Just for dessert.

Kill the bear, because it needs to be done.

Make a dorsal cut, quickly cook up a chunk of loin, have a friend help you taste-test it, decide if its edible and go from there.

-NC

Hey!

You tried to Mark...Hahaha

I think I'd rather a 160 pounder but otherwise what difference does it make? How do you know if you're getting a blue berry eater or a diaper muncher?

Right !

A few with young kids in town, but my dog eats crap sometimes too...lol

Diapers likely make up 0.00002% of his diet so i dont think I am concerned.

Lots of people around here would give you crap for eating a "garbage bear".

I always say that bears are designed to eat anything, and even if they eat garbage they are eating the same food you ate, but threw away! So you will eat it, but wont eat a bear that ate it??

Hes going down and everyone will be happy for it.

I have 2 buddies that have bear tags and they both said I could have the meat If they kill one. Both have good bears working their baits. So I started up one of my freezers this morning. Season opens next Wed.

Considering how fussy they can get on a bait site I believe they eat what they like or is healthy for them, go after it.

I've eaten bear 3 times from 3 different cooks. Each time I was told theirs was the best. Bear and timber wolf top the the list for me of the worst tasting wild meat I've ever eaten. I've eaten cougar, muskrat, beaver, etc.

IMO, bear made into some sausages is tolerable, although not by much.

really eh. I find it has good flavor. Because of the nature of needing to cook it through, I generally grind it all. Deer and moose is too good medium rare to be grinding much of.

Nothing wrong with bear meat,spring or fall.
If you eat it on a regular basis you will notice you will have more vigour and stamina.I dont know why a diet of bearmeat provides that particular benefit but it is noticeable after a couple weeks regular diet of bearmeat.
I never found it necessary to eat a dump bear or town bear.Plenty of bears far from people for the taking.
Hard to beat a nice spring grass fed or a fall blueberry fed blackbear.




I prefer it either cooked in sauce in the oven or in a nice stew.

Always been the rules around my house, "you can't shoot the yard squirrels, rabbits, etc..."

The bear I shot in the fall some years ago was just as good as any venison I've ever ate,possibly better.

Boco, Only reason is someone is going to shoot it and dump it at some point.

May as well be me. and put it in the freezer. Besides, I may as well shoot it fifty yards from the freezer...lol

Meat is meat-pigs,chickens,fish,ducks,geese etc eat some nasty stuff.

Ya, I imagine some of those toronto waterfront geese eat some real crap

Ducks and geese use cessponds a lot.

They taste different the natives say that have been homeless and eaten them.
I've spoke to many, and many have discussed it in books.

And yes, these are Toronto specific stories. The geese stay there all year, the sewage keeps the water open. That's where they live and eat most of the year except in the warmth of summer for a short while, and they can get fresh food then for once. That's when they are best if you can't catch a non-local.

As long as he has not eaten Leflanes dinner left overs he should be fine to eat.

I will say that if you plan on killing it as a nuisance Bear in ONT, you need permission from a warden and I'm pretty sure you cant use the meat. Sounds kind of public so i'd just make sure all your "t's" are dotted and "i's" are crossed. LOL

Unless of course your using your Bear tag.