Topic: What the heck am I supposed to do with THIS?!?!
krupa's photo
Sat 12/17/11 02:06 PM

well wish u were here - just got me a suet cage bird feeder and forgot to ask for suet at the grocery.....


Wow!

Just bought my parents a deer feeder and then bought a battery for it with a couple bags of corn. I want my parents to have a few mornings where they can have coffee in silence at the bay window and watch the deer come in and feed. They like the natural life thing.....

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Sat 12/17/11 02:10 PM
I have some deer feeders toO pitchfork

krupa's photo
Sat 12/17/11 02:10 PM

well wish u were here - just got me a suet cage bird feeder and forgot to ask for suet at the grocery.....

Ps...meant to say that I really dig the concept of feeding the wild life around us. It is so cool when they just come right up to you.

krupa's photo
Sat 12/17/11 02:12 PM

I have some deer feeders toO pitchfork


Watch your mouth Sailor!!!

There's women present!



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Sat 12/17/11 02:13 PM


well wish u were here - just got me a suet cage bird feeder and forgot to ask for suet at the grocery.....


Wow!

Just bought my parents a deer feeder and then bought a battery for it with a couple bags of corn. I want my parents to have a few mornings where they can have coffee in silence at the bay window and watch the deer come in and feed. They like the natural life thing.....


that's cool. did ur dad get remarried?

ya I got my son the feeder for Christmas - he has a great kitchen window tree and a little wet woods fen outback so he gets all kinds of cool stuff - all the usual suspects like cardinals, jays & juncos

but also cooper's hawks, (in migration only? I'd have to look that up) woodpeckers, redheadeds, downies and also sapsuckers and they are rare around here, different sparrows, chickadees galore....with that woods out there about anything will show at his feeder

I'll prolly give him one of my bird books too. unless I get time to get him a new one

eileena9's photo
Sat 12/17/11 10:17 PM



BTW

it sounds like the grease might be rancid from ur description

in which case

throw it out

tell ur pop u gave it too the dogs....


Bear grease is known to have a very strong odor and it is recommended to melt it down to oil in a stainless steel pot over a portable gas burner. It should also be strained to get rid of fur, bone, tendon and such...not that I think the doggies mind very much.


yes that has already been explained

but if it has been out of the refrig for any time it can go rancid fairly quickly


I've been reading about it and some hunters say they don't refrigerate it at all and it stays fine, just as good as when they first rendered it.

Also, they say to soak your lures and artificial baits in the bear grease to catch more fish.....some people even say they bake with it and the pastries are even tastier than when cooked with lard.

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Sat 12/17/11 10:24 PM




BTW

it sounds like the grease might be rancid from ur description

in which case

throw it out

tell ur pop u gave it too the dogs....


Bear grease is known to have a very strong odor and it is recommended to melt it down to oil in a stainless steel pot over a portable gas burner. It should also be strained to get rid of fur, bone, tendon and such...not that I think the doggies mind very much.


yes that has already been explained

but if it has been out of the refrig for any time it can go rancid fairly quickly


I've been reading about it and some hunters say they don't refrigerate it at all and it stays fine, just as good as when they first rendered it.

Also, they say to soak your lures and artificial baits in the bear grease to catch more fish.....some people even say they bake with it and the pastries are even tastier than when cooked with lard.


they can say what they want I don;t really care, but anything animal fat will turn rancid unless they are preserving it somehow

a vegetable based product won't (like a vegetable oils or crisco) but a meat product will..always

- that's why meat don't go in the compost - that and it attracts possum & groundhogs

w/e tho - if they don;t care I sure don;tlaugh

ArtGurl's photo
Sat 12/17/11 11:21 PM



Performance Art!

Set up a video camera and shoot yourself cutting down a tree. While standing over the fallen tree, slather the bear grease all over yourself ... naked of course cuz I know how you like that ....

Voila! - a statement about how the clear cutting of our forests is killing the bear by shrinking their habitat and forcing them into closer and closer proximity to humans. And by killing the bear we are killing ourselves

Pan the camera in a circle until everyone is dizzy -- humanity spirals in on itself -- the circles slow and the scene ends with a beautiful grizzly in the mountains by a stream fishing for salmon.

The end.

