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Best bear for table fare
« on: July 15, 2015, 09:16:58 PM »
Let's hear where (elevation) & when ie spring, summer opener or fall is your best eating bear came from?? Taking a interest in pursuing a bear, but all my hunts are about the groceries   

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2015, 09:18:39 PM »
Spring bear, grass fed. To me, way better than a berry bear.
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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2015, 07:07:56 AM »
Fall bear, 5500 -6500ft elevation, berry fed. TASTE AMAZING and to me have better fur not to mention more meat on their bones that time of year. :tup:
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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2015, 08:02:40 AM »
The only bears I actually enjoy eating are of the gummy variety, sometimes the cinnamon kind.
Real bears are mixed with lots of pork or bacon before consumption.  Makes them edible to me.

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2015, 08:14:20 AM »
I have only eaten one bear I didn't like  :dunno: he was eating lots of roadkill. 

Apple-fed fall bear is probably my favorite  :tup:
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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2015, 08:19:57 AM »
The late summer bear my Hubby got last year was AMAZING!! I think  it was a 2 year old,  so so good. But we are very anal about getting the meat out of the field and cooled right away-- I think he shout it about 4 and it was at the  butcher's by 6. To me that seems to make the biggest difference with game.

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2015, 08:30:50 AM »
My first.....Snoho County fall bear...was the best. Blackberrys and grass fed. Dressing it out showed the gut to be stuffed with nothing but blackberries!

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2015, 08:53:50 AM »
Fall bear, 5500 -6500ft elevation, berry fed. TASTE AMAZING and to me have better fur not to mention more meat on their bones that time of year. :tup:

I have to agree with this. Blue berry and grass fed late summer to chilly fall. They're fattening up. Eating like crazy.

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2015, 09:18:35 AM »
How are the tree peelers?

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2015, 01:58:22 PM »
I have only eaten one bear I didn't like  :dunno: he was eating lots of roadkill. 

Apple-fed fall bear is probably my favorite  :tup:

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Bears eating apples have been my favorite

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2015, 02:24:15 PM »
The late summer bear my Hubby got last year was AMAZING!! I think  it was a 2 year old,  so so good. But we are very anal about getting the meat out of the field and cooled right away-- I think he shout it about 4 and it was at the  butcher's by 6. To me that seems to make the biggest difference with game.
Usually when someone claims they don't like a certain game meat the first question that pops in my head is how well the meat was cared for in the field to butchering it 

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2015, 02:25:55 PM »
Fall bear, 5500 -6500ft elevation, berry fed. TASTE AMAZING and to me have better fur not to mention more meat on their bones that time of year. :tup:
How was the fat layer on your bear?

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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2015, 02:33:59 PM »
Fall bear, 5500 -6500ft elevation, berry fed. TASTE AMAZING and to me have better fur not to mention more meat on their bones that time of year. :tup:
How was the fat layer on your bear?
1 inch thick or so, usually shoot em in mid September. The hides are usually pretty greasy by then but the meat is finger lickin good! :tup:
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Re: Best bear for table fare
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Re: Best bear for table fare
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2015, 09:13:12 PM »
Pear bears! Lol. I shot one out of a pear orchard and it was the tastiest meat I've ever eaten.  Better than beef! The meat didn't last very long in the freezer.

 


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