To skin  bear you must have a sharp knife and thats pretty much all you need. first get your bear and tie him very well by the legs. then hang from a roof or a tree. get your knife and slice around the ankles and the one little slice going down from the ankles. after this is done pull very hard on the ankle strips so the leg fur will come off along with the skin. when done slice down from the hip to the belly about 1 foot away from the heart. then do the same and just pull back as hard as you can. this will get the fur and skin off the belly. after this slice down the arms and peel again. then get your knife and get under the skin and slice down the spine. this will get all the fir and skin off again. then cur around the head very deep so the skin will some off and just pull as hard as you can. after this is done you will be able to just pull the whole pelt off. this is for getting the pelt for decoration. now for the meat you will cut off the legs with a larger knife and then carefully cut all the meat off this is very simple because the legs are pretty much all meat. then get the other knife as before and slice pieces off the abs and VERY carefully though because you do not want to burst the blatter. this will ruin the meat.... then do the same as before with the front legs. this s pretty much all the meat you can get from a bear. it may sound like not that much but trust me it is. i learned this from when i was in Virginia but some of this may not be correct because i didn't do it with a bear i did it with a deer. but its basically the same concept.