kylekrm944
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This past weekend we made a trip to the NC/SC line to hunt hogs with an outfitter. I brought my stepson along hoping for him to get in on the action as well. We hunted pigs last July in MS with thermals in a vehicle stalk method.
This was over feeders.
We were in the stand early (about 3 pm) and sat until the cold pushed us out. My stand saw BlueJays, Cardinals and Quail fight with squirrels until dark. A few minutes after dark, a possum came to the corn pile and ate for 2 hours straight. A bunny showed up in the mean time and was more animated to watch.
About 10 pm broken branches and squeals interrupted my shivering. The smaller pigs, true to form, were the first to the corn, and the larger ones brought up the tail end of the mass of 30 or so pigs. Talk about chaos! I didnt have a green light, my step son got to use that, so all I had was a white light. I picked my bacon, pointed the gun to the sky and slowly eased the white light down. One pig squealed and they all took off! I frantically found one not moving, quartered away and he fell instantly as the 77 grain 556 hit its mark. I couldnt get a good head shot on entry but the exit wound showed the bullet coming out near the jaw....
We drug the boar to the skinning shed and weighed him in at 140. He was really really smelly and I was convinced I was still going to skin him out for the smoker until the Outfitter talked me out of it. In MS last year we killed 3 big (185,225 350) boars and ate every one of them.
Is there a reason this guy stunk WAAAAAY more than the 3 we killed in MS?
Do you process boars that are smelly and what is the result of the meat?
I was quite bummed as this was a "meat hunt" and I came home empty handed.
This was over feeders.
We were in the stand early (about 3 pm) and sat until the cold pushed us out. My stand saw BlueJays, Cardinals and Quail fight with squirrels until dark. A few minutes after dark, a possum came to the corn pile and ate for 2 hours straight. A bunny showed up in the mean time and was more animated to watch.
About 10 pm broken branches and squeals interrupted my shivering. The smaller pigs, true to form, were the first to the corn, and the larger ones brought up the tail end of the mass of 30 or so pigs. Talk about chaos! I didnt have a green light, my step son got to use that, so all I had was a white light. I picked my bacon, pointed the gun to the sky and slowly eased the white light down. One pig squealed and they all took off! I frantically found one not moving, quartered away and he fell instantly as the 77 grain 556 hit its mark. I couldnt get a good head shot on entry but the exit wound showed the bullet coming out near the jaw....
We drug the boar to the skinning shed and weighed him in at 140. He was really really smelly and I was convinced I was still going to skin him out for the smoker until the Outfitter talked me out of it. In MS last year we killed 3 big (185,225 350) boars and ate every one of them.
Is there a reason this guy stunk WAAAAAY more than the 3 we killed in MS?
Do you process boars that are smelly and what is the result of the meat?
I was quite bummed as this was a "meat hunt" and I came home empty handed.