Why do bears smell so bad

[fishermanjoe]

my bear smelt like roses! well.... actually he had no smell on him at all, nor did the gut pile.... weird

[Gutpile]

Oh god. Coyotes just stink. 

Gutpile, You might want to take the fur off before you roast them over a fire. 

I don't roast them. I usually dice up the backstraps, add a little garlic, a little doe urine, and mix them with this..........
I thought you knew that.

[lokidog]

The guts just STINK!  Kind of like rabbits, but worse.  We had a family friend that was a bear guide in Ontario, he killed or had a part in the demise of hundreds of bears and never gutted a one.  Just skin, quarter, and take out the backstraps, leave the stinky rest for the yotes.

[billythekidrock]

Most of the bears I have gutted smelled like wine..or at least fermented berries. Sometimes kinda sweet.

[Kain]

I wish I could find any bear even a stinky one.       

[billythekidrock]

I hear ya.. I have not even seen one since July.

[rasbo]

Oh god. Coyotes just stink. 

Gutpile, You might want to take the fur off before you roast them over a fire. 

thats some bad ju ju there,damn odor hounds

I don't roast them. I usually dice up the backstraps, add a little garlic, a little doe urine, and mix them with this..........
I thought you knew that.

[carpsniperg2]

Oh god. Coyotes just stink. 

Gutpile, You might want to take the fur off before you roast them over a fire. 

I don't roast them. I usually dice up the backstraps, add a little garlic, a little doe urine, and mix them with this..........
I thought you knew that.

thats to funny

[Big10gauge]

Oh god. Coyotes just stink. 

Gutpile, You might want to take the fur off before you roast them over a fire. 

I don't roast them. I usually dice up the backstraps, add a little garlic, a little doe urine, and mix them with this..........
I thought you knew that.

I did but even I like a change of pace every now and then.

[Gutpile]

Nice!!!   

[Rufous]

I have killed 10 bears myself and been in on the gutting/field butchering of another 10 or so. I have never noticed bears to smell any worse than anything else. In fact they often smell better. I really do not know what the heck folks are talking about. Rufous.

[saylean]

The spring bear I got this year made me gag twice....which is really rare. I have a pretty tough stomach.

I would rather work on a bear instead of a coyote/coon anyday.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Come to think of it I have never gutted anything that has even come close to making me gag.  I have seen and smelled some pretty rank stuff.

[cohoho]

Only one bear made me gag, it was a Griz with maggots and old chunks of meat all threw it's fur from rolling on an old Moose carcass....  A roll into the river and some dawn dish washing soap, he was fresh and clean... 

[carpsniperg2]

i have been around of lot of dead animals and bears take the cake. i can't think why some would say they don't stink very much, man i have never gaged over any dead animal but bears do have a stink to them.