What to do with the beaver in my freezer?

[Ken Taylor]

Lots of things to do with the hide but this is my favorite way of disposing of the meat. If the meat was not cared for properly however, then I use it for bear bait.

[wooddamon1]

I might have to go shoot me a beaver!

[Stone Knife]

Find someone that knows what they are doing to flesh it for you.

[Missouri Bowman]

I don't know if you've ever made beaver sticks (jerky) but those are great using beaver meat.

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a picture from 30 years ago. Some friends and I roasted some beaver on an open fire. It's a dark sweet meat,..fine fixins fer sure..

   

 

[Ken Taylor]

Here is another picture I took several years back of my mother in law cooking one in a partial log tipi used specifically for that purpose.

She uses the stick to turn the beaver until the string is winded up. Then, as the string untwists, the momentum twists the string again... and so on and so forth for quite a while... eventually, the time comes to turn the beaver with the stick again to wind up the string.

 

[Quickblood]

quote:Originally posted by owlbait:
I was going to say the same thing, but I don't want to be known as a penis bone expert!          

[gregg dudley]

Originally posted by PV:
The tanned skin in a sapling hoop drying frame makes an interesting wall hanging.

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[gregg dudley]

Originally posted by team fudd:
hummer3t, actually a bear has a penis bone as well,I have one in my man cave that I use as a swizzle stick to prepare drinks!              

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[lpcjon2]

"Ward I think you were a little hard on the beaver" June Cleaver.

You guys have taken this off the beaten path by adding the bears bone into the mix.    

[YORNOC]

Ken Taylor...what can we say...AWESOME pics!(Ron, you too!)
By the way, racoons have the penis bone too.
Shot the biggest bear of my life over a pile of beaver carcasses on the Peace river in Alberta. Shot a beaver with the bow on that trip, gave the hide to a local, and used the beav on my bait pile. Skull green scored 21".  What a monster. Bears and beavers up there in northern Canada are a natural 1+1=2
Appreciate the thread, bringing back memories!

[Ken Taylor]

Thanks David

And with about 45 years of bear hunting behind me (20 of those as a guide), I agree that beaver is a Canadian black bear's favorite meat.

[griffin73]

I have several hides in freezer now, and 2 unskinned a taxadermist is buying off of me to mount for her shop. A beaver is actually not hard to skin, most important thing is keeping your knife plenty sharp, and just take your time, there are plenty of sites on here to show how to skin out, go to trapperman.com

[Hummer3T]

Yes, all muskelidae's have penis bones, I appoligize for my error.  I was thinking about the tanning of a beavertail has anyone done this and how.

[sagebrush]

Hahahahaha, I put a beaver in the freezer once. It was in a black plastic garbage bag. My wife wondered what was in the bag. She reached in and felt fur. Then she screamed. I laughed. Gary

[Killdeer]

"A beaver is actually not hard to skin..."
~griffin75

Easy for YOU to say. It was like skinning Jello.
Killdeer

[Running Buck]

My first year trapping I got three. Needless to say, at my first attempt the hide came out looking like I skinned the animal with the prop from my outboard motor. A  really sharp knife and lots of patiences will result in a nice skin.