Bear Hunting
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Topic: Bear Hunting
Posted By: Honkytonk
Subject: Bear Hunting
Date Posted: September 07 2019 at 12:07pm
| 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! |
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Posted By: englishman_ca
Date Posted: September 07 2019 at 1:12pm
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Roast bear meat can taste more like roast beef than roast beef does. Dump bear on the BBQ, not so much. I rate it among the best eating, right up there with moose or caribou
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Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: September 07 2019 at 3:07pm
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I cook my bear roasts in a slow cooker. The rest of the meat is made into pepperoni. Bear liver is awesome served with fried onions and garlic mashed potato. My all time favorite wild game meat is Elk and I have tasted Musk Ox meat it is unreal such a great flavor. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: September 07 2019 at 3:31pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Pukka Bundook
Date Posted: September 07 2019 at 8:00pm
| Bighorn sheep are Really good eating as well... |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: September 08 2019 at 5:36am
| 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. |
Posted By: Pukka Bundook
Date Posted: September 08 2019 at 7:53am
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Honks, Old Billy-goat..... Sounds like alligator meat; The longer you chew it, the bigger it gets!
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Posted By: 303carbine
Date Posted: September 08 2019 at 9:20am
I have tried bear meat several times over the decades, I can't eat it, even at gunpoint.
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Honkytonk wrote:Posted By: Black Prince
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 2:15am
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Gee! I ain't eaten bear meat or elk, but had camel in Egypt in the late 70's quite nice. Now Aussie Crocodile Mmmmmmm very very nice. ------------- I know what I like & like what I know. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 5:08am
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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. ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: yumastepside
Date Posted: June 23 2020 at 3:40pm
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....stir fry Kangaroo strips in sweet chilli and kaffir lime with rice....MMMMMMMMMM YUM-O! Roger |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: June 24 2020 at 12:04pm
Hoadie cooked us some bear when I took the family up to visit one year ! I also made a Gumbo with the left overs the next day !!! Wish there was a way to get some Alligator meat up there when ever I can get up that way again !!! But the boarder and logistics to get up there wont allow that ! It was easier for me to bring ammo across the boarder than it would be to bring meat or veggies !! ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: June 24 2020 at 12:43pm
| I was watching a YouTube video of some guys using pellet rifles to shoot iguanas in Florida. Then they cooked them. Looked interesting! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 24 2020 at 12:59pm
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Iguana has to be very well cooked to be safe! it carries al sorts of interesting "nasties"! You parboil it first after topping & tailing, then roast it thoroughly. "The clearest microbiological risk comes from the possible presence
of pathogenic bacteria, especially Salmonella, and also Shigella, Escherichia coli, Yersinia enterolitica, Campylobacter, Clostridium and Staphylococcus aureus,
which can cause illnesses of varying degrees of severity," Simone
Magnino, lead author of the study and a researcher for the World Health
Organization (WHO), said.
This expert says the data about risks to public health are still inconclusive, since there is no comparative information about consuming this meat and the prevalence of pathogens. Also, there are few published research articles about cases of illness associated with consuming reptile meat. The experts advise people to freeze the meat, just as they would with other foods from animal sources, since this deactivates parasites. Industrial processing and proper cooking (not leaving the meat raw) can also kill off pathogens." You can buy frozen Iguana meat but its expensive, $50 or so a pound. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Fairbanks007
Date Posted: June 24 2020 at 5:42pm
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$50 a pound for iguana? Couldn't you just wait until they fall out of the trees? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sZoDeYFsU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0sZoDeYFsU
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 7:25am
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I know, crazy isn't it! https://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/Buy-Boneless-Wild-Iguana-Meat-p/iguanaboneless1601.htm" rel="nofollow - https://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/Buy-Boneless-Wild-Iguana-Meat-p/iguanaboneless1601.htm ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 8:16am
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U gotta be real careful with bear, as well. tends to be high in Trichinosis ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 8:17am
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Hoadie yes, exactly. Especially spring bear meat. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 12:14pm
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Few years back - not far from the cabin - a group of 'merican hunters were hunting bear. They got one & decided to have some of it for dinner. Turns out they like their meats quite "rare". Middle of the night one of them managed to crawl out to a road where he was discovered. He actually survived, but just barley. He'll never be the same again. Police found that two or 3 more were in the cabin critically ill. (Two of them died). Two more were found dead in their beds. Ministry put out a notice after reminding folks to cook bear thoroughly. Dump bears are usually quite high in it..but I dunno why anyone would even want a dump bear. Our dumps up there are all now heavily fenced to keep them out.(But that doesn't always work, either. ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 3:25pm
| Actually, if you factor in gas, beer, etc everything I hunt or fish works out to be way over $50/lb! |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 8:48pm
| yup - or more , but i would never regret a single dollar spent in the efforts , none of it - never had a bad experience chasing those dreams in reflection |
Posted By: Stumpkiller
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 8:55pm
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I have had NY black bear twice. Both times convinced me I would most likely pass on the opportunity if I saw one - and it is legal and fair game here with both bow and firearm. I thought it was spongy and not very palatable. I have had them on my game cams and scat on the property within feet of my favorite spot to sit for whitetail. Could very much depend on the handling and, in both cases, it was ground and lord knows if or what fat was added to make it more (or less) palatable. Now, if a Black Angus wanders onto my property . . . ------------- Charlie P. Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: June 25 2020 at 10:19pm
| We have black Bear here in northern Arizona. My neighbor got one and gave us burgers,ribs,and some roasting meat. I did not care for either the burgers or ribs. The taste and texture was wrong. The roasting meat was used to make a stew and that tasted wonderful. I doubt that I would ever hunt one for the reasons stated about the ground meat and ribs alone. We have Bison,Elk,Pronghorn Antelope, Whitetail, Mule Deer,Bighorn Sheep, Javelina, Mountain Lion,and Turkeys. The best tasting game meat for me is the Javelina and then the Mule Deer. I find no challenge in hunting Bison here. They are on a ranch and one of the ranch hands drives you out to where they are and points at one and says,there ya go. I will not shoot Bighorn sheep or Mountain Lions because I do not trophy hunt. Pronghorn out here have adapted to your atypical long range hunters and stay out beyond those shots. Turkey hunts out here are almost a given that you will get one. |