Bear meat tastes bad for a couple reasons...

Bear was a garbage eater. Never shoot a dump bear and expect to eat it. They can be fine or really funky tasting.

When you make bear, be sure that every tiny bit of fat is removed from that meat before cooking. All the fat has a rancid taste if you cook it. Remove it, and have just pure meat.

Try to cook bear over an open fire on the grill. If you want to roast it.. sear it good first. And then add such things as onions and potatoes. Did you know potatoes will absorb flavors from other foods. And mushrooms should only be added towards the end as they can impart a flavor of their own if cooked for long periods of time.

I like to take a bear steak, cook it over an open wood fire. Nothing better then that. If you ate bear and had a greasy rancid taste in the roof of your mouth, all the fat was not removed.




That was the first time I shot my Lyman Trade Rifle Flintlock. The first two pan flashes kind of startled me. But then I calmed down and got to business. Now this is off a bench rest, at 30 yards.





This was I believe 25 yard shooting with the Lyman GPH. And I was working on learning loads. I found that the T/C Cheap Shots did not do bad. I figured that would be a good deer load.