Summer time I don't even field dress it; I take out the backstrap, hams and shoulders and I have a cooler with ice on hand. I keep it in ice and water changing it for at least five days.

I don't take many things to a processor, I've taken two deer in 40 plus years of hunting. I didn't even like taking livestock to the local processor, for some reason I want all of my freaking beef!!! I never get the tongue, liver, brains, heart I even want the tripe. I know they make sausage out of a lot of what they keep!

This is about the only size pig that I will field dress becuase they fit in the smoker just fine. The bigger ones regardless of how cold or hot it is, I just take the goodies.



I shot this little buy while deer hunting with my S&W 40 cal, dropped dead in his tracks. I like to pig hunt with a pistol. I passed up a hunt this week end as much as I hated to because I had so much work to do in my knife shop.