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Title: Butchering a Bear
Post by: oneshotkill on July 24, 2008, 12:26:49 PM: I am going to be going bear hunting for the first time with a friend of mine in August and I was wondering if you guys could give me any information on how to butcher it. I have butchered several deer but don't know where to start with a bear. Thanks
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: GoldTip on July 24, 2008, 12:40:51 PM: Essentially just like the deer.
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Post by: DeKuma on July 24, 2008, 12:50:41 PM: Once the skin is off, pretty much the same.
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Post by: robodad on July 24, 2008, 01:45:54 PM: Once it is skinned and hanging it looks just like a person so do it just like you would any other person !! :P
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: bucklucky on July 24, 2008, 01:58:16 PM: Bears will spoil quicker than a deer because of the marbling of fat , so it is esential to get it cooled as quick as possible and trim as much fat off the carcass as you can to expose the meat.
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: DeKuma on July 24, 2008, 02:52:06 PM: Quote from: robodad on July 24, 2008, 01:45:54 PM
Once it is skinned and hanging it looks just like a person so do it just like you would any other person !! :P

I almost said that, then changed my mind! We are both sick Robo!!
They do look like a person once the skin is off, so why would you not treat it as any other human? :dunno:
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: robodad on July 24, 2008, 03:07:07 PM: Quote from: DeKuma on July 24, 2008, 02:52:06 PM
Quote from: robodad on July 24, 2008, 01:45:54 PM
Once it is skinned and hanging it looks just like a person so do it just like you would any other person !! :P

I almost said that, then changed my mind! We are both sick Robo!!
They do look like a person once the skin is off, so why would you not treat it as any other human? :dunno:

Yeah that is why you need to get a big one cause the small ones look just like children and that is just wrong !! :P
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: DeKuma on July 24, 2008, 03:08:55 PM: :yike: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: bucklucky on July 24, 2008, 03:11:01 PM: Skinned out paws look like human hands too!
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Post by: billythekidrock on July 24, 2008, 04:27:50 PM: I used to to mine like deer but now I just take the hams, neck and backstraps and make roasts out of them. The other large chunks I can and the rest goes into burger.
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Post by: coastalghost on July 27, 2008, 03:56:31 PM: +1 bucklucky on the human hand thing. That freaked me out the most.....lol
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: billythekidrock on July 27, 2008, 04:41:18 PM: Quote from: coastalghost on July 27, 2008, 03:56:31 PM
+1 bucklucky on the human hand thing. That freaked me out the most.....lol

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Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: coastalghost on July 27, 2008, 05:19:17 PM: :yike: Nice pic BTKR. Least it wasnt a fresh one :chuckle:
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Post by: billythekidrock on July 27, 2008, 05:44:30 PM: Yea, the beetles did a pretty good job on it.
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Post by: bucklucky on July 27, 2008, 10:17:38 PM: SWEET!!
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Post by: Sideswipe on August 02, 2008, 07:39:15 PM: By the time I got mine home last May, I was so tuckered that I used the neighbor's Sawzall. Not a work of art but a lot quicker. Cooled it, froze it, & pulled it out later to do the actual cutting. The roasts & kelbasa has been great.
Title: Re: Butchering a Bear
Post by: LongTatLaw on August 08, 2008, 11:37:27 PM: I used a 3 inch Kershaw pocket knife and a hatchet for 100% of my bear last fall... keep the hatchet attached to my meat pack! knife in pocket.

I used the old heel to heel and peel the whole thing...that way...any mount I can think of is an option!

Next bear or 3 will be upright 1/2 body wall mounts...now that I got my rug...

i took every scrap of meat...ate all but about 10 pounds that went to catwithboost and wifey...many of u ate it at the spring get together! so u all are now wetarded too :P

People always discuss the butchering...many dont taxidermy... If I wasnt gonna get taxidermy done... it would take like 10 minutes to quarter and start hiking...

we have two great taxidermists on here...Michelle Nelson and that Bucklucky guy :P so theres plenty of reason to get it done up.

as for the meat... lots of steaks...some stew meat...few roasts...and thats it...anything fancier and u better talk to Kelly_catwithboost!!! ;)