Hog shooting

[shadeslanding]

Now that looks like fun!!!!


It would be pretty hard to miss this one.

wild_boar_1.jpg

wild_boar_3.jpg

How would get this begger home? Use a crane? A flatbed? That's gotta be a 700 - 800 pound hog! WHEW!

GS

[SAM]

Now that looks like fun!!!!


It would be pretty hard to miss this one.

wild_boar_1.jpg

wild_boar_3.jpg

How would get this begger home? Use a crane? A flatbed? That's gotta be a 700 - 800 pound hog! WHEW!

GS

If I remember correctly------1800 lbs.

[shadeslanding]

Now that looks like fun!!!!


It would be pretty hard to miss this one.

wild_boar_1.jpg

wild_boar_3.jpg

How would get this begger home? Use a crane? A flatbed? That's gotta be a 700 - 800 pound hog! WHEW!

GS

If I remember correctly------1800 lbs.

And that's why my wife never sends me out for a pound of bacon!

GS

[Rem700]

This sounds like something for Strad

An 1800lb bacon explosion

[nyffman]

Yeah castrating after killing would do precisely nothing for meat quality. THey need to be raised "fixed" or else they'll be more tough and I'll be nice and call it "gamey". If you read about a boar's mating habits, you'll understand why. I won't go into detail here. Suffice to say, they undergo a lot of strain and high tension, and this carries into the meat characteristics.

Females (like in deer also) give you the best chance of good meat, then a castrated male. Now this is different than market hogs, and a wild boar lives a much different life than a market hog. So I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule.

I would think the quality of their food diet would have more to do with the taste or texture of the meat compared to their plumbing.

I'm going to take my farming and meat science background and line up with EJSG19 on this one. It's more due to the associated hormones and other bodily chemicals that are produced as a result of allowing them to keep their junk. The following is about as good an explanation as I've seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint

Boar taint is caused by the accumulation of two compounds – androstenone and skatole – in the fat of male pigs.

Androstenone (a male pheromone) is produced in the testes as male pigs reach puberty, while skatole (a byproduct of intestinal bacteria, or bacterial metabolite of the amino acid tryptophan) is produced in both male and female pigs. However levels are much higher in intact boars because testicular steroids inhibit its breakdown by the liver. As a result, skatole accumulates in the fat of male pigs as they mature.

A minority of male pigs show taint as they naturally produce these compounds as they sexually mature, and over time if these substances build up, they become noticeable when the meat is cooked.

[1911fan]

I have some places in Missouri to hunt hogs, only they are hunted like vermin and left or burned. Down there they eat some roots in the lowlands that every one says taints the meat, we tried to clean and cook some meat from one and it stunk horrible, like rancid chicken, just as it started tocook, this was a young male, and maybe it needed to be fixed, but it was the only one that we killed where getting to it was easy. Most we kill are in bottom land, kind of swamp, flood plain, and peat all in one.

We have killed upwards of thirty in a day, and the ones we can reach with the tractor are burned in the garbage pit. These are mixed heritage pigs, part wild, part feral, and they are hell on fences and pasture land.

[Rem700]

Edible would be nice but wackin 30 in a day sounds like fun.

[EJSG19]

Edible would be nice but wackin 30 in a day sounds like fun.

Agreed.

Now shopping for a 20 round tube extension for my Marlin. Why has nobody thought of this before?

[FJ540]

You mean you don't practice tactical reloads with it?

The zombies are gonna eat you alive!

[EJSG19]

You mean you don't practice tactical reloads with it?

The zombies are gonna eat you alive!

Nope. Load on Monday, shoot till Sunday. Thats how I do it.

[ex-LT]

You mean you don't practice tactical reloads with it?

The zombies are gonna eat you alive!

Nope. Load on Monday, shoot till Sunday. Thats how I do it.

I thought you bought a Marlin, not a Henry (often referred to by CSA soldiers as "that d@mned Yankee rifle you load on Sunday and shoot all week").

[Rem700]

Mine only holds 10 but the new york reload holds 6.
I did have a 30" Uberti 73 that held 19rds of 44/40 but I had it shortened to 22".

[EJSG19]

You mean you don't practice tactical reloads with it?

The zombies are gonna eat you alive!

Nope. Load on Monday, shoot till Sunday. Thats how I do it.

I thought you bought a Marlin, not a Henry (often referred to by CSA soldiers as "that d@mned Yankee rifle you load on Sunday and shoot all week").

Ok you caught me. that was the reference I was trying to make but I couldn't remember the exact wording.

Wouldn't mind having a henry though.

[Rem700]

You mean you don't practice tactical reloads with it?

The zombies are gonna eat you alive!

Nope. Load on Monday, shoot till Sunday. Thats how I do it.

Dont know if I ever saw anyone shoot that slow

[EJSG19]

You mean you don't practice tactical reloads with it?

The zombies are gonna eat you alive!

Nope. Load on Monday, shoot till Sunday. Thats how I do it.

Dont know if I ever saw anyone shoot that slow

Come to a Steel Shoot and watch me