Got the smoker going this weekend....excited to put some bear meat through it.
Got the smoker going this weekend....excited to put some bear meat through it.
My first bear I was with 3 other newbies. It was a gong show trying to figure out how to gut the thing but we got it done, even though we only had a little pocket knife. We made a lot of mistakes, blew 3 other stalks on bears that weekend before I got it done. Go to the koots if you want, sounds like a fun adventure, or stick close to home and go up to Squamish/Pemberton/Harrison area.
Is a Fawn decoy considered bait?
He's anything but a hunter.
More like another, Rain Coast Sociopath Fraud. Living off the prevails of his chronic lies, like the rest of them...
It's an issue, because these sociopath environmentalist's, will dilute the facts.
To the point you or Joe public, won't know them any more..
They count on that big time..
Lol I remember gutting my first big game animal too....obviously one gets better with practice, but the bottom line is, it doesn't have to be pretty, do whatever it takes to get all the guts and entrails out..that's what newbies should know, don't think too hard about it, it's not rocket surgery...
There are hot-smoking methods that can produce appropriate heat. I've also heard of par boiling the meat first as part of pre-smoke meat prep, plenty of other methods. It'll be interesting to see what folks have to say. Mostly, far as I know, smoked Bear is usually cooked post-smoke as things such as sausages.
Also the Koots are an awesome choice! Plenty of color phase Black Bears. Like all the Regions of BC, it's a beauty spot and unique.
Will be smoking for sasuage and maybe a ham....but will be cooked after the smoke.
I remember panicking thinking I had to saw through the pelvic bone to take the poop shoot out... then crap it will take forever to saw through this... boned it out with the gut pile out but still "attached" (actually turns out to be an excellent method for getting all the meat and not having to touch the stinker at all)
This of course was all happening in the dark with crappy headlamps and a bear walking around casually feeding and ignoring out air horn.
I also did not get evidence of sex "attached to one quarter" because it was pretty much butchered in field. I was worried I had done something wrong until I checked the regs and found evidence of sex is not required *phew*
I didn't sleep much that night. In and out... would wake up thinking it was a dream but the smell said otherwise. Next morning went back to the scene to hide the carcass then hit the road. Stopped to jump a couple on our way out... their battery died and spent an unplanned night freezing. The guy was super happy and shook my hand then noticed all the blood stains... turned pretty white lol ... I still wonder to this day what they figured we were up to
I think anyone who knocks down a bear right before dark and it's the first animal is in for an interesting time no matter how many YouTube videos.
I'm still not great at it... takes me an hour or two but it gets better and easier each time.
Last edited by caddisguy; 04-11-2018 at 07:48 AM.