Bear sausage ....Smoke or Summer???

[Jonathon]

Big Game Where are you located? If you want to try again I’d be happy to ask our commercial salesmen if they know a place in your area that could do a good job?

[Big Game]

Thanks Jonathon. I was actually in Redding CA which is 8 hours north. Weather was hot, bear was huge, and it was all I could do get it chunked up and run into town and get sausage made. There are some decent butchers in that area but many of them will not handle bear, so I didn’t have much choice. That is actually what spurred me to take up sausage making, I figured I could do better than that butcher, and it turned out I can!

[Jonathon]

So, somewhere, on a podcast or a livestream or something I told a story about how I was sure I saw a Mountain Lion in suburban Wichita one day as I was walking my dogs. I talked myself out of it and even said I was crazy…well well well who is crazy NOW? https://www.ksn.com/news/local/caught-on-camera-a-mountain-lion-in-the-middle-of-wichita/

Me, it’s me, I am crazy

Credit goes to Tex_77 for finding this

[processhead]

Jonathon said in Bear sausage ....Smoke or Summer???:

So, somewhere, on a podcast or a livestream or something I told a story about how I was sure I saw a Mountain Lion in suburban Wichita one day as I was walking my dogs. I talked myself out of it and even said I was crazy…well well well who is crazy NOW? https://www.ksn.com/news/local/caught-on-camera-a-mountain-lion-in-the-middle-of-wichita/

Me, it’s me, I am crazy

Credit goes to Tex_77 for finding this

Speaking of lion, a friend of mine shot a lion in Colorado a few years ago and we grilled some of the loin.
It was amazing. Light pink like pork and very non-game like in flavor and texture.
Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

[Jonathon]

processhead I NEED to try some of this, I don’t think I have been as interested in a specific type of meat ever. How many predators are REALLY good for eating…is this the only land animal like that? Some people like Bear but a Bear is a omnivore. I am sure I am missing an obvious one but I can’t think of it.

@The-Fridge-Raider Just brought up snakes…I said land animal to avoid gators and crocs but reptiles. Someone in the room brought up Hyenas…

[processhead]

Jonathon said in Bear sausage ....Smoke or Summer???:

processhead I NEED to try some of this, I don’t think I have been as interested in a specific type of meat ever. How many predators are REALLY good for eating…is this the only land animal like that? Some people like Bear but a Bear is a omnivore. I am sure I am missing an obvious one but I can’t think of it.

@The-Fridge-Raider Just brought up snakes…I said land animal to avoid gators and crocs but reptiles. Someone in the room brought up Hyenas…

I was impressed by the cougar. Never had the opportunity to try bear.
I would try almost anything, but…hyena?

If I remember correctly a hyena is a scavenger and eats mostly carrion. Which is not all that different than a vulture.

Nope, I’ll pass on the hyena

[Jonathon]

processhead Yeah, I would not eat Hyena either but while it is a scavenger it appears to be only able to eat meat. It says that if it does eat something not meat that its body cannot process it. I am no biologist though so could be wrong.