back and forth, and inside out, can get 4 changes from 1 pair!

Johan

Erik

Your bear hunt must be getting close.

What sort of rifle/calibre are you planning to use?

John,



Leaving on Thursday morning. Naturally it'll be the Mauser Mag. in 375H&H which will be going with me! I'll bring 350 grain Rhino bullets loaded to 2400 f/S.



Never tasted bear, but if I'm lucky I might bring some meat back to Norway. Not to mention that a bearskin rug and skull would be kind of cool!



Erik D.

According to a local newspaper the first Swedish bear this season was shot last week by a Norwegian...(not Erik though so far )

The taste of bear, like all other omnivores, seems to vary with its diet. I've dined very happily on American black bear that had spent the prior month feasting on blueberries and crowberries. The flavor reminded me of prime beef with a slight overlay of tuna, rather like that tuna sauce the Northern Italians make for their beef. The local American Indians, though, cautioned me that though black bear was good meat, the brown (grizzly) bear was inedible in the autumn because of its diet of salmon. If one wanted to eat brown bear, it should be shot in the spring when the bears are basically herbivorous. So . . . what do Swedish bear eat in the fall?

The scandinavian bears eat berries, plants and meat (moose calfs or whatever they get ahold of). We had a moose calf killed by a bear in our forest this time last year, and it was consumed over severel days. I can understand the fishy taste from salmon eating bears that you get over there. Luckily thats not a problem here since salmon isn't a part of their general diet.

Erik D.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................what size like how many kilograms do your bears in Sweden grow to? The Swedish bear is a sub species of grizzly I know that much. Grizzly is not generally regarded as table fare over here, like black bear.
Fall blacks that have had good feeding on berries and various plants are delicious roasted.

Shrike,

The scandinavian brownbear can be between 150-250 kg.

Alas, we did not see any. Nor find any fresh tracks... We did come over quite a bit of bear crap, so there have been bears in the area, but non have been seen there since the hunting began on the 21 of august.
The constant rain recently probably didn't help either!

I guess sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you, but then sometimes you both go home empty handed! Which was the case now...

Erik D.