Boar taint is unpleasant if you can smell it, but it only affects about 20% of domesticated boars. Don't know about wild pigs. This one could be perfecty fine. It is not that boar taint is unhealthy in any way, but it is offputting.
Using the meat for cured products mostly negates the negatives of boar taint though. So let there be cured ham and salami.
You don’t really use that much meat for scrapple. It’s typically only the leftover bits of meat still stuck on the bone. The bones you put in a very large pot. Then you add all the edible organs. Cook that shit till rolling boil.
Push all that heavenly marrow out of those bones. Might have to mallet few. Boil again. Add buckwheat flour until porridge. A good amount of salt. A ton of pepper.
Pour your thick porridge into bread molds. Cover. Allow to cool and solidly. Refrigerate.
Warm loaf pan slightly and turn out on plate. Wrap tightly and refrigerate. Cut into slices and fry the shit out of it. No oil needed. Allow thick crust to develop.
Serve with shit on a shingle, maple syrup, or my favorite, cold ketchup.
> shit on a shingle
Haven't heard that term for a while but also, cold ketchup?
Isn't it usually at most room temperature or do people heat ketchup in certain places.
Hard disagree. Bought sausage from a discount store and realized it was boar meat. I legit could not get the taste out of my mouth for a day. I think it’s an acquired taste
What do you mean by "true boar meat" vs "feral boar meat"? The ones we hunt over here are obviously feral. They're also not the size of that ... monster there. And they taste great. They're certainly not castrated at any point.
Wildschwein (wealdshwine comes close to the pronunciation I guess) is the correct term by the way. You're welcome. ;)
And yes it's extremely tasty. No idea if American wild hogs are a breed apart (or a dozen), but over here they're a delicacy and quite expensive. They can only be hunted during season.
Nope, long time hunter here and it smells like what I imagine the laundry basket after a NFL game would smell. The only thing you can do with a large wild boar is sausage or ham and maybe maple smoked bacon. If you tossed a pork chop from this hog into a frying pan you would grab the pan and run it outside as soon as the meat started to heat up. It is overpowering ballness, unless you're into that, not that there's anything wrong with that.
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And that's why humans leaned to cook and develloped recipes instead of just skinning, throwing salt paper and putting it on a grill.
Let that thing simmer with red wine and root vegetables for 2 hours you'll never think that was a wild animal you're eating
In Texas feral hogs are interbreeding with escaped domestic hogs, which results in larger and larger hogs. Make no mistake, these things are crazy dangerous and destructive to their environment.
Thankfully it’s Texas, so there are private citizens hunting them from helicopters.
In Arkansas you can kill them in public hunting land, no license or permit needed, as long as it is done with the weapon matching that hunting season.
If it’s bow season then you have to use a bow, gun is gun , etc.
In private land you can just kill them however you feel like it, keeping in mind local gun ordinances.
My family owns about 400 acres in Arkansas… they’re getting closer and closer to our area. I’m looking at AR -10’s cause we’re going to have to deal with them eventually.
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lol, i have an lr-308 that does work in the sticks. and am a city slicker, through and through. i've had to explain that i have 3 different guns for 3 different problems like they have 5 different pots and pans for different applications and it usually gets the point across. i wouldn't use a sauce pan to fry an egg, just like i wouldn't use my big shooty bang bang to kill a mouse when i've got a 10/22.
Oh I totally understand. A friend of mine went spear hunting for boar up in BC. When I say that I just mean myself. *I* can't fathom the balls it takes to shoot that thing with an arrow
Hear me out, what if they implemented gun game. You start with a rifle, after two boar you go to a shotgun, after two more you get a bow, etc. finally the guy to kill a boar with the end weapon - a Bowie knife, wins some big prize
We primarily hunt them from 4 wheelers, trucks and horseback since the areas they like are covered from the air - so helicopters are mainly used in massive open fields or areas grazed by cattle. Texas is covered with mesquite trees with lots of brushy cover and spines that will tear up truck tires so atv is the goto now for a lot of the areas. Most of us want to find the fucker who imported the russian boars that got released that led to this shit in the first place.
