Right place, right time........bear down!!!

[billythekidrock]

Congrats Jesse.
Hows the leg holding up? Is it rusting yet? lol

[ouchfoss]

Congrats Jesse.
Hows the leg holding up? Is it rusting yet? lol

I am definetly sore and tired. Leg isnt doing to bad though, thankfully aircraft aluminum is fairly rust resistant. I did get it covered in bear blood and I'm not sure how that effects aluminum though. 

[HuntNFish]

Very cool, Congrats!  What were you saying to yourself as it was walking right toward you?

[JakeLand]

well done !!! very nice congrats

[b.roberts]

Way to go!  Still looking for my first bear.  Hopefully what happened to you will happen to me.

[Wea300mag]

Great work Jesse, nice looking bear.

[saylean]

Excellent work! A fine bear. Congrats!

[mfswallace]

Awesome!!!!

[grizzlyadams]

Nicely done   

[Wanttohuntmore]

Congrats!  A great archery bonus!

[ouchfoss]

Very cool, Congrats!  What were you saying to yourself as it was walking right toward you?

For the first 40 yards I was saying, "keep walking this direction, keep walking this direction"
Then I was saying, "please dont smell me, please dont smell me"
And about 20 yards away I was saying, "Turn broadside, Turn broadside"
And at full draw I was saying, "Stop, Stop, Stop"

Kinda weird how stuff like this gets ingrained in your memory. Not a bad thing though! 

 

[Michelle_Nelson]

Right on Jesse!  Thats a good size sow.  Looks like she has put on quite a bit of fat. 

[ouchfoss]

Right on Jesse!  Thats a good size sow.  Looks like she has put on quite a bit of fat.

Definetly alot of fat. I got done butchering up the meat this evening and I cut all the fat off and put it in bags and ended up with 3 gallon ziploc bags full of pure fat! I plan to bake the fat to seperate the grease and make cracklins and boot sealer.

[sirmissalot]

Right on Jesse!  Thats a good size sow.  Looks like she has put on quite a bit of fat.

Definetly alot of fat. I got done butchering up the meat this evening and I cut all the fat off and put it in bags and ended up with 3 gallon ziploc bags full of pure fat! I plan to bake the fat to seperate the grease and make cracklins and boot sealer.

Bear cracklin? That sounds interesting let us know how it turns out.

[ouchfoss]

Right on Jesse!  Thats a good size sow.  Looks like she has put on quite a bit of fat.

Definetly alot of fat. I got done butchering up the meat this evening and I cut all the fat off and put it in bags and ended up with 3 gallon ziploc bags full of pure fat! I plan to bake the fat to seperate the grease and make cracklins and boot sealer.

Bear cracklin? That sounds interesting let us know how it turns out.

I cooked some bear fat several years ago just to seperate the grease for my Danners (which works awesome I must say) but never got around to actually eating the cracklins. My dad was saying he has eaten them before and it was awesome so I figured this was a perfect situation to give it a try.