Posted on 12/23/2006 3:55:07 PM PST by Sybeck1
Leni
No sooner do you get back from Reelfoot than you find out you could have been et by a hog.
I use a .45-70 when I boar hunt. For that Hog, I might have to go up to something heavier. Like an RPG or bazooka.
Hey, I live in Tennessee and maybe I can use this to justify moving up to that .50 caliber handgun I've been wanting.
Son of Hogzilla....
Yum. 600 pounds of Pork Chops and Bacon! Enough to keep the muzzies away ...for a while.
Wow, a place where dinner walks onto your property. Sounds like heaven. Think I'll move there.
No, that's a 600 pound B-O-R-E.
Not to discredit your 45-70, and while not a hunter, I was thinking 450 Marlin. An attacking critter of that type is not something to mess with.
Let's hope he soaked those cuts in a big cooler filled with changes of ice and icecream salt until the water ran clear. Otherwise, that meat was rank!
I shot one many years ago while deer hunting in the Suwannee river bottoms. Cooking the meat stank up the house -- and you could forget about eating it...
We trap the young ones here in the Texas Piney Woods, (and treat as above) and they are good eatin'! We just shoot the big'uns...
FWIW, if you think hitting a deer messes up a vehicle, you ought to see what hitting one of these feral hogs does -- total destruction!
Swine are one of those species that as they get older, they continue to increase in size. But swine, for the most part, do not live all that long, and it is a rare thing to see one more than three or four years old at most. Since hogs are raised primarily for the production of pork, and the ideal slaughter size is about 225 pounds, a size most swine reach before six months of age, only a percentage of females and a very few males see even their third birthday. A three-year-old sow may well be over 500 pounds, even after giving birth to five or six litters by then. A 600-pound boar, five or six years old, is not an uncommonly large animal for that age. Sometime around that point, the very large pig will die of some organ failure (heart attacks or stroke are not all that uncommon).
And very large pigs have been known to develop arthritis, go lame, and be unable to move.
"Boar" implies masculinity. "Barrow" would be more accurate.
600-pound bore, is more like it.
Not to discredit your 45-70, and while not a hunter, I was thinking 450 Marlin. An attacking critter of that type is not something to mess with.
Call us crazy,,,there's people here hunt hogs with a knife.
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