Carson Wentz’s best pro retirement endeavor.

[SantaClaraHawk]

I remember the handwringing when this happened, but I think the climate is much more conducive as to educating what is going on here. Much of any state’s conservation is funded by hunting fees. His guide fees likely fed multiple families. He had to pay to process both the hide and meat of that bear and donate to locals what he didn’t want to take home. On top of it? It was a bow stalk and shoot. Instant kill.

Who wouldn’t watch the Carson Wentz Stalk and Shoot podcast? I would, including the part where they eat their meal. It’s primal.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

Most likely 70 yd hit with a bow. I know some people that are really really good and 100 is too far to be accurate. I have had bear meat. Probably most of the meat stayed up with the area. Probably took the pelt and head home tho. Friends went up for Moose hunt. Half or more stayed up there in the Yukon. It is a chore and a half to get your weapons on a plane and up there and back. Thank you for the post.

 

[Dolomight12]

I wouldn't.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

Most likely 70 yd hit with a bow. I know some people that are really really good and 100 is too far to be accurate. I have had bear meat. Probably most of the meat stayed up with the area. Probably took the pelt and head home tho. Friends went up for Moose hunt. Half or more stayed up there in the Yukon. It is a chore and a half to get your weapons on a plane and up there and back. Thank you for the post.

The date indicates a spring bear, reportedly the best eating of the year as an Alaska fall salmon diet often results in inedible meat. Increasing numbers of gorging fall bears continue to put pressure on increasingly restricted human salmon fishing seasons. Which is why there is a bear hunting season in the first place.

What do you give the sports figure who’s seen everything? Maybe something in which they’re privileged to compete. Spot stalking big game with a bow and arrow requires the sportsman putting himself in a him or me situation vs a charging bear. You win and you now own meat that no adventurous foodie could buy.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

Most likely 70 yd hit with a bow. I know some people that are really really good and 100 is too far to be accurate. I have had bear meat. Probably most of the meat stayed up with the area. Probably took the pelt and head home tho. Friends went up for Moose hunt. Half or more stayed up there in the Yukon. It is a chore and a half to get your weapons on a plane and up there and back. Thank you for the post.

A successful bow stalk and shoot on an animal that could turn around and eat you is one of those primordial factors involving human selection but yet a highly advanced athletic skill. I’m sick of the stigma around hunting or fishing as in both cases, licensed holders usually know the most about the conservation issues at hand.

What was your impression of bear meat? I would love to try it but unfortunately don’t know any bear hunters. I have heard it’s like a cross between venison and boar. Rich red meat, true?

The inupiaq eskimos consider bear meat to be so masculine in nature that only males eat it. And the only way you got some is that you killed it yourself or knew the guy who did. Tell me that isn’t a market for the guy who has everything.

 

[IndyHawk]

A successful bow stalk and shoot on an animal that could turn around and eat you is one of those primordial factors involving human selection but yet a highly advanced athletic skill. I’m sick of the stigma around hunting or fishing as in both cases, licensed holders usually know the most about the conservation issues at hand.

What was your impression of bear meat? I would love to try it but unfortunately don’t know any bear hunters. I have heard it’s like a cross between venison and boar. Rich red meat, true?

The inupiaq eskimos consider bear meat to be so masculine in nature that only males eat it. And the only way you got some is that you killed it yourself or knew the guy who did. Tell me that isn’t a market for the guy who has everything.

Go to an Indian Pow wow festival, there will bear meat.
I had a bear burger, I can't say it was good, it tasted bland.

 

[Cyrus12]

Go to an Indian Pow wow festival, there will bear meat.
I had a bear burger, I can't say it was good, it tasted bland.

Likely full of worms too....

 

[Cyrus12]

The date indicates a spring bear, reportedly the best eating of the year as an Alaska fall salmon diet often results in inedible meat. Increasing numbers of gorging fall bears continue to put pressure on increasingly restricted human salmon fishing seasons. Which is why there is a bear hunting season in the first place.

What do you give the sports figure who’s seen everything? Maybe something in which they’re privileged to compete. Spot stalking big game with a bow and arrow requires the sportsman putting himself in a him or me situation vs a charging bear. You win and you now own meat that no adventurous foodie could buy.

If he ate it I would have respect for it but he just wanted the rug or mount. Its still legal I guess so cant fault it...no shortage of bears.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

If he ate it I would have respect for it but he just wanted the rug or mount. Its still legal I guess so cant fault it...no shortage of bears.

