Essential Tools for Field Dressing Black Bear

[Northman999]

I like utility knives with the disposable blades.

For cleanup, since they are kind of greasy, dish cleaning soap and hot water is handy.

Nothing too special really...

 

[beretta boy]

... One of the finest movies ever made...

Indeed. Also love ol' Will Geer's line "Meanest ##### that ever balled for beads !"

 

[BrotherRockeye]

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Are you sure you can skin grizz?

Jeremiah Johnson: Just as fast as you can catch' em.
[Bear Claw runs into and through the cabin with a huge grizzly bear close behind and jumps out the back window]
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [as the fight rages inside the cabin] Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!
[Shot sounds from inside the cabin]


One of the finest movies ever made




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my little girls' favorite movie...they sing the song all the time...priceless.

note: not a huge bear and if you watch close you can see that he is being "baited" by something on the butt of the rifle.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

my little girls' favorite movie...they sing the song all the time...priceless.

note: not a huge bear and if you watch close you can see that he is being "baited" by something on the butt of the rifle.

Just Have to ruin It, don't you ?

Grizz

 

[mosinmaster]

What's the best way to remove bear claws? And how do you guys do a European mount for the skull? Boil and hydrogen peroxide?

 

[beretta boy]

...not a huge bear and if you watch close you can see that he is being "baited" by something on the butt of the rifle. ...

Damn big bear ... "Bart", owned by Doug Zeuss (Wasatch Wildlife, Utah) ... I was up very close to Bart many years ago - like 3 or 4 feet away - he was a big boy for sure !
I saw him in between release of "Jeremiah Johnson" and the filming of "Legends of the Fall". There was a "Special" made for T.V. with Doug Zeuss & Bart meeting one of the stars of "Legends...", Brad Pitt. Interesting show.

In "Legends", that's Doug (playing the "aged" Brad Pitt) wrestling with Bart at the end of the movie. Doug had many techniques for "asking" Bart to do things. Food rewards were key
(he was a sucker for honey buns & orange soda). One of the toughest things Doug had to do was train Bart to be gentle with a little bear cub (I think his name was "Zouk") for the filming of the movie "The Bear" .... due to the natural instinct for a full grown boar to kill cubs. Doug substituted a stuffed teddy bear at first, and utilized a little strawberry jam. Over a short period of time, Bart accepted Zouk, and on went the movie. NOT a great movie, but interesting to watch in regard to the animal training that went into it.