Pics don't do much justice.... It's about 275-300#'s with a little over 3.25" lowers. Nice pig!

I was deer hunting and spotted him around where the arrow's pointing on the first morning, then again that evening. I decided I'd hunt down to it the next morning and if I didn't jump a good buck on the way I was gonna kill it.
It worked out. :grinpimp:

Mean looking. Almost looks like a werewolf.

Just curious, what kinda scope were you using to see him that far away. Good lookin gnar-pig!

Just curious, what kinda scope were you using to see him that far away. Good lookin gnar-pig!

Luepold 12-40x60mm Gold Ring Spotting Scope.
It's amazing! It's what got that Pig killed! While I was spotting I bet I saw 50 or so pigs and I could tell, even at about 3 miles away, that pig was worth killing.

I was deer hunting and spotted him around where the arrow's pointing on the first morning, then again that evening. I decided I'd hunt down to it the next morning and if I didn't jump a good buck on the way I was gonna kill it.
It worked out. :grinpimp:

i would have shot him from right there:D


i want to come pig hunting with you. well i want to go pig hunting with anyone but it seems like you are in california and actually finding them.

nice oink :smokin:

i'll be ramping up my pig dispatching, now that i have a cool ranch gun to do it with :D


ill be trapping as well :evil:

i would have shot him from right there:D


i want to come pig hunting with you. well i want to go pig hunting with anyone but it seems like you are in california and actually finding them.

load up your lath and mill and you can kill all the nasty things you want!

Toby what area is that , looks a little Hollister .Nice pig by the way

Toby what area is that , looks a little Hollister .Nice pig by the way

Good guess! It's only about 10 miles, as the Crow fly's, North - East of Hollister.

Here's one I killed a while back basically in the same area.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=420709&stc=1&d=1234143325

That's a big somumabitch!

Congrats. Thats a nice one.
JM

goddamn, i want to do some pig hunting!

the story of life: those that have, dont want it. those that dont have, want it.

im so tired of having to hunt pigs. shit is fucking ridiculous. the worst is when clients want them cleaned and or jaws removed to keep the tusks....

nasty fucking things, they are. i believe their upside in being able to eat some of them is far outweighed by their destruction, over-breeding, and disease.

i just like killing. its getting harder and harder to find anything to kill, without people bitching.

Do they eat good? Gamey?

not if you cook it right.

Do they eat good? Gamey?

the little ones eat good... some of the big ones too but a lot of the time the meat has a stank to it if they are old boars and whatnot.

This big bastard was not good eating....

the story of life: those that have, dont want it. those that dont have, want it.

im so tired of having to hunt pigs. shit is fucking ridiculous. the worst is when clients want them cleaned and or jaws removed to keep the tusks....

nasty fucking things, they are. i believe their upside in being able to eat some of them is far outweighed by their destruction, over-breeding, and disease.

I'm trying to get rid of some now. The last few hurricanes seem to have pushed them north faster than they would have moved otherwise.

if you take the meat do this, you'll have a GREAT chance of it being good.


my general rule is, if i can smell that fucker farther than 3-4 feet away, generally the meat is gonna suck. they are STINKY bastards regardless. they love diesel, tar, spoiled shit (milk/stale beer etc.)

if your gonna just do it half ass, just steal the back straps.
if you get a nice young sow, i would highly advise fully dressing it. they are teh noms.
piglets are teh super noms :D i just gut em like a dove and split them down the back :)


you need 2 coolers or buckets, the way i do it.
take a cooler and dump 2-3 bags or ice in it. add some water to it.
add 1/2 box of mortons kosher salt, or rock salt.
stick the meat in there.
wait till the water gets bloody. like bloody red. it will take mebbe 1-2 hours at the most.
transfer meat into the other cooler in hose temp water
drain the bloody water out of the ice cooler, and re-salt with the other half of the box, add more ice and water.
stick teh meat back in there after about 20 minutes. of soaking in the tap water.
let it do it again, its going to get bloody all over again.


by doing this, your "squeezing" the blood out of the meat. IMO, the blood is the stankyest shit your gonna smell, minus the piss/shit.


from the meat contracting and expanding, your getting the game taste out of it.
cook it like any other pork product making SURE and FAWKING SURE it reaches minimum 160 internally.

