ORIGINAL: 4evrhtn
Having worked in Taxidermy and skinning so many different animals I would compare bear flesh to that of a ground hog in smell. It's tough for me to get past that after having skinned so many of them. I will take your word on the table fare, don't need to prove you right. I will donate any meat from any bear I shoot to someone who enjoys it.
AMEN! They don't smell so good! Mostly it seems to be the hide that smells but the fat is disgusting too.
My first experience with bear meat came several years ago when I shotmy first bear. While watching me skin it when my dad asked me what I was going to do with the meat. Since I've never been much for killing things and wasting them, I told him I was going togive it a good try and if it wasn't any good, I'd at least feed it to my dog. The dog never saw a bite!!!
I'd bet that we didnt get 75 lbs of meat from a 300 pound bear oncewe trimmed out all the fat. It hadseveral inches of fatacross the back and was a nightmare to butcher but the meat was fantastic.
We made sausage by mixing 60/40 bear/pork and did roasts by cooking em very slow on low heat. Never had anyone try it and not aks for some more.