What does bear taste like?

[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.

[BillyGrown]

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 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.

It’s kind of course, a bit gamie and has the texture of camel. Not my favorite and make sure you cook it all the way through.

[Taltarzac725]

It’s kind of course, a bit gamie and has the texture of camel. Not my favorite and make sure you cook it all the way through.

Cannot say I ever tried camel. https://visitvirginiacitynv.com/events/international-camel-ostrich-races-virginia-city/. I never got around to going to the Virginia City Camel Races but might sometime in the future. I have had buffalo I think. Not wild buffalo but stuff off of a ranch.

[Stu from NYC]

Few weeks ago at a club dinner they served goat. One and done

[tophcfa]

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.

Had an outstanding bear stroganoff at a hunting camp in NH a couple years ago. If cooked correctly, it’s a delicious game meat.

[manaboutown]

Bear meat is chewy but ok if well cooked and in a robust stew. Rattlesnake does taste like chicken. Quail, some ducks, band-tailed pigeon, dove, grouse, sandhill crane, pheasant, ostrich, pronghorn antelope, javelina, elk, bison and venison are good. Venison liver from a fresh kill is delicious. I like rabbit - not jack rabbit - but not squirrel. Never tried any moose or wild goose. A hunting buddy once shot a mountain lion. The meat was inedible, just awful. This year a man I know drew a permit and shot an African Oryx at White Sands. Meat not very good, so he ground it up with beef to make burgers.

[MrChip72]

It's a tough meat that needs to be well cooked through like beef brisket, goat, shank cuts.

My fave is to to slow cook bear meat and then serve it with pasta in a thick sauce made from braising it at the end.

[dewilson58]

Few weeks ago at a club dinner they served goat. One and done

Love goat cheese.

[USOTR]

Florida has only had one bear hunting season in the past 20 years.. But I have ate bear from Georgia, and I would not want to eat it again..

Deer and wild boar are much better. Florida does have a hunting season for these.

[Pat_RI]

Depends on the time of year and what the bear has been eating I’ve had it taste a bit gamey like venison. I didn’t think it was bad I think time of year and preparation is a big part of how it will taste.

[coconutmama]

We had it once at a game dinner, along with rabbit & deer. Thought it was quite good. Similar to a pot roast

[ThirdOfFive]

Bears are omnivores, as well as opportunistic feeders. They will eat virtually anything, and the meat will usually reflect the taste of whatever it is that they habitually eat. I've had it a few times: bear from areas far away from humans tastes the best. Bear that live in proximity to humans often feed on garbage and to say it has an "off" taste is putting it mildly.

People in the know will slice away as much fat as possible before cooking the meat, then add fat from other sources during cooking: bacon, for example, or hog backfat. Cuts down on the possibility of "off" tastes, supposedly.

[LivinDream665]

Bear meat is one of the best wild game meats I have ever tasted. The key as with all game meat is to get the hide off quickly to allow the meat to cool down. The faster the recovery and cool down the better the meat.

[Cherylsch]

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.

Had a roast years ago. It didn’t taste too much different than beef. One has to know how to cook wild game right.

[goneil2024]

Several years ago I would go deer hunting with a few guys in Warren county PA. We would rent a cabin in the area and spend a week bowhunting.

One evening we had a bear decide to snack on the three deer we had harvested, and were hanging/cooling before we completed the butchering on a large oak limb, just outside the cabin.

Shining a flash light on the bear, revealed red eyes (unlike deer that reflect white) it was a striking scene, with the bear 10’ up in a tree staring down on us. We shouted and ultimately chased it off then alerted the guy we were renting the camp from of the incident, as it wasn’t bear season and we were there for the deer.

Well, the next year the same group was in camp, about dinner time there is a knock at the door, and the camp owner shows up with a Dutch oven, containg “bear pot roast” that his wife made. Apparently during bear season he returned to the camp and harvested that bear, which weighed in at over 500lb. So there was plenty of meat and he put aside a roast in the freezer for us. It was very tasty, rich and no doubt the cook knew how to handle the meat. I have enjoyed bear during game dinners at our local sportsman’s club with similar results.

As a society, for the most part we are so very removed from the food chain that even the idea of harvesting wild game is a foreign concept for many. I was always taught that if you hunt and harvest it you eat it, and if not then donate it or don’t do it at all.

Again, just my experience.

[asianthree]

Alaska Native’s eat more caribou or moose, than bear. They will usually only consume black bear, using hide, then butcher to distribute within community. Brown and grizzly are not used for consumption due to high activity of parasites. Not sure if it’s the same in lower US.

