actually, a spring bear is fairly lean. This year I put up over 200 lbs of sausage, most of it, Jalape�o/herb and close to 150 lb, of jerky and pepperoni sized snack sticks. The jerky I hot smoke--160 degrees, for close to 2 hrs. and the snack sticks closer to 3 hrs. May dry it out a bit, but better safe then sorry and still makes for good snackin'.
