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Post by Ravenchamp on Oct 28, 2013 16:13:20 GMT -5
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Maryland has closed its 2013 black bear hunting season with hunters reporting 94 bears killed in the western part of the state. The season opened last Monday in Allegany and Garrett counties for six days and closed on Saturday. Most of the bears were killed in Garrett County, with a tally of 70. In Allegany County, 24 were killed. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources reports the average life weight of the bears this year was 142 pounds. The agency says Mark Martin of Oakland took the largest bear of the season. It was a 392-pound male. baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/10/27/maryland-bear-hunt-closes-at-94-animals-killed/ |
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Post by alienrace on Oct 28, 2013 19:35:59 GMT -5
Wow, that seems like a rather excessive number! How many bears were even IN Garrett county?? 70 is a huge amount given the size of the land.
Then again, seems every spring bears are wandering around my neck of the woods looking for new territory. Are bears becoming the new deer?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 19:41:30 GMT -5
That is a lot of bears! Is the meat good eating?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 14:06:41 GMT -5
Who would want to kill a bear? I don't get it myself.
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Post by apexbud on Oct 31, 2013 15:46:02 GMT -5
That is a lot of bears! Is the meat good eating? It's very good and very mild when prepared properly. The fatty pieces hold the strong, gamey taste, but the meat is lean and tasty. |
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Post by apexbud on Oct 31, 2013 15:56:18 GMT -5
Who would want to kill a bear? I don't get it myself. They can become a dangerous nuisance. One of my friends in western Maryland had one break into her kitchen when she was home, tear the door off the fridge, the cabinets, scatter food around the house, and kill her dog. Once the bear found that it could find food there it kept coming back. Finally DNR captured the animal and relocated it. Another friend hit one in his truck. Totaled a full size Chevy, and he spent a night in the hospital. The bear population is growing out there, and more and more young bears are coming east to look for new habitat. |
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Post by Ravenchamp on Oct 31, 2013 16:36:41 GMT -5
Game management is always needed, and it's been American sport for eons.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 19:36:13 GMT -5
Who would want to kill a bear? I don't get it myself. Perhaps someone who is being attacked by one? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 19:54:09 GMT -5
Who would want to kill a bear? I don't get it myself. I'd like to try the meat. So for the same reason one would kill a chicken, cow, or goat-- good eating! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 10:41:32 GMT -5
I guess if you can eat them. I didn't know you could.
But I am not for hunting something just to kill it. Just for the joy of hunting it. THAT I do not get.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 10:42:50 GMT -5
Game management is always needed, and it's been American sport for eons. Right, Americans used to shoot bison out of trains windows. That was a great sport! |
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Post by Ravenchamp on Nov 6, 2013 11:13:49 GMT -5
Game management is always needed, and it's been American sport for eons. Right, Americans used to shoot bison out of trains windows. That was a great sport! That was lawless hunting which we text book hunters frown on. There is a huge difference. |
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Post by Moses on Nov 6, 2013 11:39:48 GMT -5
Every big game animal in America has been endangered at one point or another. Government had to kick in and create fish and game commissions . I met a guy up here when I was fishing, he was dragging a grizz bear skin out. I just started chatting with him he said he was from Jersey he'd always wanted to shoot a bear in Alaska. He said the meat smelled bad because it was eating salmon so he left it. I thought wtf what the hell is that all about? Why did he kill the bear ? Why didn't he just take a picture of it ? I've hunted my whole life, as I age, I am losing the sportsmen side of killing, even tho I will still hunt moose deer elk etc for food .
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 15:07:30 GMT -5
Right, Americans used to shoot bison out of trains windows. That was a great sport! That was lawless hunting which we text book hunters frown on. There is a huge difference. It was not lawless. It was legal. Or at least there were no laws against it. Which I guess is the same thing maybe. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 15:09:05 GMT -5
Every big game animal in America has been endangered at one point or another. Government had to kick in and create fish and game commissions . I met a guy up here when I was fishing, he was dragging a grizz bear skin out. I just started chatting with him he said he was from Jersey he'd always wanted to shoot a bear in Alaska. He said the meat smelled bad because it was eating salmon so he left it. I thought wtf what the hell is that all about? Why did he kill the bear ? Why didn't he just take a picture of it ? I've hunted my whole life, as I age, I am losing the sportsmen side of killing, even tho I will still hunt moose deer elk etc for food . If people eat what they hunt then I am okay with it. |
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Post by Ravenchamp on Nov 6, 2013 15:10:44 GMT -5
Well we modern text book hunters don't do this, I and many others go by the book and will turn in someone in a heartbeat if we see them breaking hunting laws.
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Post by pahunter on Nov 7, 2013 9:43:49 GMT -5
The guys in my hunting group all say the same you shoot it you eat it
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2013 14:05:20 GMT -5
Yecchh! But ok.
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Post by douger on Nov 7, 2013 14:29:31 GMT -5
The thought of eating caviar and sushi make me ill. I can grab some raw ground round, slice up an onion, add some salt and pepper and slap it all on some rye bread. To each his own. |
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Post by aponderer on Nov 7, 2013 18:24:51 GMT -5
A friend's dear departed dad (from WV) once told me there's no sweeter meat than bear meat.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 27, 2013 20:55:42 GMT -5
I'd guess from their lifestyle that their meat would be lean, but also tough and gristly. Especially an older bear.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2013 23:17:17 GMT -5
I'd guess from their lifestyle that their meat would be lean, but also tough and gristly. Especially an older bear. Bears are somewhat related to raccoons and skunks, however the older the tougher (as with and mammal) is pretty well the case.
I do a lot of work with logging companies in Western MD, WVA and southwestern PA.
The loggers have a saying, that the humans invaded the bear's habitat, not the other way around. The loggers work with the bears, the tourist trade merely builds bear-proof structures for trash and the like, and call DNR when they see one.
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Post by rentedmule on Nov 28, 2013 6:31:41 GMT -5
Bear meat is quite good! As a cook think of it as pork, not beef. As an omnivore they exploit whatever is most available and being lazy as we all are (!) will overdo it on some easy pickins. Their "weak" point may be their desire for sweets, so bee keepers really detest the presence of bears!
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Post by Ravenchamp on Nov 28, 2013 10:06:49 GMT -5
The majority of any wild game is delicious, even if claimed to be strong or gamey. It's all in the preparation process of the meats of wooded game or waterfowl.
I've always had game meats come out the quality of fine dining.
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Post by rocketwolf on Nov 28, 2013 11:11:47 GMT -5
I hope they killed enough to keep them off the Eastern Shore,
We had one show up 2 years ago and was an instant destructive pest
until DNR carted him off.
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