After the bear hunt

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Bakeneko

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This may seem like a stupid question, but how often do people eat the meat of a bear they kill and how often do they just throw it away?

I know there are recipes for bear on the internet. But most stories I hear about bear hunting talk about the trophies and not the meat taken.

I am just curious because I hope to get into hunting when I return to America but only want to kill what I will eat. I do not plan on hunting bears. At the same time, I would like to try bear meat. I am one of those types that will eat anything one time and I have never had bear meat.

On a related note, I recently read an article about how many hunters were taking their excess meat to food drives that help the needy. I kind of was thinking about that when I ran across the bear recipes. It sounds like a great idea to me. But I don't know if many places would take bear meat.
 
If you can get the bear skinned out and cooled down right away it will make good eating. However it must always be fully cooked like wild hog or you'll end up with triginosus. Most people I know use it for stew.
 
I would like to add that you need to remove all the fat before cooking. You can cook it many ways and be happy with what you have done, one favorite is Bear Stew.
 
I got my first bear this spring, an Alaskan black bear, and I ate everything I could. My family, and everyone I shared it with, loved it. We did a few stews, some roasts, but mostly ground it up for tacos, etc.
 
Many bear in the NE live off of garbage, and have a nasty reputation for having worms. This may be the reason you don't hear about people eating them.
 
All the blackies I have eaten have been living off the land and far from any salmon streams. Not sure how they would taste after a steady diet of fish, garbage/bait. Care for it just as you would any other game animal and it will be great eating.
 
I hunt Brown Bears in the Spring (April) when the first drips happen to puddle in the day and its a sure sign that they will be out soon. I ride the ridge tops with my snowgo, and look for a Shiny round dot moving in a vally below, leaving a trail.
Brown Bears in the Spring have lost their "Fishyness" and the taste is really unique to "Bear"....LOL! Not that bad, but you will know its Bear.

I hunt Black Bears on the mountain side in August, where they have been eating nothing but Blue Berrys, far from Salmon streams.

The meat is AWSOME!!

Its the ONLY meat that tasets better than Caribou, bar NONE!!!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now Polar Bear.....tryed it once, no thank you on the seconds.
 
Bears eat carrion and anything else they can get in the spring. So, I'd be leery of eating a spring bear. But, fall bear tastes ok, kind of like a cross between elk and wild hog.
 
No, Polar Bear tastes like old Fish. Seals that they eat aste like fresh fish but in red meat form, and are very good eating.

Now sometimes a Polar Bear 'Smells' like a dead Seal....:scrutiny: A guy ,Robbie K.up in Noatak Village got a nice one yesterday.

Its an aquired taste , I care not to aquire.

I hunt Browns in the Spring just as soon as they come outta their holes. Theres very little Carrion to find on the tundra that the Ravens, Fox and Wolves havent finnished, and The Brownies in the Arctic are remakably fat when they emerge out of their holes, from all the salmon the eat in the Fall...and taste like Polar Bear:barf:

But, I am in agreement that the food they eat has an effect on their taset, depending on where you catch them.
 
Get all the fat off and make it into sausage. Save the shoulders and hams for stew. Care of the meat in the field is very important. Bleed the bear and ice the meat quickly. Is very good when properly cared for.

T2E
 
I do just that.
Butcher and chill, seting aside the fat for rendering to cook with. The paws and forelegs are good stewed for a day, as are the hams..MMMMM

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Pretty easy to chill meats around here....LOL!
 
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