lol, yeah there is only 3 days of bear hunting in pa. but you have to know that pa bears were not plentiful years ago. there use to be only one day of bear hunting back 30 years ago. but like i said, the bears are on the rise and there are more human/bear complaints every year. we also have over 100,000 hunters that hunt those 3 days. the game commision estimates about 20 percent of the bears are killed from the population of bears in pa. i won't get into how they figure that out, but it is from the tagging of trap bears and the killing tagged bears that were trapped, is how they get this number. but anyhow u have to scout hard and then ur not really sure u will see a bear. there are alot of hunters where the bear sign are. so no bear sign goes undetected here in pa. it would be nice to have a longer season like some of you guys have. but i guess i will have to visit some of you states to bear hunt. right now i am looking at maine to hunt bear. but anyhow, i like this forum, i have gained alot of information on here about bears. keep it up you guys.