Tag Archives: bear
Cooking tasty bear chops is simple – Cooking Wild Game
Jennifer Vashon, bear biologist, talks about Maine’s bears
Jennifer Vashon, one of Maine’s bear biologists, was a guest with Tom Saviello on Talkin’ Maine. I was happy to see the show on Vimeo as this isn’t a program I can watch at home. Have you ever wondered how biologists age a bear? Are sows pregnant during hunting season? And when do they give […]
My no-bear bear baiting experience
A cow moose walks into a bear baiting station…
Bear Baiting: a little discouraged
Bear Baiting: tending the bait
Bear Baiting: The barrel
Don’t store bear bait in the… (reader shared story)
Steve’s putting together a tree stand for the bear bait site. I’m getting the game cameras’ batteries replaced, cards formatted and inserted, and a little bait together. A cortisone shot in my injured, arthritic knee on Thursday is working nicely today so rolling the barrel up hill won’t be so bad. I need to figure […]
Bear baiting opens July 27
Who stole the deer?
A quick story for the rainy weekend. My brother-in-law Jason is a bow hunter. He has a very nice life-like target, a buck with antlers. He and a friend spend time practicing from the tree stand to be well prepared for hunting season. He went to the tree stand and discovered the target was missing. […]
Bear Sausage Quiche
Yes, I Bait Bears
Bear baiting. It’s probably the most controversial topic out there regarding hunting in Maine. I hated it passionately. How can anyone sit over a bait bucket and shoot an animal? How unfair. It made me furious. I wasn’t a hunter at the time. I had no personal knowledge, only hearsay, but that was good enough […]