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Post by 45MAN on Feb 17, 2023 21:37:37 GMT -5
LEAVING CAMP EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE MORNING HUNT AND IN FRONT OF US WAS THAT DIRTY BOAR, WHEN HE GOT OUTSIDE THE CAMP AREA WE COULD HAVE SHOT HIM BUT DID NOT WANT TO HAVE TO RECOVER HIM. I DID NOT SEE ANY IVORY ON HIM BUT THE CAMP SKINNER SAYS HE HAS BIG TEETH ON HIM.
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Post by rangersedge on Feb 18, 2023 22:49:36 GMT -5
I grew up with hogs and cattle. I have never liked nor trusted the hogs.
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Post by gunsbam45 on Feb 19, 2023 17:34:16 GMT -5
I grew up with hogs and cattle. I have never liked nor trusted the hogs. When I was a kid we had cattle and farmed. When I was in 6th or 7th grade we got 40-60 hogs for awhile. I was not allowed in the pens ever. We threw old tires in with them to keep them occupied tearing them up instead of the pens. They literally would devour the tires over a few weeks to a couple months depending on the size of the tire. There's a saying I've heard some folks in my family, and other folks as well around here use when someone didn't show up for something, or they hadn't seen them in awhile. "Well, maybe he went out to take a $#!@ and the hogs ate him." I thought it was just something folks found funny to say when I was a kid but later learned different. If you had free range hogs, the trip to the outhouse when you were down and sick wasn't wise to make alone. |
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Post by bigbrowndog on Feb 19, 2023 18:24:49 GMT -5
The movie SNATCH and the last Silence of the Lambs movie, I think it was called Hannibal, both made reference to that tendency.
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Post by gunsbam45 on Feb 19, 2023 19:00:18 GMT -5
I can't remember for sure now, cus it's been too long, but seems like someone makes a joke about it in Lonesome Dove. I read the book several times when I was younger, and there's a lot in there that didn't make it to the movie, but again, been too long now to remember for sure. Anyway, I'd be lookin for a way to smoke that gut eatin sucker if at all workable. Those are the ones you don't want hangin around.
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 19, 2023 20:39:57 GMT -5
IN CAMP IT HAS NO FEAR OF MAN, NOW, AFTER ALL THE COMMENTS, I KNOW HE NEEDS TO DIE. GOING BACK TO La Chata TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY, WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO.
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Post by bradshaw on Feb 19, 2023 21:12:09 GMT -5
IN CAMP IT HAS NO FEAR OF MAN, NOW, AFTER ALL THE COMMENTS, I KNOW HE NEEDS TO DIE. GOING BACK TO La Chata TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY, WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO. ***** Who knows? He may keep the other hogs in line. He has the look an undertaker. Situation may be less septic with him eating’ cadavers. You shoot him, he may smell worse than he does now. David Bradshaw |
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Post by leftysixgun on Feb 20, 2023 5:54:25 GMT -5
No fear of man is a bad thing! He needs to be taken out one way or another. ESPECIALLY if hes “in camp”.
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 20, 2023 7:40:54 GMT -5
THE GUT PILE PIT IS VERY CLOSE TO AREAS OFTEN FREQUENTED BY THE HUNTERS (WHERE THEY PARK THEIR HUNTING RIGS) AND BY TONY THE CAMP SKINNER. TONY IS NOT ARMED AND, AS FAR AS I KNOW, NONE OF MY LEASE MATES ARE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH A HOG ON SHORT NOTICE AT A SHORT DISTANCE.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Feb 20, 2023 8:13:56 GMT -5
I find the thread funny... I just bought a custom "Meat Eater" brand for branding leather... not tried it out yet... but I have a kinda cool knife for going BBQ... was going to brand it with the Meat Eater brand, & sick a wolf on the sheath...
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Post by bula on Feb 20, 2023 8:47:25 GMT -5
I remember reading books on early frontier days where hogs were ear cropped and turned loose . Older siblings were awakened to accompany the younger ones to the outhouse for safety.
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Post by 45MAN on Feb 22, 2023 21:37:30 GMT -5
CAME TO La Chata THIS MORNING TO HUNT COW NILGAI AND TAKE OUT THE GUT PILE HOG, NO LUCK ON THE NILGAI, TOO LATE ON THE HOG, A LEASE MATE TERMINATED HIM A FEW DAYS AGO. SUPPOSEDLY HAD OUTSTANDING IVORY AND THE HUNTER'S NEPHEW, A TAXIDERMIST, IS GOING TO MOUNT IT.
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Post by jeffh on Feb 26, 2023 15:31:15 GMT -5
I have a buddy who has tried to manage hogs on his Texas property for years. He shoots and leaves an awful lot of them every year, has all the pork in the freezer he cares for and can always get more. But he told me a carcass never lasts more than a few days before the other pigs make them disappear completely. Commented one time you could make a body vanish pretty easily if the need should arise…
There's this saying,....
"Went to take a ____ and th' hogs ate 'im."
Which is a reply to an unwelcome query as to where someone in particular might be - a way of telling an inquiring mind "NUNYA."
EDIT: Well, dangit! I missed that there was a second page when I posted and repeated gunsbama45's comment on that old saying.
My apologies, Sir. I make it a point to read all posts before posting myself, but have missed the fact that there was a second page.
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Post by jfs on Feb 26, 2023 16:03:52 GMT -5
One of the spooky things I`ve seen afield was a boar with his snout covered in blood....
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Post by bigbrowndog on Feb 26, 2023 17:49:30 GMT -5
I recall a video from years ago where a large pig fights and kills another slightly smaller boar, and proceeds to beat him into the mud of a small pond or wallow, to the point of disappearing, rolling on it over and over and beating it into oblivion with his head and tusks. Guessing from memory I’d say the smaller pig was 250-300 pounds and the larger was 350-400.
I’ve never really been concerned about pigs while I’m on hands and knees in the brush looking for wounded or unhurt pigs, nor have I ever actually seen firsthand a charge. Was one pointed at me and ran towards me,….sure, was I charged I don’t believe so. But I still carry a large caliber gun when tracking or scouting.
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