How to Skin a Black Bear with MeatEater's Steven Rinella and Vortex Optics Paul Neess.
Today is your last chance to enter to win a hunt with Steve Rinella and Jordan Budd in December 2023 for the Nebraska muzzleloader deer season. The hunt will take place at the same location where Steve and Clay Newcomb hunted whitetail under the guidance of Jordan in Season 11 of MeatEater. You're automatically entered for a chance to win when you hit up our Black Friday Sale and make a purchase. (And the amount of things or how much you buy...
As long as you’ve got a place to hang it and the muscle-power necessary to lift it, the hanging method is a clean and simple way to skin your big game animals. Unless you’re saving the cape or hide for taxidermy purposes, use the following procedure. Hang the animal by the neck or the base of the antlers, with the noose tucked up tightly behind the ears. You can also hang an animal upside down, by the gambrels. Everything is pretty much the same...
Famed hunter and explorer Daniel Boone once killed 155 black bears in a single year. He brined and smoked the meat and sold it as “bear bacon.” Today, most American hunters who do hunt bears will kill only one or two in their lifetimes. For them, bears are regarded as a novelty species, something to break up the monotony of a lifetime of whitetail deer hunting. For some hunters though, black bear hunting becomes a highly anticipated annual event...
