How To Gut A Bear For A Rug

The difficult work of a bear hunt begins after the animal is successfully shot and recovered.

How to gut a bear for a rug. Bears are bulky and have thick skin. The field dressing process is similar to that for an elk or deer but the. Cooling the bear carcass. The next important step is to salt the hide.

Subscribe for more skinning tips. This results in a squarer more attractive rug. Without gutting the bear you just make 5 cuts one from just below the throat area down to the rear and then 2 more accross the front legs and two more along the back side of rear legs. About 20 pounds of salt is required for a black bear and twice that much for a brown bear.

In this video we will show you the basic cuts and where to make them so you can have your own. Most taxidermists would be happy to provide diagrams showing incision lines when skinning a black bear grizzly bear or polar bear for a rug. In the field we usually just cut the feet off very near the ankle and either deal with the feet later or let the taxidermist do it just depends on how. This is a basic tutorial of how to skin a bear for a bear rug.

Field dress the bear immediately to preserve the meat and prepare for transport from the field to the freezer. With the blade of your knife held upright extend the cut made through the bear s hide in the pelvic area up the center of the bear s abdomen to the base of the breastbone sternum slicing upward through the hide only. Cooling the bear carcass is the one tip for field dressing a bear that needs to be followed.