Our oldest lived in Alaska for 9 years, bear stew was usually the preparation, feeding more people. Slow cooking helps with game taste, makes a tender texture.

Apparently diet has a great deal to do with taste, so lots of fish, definitely fish taste in meat. Berries give a more sweeter taste especially in spring kill.

[Taltarzac725]

Some really interesting stories on this thread. Thanks for posting.


When I heard about the open but limited season here in Florida I was wondering if the hunters are responsible for removing the dead bear from its resting space?

[fdpaq0580]

Few weeks ago at a club dinner they served goat. One and done

Curry goat, black beans and saffron rice! Serve with a cold Red Stripe. Mon, dat's goood!

[fdpaq0580]

You do not hunt carp with a machete unless you are very adept with one. .

Now you tell me. 🤕

[Joe C.]

When a bear is shot and drops immediately, it will taste better than if it was shot and ran for any distance, as it's adrenalin is coursing through it's muscles and gives it that bitter "gamey" taste. Bear meat can be very tasty in a stew or chilli bowl.

[Topspinmo]

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.

I doubt too many actually eat bear, rattlesnakes, wild grease/ ducks, or mourning doves. IMO sporting man just like to shoot them (don’t see sport in shooting bear, but that me). O some think they are Good Samaritan’s by giving the game meat to poor. IMO none of them remotely taste like chicken. I grew up poor and lot of wild game in season was on menu, I ate cause I was hungry. Neighbor down road use eat snapping turtle. He also said it tasted like chicken. No it didn’t. IMO that phrase used to get you to try it.:oops:

[Topspinmo]

It’s kind of course, a bit gamie and has the texture of camel. Not my favorite and make sure you cook it all the way through.


You’ve ate camel? :22yikes:

[Taltarzac725]

On a lighter note that friend's older brother --the one who cut his leg open while hunting carp with a machete -- found an old 45 like pistol in the ground near Rattlesnake Mt. The show off that he was promptly found the proper ammunition for it but had not cleaned the weapon very well. It blew up in his hand taking a big section out of it.

[jminnis]

My father in law loved the bear roast we had in the fridge....until we told him what it was!

[Taltarzac725]

My father in law loved the bear roast we had in the fridge....until we told him what it was!

10 Tasty Bear Recipes From Hunters - Wyoming Wildlife Federation (https://share.google/s4M4rOf9uMwp2Oph7)


I did find these .

[dtennent]

I have known a lot of hunters over the years. Never knew one of them that hunted for bear more than once. Deer was much preferred over bear meat.

[goneil2024]

On a side note commenting on an earlier post, Snapping Turtle taste more like veal (in my opinion), and recently I focus on feral hogs as a game species for sport and larder. Seasons are more liberal if nonexistent and farmers and golfers welcome removal of the invasive species.

[Bwanajim]

My mountain lion was absolutely delicious. I bet your guy overcooked it. I marinated mine and covered it with strips of bacon and cooked it till it was only 130°. It was perfect.

[Bwanajim]

If prepared properly, bear is great. It can be a little gamey sometimes but if you marinate it, it'll come out good. You can make ground beef out of it and add about 10% fat to make it juicier.
I've been blessed to go to Africa five times and several times in the US in Canada. I probably eaten everything that walks or flys. 😂. Hippo & elephant taste just like beef because they're grass feeding animals.

[ThirdOfFive]

You’ve ate camel? :22yikes:
Some years back the Minnesota State Fair featured camel-on-a-stick. Maybe they still do.

Tastes like chicken.

[Taltarzac725]

Some years back the Minnesota State Fair featured camel-on-a-stick. Maybe they still do.

Tastes like chicken.

I wanted to go to the Minnesota State Fair but never got around to it . Did go to the Nevada one fairly often. Nevada State Fair 2018 – Around Carson (https://share.google/TebZuNcXjTdjxqCpM). It was in Reno for a few decades. Did go to a massive fair in California but it was probably the Orange County fair .

[ThirdOfFive]

I doubt too many actually eat bear, rattlesnakes, wild grease/ ducks, or mourning doves. IMO sporting man just like to shoot them (don’t see sport in shooting bear, but that me). O some think they are Good Samaritan’s by giving the game meat to poor. IMO none of them remotely taste like chicken. I grew up poor and lot of wild game in season was on menu, I ate cause I was hungry. Neighbor down road use eat snapping turtle. He also said it tasted like chicken. No it didn’t. IMO that phrase used to get you to try it.:oops:
Can definitely relate to that.

