Killed a Boar Hog Today
 

Was watching a spring from a tree stand. This boar came in accompanied by about 15 other hogs. Waited until this one stopped and turned broadside. Aimed low behind the shoulder and fired. At the shot the hog bang flopped. The bullet did not exit. This is my second hog of 2010 and my first killed this year with a muzzleloader.

The place where i killed this hog is only about 25 miles from my normal stomping grounds but some the hogs there are vastly different. These are the ugliest hogs anywhere.


Attitude: Standing broadside slightly angling away.
Range: About 60 yards
Gun: CVA Stag Horn
Powder: 100 grains of 2F Goex Pinnacle
Bullet: 240 grain .430 XTP
Primer; Winchester shotgun

Boy thats a wooly rascal for sure, congratulations on your hog.

That little piggy should of stayed home. Nice shootin, i can't wait to get after some pork chops. :happy0001:

thats got to be the ugliest looking hog ive ever seen LOL. congrats on the shot and kill

Man is it part sheep lol, how they taste.what state you shooting these wooly beasts in?grats on the hog!

Think so huh. :biggrin: Just look at this one.

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/hogs...-werewolf.html


They taste great, best pork on the planet. I live in SW Oklahoma. This hog was killed near the Red River.

It's a good thing you shot that ugly rascal before it had time to breed. If we have to put up with wild hogs, at least they should be good looking wild hogs. Nice shooting Falcon. Them hogs must have warning pictures of you posted all over the place... run if you see the Falcon.

falcon

Congrats on the harvest - but it is u-glee... I realy wishwe had those around here... but everytime I say that in public - people around go nuts - especially the farmers.. Oh well!

Looks like a ton of fun...

:fighting0007:Ditto as Sabotloader said, I wish we had something else besides Coyotes to Hunt after Deer Season ends, but then I'd never get any work done! LOL. Long story short, this Deer Season a local guy, (neighbor by one of our Hunting Lands) shot and killed a Wild Bore. He called us that night to come and see it, along with the local newspaper as there are NO Wild Hogs here. Sure enough it was a Hog. He said he was on his way back from his stand when it came running at him so he shot it.
Shorter story long....after the news hit the local paper a friend who lives near by called him to tell him it WAS HIS PET PIG! it escaped about a month ago. The story gets better......after he felt like a real ass he even felt worse as his story was the pig came at him, well when we were there checking out the pig it was shot in the ass, so how does a pig get shot in the ass when it's comming at you??? We all bashed him saying the pig was just happy to finally see someone and was hungry, and when it seen his ugly face it ran the other way....then he shot....LOL!
Anyway Nice Ugly Pig you got there, hope it tase a-lot better than he looks!
BP

Hey! I know that hog. I think he dated my sister in high school.

Nice shootin, deffinately fugly. Hopefully it eats better than it looks. Don't even wanna speculate on that gene pool.

Breechplug

The guy should have blamed it on the 'Weasel' - he has big shoulders and I think Chet said he was staying with Semi in the warm weather down there in the southland...

He needs to blame it on someone....now all the neighbors keep all there pets chained up, and the Taxidermist he took the head to wont give him his money back:violin:
(BP)

Awesome! That is a pretty unique hog. Got any pics of the recovered XTP?

congrats on your ugly hog

Man that thing is ugly!!! Looks like some sort of mutant cross-breed. But congrats on the fine kill!

You are right,that's one ugly hog.
Shoot em all

Unfortunately, the bullet was not recovered. i had my hog and two others to field dress before the weather turned totally awful and it skipped my mind.

I've been wanting to do some hog hunting. Do you bring him to a butcher or do you do the butchering yourself? Is it as easy as a deer?

it does look like the hogs in your area are crossbreeding with sheep-one of the signs of end times. congrats on the hog, i thought i was going to go hog hunting this weekend but it fell thru.

We usually take the field dressed hog to the butcher who skins and cuts it up. Most of our hogs are given away whole. We keep two hogs a year for our own use.


Gutting the hog is easy, about like a deer. However, if you've got to skin the animal that is another thing. The skin comes off the lean ones pretty good but the fat ones can be a bear. You need a couple of sharp knives and a pair of vise grips to pull the skin off. Some guys like to cut the skin off in strips using a box cutter.

If you are close to a car wash or a a water hose clean the animal up before gutting.

Have you or anyone else, ever boiled and scraped a hog, or seen it done? My Dad used to always tell us kids how my grandfather used to do it that way. He had a 55 gallon barrel, filled with water, and then they build a fire all the way around the barrel to boil the water. The outside of the hog was scrubbed clean and then they gutted it.

The hog was on a lever and fulcrum, and they would lift and lower the hog into the boiling water. The boiling water helped release the hair on the pig. Then they'd lift it out and scrape the hide hair off it. They did this until the hog was not only clean, but smooth and hairless.

After they butchered, they could then smoke the hams and picnics and make salted pork, bacon, pork rinds, etc... As my Dad used to joke, the only thing they wasted was the oink... He claimed I watched them do it once, but I personally do not remember it.

We did that when i was growing up in WV and after i retired from the Army. Last time i helped in a butchering like that was in 1984. My Dad, his neighbor, Mr. John Bell, Mr. Bell's grandson and i butchered 4 hogs at Mom and Dad's place. The water was boiled in a big iron kettle and then poured into a barrel that was on a slant supported by wood blocks. They put something in the water to make the hair come off easier. Not sure what it was.

We doused the hogs into the water whole then laid them out on boards and scraped the hair off. If the hair got too dry to come off easily, burlap sacks soaked in boiling water was placed on the animal for a minute or two and the scraping resumed. After the hair was off we hung the hogs
on a tripod, gutted them and then halved them with a big meat saw. The meat was taken to the meat house, laid out and covered with seasoning well rubbed in. We ground our own sausage. Mom and Dad used Morton's sausage seasoning.

The fat was all saved and rendered into lard. Mr. John Bell cleaned up the feet for me an i made some fine pickled pigs feet. Yum, that was good with Strohs beer.

I only wish that Dad could have hunted hogs with me. He would have loved doing that.

My father always talks about the pickled pigs feet my Grandmother used to make. And of course the head cheese... I had some of that once and they can keep it.