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Found this ol'boy munchin on clover on a pipeline. Shot distance was about 70 yards. He was laying down head on with his head up looking at me. Hit him in the chest bullet exited just in front of the back hip. Dead instantly never twitched. The 257wby kills like lighting. Bullet was a 80gr ttsx. I would imagine impact velocity would have been around 3700fps
 
buckbrushoutdoors said:
Not for me either, Ive seen very few bears that didnt have worms between there hide and meat. In Alberta there is now law regarding retaining the meat, just the hide. We use the carcass to shoot wolves off of.
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Nice bear!
I've never seen worms between the hide and meat, but most over 3 years old seem to have roundworms in the cavity, some look like spaghetti has been dumped in there.
And of course your bear is almost certain to have trichinae considering its size and consequent age. I always chuckle at the guys who like bear sausage and peperettes, I can make road kill skunk taste good prepared like that!
If you really want to experience bear meat, you need to cook up a nice fat fall bear roast! :puke:
 
In Ontario it is against the law to allow game meat to spoil... bear is considered game meat. In my experience it is very fine eating. At our annual family wild game BBQ it is unnaimously agreed that spring bear is the best flavoured and textured, over deer and moose. Some folks do have a mental block when it comes to bear meat, as I might if we were hunting near a dump, but our bears are wilderness bruins that forage on much the same things as ungulates. Trim properly and cook properly, you'll be good to go.
 
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hoytcanon said:
In Ontario it is against the law to allow game meat to spoil... bear is considered game meat. In my experience it is very fine eating. At our annual family wild game BBQ it is unnaimously agreed that spring bear is the best flavoured and textured, over deer and moose. Some folks do have a mental block when it comes to bear meat, as I might if we were hunting near a dump, but our bears are wilderness bruins that forage on much the same things as ungulates. Trim properly and cook properly, you'll be good to go.
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Agree 100%

Great bear and cal.
Congrats
 
hoytcanon said:
In Ontario it is against the law to allow game meat to spoil... bear is considered game meat. In my experience it is very fine eating. At our annual family wild game BBQ it is unnaimously agreed that spring bear is the best flavoured and textured, over deer and moose. Some folks do have a mental block when it comes to bear meat, as I might if we were hunting near a dump, but our bears are wilderness bruins that forage on much the same things as ungulates. Trim properly and cook properly, you'll be good to go.
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well it is all about education. and when we did some blind test foods dinner the first one to go was black bear meat so you are so damn right Greg.

we had grizzly, moose, caribou and elk.

i never ate a bear that was fed from a dump so i cant tell.

a fall bear full of berries it s good to eat too.
 
Out of curiosity, what did the recovered bullet look like. I've never been able to recover one of those little 80s and don't even know anyone that has. Guys are driving them through elk.
 
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