More Little Pigs

[Bfh_auto]

I know, right? I swear, virtually nobody takes the brains anymore and uses them for the tanning of the hides or harvests the hooves and bones for making glue.

I'll provide dead hogs to anyone that wants them. They just need to give me their phone number and I will call them when their pigs are dead and they can meet me at the gate of the property where I am hunting and take possession of a whole hog. I will even help them load the hogs in to their truck. For those who wish, I will brain shoot hogs for people so that they can have more meat. You would be surprised how many folks don't want to be called in the middle of the night for a free dead hog. Some downright resent being awakened. They would prefer that I kill the hog, butcher the hog, dispose of the unwanted parts, bag the good meat, label the bags, and ice down the bagged meat and deliver their bounty to their front porches in ice chests that they can deal with after they get up and have their morning coffee. One guy even wanted me to load his freezer in the garage for him. To heck with that.

My friend's brother delivered the big one Christmas Eve and the little one the following Friday.
This is my freezer with 3 hogs and 5 deer.

 

[Flintknapper]

I know, right? I swear, virtually nobody takes the brains anymore and uses them for the tanning of the hides or harvests the hooves and bones for making glue.

I'll provide dead hogs to anyone that wants them. They just need to give me their phone number and I will call them when their pigs are dead and they can meet me at the gate of the property where I am hunting and take possession of a whole hog. I will even help them load the hogs in to their truck. For those who wish, I will brain shoot hogs for people so that they can have more meat. You would be surprised how many folks don't want to be called in the middle of the night for a free dead hog. Some downright resent being awakened. They would prefer that I kill the hog, butcher the hog, dispose of the unwanted parts, bag the good meat, label the bags, and ice down the bagged meat and deliver their bounty to their front porches in ice chests that they can deal with after they get up and have their morning coffee. One guy even wanted me to load his freezer in the garage for him. To heck with that.

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Tell me about it. And in the Summer months (when hogs might begin to bloat in the first hour) you really have to act fast.

I suppose we are just 'calloused' and have no compassion for our fellow man. What wretched creatures we are.......

 

[jmorris]

I have a buddy coming down wanting to hunt them tonight or I would have dropped the gates on these guys this morning.

 

[Bfh_auto]

I have a buddy coming down wanting to hunt them tonight or I would have dropped the gates on these guys this morning.

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That once being bred means about 11 more coming soon. Too bad they could make something that sterilizes them. If you could just mix it in the food, in a few years, we'd be winning.

 

[troy fairweather]

That once being bred means about 11 more coming soon. Too bad they could make something that sterilizes them. If you could just mix it in the food, in a few years, we'd be winning.

I would think it's possible to sterilize them but there the worry it could go down the food chain lol. massive amount of lead can sterilize them.

 

[jmorris]

Too bad they could make something that sterilizes them. If you could just mix it in the food, in a few years, we'd be winning.

One could say that about a number of things.

 

[Riomouse911]

Yep, our family butchered hogs too.

A few penned up domestic hogs are not a threat to the environment and it's critters. Wild hogs in Oklahoma are an invasive species. They pollute streams and ponds with hog manure, destroy crops, cause erosion, destroy small ground dwelling critters, and the nests of ground dwelling birds. i've caught two large boars killing fawns.


For many years i field stressed and skinned hogs for other folks. Only one recipient of wild pork ever offered to buy corn. Only two people helped check the traps and assist in field dressing/skinning. Folks began to order hogs by size and sex. Finally i had enough: "Self, why should i, an 80 year old man, continue to furnish hogs to ungrateful demanding recipients."

Every year i have two or three hogs processed at my expense, they are donated to the food bank The vast majority of my trapped and hunted hogs are now chunked.

I wish you were closer, my son and I would be happy to buy corn, work the traps, etc. After some got plunked we'd even like to be shown how to skin/butcher them ourselves after we've helped with whatever else needed to be done. Just the thought of having such a hunt experience for him would be payment enough.

Even though they are pests, I do hate to see good meat wasted. Hopefully someone else will step up and help you out.

Stay safe.

 

[jmorris]

A little while ago my phone sent me a photo of some in the trap. Called the trap and dropped the gates, then my neighbor. 15 down, and it looks like the 52gn JHP .223’s are twice as good as the 55 gn FMJ’s he used on the last batch he shot, even at in trap distances.



I thought it was 13 on my phone but I could see one more on a bigger screen and the hold out by the gate must have decided it was safe by the time I connected the call.

 

[alsaqr]

Visited the place yesterday, There had been a rain a couple days before, not one fresh hog track. A friend with a taste for wild pork had hunted there for three days. He effectively eliminated the young pigs and greatly reduced the number of juveniles and adults.