We finally met
 

He must have been smelling me and I been seeing him for a while, but only on the trail cam, not in person. He's been hanging around, kind of sparatic. I would see his pics for a couple days then he would do what boars usually do and disappear for a week at the time. Sunday evening we finally showed up at the same place and same time. Trail cam showed he was there at 5:30 on Saturday evening but he and a couple more boars decided to wait till right at dark to come in on Sunday. Didn't much matter as long as I had shooting light. I had left my fanny pack home by mistake, video camera and all. I had left at 5:30 Sunday morning to drive down and just didn't get all my stuff. My spot has been flooded for a while, more than a foot of water around but it didn't seem to bother these boars. My shot was dead on the money and he didn't go far. I was glad too cause at 220 lbs he was not easy for me to deal with. My wife wasn't feeling well and decided to sit this one out. I could have used her help for sure.

Congrats on the big porker. Good writeup too.

Congrats on the nice pig.

some good sausage and chops there! that orange/red looking one is good sized too...what state are you in?

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here's a few more from my "things to do list"

That's one awesome hog. Are you going to have him mounted?

Snake, he is not my biggest, we have several mounted now, no room really to hang another.

Congrats on the piggie. Would sure like to get some bacon myself, but none of em around here.

theres some in south and central Oregon moving up from California, Ive heard Montana has them as well...there was some reports of some in southern Idaho but I havent found anything recent that says they are around...that doesnt mean anything though..

man those are some good sized hogs...they are so destructive...

destructive is correct, they tear up roads, trails, food plots, they eat every acorn, I don't mean they eat a lot of acorns, I mean they get them all. They turn the feeders over, bend the legs, it's like they get mad if your feeder runs out of corn, they start trying to bang it around to get more out. We have 4 feeders for my wife and I. Everyone has been turnover. We have a pile of bent legs. They are very smart. They have poor eye sight but excellent hearing and a SUPER nose. They are built like tanks with a smaller than deer vital area. The boars develope sheilds of 2" thick or more grizzle to protect them from fighting. Look at the scars on this ole fellar. Thier cutters grow to 3" outside the gum or more and are litterly razor sharp. I LOVE hunting them. It's open year round with no limits.

Nice hog!!! None of those in the pics would I pass up!!! Mighty fine Q'n material standing there!!!!!!!! That more rust red one would look good with a green Luma-Nock shining on his ribs and a GrimReaper leadn the way!!!!

Awesome piggy wiggy!! I love hunting hogs! Congrats on taking another destructive devil out!!

Do you have problems with them at the table, smelling musky or tasting gamy?

Some of the much larger hogs/boars arent worth keeping because they can be really tough but otherwise if you quarter them up, get them on ice you should be good to go. Bleeding them out on ice can easily remove any game taste you might get.

I am so used to eating wild game that it rarely tastes gamey to me.

Another trick is soaking the meat in milk & egg mixture for a little while before cooking it...that definitely helps too...

gut and bleed them out right away or as soon as possible helps with the gamie taste too...but Ive gotten used to it unless its been eating sagebrush it all tastes good to me...I have yet to kill a hog or at least confirmed kill...Its gonna be bad when they get to Idaho...

Most are fine to eat. Sows are just as good as pork you buy in the grocery store. Occasionally you will find a boar that is rank. You will know it as soon as you get close to it especially down wind. There is not much you can do about it. It has abosultely nothing to do with how the meat is handled or processed, it just plain stinks to high heaven as soon as you walk up to it. We have killed 3 that were rank out of maybe 50 or so. They are not necessarily the biggest boars either. The last one I killed was 220# and was just fine with no odor at all. The ones we have killed that were rank were a 155#, 175# & 275#. We have killed many boars from 150# to 200# that were fine eating. If you do kill a rank boar and handle it without gloves, you will have a heck of a time getting the smell off your hands, I know.

They tear up thousands of acres a year. We were out scouting for Turkey yesterday and found a ridge totally destroyed. Love to kill them.