What not to do in bear country
Aug 11, 2021 22:57:36 #
MuskyHunter
Loc: Torrington, CT
DrewU wrote:
Well if it comes to that you guys probably get some good eats!! Sweet meat they should be full of berries by now
There are no berries. Drought caused most of the berries to fail. You are the only person I ever heard call bear meat good. Have you actually eaten it? I have and it was awful. I know a lot of people that have eaten it and no one liked it.
Aug 11, 2021 23:43:35 #
MuskyHunter wrote:
There are no berries. Drought caused most of the berries to fail. You are the only person I ever heard call bear meat good. Have you actually eaten it? I have and it was awful. I know a lot of people that have eaten it and no one liked it.
Catfish Hunter likes it.
Aug 12, 2021 00:33:31 #
My back yard is a community forest. I was hiking with my two dogs, and as I came back to the house, I saw a black bear in the large bush eating berry’s. On the other side of the bush, maybe 20 yards is a doe. The dogs see the doe and want to chase her. There not seeing the bear. I quietly tried to keep them from chasing the deer. Finally they take off. The bear comes out of the bush one way, the deer takes off and both dogs are now trying to climb up my leg. One is a 65# black lab the other a 40# springer.
Aug 12, 2021 01:03:05 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "suit block"? Never heard the term before. Just Sayin...RJS
It's a block made with fat and seeds for bird feeding.
Aug 12, 2021 06:10:11 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Maybe "Suet"??Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "suit block"? Never heard the term before. Just Sayin...RJS
Aug 12, 2021 06:28:59 #
Graywulff wrote:
Maybe "Suet"??
Ah yes guys & gals...just got on here to check weather before heading to the lake for fishing...sorry about that spelling error on bird suet last night! I'm usually more careful! Takes on a whole new meaning. The only possible "suit block" I can think of would have been what David Byrne (music group Talking Heads) was wearing during one of their concert performances many years ago!
Not sure if this link will work...but helps explain the big suit thing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPzk-E3P6bI
Aug 12, 2021 06:38:07 #
fishyaker wrote:
Good luck, tight lines yaker!Ah yes guys & gals...just got on here to check weather before heading to the lake for fishing...sorry about that spelling error on bird suet last night! I'm usually more careful! Takes on a whole new meaning. The only possible "suit block" I can think of would have been what David Byrne (music group Talking Heads) was wearing during one of their concert performances many years ago!
Aug 12, 2021 07:25:11 #
Grizzly 17
Loc: South central Pa
Robert J Samples wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "suit block"? Never heard the term before. Just Sayin...RJS
Here ya go RJ. It fits in a wire basket you can hang up for birds. Bears luv them also. It a greasy cake with seed n flavoring. Our daughter had to take hers along with a bird feeder. She had 2 feeders the bear took one with him. 👍👍
Aug 12, 2021 07:59:36 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "suit block"? Never heard the term before. Just Sayin...RJS
I haven't either
Aug 12, 2021 08:16:34 #
Grizzly 17 wrote:
Here ya go RJ. It fits in a wire basket you can hang up for birds. Bears luv them also. It a greasy cake with seed n flavoring. Our daughter had to take hers along with a bird feeder. She had 2 feeders the bear took one with him. 👍👍
Now I know what it is. Wife has some on the back yard for birds. Even has one in tbe chicken coop. Here is the cage.
Aug 12, 2021 12:14:53 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Let me see, I would like to have bear skins cover all of my den, wall to wall. How many square feet does one average bear skin cover? If the den was 18 x 24 that would equL 432 SQ FT. Just sayin...RJS
Black bear pelts average about
5 to 6 ft. sq., a grizzly about 8 ft.
sq., and a Kodiak from 9 to 11 ft.
sq. (take length from tip of snout
to tip of tail, add distance between outstretched forepaws, then divide
by two) ! That said, there was a black bear shot in Pennsylvania some years ago that far exceeded normal black bear dimensions- at 879 lbs., it was HUGE for a black bear ! That black bear and a couple of Kodiak pelts should cover your walls for you !
Aug 12, 2021 13:58:33 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Nah! There are precious few bears in Texas, and I would be afraid they would be so full of B.S. the skins would not be 1/2 as big as say, California, where they portray a bear on their state flag! Now, unless they are faking it, those would be the kind of bears I would want, or maybe grizzly bears. Just Sayin...RJS
A few years old but here are two pics of Calif bears in my back yard caught on the game cam. They are a pain in the butt, had to rebuilt and get more chickens more than once. Learn real fast to put up food items. I think they will fill that den of yours
Aug 12, 2021 14:02:21 #
MuskyHunter wrote:
There are no berries. Drought caused most of the berries to fail. You are the only person I ever heard call bear meat good. Have you actually eaten it? I have and it was awful. I know a lot of people that have eaten it and no one liked it.
It all depends what they are eating and how you cook them. Like deer meat I have had good and bad, same thing for the bear
Aug 12, 2021 15:41:05 #
smells fishy
Loc: central wisconsin
Robert J Samples wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "suit block"? Never heard the term before. Just Sayin...RJS
Suet block-- some type of animal fat used in feeding birds
Aug 12, 2021 16:23:05 #
ranger632 wrote:
It all depends what they are eating and how you cook them. Like deer meat I have had good and bad, same thing for the bear
Exactly right ! The taste of bear
meat is greatly affected by its'
diet ! A bear that feeds
predominantly on roots, fruit
(apples), berries and small
mammals will be fairly edible -
the bear who's been scavenging
and/or eating at the local dump ?
Not so much !
Diet has a major influence on taste,
as well as properly gutting, cooling and handling of the meat
immediately following the kill ! All
are vital to the quality of the meat !
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