I enjoy bear meat. Was told, just like you, that it wasn' t very good .. and was really surprised at how good the meat was. I could actually taste a bit of the sweetness of the blueberries he had been eating in the meat.

Proper field dressing is very important.

A tip for getting them out of the woods is a piece of plastic tarp, the kind with metal grommets. They slide real well when they are wrapped in plastic.