Spring bear!

Okay, all this bear bacon talk, and I may just have to go get a spring bear!

I have found that the fall bears definitely taste better though, and having a 20 - 30% (or so) weight gain doesn't hurt either.
 
Why not? said:
jongun, the first bear I ate was way back in 1968 or 69. Shot a young black bear feeding in a field of grain, just west of Kirkland Lake, Ontarioo. Take about green, it was the first big game animal I ever shot! We ate all of it except the flank.

In 1971 we moved to the Yukon, where Ernie Wolfhart cured the first bear bacon and the hams off a Spring bear for me. We were amazed, and so was everyone else, at how good it was cured.

Be sure to post back, and let us know how you enjoy yours.
Ted
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For sure will be posting my findings if I do in fact manage to take a bear.
 
Northman999 said:
Okay, all this bear bacon talk, and I may just have to go get a spring bear!

I have found that the fall bears definitely taste better though, and having a 20 - 30% (or so) weight gain doesn't hurt either.
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Really? I have never tasted spring bear...
 
It depends on how early in the Spring you get one. They are very fat when they first emerge from the dens, and very good tasting! As they use up their fat reserves looking for food, they become pretty gaunt and the taste becomes stronger.

Ted
 
Just got back from the range. Yes, we can still shoot at 11PM this time of year. Sighted in the "new" pre '64 9.3X62: 21" barrel, Leupold 4X28, MacMillan stock.

270 gr Matrix 9.3s ahead of 55 gr AA2460 and Winchester Magnum primers went into a tad over an inch. Have it printing three inches high at 100 with the rifle resting in my hands. Irons one inch high at 50 yards.

We are ready! :)
Ted
 
I find Black bear meat to be some of the tastiest wild meat out there but it seems that unless I slow cook it for hours it is always tough. A bear rib roast cooked for 4 or 5 hours in sauer kraut is great stuff!
I shot a nice black two nights ago and this year I pretty much ground all of it up into burger. One of our favourites is shepards pie, using bear burger with potatoes on the bottom and a cheddar cheese sauce on top.
I've never tried the bear bacon but will give it a try with my second bear this year.
Oh, I should mention that as of this week the bears are really starting to move in west central BC.
 
Good luck finding a nice one thumper.I'm thinking I'll take the first male I see. Still kind of regret not taking a three year old whitetail buck I could have taken last fall but anyways there's always this coming fall.
 
Why not? said:
Just got back from the range. Yes, we can still shoot at 11PM this time of year. Sighted in the "new" pre '64 9.3X62: 21" barrel, Leupold 4X28, MacMillan stock.

270 gr Matrix 9.3s ahead of 55 gr AA2460 and Winchester Magnum primers went into a tad over an inch. Have it printing three inches high at 100 with the rifle resting in my hands. Irons one inch high at 50 yards.

We are ready! :)
Ted
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I don't like to be the first but nobody notes about Ted and a plastic rifle .....

I ve seen it it s nice : but again Ted and a plastic rifle .........

lol ...
 
Next thing you know Ted will be wearing his pants 10 sizes too big hanging around his knees with some colourful boxers showing!!! Hat on sideways and all!!!
 
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