Re: OT - Bacon removal.

Posted by 641Dave on April 19, 2011 at 07:28:39 from (64.221.11.241):

In Reply to: OT - Bacon removal. posted by 641Dave on April 18, 2011 at 09:06:54:

Iowa, I ain't never been accused of being a "trophy", and I've had to correct a few folks that my name isn't dumbarse, but I'm not stupid enough to let this little lady get away from me. :wink:

Roy, that's something you'll have to answer for yourself, but all I can tell you is that every time I cook up some hog meat they way I like to do, there ain't any need for tubberware afterwards. :wink:

I've seen these wild pigs eat other dead animals including other dead pigs, I've seen them eating grubs under hay bales, chasing cows trying to latch on for milk, hanging around calving heifers to clean up the after birth, I've seen one with it's back legs in the air while half of it's body was dug into a crawdad hole, I've seen where they've taken out 15 acres of freshly planted corn and root just enough to pick up the corn, I've seen them crater hay fields in the Spring loading up on various plants that build up starches in their root systems and I've seen them knock over deer feeders to get more corn. They're not at all like a farm raised pig, they adapt to anything, they're fast, they can swim like a deer and smarter than most folks give them credit for. Which is why some of us folk like to hunt them. I've heard it said before that a good hog hunt is like a poor boy's grizzly hunt and I've been in a few situations that have made me realize that sometimes that statement ain't far from the truth!

I'm hunting these things to help out some land owners eradicate them. To be honest, all we're doing is harvesting a few and running them off until they decide to come back. Which usually isn't for very long.

From what I've learned over the years is that it's really only the boars that you have to worry about as far as how the meat taste. Seems to me that when a boar is after a hot sow it releases a hormone that runs all through it's body. You'll know it as soon as you walk up on it, you'll smell it. If it has that musky sour smell, there's a good chance you don't want that meat cooking in the house, cause it's going to smell just about the same. On that note, I've seen large boars that were fine for consumption. Just depends on what they're up to when you harvest them. Another thing you guys might want to consider is if you're going to hunt some, you may want to do it before it gets real hot. In about another month I won't consider butchering one. There's some strange things crawling on these varmits in the summer that are down right nasty and when the carcass starts to cool off, they tend to jump ship and find anything that's warm and moving, which is usually the hunter standing next to it! :shock:

CL, it's a small world and I hope your brother in law is going to be okay. Maybe one of these days some of us can get together at one of these tractor shows and shake hands.

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