Gateholio
05-31-2014, 10:48 AM
Well yes, I do....I've actually got a long winded story! :)
My buddy Steve ( You know him as Proguide66) has been putting together a new website called HowtoHunt. On this website he is featuring videos to cover every aspect of hunting possible- which is pretty much limitless, of course. As many of you guys know, I am a retired chef of about 25 years. So a big part of hunting for me (and for most hunters) is cooking the meat, so of course Steve says "you are our chef, so you need to go get a bear to film the bear cooking segments"
We were looking for a "meat bear" or "sausage bear" or whatever you want to call it. Trophys are nice but you can't eat them, and in BC and many areas, black bear is an underutilized meat source.
So we go to a high point on one side of a valley and start glassing the slashes on the other side. It's pretty hot, so we start mumbling to ourselves that it may be a bit too early for the bears to want to come out....Then I spot a bear right on the old road! SO you never know! :) He looks bigger than what we set out to find, but whatever....
We figure out how to get to the bear via F250 Spot and Stalk method, note the direction the bear is moving, and drive over there...get lost on a few of the different branches that dead end, go back to the original one we were on, decide we are on the right track, and park the truck. We start creeping down the road, keeping an eye out for Mr Bear, as it's been almost an hour since we last saw him. But we figure he HAS to be by the road, as why would he go anywhere else, with all this green stuff growing around the road. After about 45 minutes of creeping, we spot the bear, just below the road. Steve gets his camera ready, and I creep up to a good shooting position (later measured at 133 yards). The sun is hitting my face and scope in just the right angle to make things difficult, so I adjust the power up to 8x to really focus on the bear and block out the surrounding glare.
BOOM goes the Mighty NEW KING, propelling the 250 gr TTSX towards the bear, which drops at the shot, never to move again. We go up to the bear and he's bigger than we thought- the hide would easily go well over 6 ft and probably close to 7.
We set up the camera to show the gutless method of doing a bear, and have a brief debate about the hide. It's in perfect shape, obviously a large bear.....But I've got several rugs as does Steve. And so as this hunt was all about the meat, we decide to just do it like we would a non trophy animal, doing a dorsal cut and removing the meat. We showed how easy it is to take an animal apart at the kill site, rather than muss around dragging it back to the truck and loading it whole, and THEN cutting it up. I haven't done much filming except for impromptu hunting stuff, so this was pretty interesting to me.
After that it was time for a beer! :)
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My buddy Steve ( You know him as Proguide66) has been putting together a new website called HowtoHunt. On this website he is featuring videos to cover every aspect of hunting possible- which is pretty much limitless, of course. As many of you guys know, I am a retired chef of about 25 years. So a big part of hunting for me (and for most hunters) is cooking the meat, so of course Steve says "you are our chef, so you need to go get a bear to film the bear cooking segments"
We were looking for a "meat bear" or "sausage bear" or whatever you want to call it. Trophys are nice but you can't eat them, and in BC and many areas, black bear is an underutilized meat source.
So we go to a high point on one side of a valley and start glassing the slashes on the other side. It's pretty hot, so we start mumbling to ourselves that it may be a bit too early for the bears to want to come out....Then I spot a bear right on the old road! SO you never know! :) He looks bigger than what we set out to find, but whatever....
We figure out how to get to the bear via F250 Spot and Stalk method, note the direction the bear is moving, and drive over there...get lost on a few of the different branches that dead end, go back to the original one we were on, decide we are on the right track, and park the truck. We start creeping down the road, keeping an eye out for Mr Bear, as it's been almost an hour since we last saw him. But we figure he HAS to be by the road, as why would he go anywhere else, with all this green stuff growing around the road. After about 45 minutes of creeping, we spot the bear, just below the road. Steve gets his camera ready, and I creep up to a good shooting position (later measured at 133 yards). The sun is hitting my face and scope in just the right angle to make things difficult, so I adjust the power up to 8x to really focus on the bear and block out the surrounding glare.
BOOM goes the Mighty NEW KING, propelling the 250 gr TTSX towards the bear, which drops at the shot, never to move again. We go up to the bear and he's bigger than we thought- the hide would easily go well over 6 ft and probably close to 7.
We set up the camera to show the gutless method of doing a bear, and have a brief debate about the hide. It's in perfect shape, obviously a large bear.....But I've got several rugs as does Steve. And so as this hunt was all about the meat, we decide to just do it like we would a non trophy animal, doing a dorsal cut and removing the meat. We showed how easy it is to take an animal apart at the kill site, rather than muss around dragging it back to the truck and loading it whole, and THEN cutting it up. I haven't done much filming except for impromptu hunting stuff, so this was pretty interesting to me.
After that it was time for a beer! :)
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10264179_10152089280625880_8194368673251067129_o.j pg
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10360614_10152089279945880_2994629648882946648_n.j pg