The Meadville KOA Campground, 25164 Route 27 in Meadville, is offering a free night of camping May 11 to all campers who stay at the campground as paying guests May 10 as part of KOA’s 10th anniversary KOA Care Camps Big Weekend.

Campers can to go www.KOA.com to see a list of other participating campgrounds and make reservations. 

Campers also may enter the Great KOA Giveaway for a chance to win a new $40,000 Keystone Cougar recreational vehicle, and a decade of free KOA camping. Weekly prizes from KOA, Cabela’s and Weber Grills are also available.

A Meadville man shot the second-largest black bear recorded during Saturday’s opening day of the annual four-day Pennsylvania hunt.

Robert A. Pitts shot a a 620-pound male in Roulette, Potter County. It trailed only the 652-pound male that Timothy J. Moffett, of Barto, shot in Smithfield Township, Monroe County.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission said the top 10 bears processed at its check stations by Monday each had estimated live weights of 530 pounds or more.

Lycoming County, with 151 bears, had the top opening-day harvest. Warren County was fourth with 63 bears.

The Northwest Region first-day harvest, by county: Warren, 63; Clarion, 42; Forest, 30; Jefferson, 28; Venango, 26; Erie, 5; Butler, 4; and Crawford, 3.