Kentucky bear archery season closed on Wednesday night.
Here are the results –
121 bears in five days. Fifty-four of those came on opening day alone, which is nearly a quarter of everything killed in this state this year, in one day.
The season to date sits at 230 bears, and firearms season in December hasn’t happened yet.
Zone 3’s early archery season, September 19-October 2, produced 27 bears.
Dog season, October 19-23, produced 78 with 31 on the opener.
Archery, October 24-28, produced 121.
Firearms runs December 12-16.
Bears by Counties:
Wayne – 43
Letcher – 29
Leslie – 29
Harlan – 26
Bell – 25
Pike – 24
204 of those 230 bears came off private ground. Public land produced 26, and Boone Forestlands WMA led that list with 8.
The harvest split dead even. 115 females and 115 males.
If you put a bear on the ground this season, we want to see it. Drop it in the comments!
(posted on the Eastern Outdoors Facebook Page)
