Gory pics warning

[Robson Valley]

CM: I do wish you well for the August hunt.
It is entirely possible to arrange for a local bison "hunt." You would not be the first.
A 2 yr old weighs live nearly 2,000lbs or so. Beyond the price, the rancher laughed and
said to me: "Then, the rest of it is entirely your problem."

I'm done with that = happy to pay $3.00/lb cleaned on the hook in the cooler.

Not so, apparently for one group: dropped the beast with a .50 cal black powder Hawkin rifle replica.
The flint butchers took over and had quarters in next to no time. Nobody cut themselves.

 

[Countryman]

Thanks! I'm out there for a couple of weeks with my family on holiday then I move on to a remote cabin first week of September and they fly home.

That's 2000lbs of bison meat I couldn't get back home in my suitcase. I'm hoping if I connect and use my tag that the guys I'm staying with are hungry as it is. I know it wont go to waste.

I have skinned with flint before. In terms of skinning and fleshing I suspect our forebears knew a thing or two that we have forgotten and that flint carried on being used long after metal knives arrived. Suits the job well and doesn't cut the hide.

I watched a program recently about some "First Nation Americans" (Hope that's the politically correct term) hunting a bison and processing the carcass. it was impressive the way nothing was wasted.

 

[Robson Valley]

Yup, bison are multipurpose animals. Lots of hide, big heads, guts and boney, too.
2,000lbs on the hoof might put 350-400lbs in your freezer to eat.
Speaking of which, bison sirloin roast for tonight.

Don't you just love the vegetarians? In between the peas and mashed potatoes.

Flint-flaking sharpens almost to the molecular level, steel cannot come even close.
Those people had thousands of years of experience to get it right. Every tribe had their specialists in everything.
Eye surgeons prefer obsidian flakes to this very day.

 

[mrostov]

I watched a program recently about some "First Nation Americans" (Hope that's the politically correct term) hunting a bison and processing the carcass. it was impressive the way nothing was wasted.

Do you remember the name of the program? I'd like to try and get a copy for my archives.

 

[Countryman]

Do you remember the name of the program? I'd like to try and get a copy for my archives.

Yes it was this one. Ray Mears "How the West was Won" about the Great Plains.

http://youtu.be/7zIORQnKq5I


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[mrostov]

Yes it was this one. Ray Mears "How the West was Won" about the Great Plains.

http://youtu.be/7zIORQnKq5I

Thanks I appreciate it.

 

[tommy the cat]

Ok .......and .....back on track....
Only a hand full of vids so far, not unsurprisingly a fox has been in a few times and now the face and head is pretty much stripped. I will be on site Sunday and Monday and will post what we've got. For reference it is a steam and not terribly boggy if she got stuck before she died she must have been terribly weak.
They're are tawny owls in the wood as well as a regular roost for a buzzard.. These are what I'm secretly hoping for on the carcass..