i tried a sawzall, but sometimes the ribs and shit just vibrate back and forth all over.
i use a skill saw with a rip blade :) works AWESOME


my fave's in order:
backstrap (fast to steal out of them too)
hams
shoulders
ribs.

i tried a sawzall, but sometimes the ribs and shit just vibrate back and forth all over.
i use a skill saw with a rip blade :) works AWESOME

pruning snips work great.

the big long ones? i cant seem to get the "snip" to really do much, i tried it w/ my peice of shit ones :laughing:


now the bolt cutter type ones with the parrot nose works great on the legs/tendons :)

Wish our family friend didn't sell his land up in Paso Robles, great pig hunting up there. I am now a lazy sack of shit and don't hunt because I hate prepping the animal afterward:homer:


cook it like any other pork product making SURE and FAWKING SURE it reaches minimum 160 internally.

QFT, my dad has a calcified worm in his brain, more than likely there as a result of eating undercooked wild boar when he was a kid. It's not hurting anything, but calcified objects generally don't belong in your brain.

the big long ones? i cant seem to get the "snip" to really do much, i tried it w/ my peice of shit ones :laughing:


now the bolt cutter type ones with the parrot nose works great on the legs/tendons :)


This kind
http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/0407_handpruners/hand-pruners-01.jpg

or the long handle ones
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/cm/goodhousekeeping/images/fiskars-lop-and-saw-fb-84737334.jpg
we use the long handle ones on "long pig" and it works great :laughing:

pruning snips work great.

great for breaking through tails, pelvis', and jaws. dont see how it could work with halving down the back bone. I was always under the impression that the "gamey" flavor in meat, whether it be deer, elk, hogs, etc, could be avoided by not cutting through any of the bones while processing. something about releasing that flavor into the meat when that happens.....for me the jury is still out on that one though:D

..... my dad has a calcified worm in his brain, more than likely there as a result of eating undercooked wild boar when he was a kid. It's not hurting anything, but calcified objects generally don't belong in your brain.

honestly, that has to be one of the more fucked up things i have heard in a while. jsut wow. good luck to him for continued health and a long and happy life.




one thing about hogs giving you nasty shit is that 1 in 4 wild hogs killed in Texas has brucellosis. Yeah, you dont cure brucelosis... you live with it forever. :shaking:

I used to use a machete to cut off the feet and ribs, now I usually use a hacksaw. Occasionally I joint the feet off.

honestly, that has to be one of the more fucked up things i have heard in a while. jsut wow. good luck to him for continued health and a long and happy life.



It's actually 100% harmless at this point, had it found it's way elsewhere in his body, then it mite have been a real problem. He had a piece of oak kick-back on the table-saw and hit him in the cheek, the ER did an MRI just to make sure there was no hidden damage, doctor was a little shocked and confused, but after the Neuro guy talked with my dad, it turns out it's rare in the US because of the USDA standards store-bought pork has to conform to, but overseas it's pretty common. He could have it removed, but it would be a very expensive surgery, and insurance companies don't cover elective brain surgery, and there's a good chance he'd either die during the operation or become a vegetable, so that sucker is staying where it is, which also gives him a pretty good story to tell when the topic of funky injuries and medical problems comes up:laughing: Moral of the story, my pork gets cooked to 161* just for good measure.

Pork is a sketchy meat when you really think about it, pigs are some damn filthy animals, keeping Kosher probably saved tens of thousands of people who would have otherwise eaten under-cooked or dirty pork, but it's also the best tasting thing with feet, which I take as proof that if God exists, he's got a messed up sense of humor.

Now, back to hunting them back down to sustainable levels. Forget Global warming, overpopulated pigs are going to bring about the end of civilization.

one thing about hogs giving you nasty shit is that 1 in 4 wild hogs killed in Texas has brucellosis. Yeah, you dont cure brucelosis... you live with it forever. :shaking:

# Transmission via unpasteurized milk and contaminated cheese was, historically, a serious problem. However, where pasteurization is practiced, such transmission is rare today - the exception being an on-going risk of infection from consumption of soft cheese products.
# Infection today occurs most commonly by contact with placental tissues or vaginal secretions from infected animals (and to a lesser degree because of contact with blood or urine).

* Contact with secretions from both domestic and exotic animals can pose risks, e.g. 5 zookeepers in Japan developed brucellosis in 2001 after attending the delivery of a baby moose.

As long as you keep away from its vag you should be fine, what I am saying is you might be fucked...:flipoff2::flipoff2:nevermind the contact with blood.

