Bear meat

[terrym]

Like any meat/animal if you hold out for a large trophy bear it will likely be an older animal. That isn't really conducive to the best meat. Shoot a younger animal and you're good to go.

[Greenhorn]

Don't worry , take good care of the meat and you'll have a sweet flavourful meat. Brent

[pbonura]

A nice bear roast is really hard to beat. They make the best sausage.

HA

Best sausages I have every tasted. Man they are awesome.

[Mattones]

Thats the other part I worry about. What exactly do you mean cook the heck out of it?? Do you burn it??

I normally like my steaks with red or pink but I make sure the bear steaks are well done

[smitty55]

I normally like my steaks with red or pink but I make sure the bear steaks are well done

I've eaten plenty of medium cooked bear boneless loin chops and I prefer my bear burgers with still some pink, specially if fresh ground. I just can't bring myself to cook any red meat steak well done but I will say that bear is more forgiving due to its oilier nature. Probably the best sausage batch I ever had made was a bear and deer mix with wild garlic.

Topher you need not worry about liking the meat, as most have said here. It's generally milder and "sweeter" than you would think. Specially on a younger one, as with any animal. In fact, it's the icing on the cake that finishes a hunt that is such a different rush than deer hunting, in a real good way. It can be more work but it's worth the buzz when it works out. Go for it man.

Cheers

[pdhenderson]

mix it with venison you got..........................images.jpg

[Downwind]

I wish I was eating bear right now.....you will like it....

[Hunter John]

Bear perfection. just a little pink inside.

[Hunter John]

Just curious, what percentage of bears actually carry trichinosis or is it something they all carry. ?

[excal-rookie]

Thats the other part I worry about. What exactly do you mean cook the heck out of it?? Do you burn it??

Magic temp is 160 degrees internal. That will kill any traces of trichinosis.