Hey Travis -- that is a neat story about the bears.
I'm just curious what you guys do with the bears after you shoot them.
As you know, I like a lot of different foods, but I don't have any fondness for bear meat, unless it is a cub or small sow. After that, boars by the time they reach puberty, can really stink up the kitchen.
Worse than that, cooking bear can threaten your health, as my brother and his friend found out the hard way when we were teens. My mother was ready to beat both of them very severely with her 12-inch cast iron pan, because late one night they used her favorite 12-inch cast iron pan to cook some boar bear. It ruined at least 50 years of seasoning in a pan her family brought from Finland when they emigrated.
I believe that is when my brother got the Finnish nickname "Satana Poika" -- translation: Satan Boy!
