Bear Oil Illegal?

[Smokey Plainsman]

I've read it is illegal to buy bear oil or grease? Not sure how accurate that is. Wanting to try some as patch lube.

Does it work good as patch lube? Supposedly the old timers loved it for such. Is it available in any form if it is in fact legal to buy and if so, from where? Thanks!

-Smokey

 

[Jim Evans]

I think it depends on the state you are in. In PA you can give it away but not sell it.

 

[Griz44Mag]

I think it depends on the state you are in. In PA you can give it away but not sell it.

Same here in Texas with any edible portions of wild native game.
We do have a few bears in Texas, but they are protected with penalties stopping just short of capital punishment.

 

[William Sublette]

Do you have any friends in CO.

The bear population in CO has grown greatly.


They shoot lots of them.


Maybe someone could mail you some bear fat.



I cant see it being a problem as a gift.


you can render it in a crock pot......err...copper kettle pretty handily.

 

[renegadehunter]

About 6 months ago I came across a website called Manitoba Buckskin that advertised "Pure Bear Grease".
They charge nothing for it, I assume due to laws about selling or making profit from a big game animal. The ad reads:
"We give away this bear grease to those who can use it, not for sale. We carefully clean and render the bear grease from black bears we receive in the shop. We offer bear grease to those who can use it in a good way and where it will be used well in honour of the animal. Shipping charge only. Share what you can, or pay it forward."

Your post reminded me that I wanted to order some so I went to their website to look. It currently shows "sold out". Perhaps after the spring season?
I also wonder at the shipping cost from Winnipeg.

 

[Many Klatch]

I had a friend in Maine that used to collect bear fat from Taxidermists once a year and then render it into oil. He sold the bear oil to friends. Works good.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I think it depends on the state you are in. In PA you can give it away but not sell it.

In Maryland you cannot sell anything made from an actual game animal, or prohibited species ..aka song birds or porcupines.

One of the reasons, I've been told, or perhaps the only reason, why the Annual Eastern Rondezvous will never be held again in Maryland was that one year the State Police arrived at the event when it was held in Maryland, and confiscated everything that had game bird feathers, or brain tanned leather, porcupine quills, antler handles on tools like knives and awls and powder measures, turkey calls from turkey wing bones or powder measure from wing bones, etc. Now the FACT that a lot of if not all of that stuff was available from non-game sources such as fly tying supply houses, and cutlery supply stores... didn't matter one whit, until they went to court, and the State couldn't prove the items were from wild animals...

LD