I have a situation that I believe is usually the opposite of others. My wife and I love the taste of bear meat but have no use for a bear hide.
I realize I have to bring out the skull for DOW tooth extraction as required by law but if it weren't for that law I'd leave everything except the edible meat laying in the woods to rot.
This matters because I've always followed that I would not hunt something if my wife and I did not like to eat it. While the hide is obviously not edible I still feel like I'm wasting too much of this particular animal to justify hunting it.
I'm guessing it's because the hide is the primary purpose most hunt bear (I admit I could be wrong in that assumption) and the root of my stance on eating what I hunt is about the wasting of it.
Any others here who found a way to balance this conundrum?
Thanks,
Andy
I realize I have to bring out the skull for DOW tooth extraction as required by law but if it weren't for that law I'd leave everything except the edible meat laying in the woods to rot.
This matters because I've always followed that I would not hunt something if my wife and I did not like to eat it. While the hide is obviously not edible I still feel like I'm wasting too much of this particular animal to justify hunting it.
I'm guessing it's because the hide is the primary purpose most hunt bear (I admit I could be wrong in that assumption) and the root of my stance on eating what I hunt is about the wasting of it.
Any others here who found a way to balance this conundrum?
Thanks,
Andy