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12/23/11, 12:33 PM
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We used to live trap the wild ones, keep them for about 60 days, feed them corn and table scraps and then butcher them.....or hog roast them...yummo! Mighty fine eating if you dug a pit and roasted them. We had several deliver babies and stuff while we had them. Didn't taste any different and they were all over Venice, FL.....caught them everywhere!
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12/23/11, 12:48 PM
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When I was a firefighter we had a fundraising BBQ each summer. We always roasted two pigs for the event, and we had to help with the slaughtering & de-hairing of the pigs.
We would kill them with a 22 shot to the forehead, then bleed them out. On one pig, as we pulled back the skin on the forehead it was apparent that the bullet had not penetrated the skull, since the wad of lead was flattened on the skull.
My theory was that the shot only knocked the pig unconscious. I couldn't help but wonder what kind of mood that boar would have been in if he had woken up before he was cut.
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12/23/11, 01:04 PM
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We are close enough to have these guys (some up to 30 at a time) run around here. I have not personally tasted them but know MANY who keep a freezer full of them at any given time. We have thought about hunting them ourselves, but I often wonder too, if they are strong flavored. I have never had the guts to eat them.
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12/23/11, 01:37 PM
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They have found their way into central New York state, possibly escaped from "game preserves" established for rent-a-hunt. DEC put out for deer hunters to shoot 'em on sight.
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12/23/11, 01:37 PM
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Wait. Do you mean to say that they accept these things at the auction barn where you are?  |
Yep, theres a auction barn nearby me that specializes in pigs and quit often you see wild hogs come through. Most of the buying public will not bid on these cause they are wild, hard to keep penned up, and somewhat very dangerous. Therefore the auction barn owner usually buys them up at a very, very, low price. He then turns around and sells them to hunting clubs at a much higher price. The hunting clubs charge hundreds or thousands for some rich dude to come and hunt it and kill it.
Braggscowboy, it would be better if they just sold him directly to hunting club as soon as possible and let them deal with the fattening up cause if they take it to a auction barn they will have a hard time getting their feed money back out of it.
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12/23/11, 01:39 PM
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Killed this one the other day.Very Good Eating,my wife says better than Store Bought.As far as at night we have been out listening for them to come to Bait,when they do,hit them with Light and shoot fast because they will be gone as fast as they came.
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12/23/11, 01:48 PM
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Yep, theres a auction barn nearby me that specializes in pigs and quit often you see wild hogs come through. Most of the buying public will not bid on these cause they are wild, hard to keep penned up, and somewhat very dangerous. Therefore the auction barn owner usually buys them up at a very, very, low price. He then turns around and sells them to hunting clubs at a much higher price. The hunting clubs charge hundreds or thousands for some rich dude to come and hunt it and kill it.
Braggscowboy, it would be better if they just sold him directly to hunting club as soon as possible and let them deal with the fattening up cause if they take it to a auction barn they will have a hard time getting their feed money back out of it.
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I think you are talking about Leach auction.They tried that one, and as you said, did not go well. The have sold to the clubs before around OKC, but so many hogs any more it is more difficult to get rid of them. I think he will take some to Wister sale. Someone will buy it to have the head mounted I'm sure. He has a couple of mounts that look like this one and they are nice mounts, but costs a lot to get done.
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12/23/11, 01:49 PM
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Oh forgot to add everyone says Kill Them All but you mention Wild Hogs around here you have all kinds of New Friends wanting to go Hog Hunting.
Conservation Department told me to shoot them leave them lay if I don't want them.The ones around here stay pretty much to the river not causing trouble unless your trying to raise Corn.
Me I'll shoot what I need leave the rest be,their another Food Source for me.
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12/23/11, 01:56 PM
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Here is one of my Mounts
Here is a Gilt I killed
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12/23/11, 02:15 PM
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a feral hog is just a domestic hog thats gotten loose and gone back to the "wild". Pen it, feed it, worm it and it'll be fit to sell at the auction barn, why not?
To most, the difference would be undiscernable - to the experienced eye -development differences due to lack of optimum nutrition is easily detected - too large a head for the size of body means an older hog than its body/weight would indictate, etc. No ear notches, uncut boar hogs, hogs carrying full undocked tails, an unthrifty hog - all those signs can possibly equal wild hogs.
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Feral hogs are not like domestic hogs.
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12/23/11, 02:17 PM
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Actually, the meat is fantastic. Almost no fat on them like a penned up hog would have. Best gun to shoot them with in the hills is a .44 mag pistola !
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12/23/11, 02:33 PM
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Feral hogs are not like domestic hogs.
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Explain, please.
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12/23/11, 03:00 PM
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Feral hogs are not like domestic hogs.
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Feral hogs are just that, domestic hogs that have run wild.
Look up feral.
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Met up with a pack of wild javelinas that decided to hang out on the road (four lane divided highway) instead of crossing it. We had a little "mexican standoff" till they decided to keep on going. For a bit there I think they thought about charging the car. THAT would've left a mark....
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I think you are talking about Leach auction.They tried that one, and as you said, did not go well. The have sold to the clubs before around OKC, but so many hogs any more it is more difficult to get rid of them. I think he will take some to Wister sale. Someone will buy it to have the head mounted I'm sure. He has a couple of mounts that look like this one and they are nice mounts, but costs a lot to get done.
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I hate that Leach auction. It is appalling what they auction off. I have seen more sick animals there than anywhere else combined. Not real impressed with the way they handle the animals either.
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12/23/11, 04:21 PM
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As far as at night we have been out listening for them to come to Bait,when they do,hit them with Light and shoot fast because they will be gone as fast as they came.
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How very sportsmanlike 
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12/23/11, 04:37 PM
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Well, great! I was told leach was a good place to get a cheap meat goat/sheep!
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12/23/11, 04:56 PM
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Well, great! I was told leach was a good place to get a cheap meat goat/sheep!
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It is. If you don't care about health and humane treatment 
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12/23/11, 06:11 PM
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Feral hogs are not like domestic hogs.
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12/23/11, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Wind in Her Hair
thats actually pretty "sportsmanlike" considering that we baited them, caught them in permanent traps, and then shot them where they stood. We weren't doing it for sport - we were doing it to eliminate them. Period. These are NOT wildlife, Dutchie. We NEVER gave them a sporting chance. 
Feral hogs are a nuisance and they are extremely destructive when they have gone feral and cannot be controlled. They threaten domestic swine herds because they cannot be vaccinated against communicable diseases that will dessimate commercial swine herds. And they destroy farmer's fields, wildlife's native habitat, and improved fields, forests, and meadows.
It is a bonus that something that MUST be destroyed has some value to someone -either in the way of a trophy mount or in the way of edible meat.
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I believe I was responding to Rockpile. I am a hunter myself but would never take an animal the way he does. Nuisance or not.
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