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 What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 12:31 AM
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Was in a heated debate with some other hunters on the ethical thing to do once you kill a hog on your property. Please give your thoughts.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:04 AM
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bowhunter42
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Dont waste the time unless thier about 60lbs.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:21 AM
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:25 AM
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Capt. Andrew
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only keep the 5lb-15lbs ones bbq pit size.. the others get eaten by other hogs.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:35 AM
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Mankussm
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60lbs is the limit for me as well. I am all about the bone pile.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:15 AM
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�There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never cared for anything else thereafter.�- Ernest Hemingway
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:23 AM
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Eat every one. To the guys that throw em all away... What do u mix with venison for sausage?
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:35 AM
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:57 AM
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Eat them, feed them to the dogs or leave them lay. Depends on how full my freezer is, how tired I am, what shape the dogs are in, weather, beginning or end of a hunt, how far from the pickup and all that. I've tried donating hogs but even if I do all the work nobody around here will take them.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:59 AM
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keep the occasional and hunt the song dogs off the rest.
Just doing it for fun now.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 05:00 AM
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Eat every one. To the guys that throw em all away... What do u mix with venison for sausage? dont throw em all away, but 99% of em get chunked in the brush. As for what I mix with my sausage, I go buy some pork butt that isnt so lean.... When you kill as many as I have in a short amount of time, you dont really care to clean em all. That and a lot of em are shot at 2 or 3 in the morning... I dont hunt them for the meat, I hunt cuz its fun, it is legal, and they cost us a lot of money....
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 11:00 AM
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eat all or give to a few buddys of mine. if its a big boar ill just drag it away
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 01:25 PM
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I was raised on the old saying "if you shoot them, you eat them" so I always get what I can from them. Raised my son to be the same way when he was at that stage that he wanted to shoot anything that moved. I understand about the damage they do or if you are predator hunting. I guess it is all about what you can live with and still fall asleep at night. BTW - they eat good and cut down on the groceries bill.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 01:33 PM
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Capt. Andrew
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they also cut down on quail, deer, and everything else they eat.. I put down as many as I can
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:39 PM
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I eat and share with family and friends. I used to feed them to my dogs, cooked of course.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:41 PM
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I like to peel out on their heads.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:43 PM
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I like to peel out on their heads.  cook up undesirablae pieces and bones for dogs, make sausage with shoulders and ham and cook the backstraps and tenderloins in the oven.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 02:58 PM
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I hate freezing hog meat....i usually just take the backstraps off the sow and grill one or two the next few nights....cape heads on the big boars....but they get tossed in the summer no dout...pigs and heat dnt mix...they make good yote bait in the middle of a pasture....
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 03:01 PM
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125 or less cut back strap and hind quarters. done in 5 minutes
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 03:26 PM
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Only kill the < 100 pounders for the table.
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE FOR TOMORROW. INVEST IN TOMORROW BY TAKING A CHILD HUNTING OR FISHING TODAY.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 03:28 PM
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I was raised on the old saying "if you shoot them, you eat them" so I always get what I can from them. Raised my son to be the same way when he was at that stage that he wanted to shoot anything that moved. I understand about the damage they do or if you are predator hunting. I guess it is all about what you can live with and still fall asleep at night. BTW - they eat good and cut down on the groceries bill. Did you eat that BOBCAT in your sig 
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:21 PM
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I like to shoot sows up to 100 pounds; I don’t process the boars too nasty for me. My preference is one about 60 pounds nothing better on the grill!
I usually don't even shoot a big hog unless the landowner is having some hog issues.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:30 PM
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I try to shoot every one I see. Save the fatest ones for sausage, sows seem to have mroe fat to me, especialy while prego. I will clean the ones that dont stink to cook the loins, chicken fry the backstrap like deer, make jalapeno and cheese sausage with them and bbq ribs and quarters. Past that we shoot way to many to eat all of them, and we are no where near a place to donate them.
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:31 PM
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I've cleaned and paid for processing, processed myself, and let them lay (when we get a lot of them at one time). I've processed big boars up to 250# and they taste just fine. You have to be carefull when cleaning them, to not cut any glands, stomach, or get the meat dirty.
I have not seen any food banks willing to take pigs. I've tried and asked. Pigs are considered an edible varmint!
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Re: What do you do with the Hogs that you kill?
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10/27/11 04:34 PM
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I guess it is all about what you can live with and still fall asleep at night. I can live with gut shooting the whole herd and letting them run off to die, deads dead but it make the photo op a lil tough Seriously tho, I'll only keep maybe 1 or 2 50 pounders a year... the rest get thrown in the bone yard
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