Bear hunt in Kentucky

Good for you, best of luck! What was the reason for not having a season, and why the change?

 

Ryan i hope you meant saturday instead of friday.
Wayne according to the kentucky department of fish and wildlife, black bear are well established in eastern ky. they opened up a 2 day season(saturday and sunday) in 3counties. There can only be 10 bears taken total or 5 females... which ever is filled first.
Best of luck Ryan

 

Thanks, for the info. I would have thought Kentucky to have a larger population of bears than that. It surprised me that there wasn't a season until now. Best of luck and hunt safe.

 

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE QUOTA IS FILLED. I KNOW YOU HAVE A NUMBER TO CALL TO FIND OUT BUT WHAT IF ON SATURDAY IT IS NOT FILLED AND THEN YOU GO OUT SUNDAY AND WHILE YOU ARE SITTING THERE THE 10 BEARS GET KILLED AND THEN YOU SHOOT ONE TO MAKE IT 11 THEN WHAT HAPPENS?....Sorry for the caps.

 

That's what I was thinking.

 

It's probably just so the Cumberland treehuggers won't get all up in arms about the bear pop diminishing again.

 

if it is shot the same day as the quota was filled then you are fine if it is done in the back country (probably not a lot of that in Ky then they give you a little more time to report here in Idaho we have quotas on wolf (finally) and female cats. They take the situation into consideration but it does cause some problems with its kinda up to the officers discretion and if you have a officer that doesn't like hunters (ya we've had a few) he could could push some issues more than others. good luck to ya. bear hunting is fun an a very respectable animal too hunt. Im amazed at what they notice out of place.

 

good luck and post pics if u get something

 

Bowkill is right, once a bear is harvested you immediately have to check it in, being the first bear hunt in a long long time in Ky they will want to see each bear harvested and record some data about them. There potentially could be more than 10 bears killed or more than 5 sows. All hunters are responsible to check in after the first day to see if the limit has been reached and to see if more bears may be harvested. Its just like most quota hunts.

 

that sucks man better luck next year

 

dude that does suck, good luck for next year