This is why I hunt😋
Aged moose medallion, hash browns, eggs🦌
Everything fried in bear fat so the greasiness is welcomed
(need to put on some weight for -40 ❄️😭)
A deer and a moose roast for dinner 🤤
Making my favourite meal; wild game roast, mashed potatoes, yorkshires, homemade gravy and sweet potato bake or honey glazed carrots
Still using the rendered fat from this bear I killed nearly 2 years ago for daily cooking
On my last few jars and counting down the days until spring bear
Well I didn't get one today, but even better my Momma did 😍
We'll be hunting Spike fork moose and 4 point+ bucks starting tomorrow
The only person I like hunting with thus far because she actually takes kill shots 🤣
The views on the mountain are nice in the summer but much better in fall & winter ⛰️❄️🍁
Can not wait for hunting season this year!!
Got a tag for; muley buck, white tail, bear, moose, elk & cougar😸
When grocery shopping is just going to the freezer😋
-Wild caught halibut and Chinook salmon
-Moose roast
-Ground moose
-Blackberry bear sausage rounds
-Deer bone broth
All harvested and processed by us; the reward of being obsessed with self reliance🙏
Accidentally finished all my chores & it's only Monday 😄
Still need more wood, will bring the chainsaw with me up the mountain ⛰️
Going to hunt small game the rest of the week and do some recon for big game 🦌🐻🐱
Sometimes when the cabin life becomes too much I must travel to this secret cabin in the mountains 🌲⛰️
Spent all day fishing, sun tanning, swimming and exploring by boat and quad🌞
Moving to the cabin in May to spend a month there alone hunting bear and finishing my hides
Have two bear pelts, a coyote, a moose and a deer that all need to be finished :')
What should I make? Definitely want some moccasins and a bear coat with the head🐻
What do y'all have for scopes on your hunting rifles?
Been using this horrendous old scope on my .270 all my years hunting😂
Need a good new scope for this season!!🦌
Will be a busy and eventful coming months.. I will be;
Starting to build my own log cabin on the property across from our creek(runs depending on snow level)🏡
Getting more livestock - laying hens, chickens, milking goat, mules for riding/packing 🙂
Doubling down on prepping💪
Enjoying his last 24-48 hours alive
My nieces are coming to visit this weekend 🥰
It will be a great bonding & teaching moment retrieving/gutting/skinning this menace 🐻
Time to turn my spring bear into maple blueberry breakfast sausage🐻
Going to be making approx. 60lbs of sausage 😭
On my own again, it's going to be a longg night 💤
Eating this whole grouse today
Breast & thighs marinated in hot sauce/buttermilk to be breaded & fried in bear fat 🐻
Gizzard, organs, carcass boiled to a stock with carrots & potatos🍲
Gimli loves grouse soup 😂🐖
Went hunting with the fam😄
Saw a bear twice but I wasn't shooting..🐻
Got two grouse, bigger than my legs🤣going back out in the AM
Hoping to see that bear again!
Finished most of our butchering this weekend
we still have one buck to go once it's done aging in 1-2 weeks
I wasn't kidding when I said our freezer was full 😅
If I want another bull moose this year I'm going to have to eat like this everyday 🙄😂
Aged moose medallion 🦌
Oven baked sweet potato with roasted bear bone marrow on top 🐻
Deer bone broth 🦌
Three animals I hunted in one meal 😋
This is why I hunt😋
Aged moose medallion, hash browns, eggs🦌
Everything fried in bear fat so the greasiness is welcomed
(need to put on some weight for -40 ❄️😭)
Basically full 🪓
Sure helps being tall stacking the woodshed 😄
Have this filled & all my work around here done by October 1st then we live and breathe hunting! 🦌🐻
Well.. the bear didn't kill me but my mom is going to 😹😹
Hides off, meat is rinsed, de-haired, sanitized with vinegar water, quartered and in the fridge🍖
Tomorrow we butcher, grind and start working on the pelt🐻
Everyday I have to bring all these out & be ready to use them 🙃
Different calibres for different situations..
Coyote gun, squirrel gun, bear gun & the shotty for close encounters🤠
Inconvenient.. but things happen fast so best be prepared
Well I got one. Unfortunately a youngin.. 150lbs+
I was crawling towards him to get a closer look maybe 40 feet from him, he saw me and stood up on his hind legs and started coming towards me
Shot him between the eyes
Not exactly what I wanted but it was him or me 🙃🔪
I was thinking "why is my piglet acting so weird all of a sudden", than I realized..