Growing up in far northern Minnesota we did a lot of hunting and fishing, but were taught early on that you never killed any wild animal unless it was for food or because it was a nuisance/dangerous animal. Not everybody practiced that: we had a community dump and occasionally during deer hunting season there would be the headless carcass of a large deer tossed into the dump: somebody obviously hunting a trophy rather than meat.

We ate a lot of venison, wild ducks/geese, ruffed grouse, things like that. Fall meant that one of the deer we shot was destined for sausage: dad would buy a pig which we'd combine with the venison for just that purpose: it was nothing to make 150 lbs. or so of sausage each year. It was a family thing: meat was cut up and ground with a hand-operated grinder, mixed with seasonings, then stuffed into casings with a hand-operated stuffer. We had a large smokehouse but usually had to divide up the sausage into two halves for smoking. Lots of fun and one of my fondest memories of a very active childhood.

[ThirdOfFive]

I wanted to go to the Minnesota State Fair but never got around to it . Did go to the Nevada one fairly often. Nevada State Fair 2018 – Around Carson (https://share.google/TebZuNcXjTdjxqCpM). It was in Reno for a few decades. Did go to a massive fair in California but it was probably the Orange County fair .
Yup.

The Minnesota state fair (AKA "the great Minnesota get-together) is always a fun time. Great exhibits and more unhealthy food than you can possibly imagine: they fry virtually everything there and that includes things like Snickers bars, macaroni-and-cheese, fried cheese curds, etc. etc. You can't see everything in one day though; it is vast.

[Taltarzac725]

Yup.

The Minnesota state fair (AKA "the great Minnesota get-together) is always a fun time. Great exhibits and more unhealthy food than you can possibly imagine: they fry virtually everything there and that includes things like Snickers bars, macaroni-and-cheese, fried cheese curds, etc. etc. You can't see everything in one day though; it is vast.

There is a lot of Minnesota I would like to see. I was on foot most of the time while in the Twin Cities but they do have a very good bus system. The actress's daughter -- my live in girlfriend of nine months -- did take me around a lot. She had been one of my students while I was a Student Co -Director for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners-- Stillwater and asked me at the end of the semester if I wanted to move in with her that fall. She was/is a very intelligent and caring woman so I said yes. She is doing very good things the last I looked.

I had graduated from the U of Minnesota Law School in May of 1989 but was working in their law library cataloging all the WESTLAW computer files soon after getting hired as well as doing some reference work. And later re-cataloging foreign language books and other items .

We did the Stillwater Dinner Train for her birthday but she spent much of the time arguing about the worthiness of lawyers with the gentleman sharing our table on the restaurant train.

[Joe C.]

You’ve ate camel? :22yikes:

I ate camel once and thought it tasted like cigarettes. I also ate kangaroo once and it made me jumpy.

Actually I've eaten both and the taste is ok, but I'd rather have a hamburger or grilled chicken. They both taste better.

[Driller703]

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.

Sort of like a cross between a musk ox and a white rhino. Of course it will vary with their diet. If they have been eating a lot of carrion, the tend to be a little gamey.

[ThirdOfFive]

I ate camel once and thought it tasted like cigarettes. I also ate kangaroo once and it made me jumpy.

Actually I've eaten both and the taste is ok, but I'd rather have a hamburger or grilled chicken. They both taste better.
Odd how that happens! My wife and I had dinner at a Korean barbecue in NE Thailand once some years ago, and there was a lot on the menu I didn't recognize. Funny thing though: right after dinner I found myself looking for a fire hydrant to relieve myself and had this strong urge to chase cars.

[DarrenandKathy]

It’s really good to have made into pepperoni and it’s low in fat.

[Annie66]

Several years ago, I had a co-worker who was a hunter. He came into the plant one day with a Tupperware full of bear meat. He convinced me to have a serving. After heating it in a microwave, I found the meat gamey, tough to eat and really greasy. It was the grease that was the big turnoff.

[Taltarzac725]

Several years ago, I had a co-worker who was a hunter. He came into the plant one day with a Tupperware full of bear meat. He convinced me to have a serving. After heating it in a microwave, I found the meat gamey, tough to eat and really greasy. It was the grease that was the big turnoff.

My Dad had a co-worker who loved to hunt and would often bring over a lot of venison for us to keep in our garage freezer. It was a very large freezer but I do not remember us ever eating deer meat . It did not appeal to my Mom nor Dad .


I did go deer hunting with my Dad's co-worker but we never even got close to a deer.


I do not remember any bear in Nevada that I can recall. Measures > Metric Details (https://share.google/8Pmzz6rw8CYtXrpA4)


Bear are back though in Nevada.

