So where is everyone?
 

Sure miss the old days here. This past year it beens like everyone has left and those who are here, dont have much to say lately. Over the winter i figured it was just cabin fever and such but wow its summer, going to be fall here soon and its still the same.

Anyone have some good advice and recipes on how to cook bear?

I hear ya, even in the contest forums, not much going on, very quiet in here.

If you are cooking bare don't get too close to the fire,

you might burn something you don't want to. :devil::devil::devil:

Sorry but just had to do it !!!

It could be since they changed the site. I get kicked off all the time and can't embed pictures anymore.

I'm still here, but with work and 2 kids, I'm lucky if I get 15 mins. a day on the computer. And there's still enough people here that really do know what they're talking about that when I do have something to say, it's usually already been said, and I hate to be repetetive just to say something.

cherokee I feel your pain about the new server change on this site. I get kicked off 5 oe 6 times an hour after awhile you just give up.And the times on the posts are all out of whack.i think the server has been outsourced to an offshore company.

For me, things have just become very busy lately. Past year or so I'd just leave the page up at work and kept pretty up to date. But now my job has changed and when I get home I have tons to do. Haven't got to shoot as much either. I did shoot yesterday, I'll try to post the results later if I get a chance.

I think it's just a product of life speeding up. It's still a great forum to be on though.

I will sign in then it sends me to a page saying a I need to register. When I try to post something, it shows I am logged in but says I do not have access to these features. I guess it will be easier just to view the site without signing in.

Well my first wife who did the cooking was taken away by cancer, and I don't know what happened to the recipe book we had made up. I can tell you that we usually mixed it with deer and a lot of it went into pizza and a 50/50 ground mix with venison to make meatloaf that was superb we also barbequed some of it on the grill. Spring bear right out of hibernation is the best fall bear is very fat and you want to cut the fat off like you should on deer for the best taste. Lee

Well I'm still around also. Haven't been to the range since late June. Just too darn hot and humid. I've got a bunch of load combinations I want to try in three or four different guns. When the weather cools the smoke will be-a-blowing.

First the Bear ... this is really important. After you have killed that bear, you need to ASAP get that thing cooled down. I recommend getting that hide off and get it on ice, or in refrigeration quickly. Leave that bear hanging in a tree somewhere, and the meat will stink, and make you think your eating the worst thing in the world.

Also bear (were we live) have a lot of body fat on them if they hibernate in your area (which I am sure they do). When you butcher that bear cut every speck of fat off that bear you can find. If you have ever eaten bear meat that was not trimmed, you will have a nasty fat taste stuck to the roof of your mouth for hours. Cut all that fat off, and you will love the meat. Its better then the best beef you ever had.

When you cook bear, I like to cook it over a flame, whether a campfire, spit, or grill. That's because any fat you might have missed will drip off the meat. Also I don't like bear cooked well done. It has too good of a flavor to do that. I like to make bear steaks or a roast, cook that over a fire, and paint it with a good horse radish paste.

And when you slice the meat, never cut it straight down. Try to slice it at a angle. This crosses the meat grains and it will melt in your mouth. If cooked wrong, it can be a little stringy, but a bear steak on an open fire grill is really good if it was taken care of in the first place.

As for the forum, I am around. With my knee still in recovery I have not been shooting as much as in the past. Also I have not been posting the shooting results like in the past. That's because I have kind of beaten that horse to death. Most my rifles are sighted in. They shoot well. And I don't shoot 200 yards or even 150 yards. So normally my groups have not changed all that much.

I have not come across too much new gear to report on. So I am kind of just waiting for the hunting stories to come in..

Thanks for the info cayugad!! So dont let it hang? Just cut it up and pack it into an ice cooler? I may have to go buy a few big ones just to have them on hand.

I spend most of the time at the MML site . Also like other have said , other sites are easier to use . posting photos and i don't get kicked off ALL the time . Half the time when i post something here it logs me off .

I understand you have you do the same for Antelope and do not shoot one after its been running . Then they are some what eatable !!I Hope to find out in the next few years , if i get draw !! I found a area where there are some very nice bucks and doable for a muzzy . Big Rolling hills 100-150 yards apart and full of Antelope .

I don't care about range reports over 100 yards , Muzzle loader hunting is ( should be )IMO a close range sport and thats what i love about it . So when you post a rage report it's no dead horse to me !!!! I even love 50 yard reports because that the only good group i can get with my 1x scope is around 50 . My cross hairs cover up to much of the dot after that . I had a guy at our local gun shop say Inline muzzle loaders are as good as center fire rifles and you can shoot them out to 4-500 yards and they should be outlawed , I told him if he could take my encore and hit a deer target at 400 yards with his fist shot he could have it , he shut right up . He's never shot a inline only side locks . He also told me he could get 2'' - 3'' groups with his side lock at 200 yards .all day long LOL He a good guy just full of BS at times . So please keep up you range reports 10-100 yards ,all good to me !!

