hobbeeman
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Got our first hog the other day, did not want to miss so my son and I counted down 3, 2, 1..BOOM! Hog went about 30 yards and fell over.
I recovered 2 bullets from the hog while cleaning it...both entered the chest on the right side, about 3 inches apart! My son was shooting an older Savage 30.06 with an old Ultralux 3-9 scope and I was using a nice new Weatherby Mark V .308 with a Swift 8-32 (x50?) scope, both were set on the lowest magnification, just like we'd practiced.
We had been to the range two days before, sighting in my handloads for both of our rifles at 200 yards, and it really paid off for us. This piggy was at about 175 yards about 30 minutes after we could no longer see the sun in the canyon, and weighed in at over 300lbs, yeilding about 125 lbs of meat cuts and sausage. I have already tried the sausage and it was the mildest tasting meat I have brought home.
I attribute this excellent flavor to several factors: shot placement did not rupture any intestinal contents; the pig did not run far after being shot; I carefully cleaned the hog without puncturing the bladder or stomach or bowel; and we had it on ice within 2-3 hours after shooting it. We had to keep it on ice over Sunday, because our processor was not open, but we kept the ice from melting with the truck parked in the shade (and the temp that day stayed in the 70's).
I was surprised by the amount of fat on this hog. The processor was actually able to trim around the bullet holes and get us about 4 lbs of bacon.
We had a great weekend, with our pig, 2 jakes and one nice Tom.
FYI: Wild turkey is awesome, fried with a little flour, salt and pepper! Even the giblets!
I recovered 2 bullets from the hog while cleaning it...both entered the chest on the right side, about 3 inches apart! My son was shooting an older Savage 30.06 with an old Ultralux 3-9 scope and I was using a nice new Weatherby Mark V .308 with a Swift 8-32 (x50?) scope, both were set on the lowest magnification, just like we'd practiced.
We had been to the range two days before, sighting in my handloads for both of our rifles at 200 yards, and it really paid off for us. This piggy was at about 175 yards about 30 minutes after we could no longer see the sun in the canyon, and weighed in at over 300lbs, yeilding about 125 lbs of meat cuts and sausage. I have already tried the sausage and it was the mildest tasting meat I have brought home.
I attribute this excellent flavor to several factors: shot placement did not rupture any intestinal contents; the pig did not run far after being shot; I carefully cleaned the hog without puncturing the bladder or stomach or bowel; and we had it on ice within 2-3 hours after shooting it. We had to keep it on ice over Sunday, because our processor was not open, but we kept the ice from melting with the truck parked in the shade (and the temp that day stayed in the 70's).
I was surprised by the amount of fat on this hog. The processor was actually able to trim around the bullet holes and get us about 4 lbs of bacon.
We had a great weekend, with our pig, 2 jakes and one nice Tom.
FYI: Wild turkey is awesome, fried with a little flour, salt and pepper! Even the giblets!