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| my 2007 spring bear |
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| billythekidrock:
--- Quote ---Question for the bear experts, any issue with a large bear not making good eats? --- End quote --- No issue at all. I have eaten meat from over 20 bears in age from 1.5 - 23.5 yrs of age and from 100 lbs to over 400 lbs, all from Washington. If handled properly from the field to the plate it is all great. The only bear I would not have eaten was from POW, AK. Freshly skinned, the meat smelled like fish!. I have never had good luck with bear steaks. The flavor was always great, but as chewy bubble gum. We mostly make roasts. Neck roasts, hind quarter roasts, backstrap roasts. These we cook in a crock pot. Someday I will post the recipe. Sometimes (every other year) we will can 14 - 21 quarts of meat. We use it on Hoagies for cold or hot sandwiches, "beef" tacos, supplement for stew or right out of the jar. Only a couple times have we taken it in for summer sausage. Usually I make German or Polish sausage, breakfast link and ground, and last year I used bear burger to make pepperoni and jerky. The rest of the bear meat is added to our venison burger. Here are a few pics of the "extras" we make with bear meat. I will look and see if I can find the original posts (on another site) and share them here. German and Polish sausage in hog and synthetic casings. Bear pepperoni in sheep casings. Jerky shooter bear jerky. |
| billythekidrock:
--- Quote from: Rufous on July 22, 2007, 12:32:50 PM ---I just had sausage made. I have had the butcher make some smoked bear hams in the past and my wife cooks them in a crock pot. Very tasty. The steaks though have always been tough and a disappointment. Rufous. --- End quote --- I just added 4 posts to the Recipe section of the site. They are all recipes that we use for bear & deer. |
| saylean:
What a great looking bear...is that a scar on his forehead? Congrats! |
| boneaddict:
Excellent Bear! |
| Timber:
Great story and very nice bear! It sounds like you put your time in. Good job with the details. You don't hear about many people shooting bears with handguns, I love it. (I had that tag in 2002 and got a 14.5 year old chocolate sow.) |
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