Amazing how white Mountain Lion meat is - and bear is so purple. Certain animals like cougars, coyotes, and wolves are different - but killing a bear to sell the gall bladder, or an elk just to take the rack is criminal.
I’m not interested in keeping taxidermy thriving, I love to hear new recipes.
After a decade in the Infantry, shooting animals isn’t thrilling. It’s food.
“”:but killing a bear to sell the gall bladder, or an elk just to take the rack is criminal.””
You are correct, it is illegal. No state in the United States has game laws that will allow that.
Have you ever had bear’n beans? It is a wonderful use of a bear neck. Simmered on a wood stove, of course.
I'm not finding any thrill in hunting either, and I don't look for a thrill. My typical hunt involves showing up at a location where I know deer typically congregate at the time they typically congregate there, quietly moving into a position in less than a half hour while waiting for sunrise and deer to arrive, and then taking one shot. More than 90% of meat for my family is venison (or trout/bass/rockfish), and that's why I hunt and (part of why I) fish. So far I've lost a lot of fish but haven't missed with an arrow or needed a second shot even once. As for following a blood trail, I've only once had to go more than 100 yards, and that wasn't much more.