Do you eat bear meat??

[ajeatoo]

Bear salami makes the best pizza!!! The smokies are good, I'm just not a big sausage fan in general don't like smoked meats. So we don't eat much bear in the way of standard meat; I do have a curry recipe for bear that is super yummy. If the meat is gamey I just soak it in milk for a while. Gets rid of the gamey taste.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Hard to eat grizzly all the time when it's on draw........

might want to rework the poll

Agree. Didn't like the wording at all so never voted.


Have killed and eaten ~15 black bears over the years and have shared a few grizzlies as well when I have helped friends fill their tags (have yet to tag one myself). Not a fan of leaving bear meat as steaks or roasts as our household prefers med-rare to rare.

I've tried black bear as burger (cheapest, most versatile and best as far as I'm concerned), landjaeger, pepperoni, smokies, european wieners and jerky. Jerky was damn good but I haven't tried making it myself quite yet.

Grizzlies I've tried as smokies, pepperoni and hams. Hams were great..made by Penninga's in Kelowna. I have a friend who's a former butcher that makes bear hams all the time..so I'm hoping for lessons.

Have also eaten black bear heart as my daughter insisted we bring hers home with us. Pretty damn good despite having to cook it to medium.

SSS

[180grainer]

There should have been a category "black bear sometimes Grizzly never at all".

[Wild one]

Even though the poll gives poor options it's clear to see a lot of hunters eat bear

[Ourea]

I have been discussing the use of bear meat as table fare on this forum, back home up North,and on campus and wanted to hear other's opinions.
I've only ever eaten Black Bear meat, and about half the time it was palatable, dependent on when/where (black bears from berry rich areas, only way to go!).
Yet to try grizzly but I'd imagine it would be similar.

Just hoping to have everyone share their preferences and their culinary opinions of bear meat.

Please vote and provide any details on your choice.

More and more people see thru ur BS.
You are a mole and a troll on this site.

I learned a long time ago not to get mad at a midget for being short and you are short as they come.
You are a liability and a waste of time on this site.

While you waste time with your endless copy and paste that has absolutely ZERO impact on anything, others will enjoy our sport and contribute to wildlife thru their efforts.

You do not hunt.
You do nothing for wildlife.


Go buy a pr of boots, throw on a pack, shoot a gun, spend some time in the remote backcountry, kill and eat a god given delicious animal.
Share those experiences, help youth hunters, preserve our sport, be active in the hunting community.
Until then....... piss off.
The sooner you exit this site the better.

How long do you think you can keep this ridiculous charade up?

[Jelvis]

Tried a apple fed black bear and one other and that was it for me, dint take to bear meat so quit hunting bear, one bear in the valley, the big one, I got the head stuffed.
-- so no bear meat for this cowboy, and by the way, I eat bacon fried good and no roast pork.
Jel -- I can't bear it

[sawmill]

I have killed a number of both. I prefer Grizzly. Black bear is Ok, the texture is not something I am crazy about, grizzly I find delicious.

You never eaten a Grizz from the Hazelton-Terrace area. I have shot 2 and skinned 6 others over the years. You have to wash your hands with gasoline to get rid (partly) of the stink. Kind of a cross between boiled cat piss and a dog shit that ate a skunk. Every black I shot had muscle worms, liver cysts, all kinda wildlife in them .I don`t eat bears. That`s why I don`t shoot them.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

You never eaten a Grizz from the Hazelton-Terrace area. I have shot 2 and skinned 6 others over the years. You have to wash your hands with gasoline to get rid (partly) of the stink. Kind of a cross between boiled cat piss and a dog shit that ate a skunk. Every black I shot had muscle worms, liver cysts, all kinda wildlife in them .I don`t eat bears. That`s why I don`t shoot them.

Were the fall or spring grizz?

Ive only had one blackie with filarial worms. That's what the grinder is for.

[sawmill]

Were the fall or spring grizz?

Ive only had one blackie with filarial worms. That's what the grinder is for.

Spring grizz and fall blacks. Nothing like cutting steaks off a loin and watching all these weird wriggly white threadworms crawling out of the cut ends. I guess if I were starving I could try to choke down a worm riddled steak. But, I ain`t starving so bears get to live. As long as they leave me alone.

By the way grizz hunters..How do you feel about shooting one for meat and leaving the head and hide in the bush? Nice 8 foot silvertip hide left to rot? Cause you can`t take them home after this fall. Just the stinky meat.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Have only been involved with spring interior grizz and all have been fine to consume.

Not overly thrilled with the new rules but somehow I think they will change...since they need skulls and hide for CI data. We may have to pack it all out just to turn it over to the Prov.

Spring grizz and fall blacks. Nothing like cutting steaks off a loin and watching all these weird wriggly white threadworms crawling out of the cut ends. I guess if I were starving I could try to choke down a worm riddled steak. But, I ain`t starving so bears get to live. As long as they leave me alone.

By the way grizz hunters..How do you feel about shooting one for meat and leaving the head and hide in the bush? Nice 8 foot silvertip hide left to rot? Cause you can`t take them home after this fall. Just the stinky meat.