• Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Bear leather

L & R
Shop deals on ebay
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Zutt-man

Zutt-man

45 Cal.
Joined
Feb 12, 2021
Messages
698
Reaction score
1,175
Location
Kansas
The old man and I are headed to Colorado on a deer/bear hunt this week. We’re both pretty excited as it’ll be a 6 day backcountry camp trip.

As I was pondering what I may do with a bear hide if so lucky to get one, it got me to thinking: Can you use bear leather?

Bear rugs are cool and I WANT one. Most Colorado bears aren’t giants (think North Carolina, Wisconsin, Minnesota 500 lber) and I’d like to get a big bear for a rug. The meat will obviously be consumed, but would bear leather be useful in certain applications? Clothing, accoutrements, bags, etc
 
Blanket is a good idea. You could also use scraps to cover pommel holsters for your martial flintlock pistols, too.
 
Nice! Impressive. I’m hoping to make a self bow next year. I have several staves drying and collected gray dogwoods for shafts. Going to fletch with turkey feathers from birds I shot and hopefully with stone points. I’m getting up in age but you have to have something to keep you going.
 
My limited experience with bearskin (Ak coastal brown) is that it is similar in thickness to horsehide, but I do not think it has the abrasion resistance of horse or goat.
 
We have a guy in our club that uses a bear hide for a blanket - it was Cold last spring!

I have seen a photo of an old Rifle Bag that had just a bit of hair left on the flap - description said it appeared to be Bear Hide (fur on).

And don't forget to Render that bear fat down into some clear Bear Oil!! It's the modern version of whale oil...and the Indians clain it has good medicine powers too!
 
These are my buffalo mitts. Don’t look too hard to make.


A bear pair would be warm too.

IMG_3034.jpeg
 

Similar threads

M
Bear down!
2
Replies
25
Views
1K
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
W
Alberta Black Bear Adventure
Replies
0
Views
2K
Walkingeagle
W
B
This is from the Colorado State Muzzle Loading Association Journal
Replies
5
Views
3K
bptactical
bptactical
Frontier's
Buckskinner stories - Tales from the hunt
Replies
13
Views
1K
Stykbow
Stykbow
Two Feathers
  • Locked
SOLD Beaver Tail skinning knife
2
Replies
24
Views
4K
Two Feathers
Two Feathers

Latest posts

Back
Top