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[RadSav]

September and October bear in the high huckleberries will change your impressions on eating bear meat.  It was very close to making my top three on the "Favorite Wild Game" thread.  Burger, ham, steaks, sausage, pepperoni...all delightful!  I'm sure it would take #2 on my wife's list!  Does take a little more in processing correctly due to all the trimming and avoiding cutting bones with a saw.  But man!!!  It is worth every morsel.   Offer me huckleberry bear or beef and I'm choosing bear...yep, that good

BTW...Bear jerky - not my favorite.  But coot sausage is pretty darn good

[Romulus1297]

Good luck I do not need 3 life size bear mounts

[magnumb]

September and October bear in the high huckleberries will change your impressions on eating bear meat.  It was very close to making my top three on the "Favorite Wild Game" thread.  Burger, ham, steaks, sausage, pepperoni...all delightful!  I'm sure it would take #2 on my wife's list!  Does take a little more in processing correctly due to all the trimming and avoiding cutting bones with a saw.  But man!!!  It is worth every morsel.   Offer me huckleberry bear or beef and I'm choosing bear...yep, that good

And you seemed to be one of a very few believable, honest members here on HW.....now what.........


We do, however, share the same propensity for never giving, "short, simple answers".......... .

If I could break up most of my posts into the average length post here on HW, I'd be close to 10k by now........

[RadSav]

   Call me when you shoot a nice huckleberry bear.  We'll cook some up and have a party!


Off topic story:
First date with the wife we went to a Chinese restaurant.  I ordered broccoli beef.  The wife looks completely disgusted with me.  "How can you eat that green nasty stuff?", she asked.  Not thinking I asked the stupid question, "Have you ever eaten broccoli before?"  Her answer was.....Yep, you guessed it..."No".   After insisting she try some she decided I wasn't completely crazy.

Fast forward a year and we started living together.  To my surprise, and delight, she fixed broccoli about three days a week.  One of her favorite vegetables now!  Silly girl.

[magnumb]

  Call me when you shoot a nice huckleberry bear.  We'll cook some up and have a party!


Off topic story:
First date with the wife we went to a Chinese restaurant.  I ordered broccoli beef.  The wife looks completely disgusted with me.  "How can you eat that green nasty stuff?", she asked.  Not thinking I asked the stupid question, "Have you ever eaten broccoli before?"  Her answer was.....Yep, you guessed it..."No".   After insisting she try some she decided I wasn't completely crazy.

Fast forward a year and we started living together.  To my surprise, and delight, she fixed broccoli about three days a week.  One of her favorite vegetables now!  Silly girl.

So what........I've got to sleep with you before I can appreciate bear....... .

Being fairly recently divorced, that could be the best clandestine offer that I'm gonna get.....LOL.

[RadSav]

[magnumb]

Thank goodness...... .

In all seriousness........do you pass on the earliest bear seasons and only hunt the later/berry producing season for the 'taste' preference or perhaps for the coat.....?

Was this bears coat, from my description, unusually nice for an early spring bear coat and would you expect it to be even more desirable during the berry season....?

Thanks RadSav......... .

[RadSav]

I've seen great coats in Spring and in August.  But, for some reason you can find some trouble in early bear when you send them out for tanning.  If the tannery uses a rotary fleshing tool those early bear seem to lose a lot of hair.  If sending those early bear out for a rug or mount be really diligent on using a taxi with a good reputation like Cedar River or equivalent.  Late bear seem to have less of a problem with it.

Everything revolves around berries for us when hunting fall bear in Washington.  Not that I won't tag a good bear if one walks in front of me as darn near all of them taste good to me.  But we don't normally hunt bear exclusively until the berries really come in strong and ripe.  Plus the later you get into the season the bigger they get.  Wife's big monster I took 80# of fat off him.  He was not a really old bear and skull barely made 18".  But his live weight was at least 450#.  I'd bet three months earlier he was closer to 380.  He was delicious!!

[magnumb]

Good info, for sure.....thanks!

Headin' up 'his a way' in a few minutes, we'll see if I can find some others or perhaps even start to pattern him, if that's even a prudent approach on bear this time of the year.

[boneaddict]

Saw a bear at about 20 feet Friday.  Baited him in with my smoked salmon lunch.  I was sitting on a rock eating and enjoying the view when I heard him moving.   All of a sudden he pocked his head out with his nose in the air sniffing.  Apparantly the smoked fish was more appealing than my pungent odor.    He had a gorgeous coat.   

[jrebel]

Saw a bear at about 20 feet Friday.  Baited him in with my smoked salmon lunch.  I was sitting on a rock eating and enjoying the view when I heard him moving.   All of a sudden he pocked his head out with his nose in the air sniffing.  Apparantly the smoked fish was more appealing than my pungent odor.    He had a gorgeous coat.   

Were are the pics....Pics or it didn't happen.   

[boneaddict]

I wish,  Green foreground and the Stuarts in the backdrop, extremely clear air because of the previous days rain, no dust.  Bear sniffing me at 20 feet.  Book or magazine cover in the making.

[steen]

Left the club in 2012 at age 48. I did have an opportunity in 2001 but passed on her because she had second year cubs, my husband didn't have a problem with it though.  Never hunted them but this one turned up during a second deer draw tag hunt.  Cinnamon/Blonde bear.  Not big and a little hair rub on the shoulders but really cool.  Did a rug and love it! I was pretty excited. I waited about a half hour.  It is a little unnerving coming up on a bear rather than deer cause it is more likely to come after you.

[huntnnw]

September and October bear in the high huckleberries will change your impressions on eating bear meat.  It was very close to making my top three on the "Favorite Wild Game" thread.  Burger, ham, steaks, sausage, pepperoni...all delightful!  I'm sure it would take #2 on my wife's list!  Does take a little more in processing correctly due to all the trimming and avoiding cutting bones with a saw.  But man!!!  It is worth every morsel.   Offer me huckleberry bear or beef and I'm choosing bear...yep, that good

BTW...Bear jerky - not my favorite.  But coot sausage is pretty darn good

NOT ME!.. Ive had many bears and its not my thing...It is all made into sausage and I love it that way.

[magnumb]

No love today, but I did circle the wagons and can see why he certainly spends a bit of time in that particular area.

I did come across momma grouse and her 10-12 golf sized, neurotic chicks, however....... .  Cute or what...... .  If she stood just a bit taller and confronted me as she did, I might have taken shelter in my truck!   She blew up to be about as big as she could, started tellin' me off and stood her ground at no more than 5 feet from me while standing in front of her.  Every move I made, however slowly, she would cut me off if I was headed in the general direction of her chicks.  'Course, they were so scattered by that time, so any move I made was in the direction of one or more of her chicks.

She never backed down prior to me headin' for my truck.  I've had scoldings before, but this bordered on 'hunter abuse'..... .

I truly enjoyed that encounter and it was not nearly a first for me, but they all are very cool interactions and made my whole day worthwhile.....