Mountain Hogs

[Jager]

Last Saturday morning a mate and I headed out for some local hog hunting. I have been working up loads for my 338/06, so was a good hit out for my custom setup. Live pics are not real flash, my camera was playing up.

We went into a gully to check out some rooted up pasture, spotted a mob of 4 and some suckers a few hundred metres off. Getting down wind we stalked right in and watched them for a while, looking for others. The grass was pretty long and the pigs kept dropping into their furrows, so getting good sight pics where we could both shoot at the same time took a bit of waiting. Eventually pork filled both scopes and we dropped pins, cracking both targets, then WWIII began, porkers going everywhere. My mate cracked a big sow way out with his 30/06, and then I spotted this bloke contouring at about 200. I followed him in the crosshairs till he stopped near a lantana bush. The deal was for my mate to shoot a goodun, but it was know or never so I give it to him and down he went.

Always first class hunting when you have deer and pigs in the same country.

 

[muleman]

Now that looks like a lot of fun. How much meat you get off a hog like that?

 

[Spike_Sniper]

Nice hog man! Those cutters are sweet. I can smell the BBQ already.

 

[realunlucky]

That looks like a big hog. Guess your buddy missed or did you the double up?

 

[Shrek]

Nice boar ! I don't think I would have got any meat off that stinking beast but maybe jager knows something about how to make a big boar fit to eat. I've gotten sick from the stench of really smelly boar while trying to cape one out to mount. I ended up pushing the head in the hole we dug along with the rest of him. I've had dogs turn down cooked boar. If you want eating pigs then shoot sows and little boars under about 80-100 lbs. The smell goes away when you chill and process it....and comes back when you cook it. First time I tried it I ended up with all the windows and doors open in the middle of winter. I will admit that the smell of cooking liver will run me off also.

 

[Jager]

Thanks fellas.

You would get approx. 60kg of useable meat of a porker like that. They eat all manner of crap though, including other animal carcasses so they are not the best choice for human consumption, and wild pork certainly gives dogs wind.

We shot 4 all up, my mate nailed the boar in the live pic, but we couldn't find him, as we were pushed for time, so will have a look around soon with a dog and see if we can find him.

Yeah it is plenty of fun alright.