i like bear meat myself,, my wife makes it into finger steaks, got my first one last year ,, and to be honest it was almost as good as my elk. i think all of it has to do with the manner you harvest it in. i was elk hunting and useing a primos hyper singal cow call, in the area i hunt that call seems to bring them in as well as the elk. my uncles run theirs with dogs , and it always seems like the meat is nasty, so i figure if you can bait them or call them ,, it might taste better , than to run them. just my two cents thrown in