Bird feeder may be a threat to your Taco.

You would change your mind if you tried my bear brats. Especially smoked, but even off the grill they are awesome. What I have found, and this is true no matter the species, is that most people do not know how to handle the meat right. Tainted meat is tainted meat. Bear, like pork, turns pretty easy with any heat because of the fat content. You have to cool out the carcass, and keep it medically clean. This last bear was skinned in a freezer.

 

I'm sold, send me some.

 

^^ I'll bite.

 

I don't know that it would keep, or I would. I've tried mailing it with dry ice in a small cooler before but it gets freezer burnt. Dry ice is some cold stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I eat what I kill and kill what I eat, but have you ever tried it? I don't hound hunt either, mostly because it is illegal in Oregon, but it is not "easy". It is far easier to hunt how I do. I buy cougar and bear tags every year, and if I am out deer or elk hunting and happen across a bear or lion, it's going in the freezer. It has been my experience that predators follow the prey around, and if you see one you will see the other eventually. Sure, it's likely I will be having tag sammich at the end of the year, but it is by far the "easiest" way to kill a bear. Hound hunting requires an athlete to keep up with the hounds, running through the woods trying to keep your dogs in line. Not to mention you have to care for the hounds year round, train them, burn up hundreds of dollars in fuel looking for tracks, etc. Easy it is not.

 

I got out of work, I check this once or twice at home. I have alot of downtime here, gets really boring

 

That is total B.S., lots of my friends hunt bear here in PA and all of them keep the meat. Bear meat is excellent if they aren't living off of human garbage, and they are skinned and meat processed right away. It's the bears that live off of nothing but garbage, or the ones where the hunter carted it around to every bar in the area for days on end before processing the meat that taste like crap.

I have a local farm close by that butchers bear exactly like they do pigs. They make sausage, bacon, and cure the hams. The bear anatomy is almost exactly identical to a pig, and if you had a fresh one butchered by this place you would not know the difference between bear/pig with any of the cured or smoked meats.

 

Your so silly. Just send it in a Yeti.

 

Yeah, it didn't. Point was, hunters don't waste time hauling bear meat back to the camp to eat themselves, unless they're starving. Nobody I know of can stomach bear meat. Maybe one guy here. Haul some back to feed to the dogs, yeah, dogs will eat anything . . . .

 

Sounds like the bears you guys are killing are probably living off of human garbage or something. If not then the hunters you know either need to learn how to cook or process and take care of the meat immediately after the animal has been killed.

 

If you say so that's fine with me.

 

Agreed. People are funny. Some guys around here won't eat antelope either. It's almost as good as elk, but you have to keep the hair off the meat or it will taste like sagebrush.

 

Yep, I know a few people who won't eat venison/deer because they think it tastes gammy and very strong. lol My gf was like this until she tried venison that I processed myself, and now she likes it even more than beef.

Actually, the real issue is the meat they ate at some point in their life was most likely tainted. Either dropped off at a local butcher on the first day of rifle season. At a place that was overloaded with deer and the carcass had to lay outside of a freezer all day before they had room for it or time to process it. Or the person who gutted the animal could have cut into the stomach and bladder marinating the meat with bile and urine.

 

I like moose

Not a fan of trophy hunting

 

I have often had people tell me the best moose they've ever eaten is moose they've gotten from me. It's no secret, it's how you take care of the meat after the kill. Get the gut out and get the meat cooled quickly - that's the most important thing. And you've got to keep it clean. The people above who say they love the meat of bear, moose, elk, etc. are most likely people who know how to take care of a kill. And black bear is awesome too if taken care of. As for trophy hunting, I don't believe in it. I love the hunt, and being able to harvest my own meat. I don't do it to show others that my rifle is more powerful than a bull moose. As for hounds, I use them for rabbit hunting. I love training pups, and I love watching dos work the scent. And rabbit can be quite tasty as well. It takes me hours to cook a rabbit (well we call them rabbits up here but they are actually snowshoe hares). I believe hunting to be a lot more humane than eating an animal that was raised soley to butcher.