As long as you keep away from its vag you should be fine, what I am saying is you might be fucked...:flipoff2::flipoff2:nevermind the contact with blood.

very sneaky with the black text.

vag contact or not, there will be blood.... :blackflipoff:.

do you need a tag to kill these pigs or is an open season. we dont have any pigs like those around here just javalina and you have to draw a tag.

do you need a tag to kill these pigs or is an open season. we dont have any pigs like those around here just javalina and you have to draw a tag.

The season's year round.
You gotta have a tag for each Pig you kill. $15.00 per tag. No limit to how many tags you can purchase or pigs you can kill per day/year. No draw.

Just a few years ago you could buy a booklet of 5 tags for $4.99.
In one year it went from $4.99 for 5 tags to $15.00 per tag. Lame!

The season's year round.
You gotta have a tag for each Pig you kill. $15.00 per tag. No limit to how many tags you can purchase or pigs you can kill per day/year. No draw.

Just a few years ago you could buy a booklet of 5 tags for $4.99.
In one year it went from $4.99 for 5 tags to $15.00 per tag. Lame!

jesus... what a fuckin rip-off. if that were the case here i would never shoot any pigs. fuck paying to shoot them. i guess i would just leave one shot in the gut so they run off and cant be found. :evil:

Texas has no season and no restriction on what you can use to hunt them since they are a non-native non-game ferrel species. only thing you need is a basic hunting license and thats it. they need to step up the measures to erradicate these things. we need to offer a bounty like they used to do with coyotes when they were out of control some years ago. 5 or 10 or 15 dollars per pair of ears would probably help motivate people to be more aggressive at killing hogs. at 10 bucks per ear pair, 6 hogs for each hunter would pay for the hunting license....

in texas
no limit, no limit on how you kill them either :evil:

if you hunt @ night you notify the warden, but that seldom happens. just call the neighbors and tell them whats up. normally they open the gates to their properties and tell ya to come on over and kill them there too :smokin:

in texas
no limit, no limit on how you kill them either :evil:

if you hunt @ night you notify the warden, but that seldom happens. just call the neighbors and tell them whats up. normally they open the gates to their properties and tell ya to come on over and kill them there too :smokin:

say there was a californian that wanted to come out to texas and shoot some pigs, is there a spot that person could get some long range shots on them? who would he talk to to try and get an invite on such a scenario?

:D

I think I know a guy from Indiana that would be there as well!

Never got a chance to shoot any pigs but I always wanted to.

Whats the rifle of choice? .338 Win mag?

welp, in the area i hunt, we night shoot. unless you have a night vision scope, or IR scope, its close shots with open sights. we are on open property for the most part, that is more than 800 acres. long range, like 1/4-1/2 mile or so? :p

unfortunately, my bud who lets me shoots on his property told me very sternly:
you can hunt here, and you can bring close friends. i dont want no strangers on mah property, cause that leads to mah equipment leavin, and cows with holes in 'em.

if he finds a moo with holes in it, i get 1000 bucks charged to ME, regardless who's with me.

he's got 300+ moo's and prolly close to a mil in equipment out there. i aint fawkin up my pig shootin for NUTHIN! :(
sorry man, wish it would work differently. if it was my joint, we would be PBB slaying, but not being my property, i have to respect the wishes of the owner.

say there was a californian that wanted to come out to texas and shoot some pigs, is there a spot that person could get some long range shots on them? who would he talk to to try and get an invite on such a scenario?

:D

yes there might be such a place you speak of. unfortunately, my place has grown up so much, some long range shots may be a little tough to find, more in the 100-200 yard range. But give me a little time, say 6 months, and we can definitely work something out. maybe a little gunsmith/rifle building advice/place to stay when i come to california to do said rifle building trade-off?? :D

yes there might be such a place you speak of. unfortunately, my place has grown up so much, some long range shots may be a little tough to find, more in the 100-200 yard range. But give me a little time, say 6 months, and we can definitely work something out. maybe a little gunsmith/rifle building advice/place to stay when i come to california to do said rifle building trade-off?? :D

something like that may work out good:D. i'm in no hurry now as i am to broke to be doing any traveling. it would be next year sometime before i could even think about actually doing it.

something like that may work out good:D. i'm in no hurry now as i am to broke to be doing any traveling. it would be next year sometime before i could even think about actually doing it.

well, thats a good coincidence because by that time, ill most likely have my 68 acre field bulldozed and reclaimed. mesquites have taken it over and it hasnt been able to be shredded in 10 years, but that will change when i get a D6 in there and a root plow.

