Eating grizzly bear meat?

a danger of consuming bear meat

I think it could be because when a problem bear is relocated it is often drugged ( to get blood samples and such). The drug will stay inside the animal's system for a while... and most of the time, biologist and wildlife technicians won't leave a tag or any mark on the bear indicating the bear has been injected or when it was injected.

I saw this on TV... don't remember the show but the concern was that unknowingly, hunters might consume tainted meat.

Since black bears as well as grizzlies get into trouble, this can happen everywhere.

Guess it would be prudent to knw where the province's MNR dumps the problem bears!
 
The bears I have tasted were great. It helps if you take the time to prepare it properly and by the taste I'd say my friend did.

The bear I shot in the fall was so fat i didn't think I was ever going to get that sh---t off the floor my shed, it was dripping off that bear.

I'd like to try dealing with a spring bear with less fat.

But when you say lean do you mean as lean as a buck after rut?

Are these bears super lean when they wake up?
 
Mumptia,

When they first come out of hibernation (actually torpor),they are actually still quite fat. They lose this fat pretty quickly during the next two to three weeks.

I have never seen one as lean as a buck after the rut.

Ted
 
I've rendered the fat down and saved it.

You can deep fry doughnuts or anything else you want in it.

My first bear yielded 9 gallons of rendered grease.

My wife had our daughter three weeks after she finished rendering the fat down and we had so much I used it on my boots and we even used it for diaper rash protection on the baby.
 
MD said:
I've rendered the fat down and saved it.

You can deep fry doughnuts or anything else you want in it.

My first bear yielded 9 gallons of rendered grease.

My wife had our daughter three weeks after she finished rendering the fat down and we had so much I used it on my boots and we even used it for diaper rash protection on the baby.
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We keep it in sealed Mason jars in the freezer. Marg uses it for shortening, but it is so rich she only uses 1/3 of the measure called for in the recipe.

The first cookies she made using it years ago she used the amount shown in the recipe. They were so short, you couldn't pick them up. They just crumbled in your fingers! :D

Ted
 
There was a time in BC that you were not required to recover black bear meat, either. .

There was a resolution proposed at last years BCWF convention that woudl remove the requirement to reconver the meat on black bears, but the Wildldife dept woudl 't support it, mostly for political reasons.

The reasoning behind the proposal was that there are getting to be too many bears, and some guys don't hunt them because they either don't like the meat, or are concerned about disease.

In any case, i've eaten grizzly bear a few times, and it''s similar to black bear. I would imagine tht just like the black bear, how the grizz tastes will be dependant on what it is eating.
 
I did eat Grizzly meat once and it was not very good. I has a kind of salmon taste. Eating black bear is not for me either. I don't want to eat something that is always dreaming of licking the bottom of every disgusting garbage bins in town... :(
 
8ball said:
I did eat Grizzly meat once and it was not very good. I has a kind of salmon taste. Eating black bear is not for me either. I don't want to eat something that is always dreaming of licking the bottom of every disgusting garbage bins in town... :(
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Out west we hunt bears in the woods not the city;) ;)
 
i will never eat a grizz because they eat mainly meat, bugs, and fish they will eat almost anything alse but that is there primary diet.
talk to ya all later
Riley
 
i will never eat a grizz because they eat mainly meat, bugs, and fish they will eat almost anything alse but that is there primary diet.
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Well they eat environmentalist too - and they're grain fed!
 
Cougar eat only meat and from what I hear cougar meat is excellent,
The only bears I've ever shot have been many miles for a town let alone a garbage can.

"The reasoning behind the proposal was that there are getting to be too many bears, and some guys don't hunt them because they either don't like the meat, or are concerned about disease."

Then they could make the tags cheaper and allow more animals per season. For those who chose to not eat the meat, they could donate it to a food agency.
 
Steeleco said:
Then they could make the tags cheaper and allow more animals per season. For those who chose to not eat the meat, they could donate it to a food agency.
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You can already shoot 2 bears a year, which unless you have a large extended family is already an excessive amount of meat considering anyone that usually hunts bear also hunts at least deer, and possibly elk and moose as priorities.

I am seeing this too, SOOO many bears now, when just 5 years ago I didn't see half as many. Getting attacked by a bear in West Vancouver just 100 metres off the trans-canada highway was a real wake up call. I'm all for removing the requirement to remove meat from bear, at least for a season as a trial measure. i'm sure the population can handle it.
 
Went to Edmonton once and I did saw a black bear at one kilometer from the city. I'm sure if he was searching for licking a tasty-smelly-greasy garbage bin floors. :p


Mumptia said:
Out west we hunt bears in the woods not the city;) ;)
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