Gonna be a dirt nap for fat boy...

[kennyb]

nothing like a good boar hunt...i have taken several with my 500 mag.they make good eating!

 

[haggis]

Heck, they don't even have tusks! Back in the 70's I used to hunt hogs over at Tellico Plains. Those were big suckers that could do some hurt if they got you. Some of the guys I went with used single shots to keep it sporting, but not me - I used a Model 94 in case I missed.

Of course, that was back when these were managed hunts, and the number and level of destruction caused by the hogs was minimal compared to today. Now its mostly pest control. Sort of like going after barn rats with .22 CB caps.

As far as eating them, put a ham in a lardstand of water and boil it for 10-12 hours. Then pull it out of the water and wrap it in a big heavy wool blanket for 2-3 days. When you took it out of the blanket, it was still to hot to touch with bare hands. That meat was so tender it would just about fall off the bone.

Buck

 

[Hillbilly77]

Hey Hillbilly! Actually 2 shot a month or so ago in Livingston County!

The most problematic feral swine in NY seem to be in Albany County, but I'll say no more, because Politics is a banned topic here.

 

[1morethan8]

Hey, Buck...

The wild boar around Tellico wasn't your normal piggy gone wild!
I've seen black Russian boar at better than 400 pounds with tusk over 4" long.

"In 1908 the Whiting Manufacturing Company bought a large tract of land in the Snowbird Mountains in Graham County, North Carolina. Within this tract was a mountain known as Hooper's Bald. Mr. George Gordon Moore, an American advisor for the company, was allowed to establish a game reserve on company land on Hooper's Bald around 1909. In 1911, a 500 to 600-acre hog lot was constructed, with a split rail fence nine rails high. In April 1912, a young shipment of 14 European wild hogs, including 11 sows and 3 boars, arrived and was released in the lot. They each weighed approximately 60 to 75 pounds. They were purchased from an agent in Berlin, Germany, who claimed that they came from the Ural Mountains of Russia."

Here piggy!

http://www.boarhuntingtn.com/assets/IMG_0090.jpg

 

[chud333]

Wish i we're a bit closer to Texas. I been on a few
hog hunts in Tennessee. I'd like to get where they
have become a problem for the farmers or ranchers.
Have some fun while weeding out a few. Then plan
a big ole BBQ.

Chuck

 

[charlie sherrill]

That's another thing I like about Texas. Free pigs. We occassionally get a few around here but after deer season you don't see them anymore...except in a smoker or made into deer sausage.

 

[Rule3]

They are all over the place in Florida, of course not as BIG as in Texas. Great place to hunt is on the gated communities golf courses. They really cause a lot of damage/expensive but of course the residents don't want them shot, big business in trapping them.

 

[Bill_inBouse]

fresh pork chops on the hoof
No pig shooting here but I guess that is a good thing for the farmers.

 

[nipster]

As someone who used to raise pigs, make sure you kill/eat a sow, wild boars are awful to eat, you have to cut the balls off before they get too old and the meat tastes awful. Trust me... you dont want to eat no gamey boar meat.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

That's another thing I like about Texas. Free pigs. We occassionally get a few around here but after deer season you don't see them anymore...except in a smoker or made into deer sausage.

Charlie has had a lot of experience with pigs. He still dates some now.

 

[ladder13]

Charlie has had a lot of experience with pigs. He still dates some now.

Are they spotted?

 

[Xfuzz]

Are they spotted?

No...Little red ones.

 

[boykinlp]

"Gonna be a dirt nap for fat boy... "

Geez, I saw this title and have been looking over my shoulder ever since!!

 

[LVSteve]

Is there some way of starting a war between the coyotes and the feral pigs? It would be great if they thinned each other out a bit.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

Are they spotted?

Not in public.

 

[leswad]

I had this boar come in last year:

Kind of made me nervous, so I had to up my defense:

 

[MP22]

I hope them there hogs are very fruitful and multiply here in the KY.

 

[1morethan8]

Now that's not one of the little pigs them girls on TV catch and tie-up!

One nice rifle!

 

[LVSteve]

I hope them there hogs are very fruitful and multiply here in the KY.

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[captorquewrench]

Be careful what you wish for.

You are not just whistling Dixie, friend!

There are places I have to be careful driving in the 'burbs--even in greener parts of town-- so as not to hit any (it would tear up my little car!). Come around corner...BLAM! 50-60 hogs all over the road.