Acer-m14
.950 JDJ
50 cal incendiary rounds .. i seen a video that there heat seeking too and cook the animal when hit ..
Pigs again!
- Thread starter Airborneguy
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Shot placement is everything. I got a side shot at a pig with a 6mm and he dropped in his tracks, blood sprayed 10 feet behind him. My friend hit his 5 times with a 35 rem before his went down. We chased that thing all over the moutain. I didn't care for the meat. My father gave it to some old black guys he knew and they acted like I was Christmas.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Taste,smell and appearance.I cooked it like I would any pork loin.It smelled awful the whole time it cooked.It had a nasty grey foamy slime and just didnt taste good.It had very little fat,which gives pork its flavor,IMO.We had most of it stored in our seasonal cabins at the lake in Dutchess and when I got there one weekend,the power was out and everything in the freezer thawed.I didnt feel bad at all about tossing it.
These are feral farm pigs, not wild boar. Some do have tusks though. Apparently any pig will grow tusks if allowed to go feral. I swear this was the best pork I've ever had, hands down. I'm actually shooting one for my friend's restaurant because he liked it so much last year.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
I dont doubt you at all,I would guess how they are raised and more importantly fed,that makes all the difference.Yes,pigs that are let loose from a farm,the type you eat from the butcher,will take on wild boar traits.They will grow a denser,dark coat at first and eventually grow small tusks.If they reproduce in the wild,the next generations will take on full wild boar traits,including full sized tusks.I remember a show about "hogzilla",that freakishly large boar shot in Texas,I think,was actually a giant farm raised pig that took on the traits of a wild boar after escaping from a local farm.
99cummins
.308 Win
Sow or boar?
I believe they are all sows. Mine was last year.
Years back, raise a few pigs, When we got them from the farmer he asked if we wanted boars or sows? I asked what the difference? He said you would need to castrate the boar or the meat would be very strong tasting! We took sows!
.300blk, .458 Socom, 30-06, .300win, .338 lapua??
Kent Goldings
.357 mag
The cadets at my old school used to have this old weight belt painted with porky pig. They awarded to the guy who beds the most obese woman....
Ah, good times.
Ah, good times.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Well,that explains why ours were so bad.We all shot boars.And now that I think of it,they did it on purpose.They did not like us.We arrived on Fri evening about 7pm.We set up in our rooms and took a cooler of beer to the main room,where a few of the other guests were playing cards.They all went to bed by 8:30 and we sat by the fireplace till about 10-10:30 when the cook came out and scolded us for being up so late drinking beer.We all laughed and went to our room and continued drinking til bed time.Nobody woke us in the morning til all the food was almost gone.Before they took us out to put us on stands,the main guide gathered everybody for this hokey speech he gave about "being proud of us,cause we had the spirit of the boar"blah,blah,this went on for a good 45 mins,about the dangers out there and be careful,his native ancestors.Me and my friend Sonny couldnt help but laugh and just generally be Bklyn assholes.They put the four of us up on top of the highest ridge in the state,no boar in his right mind woulda climbed that mt,without getting nose bleed.Everybody in the camp got a boar in the morning,they came and bought us down to an area where they could direct a boar right to us.Oh well,they got us.
camper4lyfe
.308 Win
You really need to soak/brine it for it to taste right. If you don't, it tastes down right awful, and a lot like they smell.
My name is Sonny.
I only have .30-06 of that bunch. The action can be quick though and mine have long-range scopes on them more appropriate for stand hunting.
Jaywmustang
.308 Win
The island looks thick with brush from what I saw on YouTube. Shotgun?
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Of course it is,you're from Staten Island,lol.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
After 40 years hunting deer and having tried it every which way,I've decided the only piece of deer I like is the loin or filet minion cut for just this reason.If you have to soak/brine it for a week for it to "taste right"...it just aint right.
Jaywmustang
.308 Win
I like my venison. I make jerky and sausage with the venison. If the hog meat it too funky I would turn it to sausage.
You’re using the wrong butcher!
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Butcher?
In regards to the venison. You do it yourself? Bring one to a butcher and I bet you’ll see a huge difference. I do my own now too, but it’s definitely better from the butcher.
Bushmaster
.308 Win
Back in the 90's friend and I went to check out a place to hunt wild boar. Think it was called Tioga in Pa. Never did hunt though. Back then it was $500.00 for two hunters I remember.
Bushmaster
.308 Win
Ya boned out. So not to cut through the marrow giving game taste.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Back in the 70's we used to bring them to a butcher.I guess it was in the mid 80's we started doing it ourselves.Dont see who cuts it making a difference in how it tastes.Cook,yes,but a butcher?What the butcher we used did do for us with some of the meat was awesome,tho.He was a Polish butcher that specialized in kielbasa and had his own smokehouse on premises.Besides making great jerky,he would smoke whole cuts,like the shoulder.Smoking makes anything good.
Do you hang it? I notice a huge difference even between different butchers, but definitely the ones I do and butchers in general.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Hang it upside down with the neck cut to bleed it,but only if its cold enough outside,and have enough time,like it isnt shot the day we are heading home.I have been eating it for years,but mostly I dont really enjoy it.The last couple deer I shot,I cut out the loin straps and let my friends have what they want.The loins have no gamey taste at all,dont need to be marinated.Cut em like filet minion,a little seasoning and butter and into the broiler.The rest of the deer,you can give the dogs.
Bushmaster
.308 Win
Ya I see a difference also. also needs to be hung from CORRECT end and TEMP. My butcher lives 5 houses from me, works for Wegmans. VERY CLEAN shop, knives etc....
Bushmaster
.308 Win
Maybe your just better at cutting up your deer than we are... I suck at it LOL...
Bushmaster
.308 Win
I'll take Venison over Beef now days. Beef don't taste like the beef I grew up with... Venison 10 times better for ya. Freaking beef burger smells like sweat today, think it is ground up aliens LOL They butcher up the cows with meat in piss, shit, guts etc... LOL, like hot dogs! butcher sweepings off the floor made in to ground beef, hot dogs.... LOL even straw hat parts LOL. Like a MCD's nugget...