then returned in the morning and found it dead. \”Four hundred thirty-two,\” announced a New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife official, who explained that before it was gutted, the animal\’s \”live weight\” was over 500 pounds.
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HUNTING AND TRAPPING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WINTER
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe reminds hunters and trappers they still have a mixed bag of seasons from which to choose after the statewide firearms deer season concludes on Saturday, Dec. 11. They include seasons for deer, snowshoe hare, ruffed grouse, squirrel, cottontail, pheasant, coyote, fisher, bobcat, beaver and other furbearers, crows, doves and waterfowl.
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