He wiped the knife tip on the fur and stood up, saying, "Alright, the initial processing of the prey is done. After skinning and removing the innards, this bear still weighs over a hundred pounds, and its meat quality is even better than I expected.
To store fat for the winter, this period is when they eat in large quantities. The meat is marbled with fat which, aside from the red meat, includes quite a bit of white fat. Outdoors, this is even more precious than the red meat.
The bear paw was separately removed, and I'll stew it this noon. There's a saying, you can't have both fish and bear's paws, but today I'll have both."
"Damn, are you sure you weren't a hunter before? Watching you handle prey, I feel you're more skilled than those veteran hunters."
"I get that feeling too. My uncle is a butcher and has been all his life. Watching you handle the prey, skinning it, you seem even more adept than he is. Never realized before that you had this trick up your sleeve."
