Consider this treasured family photograph as something of a national Rorschach test. What do you see? A proud, young father introducing his infant son to the joy and satisfaction of a successful hunt?

This story, “Upshot: A Record Bear,” appeared in the June 1969 issue of Outdoor Life. The two dogs took off like twin streaks, and within minutes they were out of hearing. We ran to the truck and ...

Bear hunting season is underway in Pennsylvania with more than 200,000 hunters expected in the field this year, though the state game commission expects just 3% of them will come home with a bear.

This story, “My Bear Was Blue,” appeared in the June 1973 issue of Outdoor Life. I was taking one step at a time, and very slowly at that, stopping after each to look and listen. Somewhere below me in ...

New Jersey's annual bear hunt begins next week as one way of controlling an expanding bear population, which has led to more encounters in populated parts of the state. The four-day archery portion is ...

(WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is gearing up for archery bear hunting season, and they say no other Pennsylvania hunting season offers such a potentially big payoff as this one. According ...

There’s no doubt that the white-tailed deer is king when it comes to hunting in Pennsylvania, but it may come as a surprise to some that the black bear — where the odds of success are somewhat akin to ...