Cayugad; you made a statement once that one saw very few deer last year if any. I always thought Wisconsin was loaded with big deer and lots of them. I guess I have seen too many Buffalo county hunting shows.Also just curious; what does Cayugad stand for or is it your last name?

deer655

I can not give you a definite answer but he live lives near Lake Cayuga and then there is this fact... the Cayuga's were a well respected Native American Nation at one time and belonged to one of the strongest Native American Alliances 'The Iroquoi Nation'....

The Cayuga Nation (Guyohkohnyo or the People of the Great Swamp) was one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of American Indians in New York. The Cayuga homeland lay in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. One current spelling of the Cayuga name is Gayogohó:no’

thanks sabotloader,most folks nicknames are straight forward. i was just curious what his meant, thanks

Well, you live in a state where centerfire rifles are legal for something besides coyotes. I hunt 600 acres that is almost entirely open except for a creek and some ditch lines, I've stalked up on a few but with a busy job, young kids and multiple freezers to fill each year, I find a ML shooting out to 300 yds the most efficient means possible when the next best alternative is a shotgun.

If I'm still hunting during the actual ML season that usually means I have already filled my meat tags, and you'll most likely find me carrying my Omega X7 with peep sights or even my old sidelock.

My latest project is even closer range, I just bought a Denali barrel to use in constructing a ML pistol.

I'm still here, but I post more than I shoot. I haven't had my ML out since I did the 500yd shooting in July. It's been a very busy year for me, travel and switching jobs with the company, and another baby coming in time for Christmas.

I'll be posting more around hunting season, as I'm going out to MT for elk/muley/antelope. I will attempt to take the antelope with my Omega but I won't be taking a ML for elk/muleys because it is a back country backpack hunt and if I can only take one gun it's got to be my 300WM.

I did just get back in from hanging some armor plate steel targets to shoot at 200 and 300 yds though :D

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i enjoy bear meat more than deer ...also a heads up bear meat has to be well done ..no medium rare steaks ...spring bear meat is better tasting than a bear that was killed in the fall ..

A friend of mine who guides bear hunts was so concerned about cooling the bear down quickly, (I helped him build it) he built a small shed with hanging racks in it. Then he mounted a monster in the wall air conditioner in that little shack. So once the bear is brought in, he can hang it, and cool it down fast.

A friend of mine shot a bear on my property a few years back. He got it in the afternoon. We were butchering at eight o'clock the next morning. We cool them and cut them. We never let them "age" like a venison.

utah rob,:sign0018:
I don't know if it was my message that did it,but i sent a
"GRIPEMAIL" to the webmaster of this forum and I have had no trouble on this last session.haven't been told I'm not logged in
no matter what .maybe they just needed to know what was up or they knew and just got it ironed out. back on topic,I agree with your post about Cayuagads range reports.I don't care what he's shootin or how far ,I still enjoy them. You stay cool up there in the great white north brother.
TICK

Are you guys using internet explorer? For the past 3 days its been giving me fits and keeps making me log in over and over and OVER. I cleared the cache,history, everything! Still the same crap. Im using firefox now with no issues at all.

Man i've been away close to 6 months and just put up a post a few days ago. With work and fishing just no time to shoot anymore. Hard to beleive Bow season starts on the 15th and I have not even tuned that up. Where does the time go?

fire fox is what i am using . If i sign in and forget mark the remember me box it will take me right back to the sign in every time , even though i AM signed it . I just TRY to remember to mark the remember me box!!! But what bugged me was when i would post something and go to send it and i would get logged off or get logged off in the middle and lose my post . so far that has not been the case since i started coming here again. BUT before i just gave up and stopped .

Like someone said, most of it has been said before.

Most often we end up posting about personal experiences in the woods. And it is getting very close to big game season through out the states.

My season starts in early Oct for archery. I have been busy working out in the woods getting ready. I put up two more stands and have one more to hang. I will need to put up my Dog House blind. I got a perfect place for it. I will put it in the base of a hollow. That should work nicely.

Of course there is always a down side to all this was, TICKS!!! Thank God for Perminon. That keeps the little buggers down.

Mostly I am lurking in the background as I am getting booted off everytime I post or move to a different thread. As a result I seldom bother to sign in. I just show up, see wassup and move on.