**curtsey** laugh

And the crowd goes Wild ~ ! ! ! ! happy


Holy Crap! I like it! (Throwing my soiled panties at ya like you were Elvis!!!!)

:)




Thank you ... thank you very much! laugh

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Sat 12/17/11 11:59 PM



Performance Art!

Set up a video camera and shoot yourself cutting down a tree. While standing over the fallen tree, slather the bear grease all over yourself ... naked of course cuz I know how you like that ....

Voila! - a statement about how the clear cutting of our forests is killing the bear by shrinking their habitat and forcing them into closer and closer proximity to humans. And by killing the bear we are killing ourselves

Pan the camera in a circle until everyone is dizzy -- humanity spirals in on itself -- the circles slow and the scene ends with a beautiful grizzly in the mountains by a stream fishing for salmon.

The end.

**curtsey** laugh

And the crowd goes Wild ~ ! ! ! ! happy


Holy Crap! I like it! (Throwing my soiled panties at ya like you were Elvis!!!!)

:)


Sorry, I'm getting in on this late. Have the soiled panties sold yet?

wux's photo
Sun 12/18/11 06:59 AM

So....my Dad gives me a giant mason jar filled with bear grease. (rendered grizzly bear fat).

He also gave me a sleeve of ground bear.....I cooked the bear and it was absolutely the most horrible meat I have ever smelled. I tried the tiniest nibble and had to spit it out. My dogs LOVE it!!

Now, I am stuck with 2 quarts of bear grease.... Since I don't consider it to be a food...I am wondering what the hell I can do with it? My Dad is afraid I will throw it away. (he's old that way)

Ideas? Anyone?


DID not read the thread, some of these may have been suggested already:

1. KY jelly.
2. Hair greese.
3. Shoe polish.
4. Gun grease.
5. Bee- and vasp bait (only works in the summer. When you feel like vasp and bee stings, you srpead it over your bear skin and eyeballs.)
6. For grease and lube on your ball bearings. I am talking car, not Soufiehere.
7. If you are catholic or anglican, as ointment in the last rite (will take away or overpower bad odour of corpse.)
8. Foot grease, jock grease -- again, fight fire with fire.
9. Laxative (no need to swallow -- just smell it.)
10. Aphrodesiac (you get lost in the woods, you see all these bears approaching, some with their cubs, some just ... you know, hungry. You figure you have to choose between two very bad things, so why not the lesser bad of the two.)

Seakolony's photo
Sun 12/18/11 07:02 AM
Make Close Encounter of the Third Kind Bear Grease pile for the dogs to have fun in? It could be an Art Deco project.

wux's photo
Sun 12/18/11 07:03 AM


My family game hunts but NEVER mount any carcasses... out of respect for the kill.


So.....what do you guys do with the furs and skins and antlers or horns?

I only ask cause, quite often neighbors will drop off snakes and hides cause they know that my dad puts em to use making some pretty cool schitt. (belts, pistol holsters, long rifle sheaths.

My problem is throwing a way a gorgeous fur or skin...With me, I make em into halloween costume pieces and just love em. Might seem disrespectful until you realize that I still got my halloween stuff from 9th grade.
Not sure how treasuring the idea of the individual animal that I rescued is wrong for keeping trophy. I just don't see the point in burying an animal when it can be used and apprecieated.
I like the feathers and leathers...you can make some pretty cool stuff.

This is just a general statement....believe me, I am sad at the loss of the local Texas horney toads. They were the mellowest animals ever.


Does your dad do requests? I am in a certain need of an inflatable Blubber Whale (female), and a laughing hyena dildo. If the quality is good, I may order 200 stuffed Blue Ball Whales, for the female guests at my grandson's bar mitzvah.

wux's photo
Sun 12/18/11 07:13 AM

Make Close Encounter of the Third Kind Bear Grease pile for the dogs to have fun in? It could be an Art Deco project.


Husky impressions!! Throw a set of sleeping huskies on the blob of grease, remove the huskies, bronze it, and sell it as Intuit art. If they ask, is it Inuit art, you say, no, this is art that you only like if you are Into It. Say what? You say, bear grease is for the Inuit what watermelons are historically for the First Nations. They say... wha...t? You say, put it into it, and you will see. It's very erotic if you choose the right bear. They will say, guy, you are crazy. You say, just because the thought is unbearable to you, I won't bear the runt of your bear hatred, you boorish beer bar bore.

wux's photo
Sun 12/18/11 07:17 AM

So....my Dad gives me a giant mason jar filled with bear grease. (rendered grizzly bear fat).

