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What do you do with your Bear Paws?

Came across this today, pretty interesting and a High Priced food item.

I'll have one to go and a side of fries, please.

L.W.

KillerBee;
Top of the morning my cyber friend, I hope all is well with you folks on your side of the big hills this morning.

When I was working with a few Vietnamese folks, one of the Lead Hands asked me for some paws if I happened to shoot a local bear.

As I recall it was a delicacy for either his culture or his wife who was from China if I'm not remembering wrong. Sorry about that and no, I'm not sure which part of China either which of course would or could make a difference in cuisine and or medicinal tradition.

By that point in my hunting life I'd stopped chasing bears and wasn't even carrying a tag, a situation which has now changed for me as we are swimming in bears and more need to be removed from the local ecosystem.

Anyways should anyone else have that requested of them, my only thought is to check local game laws and ensure you're within compliance.

Here in BC I cannot sell any parts of a black bear unless I'm a licensed trapper.

I can legally give parts or a whole bear carcass to someone, but they must have recorded my BC Hunter Number and the cancelled tag as well. These days I want to say a photo "should" suffice, but do check in case the law says "in writing".

Hope that helped and was useful.

Best to you all.

Dwayne

Yeah - right after the jellied moose nose and "black meat".

One thing for sure..............................................................









you're not having that cooked by a $20/hr fast food cook in Cali.


Another thing for sure.............................I'd try it.

Wow that's fungshwayNsh1t

Thanks for posting KB. I have some Nigerian American friends that I go to church with. Anyway we can harvest alot of deer here south of the border in VA. On occasion I'll have several deer quartered in a cooler and take them all to church and leave with an empty cooler. One of my friends asks me "what do you do with heads" of course I said "drag them off to the bush". He says "can you bring me one?" I ask "with or without antlers?" He says "just the head" I answer "I'm not skinning it" he says " that's okay"

I bring him a deer heads he cooks them in a fire place. It takes all kinds brother's. Spring is right around the corner daffodils are flowering here. Hope the rest your winter is mild.

Good luck and shoot straight y'all

Cooked hair on - is that called bushy meat?

Served with it's own toothpicks.

Prefer bear claws myself (as in pastry)

Hi Dwayne, I trust you and your family are doing great, in the beautiful part of Canada where you live.

Like you after killing many bears, I ended up thinking they are fascinating and beautiful so I stopped killing them.

When I was hunting them a fellow I knew approached me and asked me if I would save and sell him the Gallbladders, because he had an Asian friend that was paying big money for the Pile (Not sure what he meant by big money I didn't even ask) I said no sir, if your friend wants their gallbladders tell him to go and hunt them.

It is interesting to see what other cultures eat, and especially how they prepare certain foods. The guy that was cooking in the video was obviously a professional chef, a lot of work went into preparing it hey?


Too funny, I'll eat the fries you can have the Paw, then I would tell my Pa what you ate lol.

The hair on in the cooking doesn’t look to appealing to me, but I’d bet it would make a pretty good soup.
I’ve still got four paws in my freezer, I may boil them down to remove the claws. It looked like it worked pretty well. I don’t know if it would be better to leave the toe bone piece in them or not.

Gotta be better than liver n onions

Good for you Killer. And I can think of tastier looking things to put in my soup, for sure.

Admire them from a necessary distance & as Greg Allman said, “….& try to move away slowly.”

Hi SupFoo, thanks for the comment, but to be honest I was not a hard decision to give up killing bears.

After bowhunting bears for years it became way too easy and not much of a challenge so I focused my energy to bowhunting Moose, Elk and Deer, which is much harder.

I will never forget the day I packed it in. I was sitting in my stand, and I had a bucket of honey combs I got from a Beekeeper, which I had hanging in a tree beside my primary Barrel Bait, 13 yards away from my stand.

A big beautiful Chocolate sow came into the bait with two cubs, while she was feeding at the barrel bait, the cubs were climbing the tree and trying to reach the honeycombs and jumping on it and would fall off the tree in there attempt. Every time the cubs fell to the ground mamma would walk over to them and give them a big kiss on the nose, then go back to the barrel bait.

It was the first time I got to see a sow with cubs interact like that and thought to myself, how could I kill a bear like that. Anyhow that is the day I packed it in.

Cheers ~

And sometimes the bear eats you..