The Bear Hug Blog

Target shooting, reloading, hunting and other stuff

Black Powder Silhouette

Filed under: Target Shooting — August 11, 2010 @ 2:07 pm

Recently, Dave and I took in a black powder cartridge silhouette shooting match. Having shot smallbore and high power silhouette, we were curious to see this popular shooting discipline. (more…)

Deb finally gets her deer

Filed under: Hunting — December 22, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

Here we were, at the start of the 2009 hunting season, prepped and ready to find that skittish white tail… (more…)

Recipe for Fresh Venison Sausage

Filed under: Recipes, Target Shooting — November 26, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

After countless tries using recipes from cookbooks, the internet, etc (and failing miserably), I believe I have finally created an acceptable recipe for using ground deer meat in a fresh fry sausage. My goal was to duplicate as closely as possible the taste of a breakfast sausage and this recipe comes pretty close; of course it has more flavour but it’s pretty good

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Dave’s Whitetail Buck

Filed under: Hunting — November 20, 2008 @ 11:14 am

Well, another hunting season is here and, as usual, it’s a stretch to get out to our own back yard and do a bit of hunting. But, we managed to set work aside for a Saturday and Dave and I went out to see what we could see. (more…)