Bear eating wolves in Quebec

[Yellow Dog]

At least in my experience bear hunting in Quebec over several years, here's the butchering drill. Skin and take the paws and head off. Take the front quarters and hind quarters off like you would a deer or elk. Remove the back straps and then trim all the meat off the neck and carcass. This whole process is done gutless as you would do an elk in the field. All meat is salvaged and you wind up with, on a good size bear, a big trimmed barrel shaped carcass with the guts in it. And yes, what's left and disposed of on a real good size bear could approach or exceed 100 pounds.

[wapiti792]

Yellow Dog that is my experience as well both with Jerry who I can endorse as a fine guide and person and my pal Ryan at Stickflingers who is equally professional and kind. On a 300 pound bear, deboned meat is roughly a third, just like an elk.

Now, those bears that get hit bad, that take 2 days to track...I am sorry but I am not eating them. I love bear meat. All 3 have come home with me, deboned and ready for the crock pot but if it takes more than a half day to find them, most will be ruined as the meat spoils under all that hide. I have helped drag and skin a few of these. I hate it, just like any animal whose life you took, but unsafe to eat is unsafe to eat.

I have been in Jerry's camp. The meat is butchered and cared for in a respectful way. If the hunter doesn't want the meat it is offered to others. Only thing wasted is guts and bone.

[Jerry Russell]

Not real sure why a thread gets off track from its original intent.  A little disappointing for sure.  

Wapiti792 said it all and has actually been in our camp.  We waste nothing if it is edible.  Actually with our blood dog on staff in camp, many hundreds of pounds of meat is recovered that would otherwise be lost.  This not only stops waste but prevents a second bear being shot by a hunter while the first suffers/rots.  

Conservation and salvage ethics is always our #1 priority.

[Killdeer]

Clarification:

Bear-eating wolves.

I appreciate the high ethical standards of your camp.
I hear that bears taste like what they eat, so bears eating dead salmon, and those foraging from landfills are not on my menu.
Where I hunt, they are eating cherries, acorns, grubs and the occassional carcass. They taste great.

Killdeer