I got a bear this spring. Northern BC way up the Copper river outside Terrace BC. It will make great sausage. Hundreds of square km's of nothing but wilderness. It was grazing on greenery. It's stomach and insides were packed with greens. No dump bears there. It will be great eating. They make the best Italian sausage I have ever tasted.
Black bears and dumps?
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This!! I grew up in Salmon Arm, and there were a lot of orchard bears available in the fall. [Mostly ate apples and plums]
These were delicious to eat, and usually pretty easy to find. Dave.
I tried it once, could not stand it! I don't know where or what it ate. Even my dogs wouldn't touch it! The nearest dump was about 10 miles away. It was a young bear. Then we had the meat made into pepperettes, was more eatable, but still the bad experience lingered in mouth and mind, so the guys at work enjoyed the rest of it!
I tried it once, could not stand it! I don't know where or what it ate. Even my dogs wouldn't touch it! The nearest dump was about 10 miles away. It was a young bear. Then we had the meat made into pepperettes, was more eatable, but still the bad experience lingered in mouth and mind, so the guys at work enjoyed the rest of it!
I too, have tasted bear and didn't like it.
Also, traditions die hard and back in the homestead days that I have been writing about, where the people in the boon docks of northerly Canada survived because of the wild meat available, I never knew anyone that ate bears. Neither did the Indians. I have never known any bush Indians who ate bears.
I am in no way trying to convince other people not to eat bears. Its just that I don't and that's the way it is.
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Free range, humanure grown hahaha.
There was a BC guide in one location the locals tell me who would take American clients on a long drive all over his area and then circle around behind the town dump making it look like they were way the heck and gone in the wilderness and take him to bears there.
I tried bear once and liked it. I had a roast given to me. Don't know if it was a sow or boar. I do know I don't like wild boar. It smells like piss when it's cooking and tastes like it smells. To me anyway. I believe that's probably why they castrate domestic pigs.
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Which is the next best thing to do with them other than just leaving them be altogether. I have no use for or desire to shoot a bear unless its being a nuisance or threat.
Eenie,
the reason they castrate pigs has nothing to do with the smell of piss but more the structure of the band where boars are supposed to live on their own not in group when they reach 18 months ...
never heard about bad taste for wild boar event in their rut in december unless there is a lot of food in that case it can start in september ... but we are far from the bears ...
interesting note grizzly do not like domestic pigs ....
the reason they castrate pigs has nothing to do with the smell of piss but more the structure of the band where boars are supposed to live on their own not in group when they reach 18 months ...
never heard about bad taste for wild boar event in their rut in december unless there is a lot of food in that case it can start in september ... but we are far from the bears ...
interesting note grizzly do not like domestic pigs ....
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Never had it but my buddy from McAllen, Texas shoots wild hogs often. He baits them at a stand he has along the Rio Grande a few days before family get togethers and goes out and shoots a small weener pig or young female for on an open spit. He says the young ones and young females are the best eating. He doesn't bother with the boars or big adults. He claims they are the best eating animal in the texas bush. He also shoots alot of Javelina but just for pest control. Says they are nasty, vile smelling critters and absolutely infested with fleas.