Carson had to pay for that bear to be processed whether he hauled the meat home or not. I would have paid for that beast to be shipped home, processed into sausage and jerky over podcast starting with pat mcafee vs being donated to local eskimos who see bear meat exactly like old Koreans see dog meat. It’s for men only. So believe me, that animal didn’t go to waste.

 

[Cyrus12]

Carson had to pay for that bear to be processed whether he hauled the meat home or not. I would have paid for that beast to be shipped home, processed into sausage and jerky over podcast starting with pat mcafee vs being donated to local eskimos who see bear meat exactly like old Koreans see dog meat. It’s for men only. So believe me, that animal didn’t go to waste.

Im sure it didn't but most real hunters eat the meat and that is a big reason for it.

 

[GemCity]

I lived in Anchorage for several years. Never ate the bear meat (too many parasites) but would drop it off at a shelter.

Fish and Game in AK does a phenomenal job of managing populations.

I enjoyed hunting and fishing there. But the most breathtaking part of it was the landscape. My best hunting trip is one where we came back empty handed. It was at the foot on Denali and about 8 miles from where Christoper McCandless’ met his demise. The bus was still there.

Everyone and I mean everyone has hunting in their DNA. While I love my guns, tinkering with them and hitting the range, hunting when you’re not the alpha was an exhilarating experience. Those that ‘kill for thrill’ don’t represent the majority. At least, I like to think that’s not the motivation behind it. Hopeful naivety.

I haven’t been out since I left Alaska. Still hit the range…still preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

I lived in Anchorage for several years. Never ate the bear meat (too many parasites) but would drop it off at a shelter.

Fish and Game in AK does a phenomenal job of managing populations.

I enjoyed hunting and fishing there. But the most breathtaking part of it was the landscape. My best hunting trip is one where we came back empty handed. It was at the foot on Denali and about 8 miles from Christoper McCandless’ met his demise. The bus was still there.

Everyone and I mean everyone has hunting in their DNA. While I love my guns, tinkering with them and hitting the range, hunting when you’re not the alpha was an exhilarating experience. Those that ‘kill for thrill’ don’t represent the majority. At least, I like to think that’s not the motivation behind it. Hopeful naivety.

I haven’t been out since I left Alaska. Still hit the range…still preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

Bear is safe to eat over 165 degrees. Exactly like pork. Raccoons also carry this parasite and yet the state of Wisconsin permits an American Legion hunters feed that draws quite the share of international foodies that haven’t gotten sick, but for whatever reason there’s no doing that with bears.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

The date indicates a spring bear, reportedly the best eating of the year as an Alaska fall salmon diet often results in inedible meat. Increasing numbers of gorging fall bears continue to put pressure on increasingly restricted human salmon fishing seasons. Which is why there is a bear hunting season in the first place.

What do you give the sports figure who’s seen everything? Maybe something in which they’re privileged to compete. Spot stalking big game with a bow and arrow requires the sportsman putting himself in a him or me situation vs a charging bear. You win and you now own meat that no adventurous foodie could buy.

I agree with you for most of it. When I am hunting or someone else is hunting and I am helping, I am taking me a gun with me because I want my life

A successful bow stalk and shoot on an animal that could turn around and eat you is one of those primordial factors involving human selection but yet a highly advanced athletic skill. I’m sick of the stigma around hunting or fishing as in both cases, licensed holders usually know the most about the conservation issues at hand.

What was your impression of bear meat? I would love to try it but unfortunately don’t know any bear hunters. I have heard it’s like a cross between venison and boar. Rich red meat, true?

The inupiaq eskimos consider bear meat to be so masculine in nature that only males eat it. And the only way you got some is that you killed it yourself or knew the guy who did. Tell me that isn’t a market for the guy who has everything.

The jerky I got from the gentleman was very greasy. Where we hunt there are a lot of huckleberries and other great foods to change the flavor. I do like venison. I think that elk has a gamey taste to it. Therefore I marinate a flavor in the meat that I can handle. Where we hunt, we have mainly black bear. If the bear has kids in the area, you better be in a hard side vehicle or fast one and be out of the area quickly. If there are no kids around for the bear, you may not feel threatened as much. I know this. I was face to face about 150 yds and we both parted ways. I went up to check out my camp site and on the way down stopped to check for morelles. I happened to look back on the road I just came down and there it was.....looking at me. Not charging, but looking. I was unarmed and walked back to my quad and left very slowly. I kept an eye on it tho and it wandered off. My friends get a sportsman package which allows for A Deer, a elk, a bear, and a cougar(the animal type). I have never had boar. So I dont know what that flavor is like. Maybe later this year in Texas. I dunno.

