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1 hour ago, SouthCoastMA said:

I've had black bear. my ex gf's step dad up in NH had some in his freezer. a bit gamey but not terrible

Never eaten bear - hoped to try it when a friend shot a small (125 lb) critter on our woodlot, but he gave it to another friend, it stayed fur-on too long and the meat was spoiled. 

45 years ago, when I was scoping out possible road locations 10-12 miles west of Allagash during deer season, I walked to within <20 yards of a sizable bear which was scruffling the leaves to find beechnuts.  Since I wasn't using my compass, I was carrying the 7-mm Mauser, had the bear in my sights and safety off, then thought, "Do you really want to kill a bear?"  After he'd disappeared, I remembered that I was 4,000 feet from the nearest logging road and that the 2nd half of that distance was a recent harvest in a cedar swamp.  If I'd shot the critter, I might've needed to eat it right where it fell.  :lol:     
(I've heard that a bear is, pound for pound, the most difficult animal to drag.)  Until I eat bear meat and like it (and I'm confident I will), I'll not attempt to shoot one.

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24 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Never eaten bear - hoped to try it when a friend shot a small (125 lb) critter on our woodlot, but he gave it to another friend, it stayed fur-on too long and the meat was spoiled. 

45 years ago, when I was scoping out possible road locations 10-12 miles west of Allagash during deer season, I walked to within <20 yards of a sizable bear which was scruffling the leaves to find beechnuts.  Since I wasn't using my compass, I was carrying the 7-mm Mauser, had the bear in my sights and safety off, then thought, "Do you really want to kill a bear?"  After he'd disappeared, I remembered that I was 4,000 feet from the nearest logging road and that the 2nd half of that distance was a recent harvest in a cedar swamp.  If I'd shot the critter, I might've needed to eat it right where it fell.  :lol:     
(I've heard that a bear is, pound for pound, the most difficult animal to drag.)  Until I eat bear meat and like it (and I'm confident I will), I'll not attempt to shoot one.

Been out there on the sled in Dickie, ME…and then rode the logging roads to St.Pamphile Canada.  Nothing out there at all but deep forest…very remote. Gorgeous though. 

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33 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

is it baldpie or piebald?

I've always heard it called piebald.  Only have seen one, on a road in Gardiner after dark about 30 years ago.  When the headlights illuminated the critter, I thought at first it was a goat.  It had more white than the pic above, maybe 1/3 white-sided and 2/3 brown.

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1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

Been out there on the sled in Dickie, ME…and then rode the logging roads to St.Pamphile Canada.  Nothing out there at all but deep forest…very remote. Gorgeous though. 

That was my work from January 1976 thru early September 1985, Allagash/Estcourt/St.-Pamphile region, plus the township just east from the town of Eagle Lake.  We moved to Fort Kent on New Years Day, and though that day had AN temps, the 5 days Jan 9-13 had minima of -33/-24/-36/-41/-37.  Most of the spruce-fir logs and cedar shingle stock on our operations went to mills in St.-Pamphile, as the American markets back then were too distant.  Closest was Pinkham, near Ashland, but they only bought spruce and the St.-P mills weren't enthusiastic about fir-only purchases.  (Smaller logs with more taper, so more expensive to process.)

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15 minutes ago, tamarack said:

That was my work from January 1976 thru early September 1985, Allagash/Estcourt/St.-Pamphile region, plus the township just east from the town of Eagle Lake.  We moved to Fort Kent on New Years Day, and though that day had AN temps, the 5 days Jan 9-13 had minima of -33/-24/-36/-41/-37.  Most of the spruce-fir logs and cedar shingle stock on our operations went to mills in St.-Pamphile, as the American markets back then were too distant.  Closest was Pinkham, near Ashland, but they only bought spruce and the St.-P mills weren't enthusiastic about fir-only purchases.  (Smaller logs with more taper, so more expensive to process.)

That’s Very interesting.  The mill in Madawaska and Edmunston wasn’t there back then? 
 

Ya, that northern crown of Maine up there can do cold like few other places in the lower 48 that’s for sure.  Can be BRUTAL.  
 

Been up to Escort Station a few times, another remote frigid place in winter.  How bout the airfield on the way to escort…that’s a neat runway out there in the middle of nowhere/massive forest wilderness.  Drops off like a cliff at the end of it about 100ft…sledders got killed there a few years ago drag racing, and didn’t know it was a cliff at the end.  
 

Me and a couple of buddies just rented a cabin in the Cross lake/Sinclair region for the winter for sledding.  We love it up there. Great people.  

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2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I had half venison half beer burger once which was pretty good. Also rabbit and duck….but at a restaurant. That’s about it for my adventures.

Beer burgers are good!

Venison can be excellent. 
I’ve had bison, giraffe, ostrich, alligator, zebra, rabbit, duck, fermented shark(blah), the aforementioned bear, prob some others I can’t recall.  

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56 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Beer burgers are good!

Venison can be excellent. 
I’ve had bison, giraffe, ostrich, alligator, zebra, rabbit, duck, fermented shark(blah), the aforementioned bear, prob some others I can’t recall.  

Where the hell did you get Giraffe and Zebra? I don't eat beef, only Bison which is much tastier and leaner.

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53 minutes ago, MVOyster said:

Fellas, I’m a deer hunter and we are all hoping for a temperature drop, like, a couple normal OCT/NOV high and dry NW wind days … not gonna happen, is it? 

It's unreal nothing is moving in this warmth. I hardly have anything on my game cameras.

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