Do you eat bear meat??

[ACE]

To get people talking about the use of bear meat, see what other hunters on HBC do with the meat, share recipes or field dressing ideas.

Bear meat is the only meat that I don't give away ........
As mentioned above there are many ways to prepare it. For our use, it all goes to stew meat .... with the remainder going to ground.
Have hides and some 'book' skulls around the place .....
It was timely that you've made this poll .....

[two-feet]

I have eaten lots of black bear, and tried grizzly a long time ago. Bear can be fantastic meat, if I prepared a nice roast and did a blind challenge any meat eated would enjoy it. I am sure some bears taste bad but I have yet to expirience it. I find it hard to believe someone would turn up their nose at bear and then eat a mule deer buck in november. If anybody needs cooking instructions pm me...

[nazarow]

I'm not voting because I've never tried grizzly because that's not an option in the poll but I have tried black bear once and it was an awesome steak.

[Ride Red]

Pepperoni, sausage, hams ect are some of the best I've eaten. If you haven't eaten bear, I'd suggest trying it. As with any animal you hunt, preparation to get it cleaned/cool will make great table fare.

[Harvest the Land]

Only tried fall black bear and its the best by far of all big game meats in my opinion - the roasts, steaks, hamburger smothered in bear fat is to die for! Got mine last year right in his berry patch and he had berry poop coming out of him at the time of harvest and he tasted so sweet - literally. Haven't tried Grizzly yet, but would love to harvest an interior bear that's far away from salmon streams. Scott Haugen says interior grizzlies are his favourite big game meat.

Nothing better than black bear meat in my opinion. Thanks for asking!

[chuckerb]

Tried black bear for the second time in my life time first was a roast and it was good and this year a friend gave me a hind quarter and I ground it all up and added my own spices to make hot atalion sasuasage . And I must say blacky will be on my tag list next year, it is so good for breakfast with eggs and made into patties for hanburgers. cheers Chuckerb.

[russm]

I've eaten grizzly and black bear and didn't mind either, I couldn't tell the grizz was grizz until I was told.

[Wild one]

Eat black bear every year my hunting group only targets mountain grizz all were eatten but 1 because we did not want to fight the second grizz over it.

I don't target fishy black bear do to flavour and same reason I have never applied for coastal grizz

Bear meat is good knowing how prepare it and cook it is the key. My son likes black bear over moose

[Bear Chaser]

I've eaten both and found them quite palatable.
I shot a black bear in a grain field many years ago and had the hinds made into hams. The kids loved it. I found the hams a little large however as the leftover pile of cooked meat was larger than my appetite for leftovers for a week. If I did it again I would make sure they got cut smaller.

[nature girl]

I have eaten black bear and I enjoy it especially a nice bear roast and smothered in gravy. I also like bear jerky and bear smokies.
I have never shot a grizzly or have ever had the opportunity to try grizzly but I would try it if I could.