The cool thing about this feild is that its rectangular, and it slopes up about 20 feet toward the a short side oriented to the west. that means you get to look out over a long field approx. 500 yards wide with the sun at your back.

So what do you do with the pig if you don't want to eat it?

let those fuckers lay. at least just drag them over to the fence.

their brothers/sisters, cayotes and buzzards will get rid of it in less than a week easily. the fire ants will finish off the job to the bone.


i can shoot one, and 6 hours later hardly be able to recognize what i shot. all the guts will be missing, most of the chest cavity, both rear legs and most of the front.

So what do you do with the pig if you don't want to eat it?

kick it.

So what do you do with the pig if you don't want to eat it?

spit on it?

the story of life: those that have, dont want it. those that dont have, want it.

im so tired of having to hunt pigs. shit is fucking ridiculous. the worst is when clients want them cleaned and or jaws removed to keep the tusks....

nasty fucking things, they are. i believe their upside in being able to eat some of them is far outweighed by their destruction, over-breeding, and disease.

x infinity and beyond! it makes me thorw up in my mouth when i hear this... "man i wish we had hogs like that!"

let those fuckers lay. at least just drag them over to the fence.

their brothers/sisters, cayotes and buzzards will get rid of it in less than a week easily. the fire ants will finish off the job to the bone.


i can shoot one, and 6 hours later hardly be able to recognize what i shot. all the guts will be missing, most of the chest cavity, both rear legs and most of the front.

kick it.

spit on it?

:laughing:

I was just wondering because usually I don't like to hunt something unless I'm gonna eat it. But these sound like some nasty ass fawkers and I wouldn't have a problem killing them for the fun of it and leaving their evil corpses to rot.:evil:

in texas
no limit, no limit on how you kill them either :evil:

I cant be the only one that has intentionaly run one over with a truck, stopped and picked it up and then butchered and ate it...

no, and we arent the only one that intentionally have run over the dead ones we have already shot either :laughing:

yup, same here, no limit no season. the only real rule is you cannot hunt them at night unless you have the deprovation permit. 300, if you want to hunt pigs let me know. if you are willing to help me out than you are DAMN sure welcome here. i can fix you up a long range hunt if that is what you are looking for.

permit= permission from yer buddy and his neighbors :laughing:

nephew saw one and shot it...I have never personally seen one on our property...


all over the place on the TX side of the river...I guess they shoot them pretty fast in Grandfield as they cross over....maybe they need to move Grandfield a few hundred miles south?


skunks, bobcats, yotes, armadillos...they all get targeted.

yes there might be such a place you speak of. unfortunately, my place has grown up so much, some long range shots may be a little tough to find, more in the 100-200 yard range. But give me a little time, say 6 months, and we can definitely work something out. maybe a little gunsmith/rifle building advice/place to stay when i come to california to do said rifle building trade-off?? :D




I just so happen to have recently acquired a place with a garage that will be used primarily for wrenching and gun-building, so you'd be more than welcome to it if it meant a little pig hunting. I've never been, so it's on my list of things to do :D

I just so happen to have recently acquired a place with a garage that will be used primarily for wrenching and gun-building, so you'd be more than welcome to it if it meant a little pig hunting. I've never been, so it's on my list of things to do :D

that sounds like a deal too. like i was saying to sniper, give me a little bit of time, maybe 3-6 months and pig hunting will be much better. my range will be built by then (its short though) and i should have a couple blinds rebuilt.

but a little taste: my cousin called me last weekend and said he shot the biggest hog he ever saw. laying on its side, he was unable to roll it over on his own. drug it off with the truck and some chains. sick!:smokin:

:smokin:

dang it i wish i could go shoot oinks today, but have to clean the house and garage this weekend :( :bawling:

permit= permission from yer buddy and his neighbors :laughing:

well, more or less but we have the real deal leagle beagle paperwork now. that means we can let it rip with no worries. i do not know what the GW would do if you were killin pigs at night. i guess he could take your liscense, gun, truck and sevral hundred dollers if he was a dick or vise versa. i was told it was the wardens discression. it was enough to keep me out of the dark untill i had the paperwork.