[fdpaq0580]

What does bear taste like? Let's just say that the next grizzly that fakes a heart attack ain't getting mouth to mouth! Twice was E-nuff for me.

Oh, yea, the taste was rotting salmon, kelp, crab and a hint of tictac. Old Bart gets a "E" for effort.

[ThirdOfFive]

What does bear taste like? Let's just say that the next grizzly that fakes a heart attack ain't getting mouth to mouth! Twice was E-nuff for me.

Oh, yea, the taste was rotting salmon, kelp, crab and a hint of tictac. Old Bart gets a "E" for effort.
A lot of wild game (bear especially) should have as much of the fat trimmed off as possible before cooking, then adding fat once cooking starts, or else you might be tasting Yogi's last few meals. This is especially true in the fall when bears are fattening up for their winter snooze. I once had bear meat at a wild game feed raising funds for something or other. The bear was a roadkill donated by someone or other and the taste (and smell) was reminiscent of week-old garbage, plus I don't think the cook knew to trim off the fat. Took me awhile before I tried bear again.

[Ruger2506]

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.

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.

[Ruger2506]

There is a lot of Minnesota I would like to see. I was on foot most of the time while in the Twin Cities but they do have a very good bus system. The actress's daughter -- my live in girlfriend of nine months -- did take me around a lot. She had been one of my students while I was a Student Co -Director for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners-- Stillwater and asked me at the end of the semester if I wanted to move in with her that fall. She was/is a very intelligent and caring woman so I said yes. She is doing very good things the last I looked.

I had graduated from the U of Minnesota Law School in May of 1989 but was working in their law library cataloging all the WESTLAW computer files soon after getting hired as well as doing some reference work. And later re-cataloging foreign language books and other items .

We did the Stillwater Dinner Train for her birthday but she spent much of the time arguing about the worthiness of lawyers with the gentleman sharing our table on the restaurant train.

I recommend it. But you have to get away from the Twin Cities. Minneapolis/St. Paul and their suburbs are not MN. In fact they take away from MN and are a blight on our great state. MN is a beautiful state full of rich natural history and sights. As well as the outstanding rural people who call MN home. Unlike the horrors you see coming from the Twin Cities on the news feeds.

You won't find a true Minnesotan who claims the Twin Cities to be a positive part of MN or even a representative of MN culture, value and lifestyles.

Kind of like FL I suppose. The Villages, Miami, Tampa, etc are not a true representative of FL culture and lifestyle. I'd suspect any big city anywhere in the country is all the same.

[ThirdOfFive]

I recommend it. But you have to get away from the Twin Cities. Minneapolis/St. Paul and their suburbs are not MN. In fact they take away from MN and are a blight on our great state. MN is a beautiful state full of rich natural history and sights. As well as the outstanding rural people who call MN home. Unlike the horrors you see coming from the Twin Cities on the news feeds.

You won't find a true Minnesotan who claims the Twin Cities to be a positive part of MN or even a representative of MN culture, value and lifestyles.

Kind of like FL I suppose. The Villages, Miami, Tampa, etc are not a true representative of FL culture and lifestyle. I'd suspect any big city anywhere in the country is all the same.
True. As I often tell people, "The Villages isn't Florida. It is New York with palm trees".

The comments about the Twin Cities in the quoted post is right on. The Minnesota State Fair, which is held in St. Paul, represents an island of sanity and traditional values surrounded by a vast sea of anything but. I go there often--going next month, as a matter of fact--but aside from flying in and out of Minneapolis and seeing my daughter in Hastings I'll be giving that particular sea a wide berth.

[JRcorvette]

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.

Bear skin coats come in handy here in Florida! :blahblahblah:

[Topspinmo]

My mountain lion was absolutely delicious. I bet your guy overcooked it. I marinated mine and covered it with strips of bacon and cooked it till it was only 130°. It was perfect.

It was the bacon…. :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

[RICH1]

The Gall Bladders are an Asian Delicacy.. I love bear in a crock pot, but it's a bit difficult to coax one into the pot..

[justjim]

Few weeks ago at a club dinner they served goat. One and done

I’ve had goat and once was enough. Also had deer, quail, pheasant, alligator, rattlesnake and others but never bear. It’s good that a hunting season is coming for bear IMHO. There are too many bears, deer and gators causing accidents and driving our insurance rates higher and higher. In the last three years alone our insurance company has paid out over 12k to fix our cars because of the many deer on the Interstate highways.

