Variety of wild game you eat and how you keep it

[gerry]

We harvest about 90-95% of the meat we eat, mostly blacktail deer and black bear. Moose are scarce here so I have not shot one since 2011. We love grouse and sometimes I will shoot a few ducks and geese. We catch and eat all 5 species of pacific salmon, even the ones people look down on can make excellent eating. Have not made it out to the ocean for a few years but we love to eat halibut, rockfish, lingcod and other bottom fish.

Have no idea on a walk in freezer but maybe you can find one a restaurant or butcher wants to sell.

We don't have a lot of bunnies here although I did shoot my first in years this fall and have been looking a bit this winter too.

Selling hides was mentioned earlier, I do sell my black bear hides often since we are just after the meat usually. It is a shame to leave a perfectly good hide in the bush so I don't mind selling it and making up some of the money we spent on gas. I did come very close to keeping the one from 2015 and maybe should have, my wife was supposed to shoot but felt anxious and backed out at the last moment, she asked me to shoot it so I did. Had she shot it it would have been turned into a rug for sure. The good news is spring bear is only a few months away and who knows what we will find, maybe that huge chocolate boar will cross our path.

 

[Thankful Otter]

mjcmichigan--all things being equal, moose, bison, muskox and dall are all good. we have not yet gotten the freezer, it is a community project and we need to raise a few more dollars, which we hope to do before spring.

gerry, you sure do live in some beautiful country. Besides Blacktail and bears, aren't you able to hunt goats each year ?

 

[gerry]

Yes we can hunt goats here every year. The meat is tough but has excellent flavour, we save roasts for the slow cooker and grind up the rest for burger and make sausage. I have come close in the last few years to bagging a goat, hopefully this year