While rabbit hunting in PA when I was 12 we were walking a power line. A couple of my cousins were out on the power line, my grandpa and I were on the edge of the woods walking the edge. A bear stood up right in front of us. You could tell he was sleepy, looked like a groggy eyed dog you just woke up off the couch. We both pulled our shotguns up and my grandpa said "Hey bear, don't you come any closer." Then continued to talk to it. That bear just stood there and stood there looking at us. Finally he grunted, and walked off into the power line brush. We stepped it off and he was six steps from us.

Another time while chasing deer I was on my hands and knees crawling through some nasty stuff. Barking and yelling and hollering. At one point I ducked under some brush and it seemed like the world blew up around me. The brush was moving, breaking, and I heard the bear snorting. I never saw that one but he came out on the drive and others saw him.

I worked three summers in Colorado at a youth camp during college. Lots of bear stories from there. We would often chase bears off the trash bins, etc. My favorite was a bear that managed to crawl through the kitchen window one night. Tore the kitchen up. A few nights later I hear him in there again. So I decide to try and chase him out. I peak into the kitchen and see a little bear. Couldn't have weighed fifty pounds. So I open the two exit doors from outside then run into the kitchen banging on a pot. The little bear took off scared. I figured I'd teach him a good lesson so I chase it up the hill about fifty yards yelling and banging on pot. Come around the corned of a wood shed and there stands the little bear, standing right behind mama. Well, mama wasn't too happy. She's stamping the ground, snorting and shaking her head around. I just quietly and slowly backed away. Figured the bears won that one.

I have hunted bear the last three years in PA unsuccesfully. Haven't seen one during bear season. But I see them almost every deer season, so eventually I think I'll get a PA bear.
-Jake