[Taltarzac725]

I’ve had goat and once was enough. Also had deer, quail, pheasant, alligator, rattlesnake and others but never bear. It’s good that a hunting season is coming for bear IMHO. There are too many bears, deer and gators causing accidents and driving our insurance rates higher and higher. In the last three years alone our insurance company has paid out over 12k to fix our cars because of the many deer on the Interstate highways.

I had been wondering what they do with the dead bear? Quite a lot of dead weight to do much of anything with. Carcass Disposal, Alaska Department of Fish and Game (https://share.google/Twe8tvkBjwO9ZnMLo)

[fdpaq0580]

The Gall Bladders are an Asian Delicacy.. I love bear in a crock pot, but it's a bit difficult to coax one into the pot..

And once you get them in the pot they won't sit still once it starts getting hot.

[Taltarzac725]

I would guess you would need a pretty large caliber arrow or bullet to take down a bear. The Best Black Bear Cartridges | An Official Journal Of The NRA Age Verification - NRA (https://share.google/osigRScX1oGn6hWRM)

[Ruger2506]

I would guess you would need a pretty large caliber arrow or bullet to take down a bear. The Best Black Bear Cartridges | An Official Journal Of The NRA Age Verification - NRA (https://share.google/osigRScX1oGn6hWRM)
Not at all. We use archery exclusively for black bear. For a brown bear you want a larger caliber. But it's laughable when people tell you they are carrying a .300 Win Mag or any magnum for a bear.

[fdpaq0580]

Not at all. We use archery exclusively for black bear. For a brown bear you want a larger caliber. But it's laughable when people tell you they are carrying a .300 Win Mag or any magnum for a bear.

Hand grenade? He asked hopefully.

[Bwanajim]

Bear meat is chewy but ok if well cooked and in a robust stew. Rattlesnake does taste like chicken. Quail, some ducks, band-tailed pigeon, dove, grouse, sandhill crane, pheasant, ostrich, pronghorn antelope, javelina, elk, bison and venison are good. Venison liver from a fresh kill is delicious. I like rabbit - not jack rabbit - but not squirrel. Never tried any moose or wild goose. A hunting buddy once shot a mountain lion. The meat was inedible, just awful. This year a man I know drew a permit and shot an African Oryx at White Sands. Meat not very good, so he ground it up with beef to make burgers.
I did a mountain lion years ago. It was delicious. You have to cook it rare like 120° not like pork. I covered with bacon and baked, and it was delicious.

[Taltarzac725]

I did a mountain lion years ago. It was delicious. You have to cook it rare like 120° not like pork. I covered with bacon and baked, and it was delicious.

“The Other White Meat” | Sportsman's News (https://share.google/L5y67TAEwe9TC4SF8)


I do find these posts interesting. Cannot say that I hunt anything except a good deal at Publix or wherever.

My Dad's co-worker in California used to hunt quite a bit. Believe he was from Cincinnati or somewhere around that area . He kept my guns clean while I was away at law school in Minnesota but I sold most of them to get letters out to various law enforcement agencies in many states to see what they would like to see in their local libraries to help survivors/victims of crimes. I sent out a dozen to several dozen or more in each state in the early 1990s. I received quite a number of replies. I usually woud stop writing people in one state when I got reply from their Attorney General 's office as most of these victim/witness assistance providers were under their Attorney General. There were some that were not like Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

My hunting days were over by then.

Some of my home care people for my mother who has Alzheimer's hunt quite a bit here in this area to supplement their grocery shopping. More fish though than hunt.

[Topspinmo]

I’ve had goat and once was enough. Also had deer, quail, pheasant, alligator, rattlesnake and others but never bear. It’s good that a hunting season is coming for bear IMHO. There are too many bears, deer and gators causing accidents and driving our insurance rates higher and higher. In the last three years alone our insurance company has paid out over 12k to fix our cars because of the many deer on the Interstate highways.

Not that many in my area, haven’t seen one bear, deer, or gator in 11 years I been here.

So it’s animals fault? :shocked:

When live next to nature reserves can’t expect wildlife to stay within boundaries.


IMO too many developments raping nature habitat and too many humans. Like history (pick century) has shown humans move in bulldoze land, kill off native species, other humans (centuries before), and take over. :throwtomatoes:

[fdpaq0580]

IMO too many developments raping nature habitat and too many humans. Like history (pick century) has shown humans move in bulldoze land, kill off native species, other humans (centuries before), and take over. :throwtomatoes:

Agree! We can't agree on how to cull our herd.

[Ruger2506]

Agree! We can't agree on how to cull our herd.

We were. Mother Nature was doing (did do) a good job "culling the herd" during Covid. Doing exactly what nature is supposed to do. Nature could have done a lot more.