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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: oldcamper on July 17, 2012, 06:34:37 PM

Title: Bear taste ??
Post by: oldcamper on July 17, 2012, 06:34:37 PM: Any body know if there is a big difference in the taste of Bear taken on the west side vs the east side of the big rocks? :dunno:

Just wandering if the weather effects the flavor or texture any.
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: hrd2fnd on July 17, 2012, 06:37:16 PM: Bear's on the wet side taste more like little bells and pepper spray. :chuckle:
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Post by: washelkhunter on July 17, 2012, 07:03:39 PM: Bear meat "flavor" tends to reflect what its diet predominantly consists of. It its eating mostly salmon it will taste like fish. If its berries it will have that berry flavor to it. Lord please give me another huckleberry fed bear!
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: romaknows on July 17, 2012, 07:11:35 PM: :
Quote from: washelkhunter on July 17, 2012, 07:03:39 PM
Bear meat "flavor" tends to reflect what its diet predominantly consists of. It its eating mostly salmon it will taste like fish. If its berries it will have that berry flavor to it. Lord please give me another huckleberry fed bear!
:tup:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: Kola16 on July 18, 2012, 12:19:36 AM: Quote from: washelkhunter on July 17, 2012, 07:03:39 PM
Bear meat "flavor" tends to reflect what its diet predominantly consists of. It its eating mostly salmon it will taste like fish. If its berries it will have that berry flavor to it. Lord please give me another huckleberry fed bear!

:yeah: Spot on :tup:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: RadSav on July 18, 2012, 01:11:48 AM: Quote from: Kola16 on July 18, 2012, 12:19:36 AM
Quote from: washelkhunter on July 17, 2012, 07:03:39 PM
Bear meat "flavor" tends to reflect what its diet predominantly consists of. It its eating mostly salmon it will taste like fish. If its berries it will have that berry flavor to it. Lord please give me another huckleberry fed bear!

:yeah: Spot on :tup:

Back around '83 we shot a 500# bear that had been working between an old garbage dump and a skunk cabbage filled swamp. It smelled so bad I had the whole thing ground figuring I could make sausage or spaghetti if it tasted much like it smelled. It was horrible :puke: So I sent it out to a processor that made organic dog food and had 230# of dog food made. The dog would have rather starved to death than eat it.

Finally we added honey to it and used it for bear bait at the base of a huge salal bowl filled with berries. The bears seemed to like it and we took three very tasty bear off of that bait site. :tup:

The best wild game I've ever eaten = October Huckleberry Bear

Worst wild game I've ever eaten = Skunk Cabbage Bear
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: Deep Forks on July 18, 2012, 03:07:51 AM: Bear that are feeding on berries, apples and pears with a few live salmon mixed in are good eating. If they're feeding on dead, rotting salmon you got some smelly terible tasting bear meat......dog food maybe. :bdid:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: oldcamper on July 18, 2012, 03:25:24 AM: Excellent information, this help's to know where to look and hunt. :tup:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: hoytem on July 18, 2012, 07:12:07 PM: Quote from: washelkhunter on July 17, 2012, 07:03:39 PM
Bear meat "flavor" tends to reflect what its diet predominantly consists of. It its eating mostly salmon it will taste like fish. If its berries it will have that berry flavor to it. Lord please give me another huckleberry fed bear!

I'm 100% sure my one and only bear last year and all the other bears I tried were eating nothing but berries when killed. In no way in any of the meat did I taste the slightest hint of berry. Bear meat has however become my second favorite wild game meat, it is delicious. Where are these bears with meat that tastes like berries?
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: RadSav on July 18, 2012, 07:18:55 PM: I've never tasted one that had berry flavor. But the meat is definately sweeter when they have been eating berries. I would assume that is what they meant.

On the other hand skunk cabbage bear might not taste like skunk cabbage but they sure do smell like it. Must taste worse than a dogs butt, because my dog never seems to mind butt. Though he will not eat skunk bear. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: link on July 20, 2012, 06:57:13 PM: Bears on the westside taste like wet dog*censored*. Bears on the eastside taste like dry dog*censored*. Damn, it sounds like i know what dog*censored* tastes like. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: oldcamper on July 20, 2012, 07:00:51 PM: :chuckle: yep you should have said I heard. :chuckle:
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Post by: runamuk on July 20, 2012, 07:08:00 PM: We ate bear growing up and it tasted like sausage :chuckle: my sisters lived in Alaska and they ate a lot of bear.....they said berry bears yummy fish eating bears are about good for fertilizer :dunno: :dunno: apparently its a bit nasty
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 20, 2012, 07:11:30 PM: Quote from: link on July 20, 2012, 06:57:13 PM
Bears on the westside taste like wet dog*censored*. Bears on the eastside taste like dry dog*censored*. Damn, it sounds like i know what dog*censored* tastes like. :chuckle:
Man you bought into that one :dunno: :o :o :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: Biggerhammer on July 20, 2012, 07:15:31 PM: I know the bears we shoot here on the Eastside later in the season that have been feeding in the pear orchards are SUPERB!!!! :tup:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 20, 2012, 07:22:19 PM: Same with the bears I get up high here on the wetside ...People say bear stink but I am yet to say that about high country bears .... They smell like the berries they are feeding on :dunno: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Bear taste ??
Post by: oldcamper on July 21, 2012, 03:47:25 PM: OK so everybody go to the woods and become Johny Bearseed. :chuckle: