As a side note, congrats on your arrow bear. I live in very heavy duty bear country, and I've shot so many that I stopped counting at 40. Reason? a clean 2 1/2 year old is about the best eating in the northern woods if you know how to prepare it. We don't have garbage bears up here. Makes the best chile and stew you can imagine. Deer up here taste like pine cones. #2 on my go to list is snowshoe hares, which I harvest with airguns. Absoluteiy delicious, especially in a sweet and sour sauce. Much better than grouse. My mother was a trained cook who often wrote food columns for the Vancouver Sun in the 1950s, and she trained me pretty good. Friends never asked me what they were eating, however. Animal or vegetable lol. Apologies, but us old farts like to reminisce!
