A little pig blood on my ESEE 5... WARNING Blood and Guts

[KennyB]

The secret is to be sure to nick the guts or bladder so you get that osoo sweet taste in the meat. It just doesn't taste right if you dont. Right Shotgunner

Yeah, it's best if you let it marinade over night!

Heh, that's probably one of the few things I actually do know about skinning because someone was talking about how spey blades are great for skinning since you don't have that much liklihood of hitting one of the organs or intestines.

That and spilling the blood are about the only two things I know about skinning/processing. I guess realistically if I ever had to do it in a survival situation that would put me ahead of the game since those seem like very important parts, but man, I wouldn't have the first clue on how to actually get the rest of it done.

Why do you split through the pelvis? Does it just make the legs easier to splay apart for skinning work?

 

[shotgunner11]

The secret is to be sure to nick the guts or bladder so you get that osoo sweet taste in the meat. It just doesn't taste right if you dont. Right Shotgunner

Were you with me when I did that Charlie? If you were it was the first and last time I screwed up, honest.

I don't post here very much, but hope you will not mind a question. A lot of threads I read about the feral hogs highlight the need to thin them due to property damage and their nuisance nature. I have no issue with that.

However, I would like to know if they animals are commonly used for food?
How is the meat in comparison to domesticated pork? I am a huge fan of deer, elk, and bear. I even enjoy cougar when I have had it.

I do not want to side track the thread, so please feel free to pm me.

The meat is quite good depending on what the hogs have been feeding on. If they're truly wild and routing for all their food they can be a bit gamey but the one's that are fattened up on domestic crops, the "problem" hogs that you hear so much about, you'd think the meat came from the supermarket.

 

[Flatsman007]

As Uncle Ted would say...

"The beast is dead, long live the beast...."

Congrats brother.

+1 congratulations on the porker.

 

[TimboKhan]

I had a taxidermy class in high school (which, incidentally was totally awesome and the only of it's kind back then), and I once accidentally poked through the gut of a raccoon that was severely bloated.

Jesus Christ.

I have never gagged at gutting something since, because the only thing that I have ever that smelled worse and was more pervasive than that were burning people which, so I don't sound nutty, I smelled in Desert Storm. In any event, after smelling those two things, whatever comes out of a fresh kill is cake.

 

[dfarm]

Come on down and take all you can carry. You'll quickly change your mind.

Its been my experiance that All the Texans I've talked to complain about all the hogs until you start asking around for advice on hunting them, then everybody clams up or wants a bunch of money.

 

[_DZ_]

About 15 years back they used Cyanide pods to get rid of an over population of Coyotes in west Texas. I threw the idea out one day at a local dinner and almost got kicked out. It pissed so many people off that they were seriously talking about calling the police on me. That is when I realized that all the stupid arse city dwellers moved out to the country to "get away", and now I can't make my living the way I need to because they get their wittle feelings hurt. We lost 25 acres of hay last year alone. We lost 4 goats last week because of hogs. They suck and if they didn't taste so dang good I would put cyanide pods out myself!!!!

This kind of thing irritates me to no end. People move out to a new location and think they have some sort of "right" to trampled all over and change the way people have been living in that location for generations.

Thanks for the pics, enjoy the bacon.

 

[Super X]

Its been my experiance that All the Texans I've talked to complain about all the hogs until you start asking around for advice on hunting them, then everybody clams up or wants a bunch of money.

Private property and population explosions go hand in hand. It is a opportunity to gain access to land that normally does not get hunted. Be respectful and courteous of thier property and you will be welcome to hunt the hogs. The land I looked at the other day does not get hunted much and why the hogs have become so destructive. It will allow me access to another spot to hunt and help the landowner.

 

[ThatOthersMayLive03]

I don't post here very much, but hope you will not mind a question. A lot of threads I read about the feral hogs highlight the need to thin them due to property damage and their nuisance nature. I have no issue with that.

However, I would like to know if they animals are commonly used for food?
How is the meat in comparison to domesticated pork? I am a huge fan of deer, elk, and bear. I even enjoy cougar when I have had it.

I do not want to side track the thread, so please feel free to pm me.

Shotgunner hit it right on the head. The really big bastards that you see do not taste good. The ones that are around 80-200lbs taste amazing. We had loins last night that blew my mind from this little sow. I will throw her hocks in the smoker this weekend whole. The big daddys I will take to get ground up. The little babies you can literally skin them and trow them on the grill. Some of the best ham I have ever had.


dfarm: The issue most land owners have is having people they don't know that well coming out to shoot high powered rifles on their poperty. We let a guy come out and help after he called me non-stop for about a month. I told him that he and his brother could come take however many he could shoot in an afternoon. The guys showed up with 6 buddies and a SKS for each of them. I do agree that and AK/AR style gun is great for this type of hunting, but that was a little over-board. Super X is right. Get to know the land owner and be respectful.


Kenny B it is alot easier than you think.

 

[GRIM 62]

Dude,great pics and congrats on the hog!!Pork has got to be my all time favorite meat,hands down!There are so many different cuts,and it's all good!!

 

[dfarm]

I can see that working well if you have time to get to know land owners. I understand about letting any schmoe off of the street come and blaze away on my property, it's just frustrating when I read all these stories on the internet about hogs going crazy and needing people to come shoot them, then I find out that I'm going to be in the neighborhood for work for a couple of weeks and the only people I can find with hogs want a three or four hundred bucks to come kill a couple of hogs.

Its also strange to me that it doesn't seem like there's much public land to hunt on, perhaps I'm Not looking in the right places.

Maybe I'll have better luck asking here. I'm going to post about it in the hunting forum here if anybody has some advice on hunting the El Paso area.