So you've killed a bear, wolf or coyote ...now what?

If the hides are in excellent condition,I send them in with a trapper friend's to NAFA. If they're mangy or all shot to he^^,they stay in the bush. I'm all about varmint/predator destruction to protect livestock. A good hide is a bonus. Never try to eat something that carries rabies. If you screw up with that stuff,it'll kill you quick.
 
The only predator that i would eat would be cougar....not the Saturday night 2am kind. Predators are hunted for many reasons.....protection of livestock and property, management of game species, and sport are a few. Dealing with the pelts is dependent on the time of year and condition of the hide.
 
Tjv787 said:
Does the rabies virus get destroyed during the cooking process ?
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There's no way known by medical science that kills any virus. If there was,there would be a cure for the Common Cold. The rabies virus is communicated by fluid contact usually in the initial handling process while skinning and/or field dressing. Care,caution and surgical gloves should always be used with varmints/predators. I like to use a rope to drag carcasses out of sight.
 
Coyote always gives me gas......

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In Bantario you can sell the hide with your Small Game license #.
There are several pickup places and the NAFA web will have a booklet on proper pelt care, prep, sale and list of pickup points and time/dates.
I use Lindsay, ON off Hwy 7 W at the hotel parking lot.
 
I love predator and bear hunting, and I think bear meat is one of the best game meats you can get. A few issues will affect the taste of the meat, as some have already eluded to. Cooling it is very important, but the most important issue is the animals diet. You shoot a dump bear, and it will taste like garbage. If your baiting bears, keep that in mind. The other thing that is critically important, is to remember bears can carry Trichinosis, and must be properly cooked. you want to mke sure the meat reaches an internal temperature of 165F. The following picture is of my friends son, I took him to get his first bear this fall. They did not want the meat so i said i would happily process and keep it

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Make sure you remove as much fat and silver skin as possible. I make steaks, roasts, stew meat, as well as sausage and jerky. Smoked bear sausage is stupid good



I will happily share the recipe if you guys are interested.
 
I throw all my coyote carcasses back in the bush. Crows and other coyotes pick them clean. I skinned 10 best coyotes I got last year, Made $170 after royalities and everything. I didn't even do much work to them besides skinning and putting them on a board. Wash and comb once before putting them on the shop wall for 2 months to dry out. I'm definitely not making money but its nice seeing having them all hung up on the wall at the end of the season to look at. Compair sizes and think about the hunts.


Bears I skin and self tan them myself. I have bear rugs, skulls, claw necklaces that I have all made myself that I have around the hunt camp and my hunting room. I love bear meat as well, I keep about 30lbs for myself then the rest is cut into roasts steaks and hamburger for moose and deer camp. The bear meat gets eaten faster than deer or moose. Its great.
 
Maybe the bear meat I've had wasn't cared for properly or prepared properly because it was the worst tasting meat I've ever had.

I'll have to try it again based on what most people are saying here.
 
My first bear was taken to a butcher shop, and they butchered it like beef / pork. It was aweful. I did some research and processed the rest on my own and the difference was amazing. be very picky about fat and silver skin and its amazing. I can not emphasis the importance of their diet either. My baits contain fryer oil, oats, and table fare that hasnt spoiled. goes into bait frozen and is normally consumed before it ever has the chance to spoil. lots of fish will also spoil their taste.
 
Tjv787 said:
Just curious what happens to a succesfully hunted predator ? Obviously Keep the pelt and utilize it somehow ( rug, hat, etc) what about the meat ? The bones and entrails ? Where does all that stuff go?

Thanks
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For most people, the bones and entrails of predators go to the same place that bones and entrails from deer, moose, and elk go ....... They go back to nature's recycling system by feeding the Ravens, crows, coyotes, foxes, etc (nothing gets wasted .... It all gets used). In my province, the edible portions of black bear must be taken, but not the edible portions of grizzly, wolf and coyote. Some people eat bear and some people don't ..... Bear is good for sausage like pork.

Theoretically, most of an animal could be used .... Bones and marrow could make soup, tendons can make gelatin, intestines can make natural casings for sausages, but even with deer etc, most people just take the meat and when it comes to predators, most people don't eat them.

I don't think grinding up coyote meat and stuffing it into fox intestines to make sausage sounds appealing to most people.
 
jbmauser said:
Maybe the bear meat I've had wasn't cared for properly or prepared properly because it was the worst tasting meat I've ever had.

I'll have to try it again based on what most people are saying here.
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Me too! A friend shot a bear and it smelled like garbage while cooking, and tasted worse. It was at least 15km from the nearest dump.
 
As has been mentioned above, what a bear eats makes a huge difference ... Berries vs garbage or fish. Bears are no different from all animals in that respect; chickens fed a natural diet taste better than those fed commercial pellets, wild salmon taste better than farmed fish fed pellets, grass fed beef tastes different than grain fed and the colour of the meat changes with the diet as well.

Personally, I'm not interested in finding out what a coyote feeding on rats tastes like compared to a coyote fed grass hoppers lol.
 
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