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You just gotta see this thing.
Young hunter nabs enormous black bear
Updated: Thursday, 24 Nov 2011, 9:16 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Nov 2011, 10:00 PM EST
[*]Jacquie Walker
[*]Posted by: Eli George[/ul]
ULYSSES, P.A. (WIVB) - Philip Smith of Ulysses, Pennsylvania, a retired forest ranger, sent us a Report It! picture of a record-setting bear shot during a recent hunting trip.
Smith says 18 year-old Jonathan Byler shot the largest bear on record in Pennsylvania this season, a 746 pound black bear taken in Potter County last Saturday. The Pennsylvania Game Commission confirms the kill, reporting the next largest bear processed at check stations so far this season weighed 734 pounds and was killed in Wayne County, PA.
Thirteen people from Byler's hunting party were needed to carry the animal out of the woods, and Byler asked Smith to document the kill.
Smith, who has known the family for years, says Byler is Amish and he believes the family will use the bear for meat and will donate the pelt to a taxidermist.
This is about 60 miles from us. Simply the largest living thing that could be living in the woods around here....
Kind of a shame to shoot him, but WOW![/align][/align]
Young hunter nabs enormous black bear
Updated: Thursday, 24 Nov 2011, 9:16 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Nov 2011, 10:00 PM EST
[*]Jacquie Walker
[*]Posted by: Eli George[/ul]
ULYSSES, P.A. (WIVB) - Philip Smith of Ulysses, Pennsylvania, a retired forest ranger, sent us a Report It! picture of a record-setting bear shot during a recent hunting trip.
Smith says 18 year-old Jonathan Byler shot the largest bear on record in Pennsylvania this season, a 746 pound black bear taken in Potter County last Saturday. The Pennsylvania Game Commission confirms the kill, reporting the next largest bear processed at check stations so far this season weighed 734 pounds and was killed in Wayne County, PA.
Thirteen people from Byler's hunting party were needed to carry the animal out of the woods, and Byler asked Smith to document the kill.
Smith, who has known the family for years, says Byler is Amish and he believes the family will use the bear for meat and will donate the pelt to a taxidermist.
This is about 60 miles from us. Simply the largest living thing that could be living in the woods around here....
Kind of a shame to shoot him, but WOW![/align][/align]