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Climate, genetics, geographic isolation and food sources. I think genetics being the main reason. When Outdoorlife did a story on this years back, they had all kinds of contributing factors why the bears get so big in Pa. I still have that magazine somewhere. I always knew we had big bears but it wasn't until t.v hunting shows started to show other black bears being hunted around the country that I was surprised what they thought a big black bear trophy was.
They were calling 300-400 bear "massive". There is a big difference between a 300lbs bear and a 600lbs bear. You see a 600lbs bear in the woods and it will disturb you if your not bear hunting. A 800lbs is epic. You have the "Hog" bears with the round heads and the "dog" bears with the elongated head. The hog bears are what you want.
Our bear season is only 4 days long and no baiting or dogs, allowed.

This is one of the pics from the story.