He also gave me a sleeve of ground bear.....I cooked the bear and it was absolutely the most horrible meat I have ever smelled. I tried the tiniest nibble and had to spit it out. My dogs LOVE it!!

Now, I am stuck with 2 quarts of bear grease.... Since I don't consider it to be a food...I am wondering what the hell I can do with it? My Dad is afraid I will throw it away. (he's old that way)

Ideas? Anyone?


Is that ground bear waterproof? If not, there is the cause of your troubles.

Air bears (a hybrid subspecies of care bears) never go bad. Tree-top bears, however, the dropping kind, from Australia, are deadly even when dead.

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Mon 12/19/11 10:17 AM


My family game hunts but NEVER mount any carcasses... out of respect for the kill.


So.....what do you guys do with the furs and skins and antlers or horns?

I only ask cause, quite often neighbors will drop off snakes and hides cause they know that my dad puts em to use making some pretty cool schitt. (belts, pistol holsters, long rifle sheaths.

My problem is throwing a way a gorgeous fur or skin...With me, I make em into halloween costume pieces and just love em. Might seem disrespectful until you realize that I still got my halloween stuff from 9th grade.




Not sure how treasuring the idea of the individual animal that I rescued is wrong for keeping trophy. I just don't see the point in burying an animal when it can be used and apprecieated.
I like the feathers and leathers...you can make some pretty cool stuff.

This is just a general statement....believe me, I am sad at the loss of the local Texas horney toads. They were the mellowest animals ever.


I wish I could say that it all goes to a good cause... ohwell bartering/trade is quite popular up here... some go to the artisans and some get buried... Truth is, I wouldn't know what to do with Bear parts... ppl would deff frown on me sporting a BearSkin jacket.

I love your new shoulder pet... It looks petrified of you laugh

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Mon 12/19/11 10:24 AM
I had to look it up



What the hell? Does EVERYTHING have thorns in Texas?

And by your statement, They've disappeared?

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Mon 12/19/11 10:33 AM
:banana: anal lubelaugh

TxsGal3333's photo
Mon 12/19/11 01:53 PM
The Eastern Woodland Indians used bear grease for a variety of purposes: as an insect repellent (to keep the mosquitoes away and to prevent vermin from crawling all over them during the night when they were trying to sleep), suntan lotion (e.g. to help prevent sunburn of their faces and upper bodies) skin cream, (kind of an early form of Vaseline Intensive Care), hair treatment (most often used by women to make their hair shiny and healthy looking), waterproofing agent, (to help preserve tobacco pouches, paint bags, etc), leather conditioner (e.g. to keep their moccasins soft), paint preparation (to mix paints for both body painting and pictographs), gun maintenance (to keep gun parts cleaned and oiled) and food preparation (e.g. in the preparation of corn cakes, breads, or soups, much as we would use vegetable oil today, or as a dip for their dry deer jerky).


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Tue 12/20/11 08:55 PM
HI, folks. I'm new on here. I couldn't resist a comment!
According to my Gido (Ukrainian for grandpa), bear grease works very well for arthritis when massaged into the joints. Love the old country wisdom.... : )

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Tue 12/20/11 09:11 PM
Edited by mssilverfox on Tue 12/20/11 09:13 PM

So....my Dad gives me a giant mason jar filled with bear grease. (rendered grizzly bear fat).

He also gave me a sleeve of ground bear.....I cooked the bear and it was absolutely the most horrible meat I have ever smelled. I tried the tiniest nibble and had to spit it out. My dogs LOVE it!!

Now, I am stuck with 2 quarts of bear grease.... Since I don't consider it to be a food...I am wondering what the hell I can do with it? My Dad is afraid I will throw it away. (he's old that way)

Ideas? Anyone?



When I worked in a pharmacy, they had some bear grease.. I had never heard of it but one day an old woman came in and ask for it as she had broken her arm and the dr told here to rub bear grease all over her arm.. I guess thats what they used to do.. Helps it heal .
As for the meat, you need to cook it with a piece of beef as that takes the "wild taste" out.. My dad cooked it that way...bigsmile