JRD
06-09-2023, 02:48 PM
I've got a good story for you cast boolit folks.
A couple weeks ago there was a post in the muzzleloading section about bear lard. The gist was someone was asking about greasing round ball patches with bear fat. Someone else said, heck it's great for leather boots. Then the subject changed to using bear lard for cooking and it made such good food that you should stop wasting it on patches and boots.
I had a bear hunt planned in Alaska with a good friend who is an avid bear hunter. I asked him about cooking with bear lard, and he said he had a bunch of fat rendered and it wouldn't be a big deal at all to bring a can of it to camp. So me reading he bear lard thread on this forum lead to me eating homemade donuts fried in bear grease for breakfast while in a remote hunting camp in the Alaskan bush.
A funnier coincidence is that another hunter I met in camp turned out to also be a bullet caster and a member of this forum- AlaskaScott. So last week two forum members wound up eating donuts cooked in bear grease together as a result of that thread here.
No bears were harmed by cast boolits on our trip, but we had a great experience. I took a nice black bear with a German 16 gauge over 7x57R drilling. My dad took a bear with a 1950's Marlin 35 Remington, and Scott's six year old son took his first bear with a 10mm TNW carbine.
Jason
A couple weeks ago there was a post in the muzzleloading section about bear lard. The gist was someone was asking about greasing round ball patches with bear fat. Someone else said, heck it's great for leather boots. Then the subject changed to using bear lard for cooking and it made such good food that you should stop wasting it on patches and boots.
I had a bear hunt planned in Alaska with a good friend who is an avid bear hunter. I asked him about cooking with bear lard, and he said he had a bunch of fat rendered and it wouldn't be a big deal at all to bring a can of it to camp. So me reading he bear lard thread on this forum lead to me eating homemade donuts fried in bear grease for breakfast while in a remote hunting camp in the Alaskan bush.
A funnier coincidence is that another hunter I met in camp turned out to also be a bullet caster and a member of this forum- AlaskaScott. So last week two forum members wound up eating donuts cooked in bear grease together as a result of that thread here.
No bears were harmed by cast boolits on our trip, but we had a great experience. I took a nice black bear with a German 16 gauge over 7x57R drilling. My dad took a bear with a 1950's Marlin 35 Remington, and Scott's six year old son took his first bear with a 10mm TNW carbine.
Jason