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Marinated chunks in Lawrys italian dressing and cooked on the fire. Very tasty but the mountain lion was better.

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i had gotten me a spring bear and ate the meat and it was GOOd no complaints here

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Have taken 2 large males 18 12/16" Fall & 19" Spring. Both were good eating. Drain excess fat. Grilled -crock pot & BBQ was how we ate.

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It all depends on what the bear has been eating, they can be anywhere's from really bad tasteing and not edible, to really very good tasteing!

The places i've hunted bears gave you a choise, harvest the hide and head, or harvest all the meat, or both.

Many hunters shoot bears for the hide and head, and leave the meat behind.

Drilling Man

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We usually make a couple of sticks of suasage but then we also make burgers. By far though the sausage is the best.

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I'll be the exception, YUCCK!!! It doesn't compare to elk, moose or deer, and I'm not about to shoot one just to hang on the wall. I will shoot them If one becomes a nusiance around the kabin here but usually they just pass through.
I bet those brownies feeding on salmon in Alaska taste worst but bears are probaly no diff than any other animal and depends on the diet but they still taste like bear, YUCCK, ;) Bobby

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I got my first bear this past fall and I've made the personal decision that somebody has to eat it or I won't shoot it. I had heard mostly bad stories about bear meat so I was not real excited about it. This bear lived near the desert and probably ate prickly pear for it's last meal. It was a boar about 275 lbs. I took great care in the field and got the meat cooled fast. It hung for about a week, then we butchered it. All the stories about bear meat being greasy were true, it was greasy to the touch. I wanted to try it without all the fanfare so I just slapped it on the grill with the mrs. dash and we enjoyed it a lot. Once grilled the greasiness was gone. Then we made stew, crockpot roast and chile and all were great. Try the recipe below, I took it to work and everyone liked it. Can use other venison or beef.

1 1/2 lb bear roast
4 cans tomato soup (12 oz)
4 potatos
4carrots
1 rutabega
1 large onion
1 teaspoon basil
1/2 cup red wine
1 cup water (if seems to thick you can add a little more
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cut up meat into 1'' cubes, put in bag with flour, salt and pepper, shake it up. Then brown real good in frying pan(lard?)
In a large pot mix tomato soup, onion(chopped), water, and meat that has been browned. Cook covered 1 hour then add wine, basil, and rest of vegetables, all cut to 1'' cubes or so. Cook another 1 1/2 hours or until desired softness of vegies. Can add different things or substitute but wouldn't add more basil or wine cause it will make it to sweet. enjoy

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It all depends on what the bear is eating. I shot a bear about 5 years ago and it was along the interstate eating roadkill deer and rotten meat. This bear meat smell when I was cutting it up and tasted horrible. I cooked it and canned it and fed it to the dog.

This past season I was fortunate to harvest a bear in a corn field. The bear was full of corn and apples. It smelled just like apples when I was cleaning it. This bear tasted great and I really enjoyed it.

A good bet to do with bear is make bologna and sausage out of it. The spices and seasoning really cover up the meat if it isn't that good. Also the age of a bear makes a huge difference on taste

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Do bears carry a lot of parasites? I think sausage would be a good choice.

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A Maine bear that's spent the last 2 months of summer gorging on blueberries and raspberries is some awesome table fare. The last bear I got had a wonderful sweet taste that you could tell came from blueberries.