Thats a baby. Come down here and looksee. Ours are a conglomoration of alligator, rhinocerous, triceroutops, and just plain ugly. Snap your leg clean off at the hip!
Eat them? not my bag, baby. I get the dry heaves thinking about it.
A friend of a friend of a friend seen one pull a 30...
.22 LR, 9mm carbine ( HiPoint, don't laugh ), .223, .410, .357 Pistol, 30-30, .308ME, my compound bow, my truck ( I don't recommend the truck, it can get expensive). Many different sizes. I normally head or neck shoot pigs.
Well, I am unemployed. My girlfriend left me a long time ago. I have no kids. I have access to lots of land(family) and I live next to it. Bow season started in Oct and today is the 20th of Nov.....
I would average it out to everyother day so far, but I would rather have a job.
My new fav is my Marlin308 with the cheapest Leupold I could get. It is my deer and sometimes hog gun.
My main hog guns are my AR and Mini14, and sometimes a Nag.
I use a storebought mix for my pan sausage: its just sage,red and black pepper and salt and brown sugar.
I do have a recipe for Italian though:
( This is for 5 pounds )
5 ts salt
5 ts fennell seed
1 ts garlic powder
1 TBS paprika
2 ts black pepper
1 ts allspice
if you want it...
On the .22, in Texas we can take pigs with anything this side of handgrenades.
I have killed pigs with a .22LR. Aim for the ear.
Definitely do the hunters ed and gun classes.
There are lots of other things to learn about hunting. Can you identify tracks? Can you age them? Still hunting is...
BTW. Les Claypool wrote about the time he took his wife's hatchback( ford fiesta?) mulie hunting in Peterson's Bowhunting a couple of months back. Very good read if you can find it.
Make sure somebody knows where you will be planning to hunt. Don't slack on the gear. A gps is a must. I see that you'll be in the lowlands, but it can get rough even there.
BTW, I'm a September Elk hunter who normally hunts BridgerTeton NF area(Hoback, Gibbs Creek and other parts in the...
Wyomings pretty rough in some areas for walking in and packing out. Take a loaf of bread and some matches and eat it while your out. Less to pack out.
Lot a work for so little meat. I am not trying to be mean, Just sayin.
I see a lot of russian cross in this one.
This ones littermates were red, orange, spotted and black. Each one unique.
I have seen an entire litter of black ones as well.
I had a book called "living with deer in N. America"...
There are witness accounts of whitetail eating skipjacks blowing up on a Michigan beach. ( a skipjack is a small fish or smelt or fry )
Mucho Proteins ( like 24%), just sayin'. No tellin what an animal will do during drought/whatnot.
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