collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Spring Bear taste  (Read 5730 times)

Offline Timberstalker

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 9266
  • Location: Tri-Cities
  • Just one more ridge
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2017, 04:13:10 PM »
What meat do you guys take off the bears?  Sausage from quarters and tenderloins for steaks or do you try to take as much as possible like a deer or elk.  Ive never harvested a bear before, sorry for the newb question

All of it, just like a deer or elk.  Good stuff. :tup:
If you aint hunting, you aint livin'

Offline idaho guy

  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2012
  • Posts: 2826
  • Location: hayden
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2017, 04:15:21 PM »
Spring bears are way better then fall bears and a lot less greasy. Mine have all been good and the only time I hear of bad ones is the bears that get into the skunk cabbage. Never killed one in it but I can imagine it would make em a little ripe lol
  :yeah:
We shoot most of our bears in the spring they are better and not so dang greasy!

Offline hunter399

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Feb 2014
  • Posts: 8788
  • Location: In Your Hunting Spot
  • Groups: NRA RMEF
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2017, 05:23:01 PM »
They taste like a dog sort of

I don't wanna know how you know this. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

Offline lokidog

  • Trade Count: (+6)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 15186
  • Location: Sultan/Wisconsin
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2017, 11:19:19 PM »
What meat do you guys take off the bears?  Sausage from quarters and tenderloins for steaks or do you try to take as much as possible like a deer or elk.  Ive never harvested a bear before, sorry for the newb question

All of it, just like a deer or elk.  Good stuff. :tup:

 :yeah:

Saw someone made corned bear, that's what I want to try.  I've shot two Spring bears and eaten many others, even ones shot near sucker spawning streams, all in Ontario. They all tasted great. I shot a September bear in OR many years ago, also delicious.

Offline CaNINE

  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2015
  • Posts: 1429
  • Location: Gig Harbor
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2017, 06:26:42 AM »
My Mother-in-law who is highly hesitant around any wildgame meat recently went back for a second helping of slow cooked spring bear roast from the crockpot.
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

Proverbs 12:27

Offline Lemoore-on

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Jul 2016
  • Posts: 31
  • Location: Oak Harbor
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2017, 08:09:54 AM »
Thanks for all the replies.  Think I'll give it a shot this year.

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50475
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2017, 08:48:45 AM »
What meat do you guys take off the bears?  Sausage from quarters and tenderloins for steaks or do you try to take as much as possible like a deer or elk.  Ive never harvested a bear before, sorry for the newb question

Harvest all of it just like a deer or elk

Offline Calvin Rayborn

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2013
  • Posts: 1383
  • Location: Columbia Basin
  • Groups: NRA Life Member, ATA Gold-Card Life Member
Re: Spring Bear taste
« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2017, 09:25:04 PM »
Used to serve it as a delicacy at the Wildlife League

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Palouse/Mica (GMU 127) Access for Trades Work by high_hunter
[Today at 10:54:30 PM]


Taxidermy Issues....HELP! by dreadi
[Today at 09:26:17 PM]


2025 Canning by Twispriver
[Today at 08:35:41 PM]


AUCTION: Custom knife by Alden Cole by Dan-o
[Today at 07:29:06 PM]


More Kings! by bear
[Today at 06:19:16 PM]


Spot lock in the salt? by GWP
[Today at 02:45:08 PM]


Seeking packer OnCall for early archery unit 328 Naneum/Colockum by dreadi
[Today at 02:09:41 PM]


GPW Trail Closures by Kingofthemountain83
[Today at 01:49:27 PM]


Pre season Archery SALE by BigJs Outdoor Store
[Today at 01:32:46 PM]


Good Fishing Guides in Puget Sound by hiway_99
[Today at 01:17:16 PM]


49 Degrees North Early Bull Moose by B4noon
[Today at 10:42:06 AM]


Challis/salmon idaho packstrings? by 2MANY
[Today at 10:05:30 AM]


Good day of steelhead fishing! by snit
[Today at 08:10:42 AM]


Bonaparte Lake by AntlerHound
[Today at 07:48:39 AM]


Honda BF15A Outboard Problems - FIXED! by pickardjw
[Today at 07:39:38 AM]


KODIAK06 2025 trail cam and personal pics thread by kodiak06
[Today at 06:27:05 AM]


New to bear hunting by JimmyHoffa
[Yesterday at 10:39:22 PM]


Best all around muzzy (updated) by riverrun
[Yesterday at 09:17:25 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal