Black bears and dumps?

i still do not get it.

as i already said and even an eminent member changed his mind on bear meat.

we have done different blind test eatings will it be fondue or meals and black bear meat was the first one to go. and we had moose, caribou, grizzly (sometimes bison) and black bear.

the key is first skinning right to avoid the hide or hair to touch the meat and removing the fat that is not inside the meat.

of course cook it well.

if you never try a bear meat in the fall that is eating apples, oat or berries for weeks you are really missing something.
 
A couple years ago when we were butchering our deer from the season we cooked two roast while we worked. One was moose and the other was black bear, hands down the Black Bear was better eating.
 
nowarningshot said:
I am currently living on a rural property with a ravine and stream running through it. Asked my landlords as the hyway seems to have a bunch of Bear crossings parellel to that stream. Actually there is a big sewage lagoon that bears go feed at about 2km from my place.

How many km from the sewage lagoon is ok to shoot a bear for table fare.....owwwe yummy.
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.... Or how many km from a sewage lagoon do you need to be to shoot ducks and geese. Lol.
 
I think all the fuss about bad tasting bear meat is failure to remove the fat, or allowing the meat to stew in the fat while cooking.
I barbecue mine, and it's glorious! If I took the same steak and pan fried it without removing the fat, I'm sure it would be near inedible.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
I think all the fuss about bad tasting bear meat is failure to remove the fat, or allowing the meat to stew in the fat while cooking.
I barbecue mine, and it's glorious! If I took the same steak and pan fried it without removing the fat, I'm sure it would be near inedible.
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But how horny would you be to eat one that had been eating poopy diapers and rotten table scraps for the past 6 months? Once in a while is inevitable...daily, well, not for this kid.
 
the spank said:
I have tried it twice. Both times it was downright disgusting tasting. Never again.
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I normally shoot a high country spring bear...these are fall berry bears and they are some of the best tasting wild game I've ever eaten...maybe it depends on where they are feeding!

We also have some valleys around here where the stench of rotting salmon can be smelled for miles off in the fall...not the type of bear I'd make any effort to harvest.

Supper tonight in fact is bear meat chilli :)...even my step mom enjoys bear meat when she comes for a visit, although she doesn't know she's eating bear and I make no effort to tell her :) :)
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Alberta, we phased them out many years ago . Got you beat in wind power as well. :)

Grizz
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Wind power? Whoop deedo?! There is more open spaces and wind for generating power and its proving to be a much more expensive power to produce energy than a water run generating dam. There isn't the water resources for hydro power in AB. Not counting the Great Lakes Ontario has 250,000 lakes and 96,000 miles of rivers compared to Alberta's 600 lakes and 264 rivers. You could in square miles alone fit every water body in AB into Lake Ontario. Now throw in Lakes Erie, Huron and Superior and AB would be under 30 feet of water!
 
the spank said:
Wind power? Whoop deedo?! There is more open spaces and wind for generating power and its proving to be a much more expensive power to produce energy than a water run generating dam. There isn't the water resources for hydro power in AB. Not counting the Great Lakes Ontario has 250,000 lakes and 96,000 miles of rivers compared to Alberta's 600 lakes and 264 rivers. You could in square miles alone fit every water body in AB into Lake Ontario. Now throw in Lakes Erie, Huron and Superior and AB would be under 30 feet of water!
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Actually learned that at Wynn's demonstration facility down by the lakes. Surprised the dickens out of me that Alberta was the no. one sucker when it came to wind power. :)

Grizz
 
I wish I didn't live so far south. I have a couple great spot, further north up by the Water Shed Restaurant, for you guys up that way but a 14hr round trip to bait seems like a long ways.
 
I personally have standards. I wont go below trailor park bears. The dump is too greasy for me.
 
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