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[Einsiedler]

Greetings folks,

Y'all can laugh if you want, but after 35 years of shooting wild pork with a muzzleloader, this size right here is just about the best table fare you can get!!!!



Notice! This is very important! ON HAND CARRY!!! .
This doesn't wear an old reprobate out!!!

Results of last evenings woods stroll with old son and grandson on their place checking out the cows and such. He has a bunch of hogs running thru too!

I will take this shoat and throw him on my pit for about an hour or so, low and slow heat. Then I'll take a couple of potatoes, and onion and Mebbe a couple of them small mandarin oranges peeled; stuff em inside and wrap in aluminum foil for about another 4 or 5 hours of low and slow heat!

I guarantee you, when wifey and I are done, all that will be left is a pile of little bones!

 

[Einsiedler]

Postscript!

Try to avoid stepping on these!



Much more dangerous here than grizzly or black bears!

😁

 

[smo]

Postscript!

Try to avoid stepping on these!



Much more dangerous here than grizzly or black bears!

😁

Theres a trick to hunting in snake country you may or may not know! The flat ones can't bite you...LOL



These two met their maker about a week apart. On my place they are an "in dangered species" :haha:

The larger one is mounted on a 8" wide 4' long Poplar board. Both are missing a few inches of head and shoulders. :shocked2:

They do not like ,45 ACP or .22 CCI Hollow Points to the head.

Around here 4' is about the largest I've seen.

In Alabama we have them over 6' long.

 

[Einsiedler]

Yes this one is big for this far west! Most here 18" or so tops. Seen bigger in east Texas and Louisiana!

Surprised hogs hadn't eaten this one!

 

[robinsroost]

:bow: I hunted pork for 25 years in Florida and I must agree on your choice of table fare. I see that the stripes are almost gone on that one, they do make good camo though. After I took a couple of 300 pounders, I vowed to never take another over100 pounds. What caliber is your rifle? Nicely done, congratulations. Keep yer powder dry........robin

 

[hanshi]

You won't find ME laughing, Le Nez. During my 62 years of living in Ga we were in the middle of canebrake rattler country. They were all over the yard & would come up on the porch. Had copperheads, cotton mouths and pigmy rattlers, too. A hunter near us came down out of his deer stand for lunch and was bitten by a canebrake. He was dead within the 15 minutes it took them to get him out of the woods to the EMT. Herpetologists of the area say the canebrakes are becoming more and more toxic. It's not understood whether it's environmental or evolution within the species. They get huge, too.

And we had hogs coming out our ears.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Perfect size.
I switched to small game years ago and not looked back :thumbsup:

B.

 

[Einsiedler]

Yeah! About 25 or so years back I trapped a sow and bred her to a boar I had trapped a couple of years before. She farrowed about 10 little zebras!!! LOL!!! They was some cuties!!!

Storming here now. I may cook this one Wednesday.

Whoever it was who asked thats my .62 Jäger. Don't have my new .40 sighted in yet!

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Never shot a hog but I'm with you on the carrying size! The way you plan on cooking it sounds great. Dan.

 

[Patocazador]

Greetings folks,

Y'all can laugh if you want, but after 35 years of shooting wild pork with a muzzleloader, this size right here is just about the best table fare you can get!!!!

My dog ran off a sow and most of her pigs but she caught this one. She retrieved it while it was nipping her neck the whole time. It weighed 10 1/2 lbs.

 

[Einsiedler]

Another perfect porker!!!!

Good dog!!!!!!!

 

[Britsmoothy]

:haha: brilliant.
:thumbsup:

B.

 

[Einsiedler]

Piglet is going on the pit in about an hour or so!

Will try for another this weekend!

 

[FishDFly]

Fellow in East Texas shot a large rattle snake and was so happy with his accomplishment he had a picture of him and the snake taken.

He had the picture put in the paper along with his name.

Game Warden saw the picture and recognized the rattler as a Timber Rattler which is on the Endangered Species List. Fellow got to visit the Judge and pay a nice fine.

Sometimes pays not to tell folks of your accomplishments.

 

[Einsiedler]

Yup! My son is an enviro specialist for TxDOT. The above timber rattler was not molested by us or anyone we know. We let him be!

Boy down the road here shot an 11 ft. Gator in the creek, (1/2 mile from the house), several years ago. Posted in on Facebook. He got a visit from the local game folks too!

 

[sidelock]

Timber rattler on endangered list???? Tell that to a farmer in WV or south west VA.

 

[FishDFly]

Timber rattler on endangered list????, yep.

Laws are laws and not following them will get you arrested, a visit with the Judge and a fine.

If a person choses to brag about violating the law and publishing it so all know, that is their problem is it not?

:v

 

[Einsiedler]

Timber rattler on endangered list????, yep.

Laws are laws and not following them will get you arrested, a visit with the Judge and a fine.

If a person choses to brag about violating the law and publishing it so all know, that is their problem is it not?

:v

True.

Call me what you want but since I got much older, if in can get by without killin' something, I will. Just the way I've become. There's a spot for em. Just be wary.
Like the feral hog "issue" here. I've never considered them a problem. Then again I don't raise hay or row crops. But I've always looked at them as manna for the cooking pit. 😋


Edit! Btw, 6 hours low and slow heat. (2hours of smoke, the rest stuffed and wrapped in foil).
Fall off the bone, tender as my heart (if I had one). And easy on my choppers!

 

[FishDFly]

It is said if you kill a piglet, from a group of them, the sow will not return to the area where it was killed.

Good way to move them to the neighbors land and have good eating.

 

[Einsiedler]

I dunno??

But I have trapped the same piglets 2 and 3 times before they moved on. They was too little to eat so I let em go.

The are smart critters for sure. I suspect there are lots of fellows here that will attest to that if they've raised pigs. Son raises Berkshires. They make some tasty bacon! 😋

Older ones do get trapwise pretty quick. But I'd rather have 3, 20-30 lb shoats in the freezer that 100 lbs of venison! (Elk don't count! I do like my elk!!).