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2020-04-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

East Texas Hog Hunting In The Time Of Coronavirus

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 01:08|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Or you can sit on the patio drinking beer, and when the IR motion sensors go off, shoot them in the head with your sidearm.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 01:46|| 2020-04-28 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Roast boar: yum.
Sanglier: Obelisk & Asterix's favorite

Posted by Lex 2020-04-28 01:49|| 2020-04-28 01:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently there will NOT be a pork shortage for some folks in Texas. I wonder if Javelinas taste any good?

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-28 03:32|| 2020-04-28 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 If you plan to eat what you kill, which I always do, a 165-pounder is about as large a one as you’d ever want to shoot. The big boars are simply too tough, the meat too gamey to be any good. Even the juveniles need to be slow-cooked, which is what we did with the small hog that very night back at camp.

We butchered the sow and split it three ways, and now my freezer is full of frozen pork. That’s the best possible ending to any hog hunting trip, but especially a hog hunting trip during a pandemic.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-28 07:15|| 2020-04-28 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I got some buddies that hunt 'em with short spears and knives.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2020-04-28 07:32|| 2020-04-28 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ I had you pegged as having such buddies :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 07:34|| 2020-04-28 07:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I used to date a lady who used a bowie knife to kill a wild boar

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-04-28 09:14|| 2020-04-28 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ What a dame! How could you let her go?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-28 09:18|| 2020-04-28 09:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Because he didn't want to be next?

Posted by Raj 2020-04-28 09:53|| 2020-04-28 09:53|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Because, well I'd be afraid to accidently piss a woman like that off.

There are so many of them at a distance handguns rather limited Skid. Ted Nugent helicopter hunting is about the only way to a mass kill.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-28 09:59|| 2020-04-28 09:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Ted got Pig Scratch Fever?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-28 10:27|| 2020-04-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

#12 I wish I could still do this stuff. Used to, loved it.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-28 10:58|| 2020-04-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#13 The meat is too tough and gamey to make sausage or Bresaola ?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-28 11:35|| 2020-04-28 11:35|| Front Page Top

#14 There are so many of them at a distance handguns rather limited Skid.

They come into my yard for a spring grub feast. They tear into the nests then make piggy spas in the wet soil. 12 water filled holes last count, 4-20 feet wide, 2-3 feet deep.

Plain old Ruger 6" 44mag with 240gr softpoints.

It's rare to spearhunt without dogs. Bad enough mine chase the horses. I don't want them torn-up or killed cornering a pig.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 12:06|| 2020-04-28 12:06|| Front Page Top

#15 25-75 paces from my outdoor kitchen and cooler.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 12:09|| 2020-04-28 12:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Two handed grip with a two knee bipod, from the lawn chair Mike.
Derived from Lawnsteel shooting.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 12:28|| 2020-04-28 12:28|| Front Page Top

#17 Thanks Skid. :)

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-28 15:20|| 2020-04-28 15:20|| Front Page Top

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