[major_gaff]

Same on our property in upstate PA...200lbs bear is small to average weight...we have a
male roaming around this year that is in the 450 to 500lbs range...hopefully won't run into
him during archery season...lol

My experience with black bears is that they generally don't want anything to do with
people unless you get between a mama and her cubs and then my the good Lord help
you...

[Omnivore-Dan]

For a small state, N.J. has quite a bit of wildlife, especially the north western part and the southern pine barrens. Pocono Mts. and other parts of Pennsy have some huge black bears also. The following is the largest in N.J.

“The largest bear ever caught in New Jersey is also one of the largest black bears ever caught across North America. Hunter Bruce Headley, hoping to shoot a deer at the time, brought down the bear when he saw it from his deer stand. Its live weight came to a whopping 829 pounds. Headley and his helpers had to cut a path through the brush using a chainsaw to get the massive carcass out of the woods. He shot the bear on December 9, 2011, in Jefferson Township.”

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Same on our property in upstate PA...200lbs bear is small to average weight...we have a
male roaming around this year that is in the 450 to 500lbs range..”

Sounds about right for what I have seen in Northeast PA.