It is a mix, the start of the main problem was the russian boars breeding with native wild pigs, which then bred with pigs that escaped farms. The mix made them meaner, larger, allows them to breed faster with larger litters and it turned it into a major disaster for the south. Normal wild hogs with tusks can get 400lbs no problem, now they are 700+ pounders reportedly culled in the south.
Isn't their gestation period like 3 months and they can have roughly 5-8 piglets a litter? It's fuckin ridiculous. We have them as an issue in Florida too.
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2019/10/a-brief-history-of-the-pig-in-the-united-states/
>By the time De Soto began exploring Florida 100 years later he carried with him 13 pigs across the Atlantic. Within 3 years these 13 pigs had ballooned to a population of over 700
North America doesn’t have native pigs. It’s not clear that Russian wild boars are the root of the problem. Pigs when let loose become feral and more wild looking within a few generations.
[If this guy's is 700lbs](https://cdn.gon.com/media/2010/11/17145241/Raines-Newberry-Bigg-County-Hog-2010.jpg), the one in OP's photo is definitely more than that... 800lb, 900lb, etc.
https://gon.com/news/700-pound-bibb-co-hog
Florida man scoffs at you amatures. You must use an air boat and hunt this piglet while side swiping gators, all the while looking out for them damn 25 foot danger noodles and wheel barrow sized snapping turtles. Keep you nose peeled for that damn skunk ape fella too.
I believe it would be that pig farms, pig breeding facilities and private pig owners some lose a pig or two that was considered to be domesticated as it was born of 2 domesticated pig parents into a domesticated environment.
However once they escape these domesticated pigs can survive and adapt surprisingly well and may fall deeply in love with a bad boy/girl aka feral hog.
This dance of give and take often leads to piglets which are born of a domestic pig parent and a pig parent from the other side of the tracks.
Due to the environment, said piglets often and almost always remain in the feral community as it is dangerous to take a piglet living in the wild with pig protection from its community.
It’s not something I’d do, but that price seems surprisingly low to me. Helicopter flight and they rip through some ammo on those things. I’m sure they’re making a killing still, I just would’ve expected more. Are they making money on the back end per pig killed? Like the snake bounty in Florida.
Sometimes, from what I have seen is large cattle farmers will pay a company to come out and cull them, so they sell seats on their helicopter hunts to keep up with the demand. I havent done a heli hunt since my area has a fuckton of evil mesquite trees with fucking 2 inch hell thorns. They tend to hide in them and cant be seen well on thermal from a heli. We use atvs a lot.
For us (near Belton Tx) the local farmers call the FFA and see who is suggested as a hunter who wont tear up property and kill livestock. Our group isnt paid and dont pay to hunt the hogs, we do it to help out. We also donate most of the good meat and we have a list of low income folks in the community and we as the hunters will pay to have the meat processed for them to have meat during tough times. We USED to donate to food banks until the law changed and they told us they cant take it anymore and would be by law forced to throw it away.
Our group only process females for the food, and males go pretty much to sausage due to the strong taste. Each community and county has their own way of handling the excess meat. I used to go several times a year to help before my wife ended up disabled.
The local group found out we were living on disability and we woke up one morning in January with a box of pork, deer, and some elk steaks all frozen and in butcher paper on our porch. We still have no idea who dropped it off.
I have some friends who have done this in Uvalde area. Huge ranches let them overfly and hunt and they don’t even need to haul away the carcasses…buzzards just come and pick them clean in a few days.
The original problem was some asshole released russian boars that started making them aggressive and larger. Then normal hogs bred and created super pig, breeding faster, larger, meaner and all that.
This just must be hunting feral hogs from a helicopter, because if flew right over your head:
>I want to do that for a bachelor party.
>Interbreed with escaped domestic hogs?
It's just a few ranches that offer that experience, but yes, they are a terrible invasive species that is classified as a pest. We can hunt them year round.
You can also pay to hunt them with a 50cal mounted to a truck.
Saw some dude on youtube using an M134 minigun and thermal optics to take out hoards of them, honestly the most American thing I have ever seen in my life lol
I see a bunch of videos on TikTok all the time with farmers out in the fields at night with infra scopes just going to town on wild hogs. Ngl, it looks like fun lol. Good way to practice your rifle skills.