I sprayed this hunting jacket in "Sow in Heat" spray to cover my scent while bear hunting LOL 🥴
Pemmican is done;
Moose meat, Saskatoon berries, Bear fat and Maple syrup 🍁
Most Canadian pemmican 🇨🇦
It's pretty good, will make some minor adjustments next batch
Perfect food for hunting season that starts tomorrow!!😍😄
Realized this is the first time in 3 months that I've eaten any meat other than wild game 🦌
Made sure to cook it in plenty of bear fat so I don't become too civilized..
Thought I was a genius for getting a solar powered red dot.. now I'm waiting for it to charge to hunt 🥴
What calibre do y'all use for hunting wolf and coyote?
Saw four bears tonight🐻
Accidentally got real close to a mama with two cubs 🥴
Another bear jumped out on the road infront of the Can-Am 😄
& hunted some firewood 🪓
My auntie hooked me up with a few gallons of raw milk from her cow & a bunch of eggs 🥛
These will be the colors of eggs my laying hens will produce 🐔
Tonight my family leaves and I'll be on my own.. with 20 hens, a rooster, 4 guinea fowl, a cat, 3 goats & 1 maybe 3 pigs? 😂
Bow only starts soon; Sept 1-10th, can get any buck with a bow
I was planning on using my mom's crossbow(I know cheating 😄) but it's broken
So I bought a recurve bow last week & have been grinding 🏹
3 days left
I now have 3 squirrel hunting pigs🥰
My squirrel bag is growing🐿️
This one may of not been worth it.. as it's small and I had to climb a tree in the middle of thorn bushes to retrieve it 🙃 ah well
Aged deer with chimichurri, greens & tomato's from our garden & deer bonebroth 🦌
(Not a big salad eater but it is good right out of the garden)
Trying to eat all last year's kills before hunting season starts again :')
Spent a lot of the day hanging out in the mountains with this gorgeous multi-color black bear ⛰️🐻
Got some pictures with my SLR camera as well.. just need to upload them
Great day ☀️
Being left alone for 2 weeks I've been able to accumulate lots of eggs 😄
Have an urge to incubate them all, but will try out some long term storage methods instead🙄
Lime water (18 months) & freeze dried scrambled eggs (lasts 25 years)
Been hunting two times a day and will continue this for the next two weeks straight🦌🐻
+ Taking care of the animals before/after/inbetween hunts
🐷🐔🐐🐑
24/7 busy!😄
Haven't seen much large game at all the last few days, it's too hot still 🙃
Grouse opens Sept 10 & seen quite a few bunnies🐇
Going to focus on small game, foraging & fishing while it cools down 🍄
Gorgeous day in the mountains⛰️🌞
Beautiful day in the mountains today ⛰️
Saw only predators today, a massive black bear and a coyote 🐻🐺
Found a good spot to hunt elk it seems.. so a solid day 🦌
Got lots of fat from the deer we butchered this weekend,
For this tallow I rendered the fat with salt and water,
this is supposed to prevent burning and produce a much cleaner smelling tallow
Going to use it for soap, skin-care, balms, candles.. 🦌
When I was hunting alone this winter, hundreds of kms away from home down forest service roads this tree fell just hours after I had crossed the road I take home
-25°Celsius with no service I would've had to spend the night
Always bring a saw in the bush
Silky saws are🔥
Getting almost a dozen a day now 🧡🥚
I wish I got livestock earlier.. it's so much easier than hunting😆
With a 700$ investment of hens I'm already providing 5 different households(family & neighbour) with good eggs.. next targets are chicken & raw milk 🐣
Have been hunting our other mountain primarily⛰️
Vast ranges, more game, unexplored territory🤠
A lot more dangerous to get to.. but often where there is risk there is reward😏🐻🦌
Time to turn my spring bear into maple blueberry breakfast sausage🐻
Going to be making approx. 60lbs of sausage 😭
On my own again, it's going to be a longg night 💤
Fall is coming in 🍁
Saw no big game this afternoon, people are saying our area is over run by wolves right now🐺
Kill sites/wolf prints & not many ungulate sightings thus far.. I can only kill 3 this year☹️
I've been spending nearly all of my waking hours outside, including cooking/eating
❄️ -2°c this morning
Steak & eggs cooked in bear fat & bear bone broth🐻
Excellent night ✨🐑
In a couple months I will be able to live off primarily sheep's milk, eggs & game meat 🦌
Wool clothes will be a project for next year 😊