Hog Killin tonight

[Caustic Burno]

Just got in from running the traps got a 125 pound sow and two 60 pound gilts.
Be firing up the smokehouse tomorrow.

 

[TN Cattle Man]

Sounds like a plan CB... make sure you post some pictures!!

 

[Brute 23]

How do you cook yours CB?

I'm not a big fan of wild hog meat but this year the hogs are fat and look good. We have been killing hogs with 1-1.5" of fat across their backs. We killed a big sow that probably went a little over #200 and they took the back straps out of her. We were all grabbing zip locks to get a chunk. It took two hand to wrap around one, all you need was 6-8" of that strap and it was a meal for 4. Slice that baby up, tenderize it, soak it... :mrgreen:

 

[JMJ Farms]

How do you cook yours CB?

I'm not a big fan of wild hog meat but this year the hogs are fat and look good. We have been killing hogs with 1-1.5" of fat across their backs. We killed a big sow that probably went a little over #200 and they took the back straps out of her. We were all grabbing zip locks to get a chunk. It took two hand to wrap around one, all you need was 6-8" of that strap and it was a meal for 4. Slice that baby up, tenderize it, soak it... :mrgreen:

I like to take one about 125 pounds and split him down the middle. Put him on the grill belly down. Not too much heat. Take a 20 oz coke bottle and drill a hole in the cap. Fill it with salt water and keep him sprayed down good while he cooks. Have to refill it often and keep him wet the whole time. Flavors the meat and keeps him from drying out. About 6-8 hours of work but it's well worth it. Eat him right off the grill, that's when it's the best. Just my :2cents:

 

[Caustic Burno]

Sounds like a plan CB... make sure you post some pictures!!

Had to make two trips these girls are in the cooler right now.
Man o man where they fat. Perfect hog killin weather to boot.
I won a Marlin 17 HMR SS Saturday works great on hogs.

 

[ez14]

I dont live where there are wild hogs. I might just have to take a trip down south with the ar sounds like fun

 

[Caustic Burno]

I dont live where there are wild hogs. I might just have to take a trip down south with the ar sounds like fun

The problem here if you want to hunt with a rifle is it might as well be a single shot cause that is all your
getting it is so thick.Cousin was going to show them and got him a suppressor after a couple of hunts
they were running from the action cycling. Again too thick and close.
You would have to get in Central or South to utilize a Mini or AR.
They are tougher to hunt than a deer here if they have had any pressure they completely nocturnal.
You can put your cameras out and time them coming to bait and ambush them getting one maybe two
with a shotgun. You can fool a hogs ears and eyes you can't fool his nose.
Very important to know their bedding area that they come from and have your stand where you can
approach downwind.

 

[Caustic Burno]

How do you cook yours CB?

I'm not a big fan of wild hog meat but this year the hogs are fat and look good. We have been killing hogs with 1-1.5" of fat across their backs. We killed a big sow that probably went a little over #200 and they took the back straps out of her. We were all grabbing zip locks to get a chunk. It took two hand to wrap around one, all you need was 6-8" of that strap and it was a meal for 4. Slice that baby up, tenderize it, soak it... :mrgreen:

I like to take one about 125 pounds and split him down the middle. Put him on the grill belly down. Not too much heat. Take a 20 oz coke bottle and drill a hole in the cap. Fill it with salt water and keep him sprayed down good while he cooks. Have to refill it often and keep him wet the whole time. Flavors the meat and keeps him from drying out. About 6-8 hours of work but it's well worth it. Eat him right off the grill, that's when it's the best. Just my :2cents:

I split the little one in the pic for just that going to make sausage out of the rest.

 

[True Grit Farms]

I'm not eating no wild hog...till I have to. That's a nasty creature when it comes to what they'll eat.
Hogs can carry all kinds of diseases that I want no part of.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I'm not eating no wild hog...till I have to. That's a nasty creature when it comes to what they'll eat.
Hogs can carry all kinds of diseases that I want no part of.

My son operated the Hog farm for the state of Texas prison system they have everything the feral does.
They have a huge feral problem on the farm due to the domestics attracting them.
Secondly none of the feral are on a diet of slop. Most ferals here are on a steady diet of corn from deer feeders,
acorns earth worms and grubs.

Here is my real question for centuries we let our domestics free range the woods would have a marking in the spring
and killin in the winter. The only difference in these is Russian influence and that is where every hog every originated.
Whats the difference?

