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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Do the Florida bear hunters eat their kills? I used to go hiking and the like around Rattlesnake Mountain in Reno, Nevada and went rattlesnake hunting once with B. B. kind of eventually caught onto my tactic of clumsy bumping into rocks thus making our hunt unsuccessful. He did have rattlesnake skins all over his bedroom in comparison to my probably Farrah Fawcett poster in mine. He did not invite me to anymore rattlesnake hunts. He did say that they taste like chicken.
I doubt if bear tastes like chicken.
B's brother kept on taking pieces of himself off in various hunting mishaps. You do not hunt carp with a machete unless you are very adept with one. He wasn't.
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There is some good info in these posts, and some mis-information to say the least.
Bear is one of the best wild meats there is. It is a mild meat as far as gaminess goes. Depending on what they eat, there are subtle flavor profiles mixed in. This year the wild blueberries and juneberries were thick. The hazelnuts and high bush cranberries and choke cherries are ready now. The bears we shoot in the next month should have an excellent flavor with a subtle sweetness to them if not a nutty flavor from the hazelnuts and acorn.
The fat you take off a bear is out of this world. We render it down into Bear Grease or Bear Lard. It makes the best pie crust you'll ever eat. I prefer to make pancakes with the bear grease. Or my all time favorite. Teal breast with salt and pepper fried to a perfect medium rare in bear grease in a cast iron skillet. Couple that with fresh bolete mushrooms or chanterelle mushrooms foraged that same trip. You cannot beat it.
The vast majority of people who don't like wild meats don't like them because they themselves don't know how to handle and cook the meat properly or were given some by someone who didn't know what they were doing.
I'll tell ya, if there isn't 500# of wild meat in my freezer, it's not a good year.