Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Black Bear meat.......what's your opinion of it?

Walkin garbage disposal. Guess everybody’s definition of “delicious “ is quite different. 😂😂

If domestic, yes.

Depends entirely on what they have been eating.
Bait site, trash can, city dump, dead stuff eatin bears are terrible eating/ should not be eaten by humans.
Living in the apple orchard, berry patch, or springtime bears have always been great eating, at least for me.

Absolutely love it. Bear sausage and Bear burgers are life at its best

There's better things to eat,it's doable but not a big fan of it.

I know a good many that consider it their favorite. Good black bear is outstanding. We processed six of them this spring and have eaten most of them...

Big problem is it goes off at about 6 months in the freezer. Then it is very strong. Canned in retort bags it is outstanding and keeps much longer.

I love black bear meat a lot.

4 experiences.....3 spring bear, good eating. 1 fall, had to throw it away after processing....beyond nasty! memtb

I had bear when I was a kid and I was not impressed at all.

I MUCH prefer venison! I can't get enough venison.

If it's mixed with pork sausage I can eat it.

Otherwise not a fan.

Shot and ate them as a youngster when i was tougher than hell and poor and didnt know any better. I prefer other things to eat and really dont care for bear meat. Ive heard much about using bear fat or lard for cooking and baking and would like to try that once but ive already got lard and its cheap so i dont see the why in eating bear parts.

I do enjoy hunting them and its good to keep the numbers down for herbivore population health.

all bears have worms in them.. if you eat bear meat you are eating worms I learned that as a kid and almost died from the worms. .. I will never kill a bear to eat... you can eat the meat if you cook it enough to kill the worms but you are still eating cooked worms.. I don't need that crap in my body...

I've always put bear meat in a medium sized Dutch oven, then added carrots, onions, celery, garlic and some chicken stock. Let it cook for 4-5 hours on low heat. Then throw everything away and eat the Dutch oven.

Makes a really good pot roast.

I have only had it in burger meat and it was pretty good. I ate several!

So do deer and elk. All animals as a matter of fact, from what I have been told.

Go vegan I guess, until it is realized that plants have nastiness in them too.

Then starve, I guess.

Deer and elk seldom eat rotten meat and gut piles that are loaded with worms.. no to mention garbage left by filthy Humans..... remember that old saying........... YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT....also no one mentions the worm eggs and maggots in bear meat.. an worm egg got into a friends 6 year old sons eye ball and had to have surgery to get it out... I lost track of them and don't know how that turned out...

That all very well may be....
I cut into a caribou round one time and had a dozen or so worms crawl out of it. It churned my stomach and I asked a few biologists about it and they said that all critters have them, some individuals more than others.

It's all protein. If you eat pie cherries, you'll often find a maggot in them. You've created some imaginary. pristine world in your mind, and are trying to live there. Reality is far from it. If animals in the wild have critters in them, imagine whats in the factory meat you buy from the store, where the animals spend their whole lives in their own filth and excrement.

We (family) love it. All of our bears are shot on the farm we deer hunt on. We would rather eat a bear roast over a whitetail deer roast any day. Makes great sausage too. After 9 bears we have not schit worms yet. We do not eat bear meat rare.

If we didn't eat them we wouldn't kill them. Very cool animals.