I have killed 5 in Pa over the years the last 2 with a bow all in Potter County. Trick to getting a bear is food find yourself a corn field and stake it out. Bears eat most anything but I've seen them leave acorns, beech nuts, etc. for corn every time."if" you would run across a freshly killed deer carcass that is where you should stand , it is not considered baiting if the carcass was not placed there. It is considered baiting if someone dumped a hide and bones there and you hunt over it even though you did not put it there, same goes for spilt corn or grain from normal harvesting of the crop.
My biggest Pa bear was right at 500# with a bow he was frequenting an old apple orchard eating dropped apples. His trail into and out of the orchard was easy to find I placed a treestand near the orchard in a big maple and got him the first morning.
