Awesome about the bear hunting. I've been back in the state for about 6 years. In the Casey, Taylor, Adair area where those 3 counties come together, there were several documented bear sightings last year. That's a major change.
We bought 57 acres last fall. I found 7 deer carcass' 3 doe and 4 buck. 3 of the bucks were average or below. Unfortunately, there was a 4x6 that scored out somewhere around 140 Boone and Crockett. Sad.
I did find a nice symmetric medium weight 10 pt shed this spring so there is still a decent gene pool around.