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Here's an article that might help you out, Lloyd.

http://www.bear-hunting.com/2014/5/bear-grease-101

SRH

I only shoot what I'm going to eat and for a long time I just put aside the idea of black bear hunting because I had never tasted it. This past September at my clubs cookout one of the members brought some bear he had taken in Canada. Just grilled, tasted great. So maybe it's on the bucket list now.

I have been told that spring bear do not taste very good having lived off their own fat all winter. Fall bear is better having fattened up on nuts, berries and whatever else. I have also been told to only eat bear taken far from humanity or any garbage dump. This was told to me by a buddy that was once posted at a dump by a guide. He witnessed bears feasting on used Pampers....

Did it taste like chicken ?

I believe true red lead is a insoluble oxide of lead. We used Red Lead paint by the buckets back in the day when I worked in the process heater business. Poison of course.

Red lead was a combination of two lead oxides. As Miller stated, it was used in machine shops as a cutting or dead center lube, and it was also used in thread sealants and as a pigment in paint and primers. Red lead was also used to mark steel before blue marking dyes were available. White lead was another form of lead also used as a paint pigment, and both were sometimes used in early engines as gasket sealants with soft copper head gaskets.

It is true that lard based cutting lubes will turn rancid in a short time, especially in warm weather. But they still use them today, and add a biocide to keep bacteria from growing in them. It doesn't always work so well, and the smell of rancid animal fat based soluble oil is pretty nasty. It soaks into your skin and is hard to wash the smell off. It also has the bad property of turning the insulation on electrical wiring on CNC machine equipment very brittle, which is why I learned to hate it... along with the disgusting smell. Sulphur alone is a good cutting lubricant, and it has anti-bacterial properties which is a reason it was mixed with lard to make sulphur-lard cutting oil.

None of this tastes anything like bear meat, but it is relevant for Lloyd who is considering using lard for flintlock patch lube. I think I will stick with my Thompson Center Natural Lube 1000 Bore Butter. It works great, and has a pleasing anise oil smell that doesn't seem to spook deer or other animals. Now, I'll bet fresh eggs or walleye fried in fresh bear lard would be interesting occasionally, although not so heart-healthy.

We used lard oil for our industrial polishing oil and never found a better product. When it is sold as a machining oil it tends to be expensive. But the oil industry uses it as an additive to their products and it is much cheaper when bought for the petro industry. I find that if you polish the inside of a barrel using it mirror finish comes easy. No cross hatch marks or light groves just shine.

bill

Doesn't most lard oil, today, come from hogs?

SRH

Stan;
As far as I know lard oil has always come from "Hogs". When another oil or grease was used it was generally specified, as Bear Grease or Sperm oil etc.

I can tell you that whenever we shot a bear, we had specific directions from my grandmother that she wanted the fat to render into lard for all her pastry making. She said it was the absolute best for that. She got her wish, cause we knew there would be pies, cookies and donuts forthcoming!

We often times made sausage out of the bear meat, but did corn some bear brisket as an experiment and it was excellent! From then on when we got a bear we'd make some corned bear brisket along with the sausage.

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