bear meat mixing proportions

[Echomules]

[/quote]With bears only about 50% depends on how it was taken care of! The other 50% is what the bear is eating!!!!!! I don't care what anyone says, you take a bear that is living on skunk cabage. Compared to one living on berries there is going to be a huge difference in the taste.
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Use the pork, its sausage. Just get some cheap pin cusions or butts from Cash n Carry or your local restuarant supplier.

[D-Rock425]

Bear fat

[jackmaster]

dont know if this has been said but when i make burger or breakfast sausage i use 10% bacon ends, works great and its cheap and gives a great taste

[RadSav]

Good thread DoubleJ. Hope you don't mind a follow up question.

If a guy does decide to do bear only sausage...
1. Do you cut and save the bear fat and then add it back in later to get the proper mixture/ratio?
2. If not, how to determine how much fat to trim off or leave on before tossing in the grinder?

If you want to use bear fat it needs to be the fat located around the intestines.  The fat between the hide and meat is greasy and nasty.  The abdominal fat is great.  So fine and mild that bakers would pay top dollar for it.  No lighter, fluffier or better pie crust than my grandmothers when she rendered that fat.

If I add any fat at all to my bear meat it is always beef fat.  I don't like pork in any of my grinds.  Doesn't seem to freeze as well and takes away from the taste of the wild game.  Won't ever taste like Jimmy Dean - and that's a huge benefit in my book.

[oldcamper]

This is good info, I have lots of huckleberries on my place along with blackberries so should be good.

[carpsniperg2]

20-30% pork on the fall bears for sure. I have been eating the spring bears without any mixed in! They must grow them tasty is skagit county Much better then the nasty fall bears over here.

Never had a nasty fall bear. Where you huntin?

East side mountains, not really any berries or anything good for them to eat here. They eat a lot of grass and bugs here. Not very much to make them tasty! My first bear was a 130-140 3 year old boar. Nasty bear! I thought he would be tasty! WRONG nasty bear. I am glad he was not a 300# because I don't think I could have ate that much nasty bear meat Both the last 2 spring bears I have shot on the west side have been very tasty.

[Wazukie]

Hey Carp you're hunting the wrong part of the county 

[carpsniperg2]

I must be! We will have to trade some bear steaks and compare