Eating raccoon and bear

[Rudi]

Would you eat raccoon and black bear? There is a dump site ~ 5 km from where will I try to hunt, so quite likely they eat garbage sometimes. (or always?)

I know some people would eat anything even alive, so I'm trying to see what the consensus (if it can be reached at all) about these.

Thanks,
Rudi

 

[TBMH]

coon? not for me, thanks!

Bear can be o.k.........Just not dump bear!

 

[Grizzlypeg]

We've got lots of racoons around here this summer. My mom saw 5 of them on her fence 2 nights ago. The neighbour found one she estimates at 25 lbs, dead in her shed. I guess it got locked in and perished. They come out of the storm drains on garbage night, so you can guess they eat a lot of refuse. I find droppings in our yard that look like they are eating a lot of choke cherries or something similar with seeds in it. Destructive little buggers from what I hear. They climb right up stuckoe walls onto roofs. I know that because I found a huge turd up on the roof. Can't say I'd eat one, but I would probably shoot one with an arrow if I got a chance.

 

[gth]

There is quite a good meat market for Raccoon trappers in some soutehrn US states.( Some guys get $5-$10 for a properly handled coon carcase)

I wouldnt eat a coon on a dare and probably pass on the dump bear also.

 

[chise]

I know a guy that ate a marshmallow that was on a 18 wheeler CB antenna for 3 weeks. It wasn't even white!

 

[ronecol]

A bear is a game animal. If you kill it you eat it - it's the law.

Ron

 

[chopper 1]

Would you eat raccoon and black bear? There is a dump site ~ 5 km from where will I try to hunt, so quite likely they eat garbage sometimes. (or always?)

I know some people would eat anything even alive, so I'm trying to see what the consensus (if it can be reached at all) about these.

Thanks,
Rudi

If you saw a dump bear eating its favorite dump food [sucking the contents of babies diapers] - you wouldnt eat a dump bear.
If the fat is yellow - make a rug.

 

[Rudi]

Now that's disgusting...
So dump bear is out of question, but yeah, would you be able to describe to the CO that the fat was yellow that's why you have left all the meat and taook only the skin? (I'm in Ontario)

 

[Newspeak]

A bear is a game animal. If you kill it you eat it - it's the law.

Ron

I didn't think that was the case. Not everywhere at least. I could be wrong, as I've never hunted bear.

 

[Scott_N]

A bear is a game animal. If you kill it you eat it - it's the law.

Ron

Actually it's not the law everywhere. While this may not apply to the original poster, in Alberta you don't need to keep the meat, although you do need to keep the hide.

 

[chise]

What about the antlers.




























































Ha you probably thought I was serious.

 

[sunray]

"...left all the meat and took only the skin?..." No excuse. Letting game meat spoil is illegal. If you don't plan on eating whatever you shoot, don't shoot.
You can bet Yogi has been dining at a dump within 5 klicks. Easy meals.

 

[saskgunowner101]

If the meat was of questionable flavor, would turning it into dog food be an option??

 

[H Wally]

I wouldn't hunt or eat garbage animals.

 

[ronecol]

Actually it's not the law everywhere. While this may not apply to the original poster, in Alberta you don't need to keep the meat, although you do need to keep the hide.

It does apply to the original poster - Ontario

Ron

 

[ronecol]

I wouldn't hunt or eat garbage animals.

Do you eat pork?

Ron

 

[TBMH]

If the meat was of questionable flavor, would turning it into dog food be an option??

Yeah, that would work.......Bear suasage isn't that bad needs beef fat.

 

[Scott_N]

It does apply to the original poster - Ontario

Ron

What I meant is that it's not illegal everywhere to let the meat of a bear spoil, and mentioning that it's not illegal to let bear meat spoil in Alberta's hunting regulations does not apply to the origial poster in Ontario. Not trying to start an argument, just saying that hunting regulations are under provincial jurisdiction, and they're not the same everywhere.

 

[H Wally]

Do you eat pork?

Ron

Actually... no. Don't really care for pork. I meant more that I wouldn't hunt or eat an animal that lived in a land fill, owing to the odds it ate stuff that was definitely not edible.

 

[chise]

Lead and mercury bear!