Who's Heading Out?

[DirtTime]

I think I might do some bear hunting this year. I have to do some looking on where to donate the bear if I manage to kill one. I don't mind the meat but I don't think the wife will like it, and even if she did I doubt she'd like it enough to want to eat that much of it.

 

I have only been out actual bear hunting a few times, long ago, and never even found a track. There's a couple wandering the private land I hunt so I would like to give it a whirl.

Edited August 7 by DirtTime

[mowin]

I'll definitely be on the lookout while out for deer. 

Going to NJ to try and thin out there heard in October.  

Love bear meat. My wife who will not eat venison, likes it. Go figure. 

Good luck. 

[Bucksnbows]

1 hour ago, mowin said:

I'll definitely be on the lookout while out for deer. 

Going to NJ to try and thin out there heard in October.  

Love bear meat. My wife who will not eat venison, likes it. Go figure. 

Good luck. 

You’re coming to NJ to see me?? 

[mowin]

35 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

You’re coming to NJ to see me?? 

It's a date. 

[Larry]

Like a lot of guys I've had opportunities too shoot bears and some pretty big ones. I just don't have any want or desire to kill one. I don't know if I like bear meat my wife for sure wouldn't eat it and I don't want to drag it out of the woods. So I just let them walk.

[mowin]

2 minutes ago, Larry said:

Like a lot of guys I've had opportunities too shoot bears and some pretty big ones. I just don't have any want or desire to kill one. I don't know if I like bear meat my wife for sure wouldn't eat it and I don't want to drag it out of the woods. So I just let them walk.

You don't know if you don't try.  

[broomeguy]

Bear is pretty tasty if cooked the right way. 

[DirtTime]

3 hours ago, mowin said:

I'll definitely be on the lookout while out for deer. 

Going to NJ to try and thin out there heard in October.  

Love bear meat. My wife who will not eat venison, likes it. Go figure. 

Good luck. 

Thank you. My wife will eat venison, will try wild turkey, but won't touch any other game. Except fish we catch.

 

Bear meat can be great if cooked right, and if cooked bad taste like grease covered string.

 

 

I figure I have to get over and check brush blinds, so I might hold off a bit and go mid September and do some hunting while over there instead of just dragging and stacking small trees and logs around half the day.

[mowin]

3 minutes ago, DirtTime said:

Thank you. My wife will eat venison, will try wild turkey, but won't touch any other game. Except fish we catch.

 

Bear meat can be great if cooked right, and if cooked bad taste like grease covered string.

 

 

I figure I have to get over and check brush blinds, so I might hold off a bit and go mid September and do some hunting while over there instead of just dragging and stacking small trees and logs around half the day.

Biggest key when processing bear is getting it skinned and cooled quickly.  Next is removing every possible piece of fat, even between different muscles.  Bear fat taste horrible. 

[DirtTime]

1 minute ago, mowin said:

Biggest key when processing bear is getting it skinned and cooled quickly.  Next is removing every possible piece of fat, even between different muscles.  Bear fat taste horrible. 

Agreed.

 

I sent a few emails out to see where to donate one. At least hunting that land I have help getting it out of the woods.

[Buckmaster7600]

I’ve killed a couple and tried a bunch more, I don’t care how you cook them some suck and some are ok. I won’t shoot another unless it’s within sight of the truck and I want the rug. Unfortunately the big woods bears that I’ve had tend to worse than the ag bears I’ve eaten. They’re just too much of a pain to get out of the woods on the public land that I hunt to be worth trying to kill one.

[dbHunterNY]

going to northern Maine labor day week for bear. then plan is later in October going to NJ for maybe another bear.

[mowin]

48 minutes ago, dbHunterNY said:

going to northern Maine labor day week for bear. then plan is later in October going to NJ for maybe another bear.

Where in Maine?

I've taken 2 with the bow in Maine. First was a guided hunt. The 2nd a good friend baited some public spots. 

[Spaceman Spiff]

4 hours ago, Buckmaster7600 said:

I’ve killed a couple and tried a bunch more, I don’t care how you cook them some suck and some are ok. I won’t shoot another unless it’s within sight of the truck and I want the rug. Unfortunately the big woods bears that I’ve had tend to worse than the ag bears I’ve eaten. They’re just too much of a pain to get out of the woods on the public land that I hunt to be worth trying to kill one.

I wonder how the supposed “blueberry bears” taste/ stack up?

[mowin]

6 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

I wonder how the supposed “blueberry bears” taste/ stack up?

Buy the time the season is open, I'd imagine it wouldn't make a difference. To much time eating other stuff. My northern Maine bear tasted just as good as the one near the blueberry fields.