No Deer Today: Consolation Prize = Pork
 

Went to the deer lease this morning. Got there very early and heard banging at a hog trap. A big sow was attempting to escape the old trap. She was accompanied by a 50 pound sow. Got the .22 and killed both hogs. Checked the other trap and it held a 65-75 pound boar.

That big sow was very fat.

Thought of the camera after cutting the front feet of the sow in preparation for skinning.

Mmmmmm, bacon.

That is indeed a big sow! Nice job, and there's nothing wrong with free-range pork.

Nothing wrong with putting some hogs on ice.

You do have some hogs running around. Nice work!

You should be quite consoled!

Very much so. We had run out of pork and kept that sow for ourselves. She had a 1" layer of fat.

Did my bit for hog control too: That sow would have birthed seven pigs in a couple months.