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
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?
I'll have one to go and a side of fries, please.
L.W.
Too funny, I'll eat the fries you can have the Paw, then I would tell my Pa what you ate lol.