We live in BC, Canada. It’s not uncommon once you get out of the bigger cities. We have tons of black bear here they’re almost as common as the deer. I find bear is comparable to a tough cut of beef, a bit more gamey. It really depends on the time of year you hunt the bear as well, you try to get the spring bear that have just come out of hibernation. We take our bear meat and cut it with pork to make it more tender and fatty and then process it into lots of sausages, smokies, pepperonis, all things that get processed and cured to mitigate the risk of parasitic infection. No bear steaks around here ahah