PA only has a 4 day bear season. Really the only successful way to kill bears in PA is to put a drive on and push them out of the thickets they like to hide in. Last year our group killed 2 bears this way. This year there was almost no hard mast crop, the acorns were non existent and the hickory nuts were light. So the bears were already sleeping for the winter or down in the valley eating farmers' corn.
However, we did put out at least 4 wild hogs. Hogs in PA are a new thing and are only found in a few isolated pockets so we were excited to get a chance to whack a few. Rumor has it they escaped from a high fence hunting preserve around 2000 and have been breeding and multiplying in the wild since.
Here's one of the guys I was hunting with yesterday and the hog he shot.
We also put out a sow hog who had piglets with her. We couldn't get a shot at her but were actually able to catch one of the piglets alive by hand! The thing was about 3-4 pounds and looked like an overgrown chipmunk!
