I can only speak for VA bear. One day I hope to hunt brown bear but for now its just black bear. I love both hunting and eating bear meat. The main reason I love hunting them is because there are so few of them that when you do see one your heart about beats out of your chest w/excitement! ex the last live bear I saw huntin' was about 4 years ago. So it doesn't happen often but boy oh boy when it does... Its legal to hunt bear w/dogs in VA but I never was interested in that. My dream is to kill a Bear w/a flintlock as that's the ultimate challenge for me.

As for the meat, I'm sure that people have had bad experiences with it. Every single person that says that they don't like like deer meat I challenge them to let me cook them some and see if they still have that opinion. 99% of them do not after they eat what I cook. Not that I'm a chef by any means but when you leave the hide on a deer in the 70 degree weather for 3 days before you process it, of course its going to taste aweful. Processing of the meat has a lot to do with it.