CNB Hunting/Fishing News for Pennsylvania: ELK HARVEST RESULTS RELEASED

Twenty-seven bulls taken in one-week season; harvest totals 88 elk.

More than 82 percent of the hunters participating Pennsylvania’s 2014 elk hunt have taken home a trophy.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission today announced 88 elk were taken by hunters during the regular one-week elk season that ended Nov. 8. And for those licensed to hunt antlered elk, also known as bulls, the success rate was 93 percent.
The 2014 harvest included several large elk. Sixteen bulls each were estimated to weigh 700 pounds or more, with the heaviest bull taken in this year’s hunt estimated at more than 872 pounds. That bull, which sported a 7-by-7 rack, was taken by Mark Colt, of Ligonier.