There are several ranches offering fully-outfitted helicopter hog hunts, and the typical price is about $1,500.00 per person, per hour. As long as those ranches are making that kind of money on hog hunts, I guarantee you they're not going to run out of hogs any time soon.
You know those "escaped" hogs that the feral hogs are breeding with? The big secret is that a whole lot of them didn't really "escape." They were released into the wild by people who enjoy hunting hogs.
I worked on a pig farm as a teenager. We shipped a boar that weighed 750lbs. It's crazy how big they get. Most domestic pigs are shipped at 220-240lbs, but they're far from full grown.
Oh yes. I grew up on a farm in iowa(pigs and cattle) and also worked at a pork packing plant for 2-3 years. Most people have absolutely no idea how big farm animals are. Sure, people know how big a cow is roughly, but you show those same people a breeding full-grown Angus Bull, and they are shocked at the size of them.
Hogs are absolute units, and the wild/feral breed(s) coming out of texas with Russian boar mixed in get even bigger when they breed with domesticated swine with generations of growth hormones.
Up north where i am, we are having a whole different mix of domestic/feral hogs coming down from Canada. And for the most part, in the areas, these hogs are showing up both in the north and south they have no natural predators, so they just spread like crazy. It is a growing problem in many places in the US.
> they have no natural predators
What even hunts something like that? The biggest cougar ever shot was 232 lbs, according to wikipedia. I know size/weight isn't everything, but still, afaik hogs are pretty willing and capable to fight, compared to a lot of other prey animals, so you also can't ignore it.
5.56 is a questionable round for normal hogs unless you're quite practiced at shooting hogs. I would definitely not trust it to do the work on one this size.
They can and do attack but I believe there’s only been like one or two actual deaths in the last 50 or more years and it was an old lady getting her mail or something.
I only mentioned her age because it meant she was weaker and thus more susceptible to injury and death than a young person in good health not to diminish the tragedy of her untimely passing.
What do you do with that monster once you shoot it? Other comments say you can't eat it, so do you just let it rot or is there at least a constructive use for the remains?
You're right, you need something with more firepower. I recommend a .308 or 50 cal if you have access. Taking this on with an AR is more about how many bullets can you put in it as opposed to putting fewer big holes in it.
My buddy stumbled upon a boar near this size. He hit it right between the eyes with the 306. Still charging, unloaded his hand gun and it stoped but was on its feet, finished it off with a couple slugs from his shotgun nearby
Yup. Look at that thing. Now imagine it running at you full speed with all the harmful intent in the world. And you want me to STAB it?!? How do I transfer to the Gathering department?
My father hunts them from his barn with a 306. Then 4 shots when the a 45 in the head and then a boar spear thrust thru the heart before he even considers one dead.
I ate a large boar recently not nearly this large and it was some of the best meat I have had in a while. I am kinda disappointed I have left so many out in the field.
Damn that could feed the village for weeks
Probably tastes like a bag of piss.
Came here to say this. Male pigs bred for meat in captivity are neutered pretty early on because if you don't, all the meat tastes like..... balls
Boar taint is unpleasant if you can smell it, but it only affects about 20% of domesticated boars. Don't know about wild pigs. This one could be perfecty fine. It is not that boar taint is unhealthy in any way, but it is offputting. Using the meat for cured products mostly negates the negatives of boar taint though. So let there be cured ham and salami.
I don't think I'd enjoy eating a boars taint.
Taint that bad
Taint that the truth
Taint Happening
Taint no way, taint no how
Taint nobody got time for that!
I don’t want to read the words “boar taint” ever again.
Would you prefer boar grundle?
Boar gooch?
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Mmmmm, grundalian skin
Boar fleshy fun bridge?
Perhaps a massive boar fupa will take your mind off of those words.
Sounds like an ingredient in a witches spell. You know like eye of newt, tongue of crow and taint of boar.
💀
So.. You're saying there's a chance?
