No moose but we tagged a bear
10-28-2011, 09:55 AM
#14
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Lake Saint Louis MO
Posts: 723
HuntAway that is a nice bear. As far as the fat here is a post I found with great info.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=112712
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=112712
10-28-2011, 02:01 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,392
Thanks,
and.........in my front yard today I found some buffer material. Never noticed it until the leaves dropped. I think I might wait a month or so before bringing it down.
It's a little bit larger than a basketball.If the old wives tale about how much snow you get can be determined by how high the wasps build their nests..... We'll be in for a pile of snow this year as the nest is about 15' up.
HA
10-31-2011, 08:47 PM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Iowa/Nebraska
Posts: 262
There were 4 of us in camp this year. We tent it so it is a lot of work to get set up. We made a great call on pre-arranging firewood. It rained the entire time we were there and if it hadn't been for the dry wood, it would have been a real miserable time in a tent.
As I mentioned we didn't get a moose but we did get a bear. Unfortuneately it wasn't my GPR that did the deed. It was one of our CF guy's. He was a nice bear and we figure he went around 300-350 lbs he was 6'10" tip of nose to tip of tail when skinned. I brought home a 5 gal pail of fat for a lady at work. She's a bit of witch and likes to make homemade salves and ointments. I asked her to save me some rendered fat for use as patch lube. She gave me about a 2 lb jar of rendered fat. She said she has plenty now for a year or two for herself. lol
We had to call our hunt short as a close family friend had passed away while we were hunting. The Provincial Police came and found us to notify us of the death.
Deer season is coming up soon so I'm hopeing the GPR will get blooded then.
Has anyone used bear grease for a lube? If so how were your results?
HA
As I mentioned we didn't get a moose but we did get a bear. Unfortuneately it wasn't my GPR that did the deed. It was one of our CF guy's. He was a nice bear and we figure he went around 300-350 lbs he was 6'10" tip of nose to tip of tail when skinned. I brought home a 5 gal pail of fat for a lady at work. She's a bit of witch and likes to make homemade salves and ointments. I asked her to save me some rendered fat for use as patch lube. She gave me about a 2 lb jar of rendered fat. She said she has plenty now for a year or two for herself. lol
We had to call our hunt short as a close family friend had passed away while we were hunting. The Provincial Police came and found us to notify us of the death.
Deer season is coming up soon so I'm hopeing the GPR will get blooded then.
Has anyone used bear grease for a lube? If so how were your results?
HA
11-01-2011, 05:58 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,392
I made up 40 lbs of sausage from that bear. 20 lbs Breakfast Style and 20 lbs Sweet Italian. If the test fries are any indication they will be great. Got 17 roasts from him as well so come deer season the first feed will comence. My brother-in-law is a great bear cook. I'm looking forward to that meal.
HA
