Why is bear so underrated?

FLHTCUI said:
As mentioned above Trichinosis is a food-borne disease caused by a microscopic parasite called Trichinella. People can get this disease by eating raw or under-cooked meat from animals infected with the parasite. Often these infected meats come from wild game, such as bear, or pork products.
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And trichonosis is forever. There is an American hunter that hosts hunting shows. He arrowed/killed an Alaskan black bear and planned to cook and eat it forthwith. Well it was undercooked because with a time crunch for take the exit plane out and damp weather, he barely had time to moderately cook the meat. Hence he caught Trichinosis. And thus is a forever sentence because u really dont know how many larvae are immature in your muscle tissue. But one gets sore aching muscles each time one sprouts into maturity and wriggled its way out looking for a meal.
Sounds great huh?
 
Trich bugs are encased in a tough membrane and hibernate in your muscle tissue. The only thing that awakens them is stomach acid. So when you are eaten by another bear or whatever they come to life in it's stomach and infect the eater. The process carries on.....

Darryl
 
Rugdoc said:
Yes, that (despite the fact that it is rare) and the belief that bears are generally "Wormy" and also many people ignorant of the fact that bear has to be processed immediately and left hanging for even a day will make for poor quality meat.

Suits me. The fewer bears others shoot make getting one easier for me.
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So cut and wrap and into the freezer same day or next morning? Don't leave it in the fridge for a few days?
 
starvin said:
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Ever noticed how nothing will scavenge a skinned bear carcass? They just kind of melt into the ground. If the ravens and coyotes don’t want it.....
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fresh well-cared for bear meat can be pretty good with the right feed
but let one get a little stale, bit of sun , over night retrieval, and the chance of it being edible is slim, they go 'off' pretty fast and badly, kinda like wolf or Griz
skinning an stale ripe bear for a hide is a chore, no way to have an appetite after
 
boxhitch said:
fresh well-cared for bear meat can be pretty good with the right feed
but let one get a little stale, bit of sun , over night retrieval, and the chance of it being edible is slim, they go 'off' pretty fast and badly, kinda like wolf or Griz
skinning an stale ripe bear for a hide is a chore, no way to have an appetite after
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That’s always been the comments friends have made, “tried it at a friends place and it was disgusting.” The first one I had a friend and I split it 50/50, man it was tasty. High mountain fall bear from the interior, it changed a couple friends minds about bear meat. The heart and liver pâté we made and the sausages were a huge hit at a Christmas dinner.
 
Without bear meat there would only be Save-on in my hood.
Delicious,organic goodness, keep on hating only means more for me.
Smoked a beauty with an SST bullet yesterday too. Absolute done deal with little meat loss.
 
will be curing and smoking hams this year if I can cut a tag.
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Did a few of these a couple years ago with spring bear legs; delicious

Where I used to live bear hunting was slightly more difficult than grocery shopping. A bit more difficult where I am now but I’m going to give it another shot for a couple days on my next days off.

Ground bear is a great general purpose ground meat. I regret grinding so much of the bears I shot last season; the roasts and steaks are excellent as well.
 
EL34/6L6 said:
Trichinosis?
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Cook it to 165 F internal temp. I see some saying 160 is good

I've shot a few bears and found the taste was fine but it was a bit too chewy for my liking. I BBQ'd the back straps, roasted it and cured a leg like a ham, all chewy. Made sausage from it and that was great. In the future I can see hunting them again and making smokies and pepperoni sticks out of it. Introduced my eldest step-daughter to hunting in a bear stand. Another to join our ranks :)
 
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conor_90 said:
Did a few of these a couple years ago with spring bear legs; delicious

Where I used to live bear hunting was slightly more difficult than grocery shopping. A bit more difficult where I am now but I’m going to give it another shot for a couple days on my next days off.

Ground bear is a great general purpose ground meat. I regret grinding so much of the bears I shot last season; the roasts and steaks are excellent as well.
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We have plenty of bears locally, I just got skunked the last two seasons lol. I’m not going to grind as much the next time, I bought two tags and would like a spring and fall bear to experiment with, the bbq’d ribs from the last one were excellent. Last round I kept the back straps and some steaks, ribs and ground the rest. Made sausages and burger patties, they were better than any homemade beef burger I’ve made.

I’ve been playing around with a smoker this year since getting back into ice fishing and will be smoking bear meat if I can connect with one this time around.
 
FLHTCUI said:
What you described what it is all about...
Making memories and living life large.
Bear is under rated by those who have not enjoyed the savors of their hunt imo.
Much fat ?
Rendered bear fat makes great lard for pies. (prolly better in the fall..the fattening)
Rob
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About 1.5” back fat, which I did not keep. I’ve still got Ossobaw island hog fat I kept from pigs raised here a few years back. I did make a pie crust with some just a few days ago to use up some of our left over duck from previous nights dinner. Pot pies were delicious.
 
Well, it's good if you handle it right... sorta like Pronghorn Antelope with a chance of lifelong parasites in your muscles.
Ah...tell you what?
You can have it...sorta like folks eating sushi with poison fish...I'm good, thanks.
 
Brutus said:
And trichonosis is forever. There is an American hunter that hosts hunting shows. He arrowed/killed an Alaskan black bear and planned to cook and eat it forthwith. Well it was undercooked because with a time crunch for take the exit plane out and damp weather, he barely had time to moderately cook the meat. Hence he caught Trichinosis. And thus is a forever sentence because u really dont know how many larvae are immature in your muscle tissue. But one gets sore aching muscles each time one sprouts into maturity and wriggled its way out looking for a meal.
Sounds great huh?
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