Bear Hunting

Roast bear meat can taste more like roast beef than roast beef does.

Good to know. We have lots of bear in our part of the country. For me, and you can laugh, my most favorite wild meat is rabbit. I've been eating it since my Pop was bringing them home in '67.

My buddy was lucky enough to hunt mountain goat in BC last year. He got a good sized Billy! They quartered it in the mountains and he was able to save me a backstrap. Nice looking meat. I seared it then put it in the slow cooker. I tried a piece after 8 hours on low. Still tough. Gave up after 12 hours! Great flavour but tough! You just kind of nawed on it then swallowed a chunk. 

Honkytonk wrote: Lots of members bear hunt. I never have. A buddy got a black bear (Manitoba) several years ago and invited me over for supper. Bear roast! It was delicious! Colour, texture and fat taste reminded me of beef. For the members who hunt bear, where on the scale of wild game, would you rate bear meat? Thanks!

B.P. - dontcha eat roo meat as well?
there used to be a guy on this forum that claimed he hunted ferral camels in the outback.
As for bear..I hunt black bear. A few years back, our late member Tony, set me up with a bloke from Blighty. He came over to hunt bear.He got a nice one 30 minutes into the hunt.
Since he couldn't take it back to Blighty, he gave the bear to the guys up from the States that were hunting bear. We took the loins for ourselves, & he made a deal to have the hide shipped Stateside for processing, then shipped to Blighty ($$$$).
Anyway, I did one of the loins on the BBQ for him. Delicious. Next nite I served up Whitetail, next nite was Moose. It was a worthwile trip for frank..& that grew into a great relationship. Frank has been back to hunt deer twice, ice fish twice, I was there last June. He had planned to come back for deer hunt this November - along with 2 friends..but the pandemic ruined that.

hoadie wrote: B.P. - dontcha eat roo meat as well? there used to be a guy on this forum that claimed he hunted ferral camels in the outback. As for bear..I hunt black bear. A few years back, our late member Tony, set me up with a bloke from Blighty. He came over to hunt bear.He got a nice one 30 minutes into the hunt. Since he couldn't take it back to Blighty, he gave the bear to the guys up from the States that were hunting bear. We took the loins for ourselves, & he made a deal to have the hide shipped Stateside for processing, then shipped to Blighty ($$$$). Anyway, I did one of the loins on the BBQ for him. Delicious. Next nite I served up Whitetail, next nite was Moose. It was a worthwile trip for frank..& that grew into a great relationship. Frank has been back to hunt deer twice, ice fish twice, I was there last June. He had planned to come back for deer hunt this November - along with 2 friends..but the pandemic ruined that.