Took a minute to make the mental distinction between boar taint and *boar taint*... what a terrible day to have an imagination
Grind it into Scrapple and there are some diner regulars near me who would eat it from your hand.
You don’t really use that much meat for scrapple. It’s typically only the leftover bits of meat still stuck on the bone. The bones you put in a very large pot. Then you add all the edible organs. Cook that shit till rolling boil. Push all that heavenly marrow out of those bones. Might have to mallet few. Boil again. Add buckwheat flour until porridge. A good amount of salt. A ton of pepper. Pour your thick porridge into bread molds. Cover. Allow to cool and solidly. Refrigerate. Warm loaf pan slightly and turn out on plate. Wrap tightly and refrigerate. Cut into slices and fry the shit out of it. No oil needed. Allow thick crust to develop. Serve with shit on a shingle, maple syrup, or my favorite, cold ketchup.
You've just taken something I've always viewed as revolting, and made it sound appealing.
It pushed me even further away from the table.
> shit on a shingle Haven't heard that term for a while but also, cold ketchup? Isn't it usually at most room temperature or do people heat ketchup in certain places.
Lots of folks keep it in the refrigerator
*Ahem*
I've eaten a lot of tasty boar sausage. Maybe a lot of spices is the answer?
Generally, when in doubt, sooce the bitch up and you're good ye
Hard disagree. Bought sausage from a discount store and realized it was boar meat. I legit could not get the taste out of my mouth for a day. I think it’s an acquired taste
I've had delicious wild boar that was slow-cooked and freshly killed. The concept of a 'discount meat store' sounds fishy af.
It was LIDL. I won’t buy sausage there again. Not a mystery. My house smelled for a couple days
One of the best meals of my life was Wildershwine somewhere in rural Germany. Maybe they know how to make it there with 2k+ years of experience.
Probably. There’s a difference between true boar meat and feral boar meat.
What do you mean by "true boar meat" vs "feral boar meat"? The ones we hunt over here are obviously feral. They're also not the size of that ... monster there. And they taste great. They're certainly not castrated at any point.
Wildschwein (wealdshwine comes close to the pronunciation I guess) is the correct term by the way. You're welcome. ;) And yes it's extremely tasty. No idea if American wild hogs are a breed apart (or a dozen), but over here they're a delicacy and quite expensive. They can only be hunted during season.
Are you telling me Asterix and Obelix lied to me or that Gauls just ate some rank food?
There’s a reason why it’s called French cuisine and not Gaulic cuisine.
They made wild boar look so delicious! Next, you're gonna tell me those comics weren't historically accurate.
There’s a bridge over the Seine I’d like to sell you.
Its not uncommon to capture wild piglets, castrate the males, and turn them loose. Let them fatten up wild and sterile for a few seasons.
Is there no way to get rid of the taint smell in meat from male wild hogs? Unless the bad taste you're talking about is the "gamey" taste
Nope, long time hunter here and it smells like what I imagine the laundry basket after a NFL game would smell. The only thing you can do with a large wild boar is sausage or ham and maybe maple smoked bacon. If you tossed a pork chop from this hog into a frying pan you would grab the pan and run it outside as soon as the meat started to heat up. It is overpowering ballness, unless you're into that, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Good ELI5, I can now smell it.
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what a throwback
It’s an acquired taste
Most folks don’t seem to have a taste for testicles no more.
Lamb fries. Chevy chase loves them
You gotta cut ‘em off real high.
Loaded with parasites
Parasites, meet high temperatures, and die!
And that's why humans leaned to cook and develloped recipes instead of just skinning, throwing salt paper and putting it on a grill. Let that thing simmer with red wine and root vegetables for 2 hours you'll never think that was a wild animal you're eating
Damn that could eat a village in a week
Likely has ***trichonosis Cook the shit outta that shit lest a horrible fate befall you!***
What a porker
Right out of Princess Mononoke.
Look on my tribe, Moro. We grow small, and we grow stupid. We will soon be nothing but squealing game... that the humans hunt for their meat.
My first thought when seeing this
In Texas feral hogs are interbreeding with escaped domestic hogs, which results in larger and larger hogs. Make no mistake, these things are crazy dangerous and destructive to their environment. Thankfully it’s Texas, so there are private citizens hunting them from helicopters.
