onro onst M Holly Scott didn't hunt during the regular bear season in 2017. She knew she'd be heading from her Steelton home to camp in Monroe County for deer season and, as district manager for a convenience store chain, her work schedule didn't permit an earlier trip for bear. But because of the extended bear season that overlaps with deer season where she hunts, Holly continued her habit of buying a bear license "just in case." And on Dec. 2 - the first Saturday of the firearms deer season, and the last day of the extended bear season in Wildlife Management Unit 3D - it paid some very big dividends. Literally, the biggest any bear hunter enjoyed in 2017. Joining her father Russell Scott Sr., her brother Russell Scott Jr. and other camp members to put on several drives, what started as a chilly morning warmed up. But the action hadn't. By lunchtime they'd seen no deer and decided to travel to a section of private property they call The Lower Ledges - a series of rocky benches with thick cover on the sidehills. Holly set up behind some boulders on a bench where she could see through thick cover to the benches above her Heaviest bear of 2017 taken 22