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I kept a bear in the hide in Matheny creek for 2 days a few years back. It was fine, no damage to meat.
Bears are nothing like a deer or elk where u can get away with alot more with the other 2... bears are in the same family as a pig(pork)... it spoils fast... I would make sure its on ice as fast as u can and preferably gettin into a freezer within a day and a half. I shot a bear one morning around 8 am..was to the bear in a hour..gutted and in the truck..drove to camp and skinned the bear and quartered it and had it in coolers within another hour and half..we went to store and filled coolers up with ice. The coolers sat the rest of the day in the shade and we left the next morning... when I opened the cooler that morning the meat was rotten!! almost puked from the smell! I couldn't believe it was bad.. one of the fastest bears I had ever gotten on ice and processed..to this day I am confused as what else could been done.