Life in the Northwoods

Sisco · October 26, 2015

Yep real time! Actually I just put the batteries in without bothering to set the date/time. Either that or I am Doctor Who. Here is another. Look at the date on this one!

Edited October 26, 2015 by Sisco

shepp · October 26, 2015

Nice!!!!

Sisco · November 4, 2015

It is official! My buddy Leroy above is now considered a "problem" bear. Apparently he has been getting into stuff he shouldn't in a radius of five miles! The USFWS willbe putting out some culvert traps and hopefully transporting him to a new location in the near future. So long Leroy, I barely knew ya.

shepp · November 4, 2015

It is official! My buddy Leroy above is now considered a "problem" bear. Apparently he has been getting into stuff he shouldn't in a radius of five miles! The USFWS willbe putting out some culvert traps and hopefully transporting him to a new location in the near future. So long Leroy, I barely knew ya.

Hopfully they find a good home for him and he stays outta trouble

DNP · November 4, 2015

Recently he has developed a serious peanut butter habit....and once they get on that track it's hard to turn em around. I hope they find a good place with a nice 12 step program to get him off the jiffy and out of people's garbage cans.

planeflyer21 · November 4, 2015

Maybe some hippies will adopt him and he can have an easy life, living off raw honey and organic almond butter.

Sisco · November 4, 2015

Maybe some hippies will adopt him and he can have an easy life, living off raw honey and organic almond butter.

supplemented by an occaisonal macrobiotic deer fawn.

shepp · November 4, 2015

supplemented by an occaisonal macrobiotic deer fawn.

the one by the cabin I hunt outta really like the drippings in the gas grill he fubar'd that thing a few summers ago

Robocop1051 · November 4, 2015

Mmmmmm bear sausage

shepp · November 5, 2015

Mmmmmm bear sausage

yes!!

Brb on my way to the freezer lol

Robocop1051 · November 5, 2015

I had 20 lbs of summer sausage and another 20 lbs of breakfast sausage out of my last black. I got 88 lbs out of her total.

Sausage and ground/burger is the only way I can take bear. I had ZERO love for the steaks.

Robocop1051 · November 5, 2015

I have my butcher add pig fat to all my sausage, except birds. I try to slay a shiit ton of ducks and use their fat for a mixed bird cased sausage.

Sisco · November 5, 2015

My butcher does up a lot of bear, and always uses pork fat. I usually have him make up some garlic sausage and italian sausage links when I drop my deer off. Would love to nail this bear, but as Shepp knows, it take s a while to get a bear liscence in Wisconsin, and seasons over.

392heminut · November 5, 2015

Sausage and ground/burger is the only way I can take bear. I had ZERO love for the steaks.

I can relate! A buddy of mine gave me a bear meat roast and my wife cooked it like she would any other roast. Couldn't eat that thing but the dogs enjoyed it! He asked how it was and I told him. He said "Oh no, you have to marinate it before you cook it!" and told me how to do it and gave me another roast. My wife prepared it like he said...................the dogs enjoyed that one too!

shepp · November 5, 2015

Bear is a very rich meat, we had ribs on my birthday they were very good, little tough (not because they weren't cooked right) but good!

I made hamburgers with my ground meat, best burgers ever. we got garlic summer sausage and regular snack sticks made. The butch I went to used beef they said they use beef because bear is more like beef than pork.

Idk if you ever been to roscoes in Phillips Sisco but I really wanted to go there. Every thing I've gotten there is really good. Normally stop in there on the way to and home from deer camp.

i plan on making chili soon the wether hasn't gotten cold enough yet, I'm gonna use bear roast in it.

shepp · November 5, 2015

I have my butcher add pig fat to all my sausage, except birds. I try to slay a shiit ton of ducks and use their fat for a mixed bird cased sausage.

hoping to whack some geese tomorrow night and make up some jerky this weekend

392heminut · November 5, 2015

Shepp, the bears must taste a LOT better up there than they do down here in the southwest!

shepp · November 5, 2015

Shepp, the bears must taste a LOT better up there than they do down here in the southwest!

think it all depends on how they were butchered and field dressed. I once had some bad bear too.

392heminut · November 5, 2015

I don't know about the butchering but I'm sure the field dressing was done right. This guy grew up hunting anything and everything here in New Mexico and was one of the most experienced hunters I've ever known. I sure miss him.

Sisco · November 5, 2015

It's what they eat, and how much fat they have. In Wisconsin, they carry a fair amount of fat. More than New Mexico I am guessing. Shepp; Roscoes is good, used to stop there on my way back from Marshfield when I called down there. Always liked that town.

shepp · November 5, 2015

It's what they eat, and how much fat they have. In Wisconsin, they carry a fair amount of fat. More than New Mexico I am guessing. Shepp; Roscoes is good, used to stop there on my way back from Marshfield when I called down there. Always liked that town.

yes I forgot that too "what they eat" the coastal bears get fishy. I've heard on good years of blueberry crops bears taste great.

yes Phillips it's a cool town, and I love roscoes lol

392heminut · November 5, 2015

It's what they eat, and how much fat they have.

That's kind of what I figured when Shepp said his bear meat was pretty good. The bear my buddy shot was from up in the Gila Wilderness or the Black Range, No berries to speak of and mostly pine and pinon in the area.

Sisco · November 5, 2015

That's kind of what I figured when Shepp said his bear meat was pretty good. The bear my buddy shot was from up in the Gila Wilderness or the Black Range, No berries to speak of and mostly pine and pinon in the area.

it's my understanding that grizzly's have the same comment about us up in Alaska.