 

[lavacarancher]

CB, how did you clean them, scrape or skin? I'm setting' up for a hunt in two weeks. Nephew is coming up and I want to have them coming into an area where he can get a shot. I've got my corn mash souring mixed with jello. Hope that'll bring 'em in.

I used to think the same about eaten' them but we were deer hunting and shot a hog for camp meat. One of the guys fixed a loin and it was the best I've ever tasted. No gamey taste and so tender the meat just fell apart.

 

[True Grit Farms]

I've ate my share of wild hogs. But after I saw pigs coming out the rear end of a dead cow, that kinda slowed my wild hog eating down. And the sows were there eating whatever they could also. I wasn't going to bring this up but you asked.

http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/diseases ... ealth.html

 

[Rafter S]

I'm not eating no wild hog...till I have to. That's a nasty creature when it comes to what they'll eat.
Hogs can carry all kinds of diseases that I want no part of.

Would you eat a free-range chicken?

 

[True Grit Farms]

I'm not eating no wild hog...till I have to. That's a nasty creature when it comes to what they'll eat.
Hogs can carry all kinds of diseases that I want no part of.

Would you eat a free-range chicken?

Only if I have to, chickens are scavengers also. I like antibiotics, vaccines and wormer, preventative care and disease control is a good thing. IMO

 

[Brute 23]

Its not quite that simple. Hogs are omnivores. They will graze on an oats patch like a deer and eat a deer off the side of a road like a vulture. There lies my issue.

So the question is, would you eat a vulture?

Hogs prefer to graze, eat out of molasses troughs, feed ect like cattle. If you are hunting a new property, go where they cattle go... that's where the hogs will be.

They also like grubs. We mulched quite a decent amount at one place this last year and the hogs rooted up every inch of the mulched area. It was like a compost pile.

Then there is wild onions which is where most of the pasture rooting comes from.

In good, wet years they eat the stuff listed above. In bad, drought years they will do what they need to, to survive. That includes eating dead animals, manure, even each other.

I'm very picky about they hogs I eat. If they are clean, fat, healthy in a good year like this one Ill take some straps or quarters. In a drought I get close enough to put the rope around one leg and drag them off. I keep 2 boxes of gloves under my seat and always use them when handling hogs.

 

[Bigfoot]

Reluctant to tell this, after the cg8 fiasco. As a child, we routinely fed calves that died to the hogs. I also finished out several calves on hog manure. I'd go around with a wheel barrow and a shovel collecting manure every afternoon. I was just a kid, and I wouldn't do either of those practices now. I guess the point being none of us really know what we're eating.

 

[fenceman]

Reluctant to tell this, after the cg8 fiasco. As a child, we routinely fed calves that died to the hogs. I also finished out several calves on hog manure. I'd go around with a wheel barrow and a shovel collecting manure every afternoon. I was just a kid, and I wouldn't do either of those practices now. I guess the point being none of us really know what we're eating.

Been over 30 years since high school ag class so this is definitely outdated.
I remember the teacher talking about a study.

They fed 3 hogs, I think it was whole corn to the first hog.
The first hogs crap to the second.
Seconds crap to the third.

Second hog gained the best.

 

[M-5]

Ive never really cared about where it comes from . All I need is something to eat that makes a turd.

 

[Dave]

I knew a guy who trapped a lot of muskrats. He had a pig pen on the backside of his fur shed. Skinned the muskrats and tossed the carcasses out the back window to the hogs. Them hogs ate 60 or 70 muskrats a day. I don't think you would dare trip and fall down in that pen.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I'm not eating no wild hog...till I have to. That's a nasty creature when it comes to what they'll eat.
Hogs can carry all kinds of diseases that I want no part of.

Would you eat a free-range chicken?

Growing up I never knew there was anything except free range chicken or hogs.
They killed my great grandma at 104 and grandpa at 96.

Lavaca
We skinned the hogs.
I was up making cure solution this morning for the hams and bacon.
With technology today and a little thought fellow should be able to make a scalding barrel to hold the
water temp at 120 and scrap them. I still have some scrapers Lord only knows how old they are.
I went to the smokehouse many a morning to dig link sausage out of a churn filled with hog lard.
Those hams and sausage were not refrigerated .
At hog killins when I was a kid seen the women slinging the syht out the small gut and washing in Clorox water for casing.

Hog killin day you could eat hog liver or brains and eggs your choice.
Kids today would die.