When Beaver County construction worker Nate Miller headed into Moraine State Park before daylight, he wasn’t expecting to make Pennsylvania hunting history.
As reporter Raquel Ciampi of WTAE explains, Miller was set up in his spot in Butler County while it was still dark, quietly hoping for nothing more than a glimpse of a bear. In his words to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4, he “asked the big man upstairs for just a sight of a bear, let alone harvest one.”
Instead of a quick sighting and a quiet walk out, he ended up tagging a black bear that would dwarf almost anything else checked in across the state this year: a 717-pound giant stretching 7 feet 5 inches from nose to tail…