 

[Cyrus12]

Bear meat should be frozen for a month to be safe. I remember an episode of meateater where the guy cooked some freshly made bear and ended up shitting out worms....I personally dont eat bear so dont hunt them but hunting helps keep their populations managed. After some intense govt pressure and first nations involvement the grizzly bear hunting was shut down totally as it was perceived as a trophy hunt...apparently grizzly meat is disgusting. There have been more attacks since and grizzly moving into areas they are typically not seen.

 

[Appyhawk]

I will forever after refer to him as Carson 'Wince'.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

Freezing does not kill those parasites. Cooking over 165 degrees does, which the meat eater guy should have checked with a portable meat thermometer during his catch and cook. Same thing applies to wild boar and raccoon.

There is a grizzly season in Alaska, and it’s the only animal without a meat preservation requirement likely because the meat is as bad as you say.

Bear meat should be frozen for a month to be safe. I remember an episode of meateater where the guy cooked some freshly made bear and ended up shitting out worms....I personally dont eat bear so dont hunt them but hunting helps keep their populations managed. After some intense govt pressure and first nations involvement the grizzly bear hunting was shut down totally as it was perceived as a trophy hunt...apparently grizzly meat is disgusting. There have been more attacks since and grizzly moving into areas they are typically not se

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

Dolphins QB Quinn Ewers is a bow deer hunter. https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/10/texas-longhorns-quinn-ewers-college-football-deer-hunting/

People were upset that he held up the buck’s head. Well, would you rather it starve or get hit by a car instead of being repurposed to feed family members?

Sports hunting and fishing are the ancestors to all sports that are inspired by the catch, and the more primitive they are, the higher the skill of the sportsman. Ewers unfortunately will have to adhere to whatever the dolphins say he can and cant do over the offseason to keep his spot on the 90 and won’t be in the position to challenge things.

 

[GemCity]

Bear is safe to eat over 165 degrees. Exactly like pork. Raccoons also carry this parasite and yet the state of Wisconsin permits an American Legion hunters feed that draws quite the share of international foodies that haven’t gotten sick, but for whatever reason there’s no doing that with bears.

Yep. Definitely safe to eat once that temp is hit.
It’s just the thought of it…knowing their diet, their eating patterns and habits of burying a kill…definitely a mental thing on my end.

I don’t do pork for similar reasons. Although, if you throw a well-cooked, breaded pork chop out in front of me, I’ll go to town on it. Still do bacon, pepperoni, salami. I know it’s essentially the same meat but…can’t get past the ‘mental’ thing.

Now…if I’m starving in the wild, it’s rooter to the tooter.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

Yep. Definitely safe to eat once that temp is hit.
It’s just the thought of it…knowing their diet, their eating patterns and habits of burying a kill…definitely a mental thing on my end.

I don’t do pork for similar reasons. Although, if you throw a well-cooked, breaded pork chop out in front of me, I’ll go to town on it. Still do bacon, pepperoni, salami. I know it’s essentially the same meat but…can’t get past the ‘mental’ thing.

Now…if I’m starving in the wild, it’s rooter to the tooter.

Idk. I own dairy chickens. They eat everything including leftover Chinese chicken, pizza, Mexican, raw striper, whatever to supplement their pellets along with insects in the yard. You’d think that’d make our farm eggs disgusting compared to store eggs with disgusting meat and fish leftover aftertaste but that’s never happened. Thanks for freaking me out though as I can’t just execute Henny, Penny and Flo after over five years here and eat them, lol.

 

[GemCity]

Idk. I own dairy chickens. They eat everything including leftover Chinese chicken, pizza, Mexican, raw striper, whatever to supplement their pellets along with insects in the yard. You’d think that’d make our farm eggs disgusting compared to store eggs with disgusting meat and fish leftover aftertaste but that’s never happened. Thanks for freaking me out though as I can’t just execute Henny, Penny and Flo after over five years here and eat them, lol.

I know it’s not logical. I’m over here laughing at what your chickens eat .

Simply a ‘weird’ thing on my end. It’s like eating a specific veggie when you were younger that you hated and it sticks with you through life.

‘Henny, Penny. And Flo’ lmfao!!!