brant
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Post by brant on Mar 27, 2022 11:57:04 GMT -5
I also agree with the previously mention weight recommendations. And the smaller the better. I seldom shoot boars first if I have a choice and can tell. The 50 and under are my favorite for bring home and cook. They drag and load easier! Even a small one scan be ruined by how you handle cleaning them. I don’t want anything that has touched the hide to touch the meat. That includes my hands and knife so I use 2 knives. And stay away from the bladder and tallywacker! Cut into that and it doesn’t wash off well. Even a little one has stinky pee.
Here we try to kill every pig we see with whatever we have in our hands. It isn’t much of a hunt to it, though we do sometimes hunt them for fun with archery equipment or handguns. So if given a choice I will shoot a small sow over a big riskier boar any day. There are plenty of guys that are trying to kill him.
Funny thing, Every body wants a pig when you are talking about it. That is until it is time to pick it up. Then nobody wants one unless it is cleaned and possibly butchered and in a new yeti ice chest with fresh ice on it and you deliver it to their house. So the buzzards and coyotes get a lot around here, and we keep the choice ones.
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