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Hog shooting

Postby cobb on Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:54 pm

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Re: Hog shooting

Postby SAM on Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:08 pm

Now that looks like fun!!!!


It would be pretty hard to miss this one.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby The_real_ozman on Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:14 pm

Afew weeks ago one of the Discovery channels had a show on wild hogs called Hogzilla. they looked at several of the wild hogs and the relationship of them to wild european /balkan hogs etc. Basicaly at the end they said it would not be long before we saw wild hogs up here.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby MNIceMan on Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:28 pm

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Re: Hog shooting

Postby FJ540 on Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:10 am

That thing is so big, it looks fake.

How do they taste?
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby goalie on Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:12 am

FJ540 wrote:That thing is so big, it looks fake.

How do they taste?


MMMMMM, Bacon!!!!!!

Seriously though, they are pretty good if prepared correctly.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby RobD on Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:39 am

Really? I cant imagine being that big that the meat would be all that enjoyable.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby westberg on Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:55 am

We found the 75lb to 125lb pretty good eating. We have also taken some around 200lbs that were still good.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby goalie on Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:46 am

I was referring to regular hogs that you hunt, not some super "HOGZILLA" monster from the interweb.

I apologize for any confusion that the lack of clarity in my previous post(s) may have caused.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby RobD on Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:25 pm

goalie wrote:I apologize for any confusion that the lack of clarity in my previous post(s) may have caused.


You are forgiven.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby justaguy on Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:42 pm

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Re: Hog shooting

Postby EJSG19 on Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:39 pm

Grew up raising market hogs. Some meat packers would not take them unless they had been removed of their man parts, as it greatly affects meat quality.

I will default to westberg on the taste, as I haven't yet had the opportunity, but I'd be shooting for female wild hogs, knowing what I know at the moment. Definitely something I will get accomplished in the next 5 years. If .44 mag won't do it, maybe .500 S&W will.

Or, like we did on the farm...

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Re: Hog shooting

Postby FJ540 on Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:57 pm

I've heard the same about deer - gotta cut the junk off ASAP.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby Jackpine Savage on Fri Dec 25, 2009 8:07 am

It is called boar taint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint It doesn't matter if you cut off the parts after you kill them. I've wondered that about the wild hogs as well.

I have to share a story about pig hunting here in MN last year. I was out working on the shooting range about mid September. Look up and see a large animal moving along our fence line about 200 yards away. My first thought was a bear, but when it got out of the brush I could see it was a pig. Just behind her was a litter of little ones just scooting all over. Evidently one of our Amish neighbor's pigs got loose and farrowed out in our corn field. She had evidently been out there awhile, there was probably a couple acres of corn knocked down.

We asked around, but no one wanted to claim her, probably knew that there would be damages, ha. She had definitely went wild and there was no getting close to her. She had 150 acres of corn, swamp, and woods to hide in. We thought about trying to trap her but decided to limit the damage and just shoot her. We had her processed at Miltona Meats and she was tasty.

But the little ones were still out running around. My DW and I went out one afternoon and came upon them sleeping in a pile on the edge of the field. I wish I would have had a net, but I did manage to grab two. Later I caught one more. But they wised up and I got busy with other things. My buddy saw them off the deer stand a couple times and we ended up shooting 3 more after deer season. The neighbors shot four. Those little pigs were probably a month old when I shot the sow it was amazing at how well they survived and thrived.

The three we raised ended up being a boar and two sows. One sow had a litter this last summer, we ended up selling them all except for one sow that has an appointment at Miltona next week.
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Re: Hog shooting

Postby westberg on Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:32 am

I don't remember shooting any boars or any of them tasting bad. We weren't looking for the big ones because it was a meat hunt.
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