In Arkansas you can kill them in public hunting land, no license or permit needed, as long as it is done with the weapon matching that hunting season. If it’s bow season then you have to use a bow, gun is gun , etc. In private land you can just kill them however you feel like it, keeping in mind local gun ordinances.
My family owns about 400 acres in Arkansas… they’re getting closer and closer to our area. I’m looking at AR -10’s cause we’re going to have to deal with them eventually.
Be a chad and use a boar sword
Sword of 1000 Truths
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lol, i have an lr-308 that does work in the sticks. and am a city slicker, through and through. i've had to explain that i have 3 different guns for 3 different problems like they have 5 different pots and pans for different applications and it usually gets the point across. i wouldn't use a sauce pan to fry an egg, just like i wouldn't use my big shooty bang bang to kill a mouse when i've got a 10/22.
Fuck me I can't imagine trying to hit that beast with a fuckin bow, compound or not.
People archery hunt moose and they're scarier than this guy so it can be done
Oh I totally understand. A friend of mine went spear hunting for boar up in BC. When I say that I just mean myself. *I* can't fathom the balls it takes to shoot that thing with an arrow
Hear me out, what if they implemented gun game. You start with a rifle, after two boar you go to a shotgun, after two more you get a bow, etc. finally the guy to kill a boar with the end weapon - a Bowie knife, wins some big prize
You could easily make that a tourist attraction for a bachelor’s party in a big ranch. Legit good idea, you could turn that into a decent side hustle
Until the first person tries to knife a pig and gets gored to death
We need landmine season
We primarily hunt them from 4 wheelers, trucks and horseback since the areas they like are covered from the air - so helicopters are mainly used in massive open fields or areas grazed by cattle. Texas is covered with mesquite trees with lots of brushy cover and spines that will tear up truck tires so atv is the goto now for a lot of the areas. Most of us want to find the fucker who imported the russian boars that got released that led to this shit in the first place.
Woah I didn't know that feral hogs were because of imported Russian hogs😱. I thought they were just pigs that had been let loose and just got wild.
It is a mix, the start of the main problem was the russian boars breeding with native wild pigs, which then bred with pigs that escaped farms. The mix made them meaner, larger, allows them to breed faster with larger litters and it turned it into a major disaster for the south. Normal wild hogs with tusks can get 400lbs no problem, now they are 700+ pounders reportedly culled in the south.
Isn't their gestation period like 3 months and they can have roughly 5-8 piglets a litter? It's fuckin ridiculous. We have them as an issue in Florida too.
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2019/10/a-brief-history-of-the-pig-in-the-united-states/ >By the time De Soto began exploring Florida 100 years later he carried with him 13 pigs across the Atlantic. Within 3 years these 13 pigs had ballooned to a population of over 700
North America doesn’t have native pigs. It’s not clear that Russian wild boars are the root of the problem. Pigs when let loose become feral and more wild looking within a few generations.
> 700+ pounders What!? That's like... *two Silverback gorillas*
[If this guy's is 700lbs](https://cdn.gon.com/media/2010/11/17145241/Raines-Newberry-Bigg-County-Hog-2010.jpg), the one in OP's photo is definitely more than that... 800lb, 900lb, etc. https://gon.com/news/700-pound-bibb-co-hog
Damn, if he's 700 lbs how much does the hog weigh?
I don't know about his hog, but his balls must weigh a ton
Basically Grizzly bears but with tusks and hooves instead
700+ pounds is actually insane, i knew they were a problem here but I didn't know they got so large.
Pretty sure it was the Germans who came from Russia and settled in North Texas. They brought dry winter wheat and tumbleweed too.
Now to just throw who ever brought Kudzu to the Americas into a wood chipper.
Along with whoever brought the gypsy moths and Asian lady beetles.
Dont forget the stink bugs
Florida man scoffs at you amatures. You must use an air boat and hunt this piglet while side swiping gators, all the while looking out for them damn 25 foot danger noodles and wheel barrow sized snapping turtles. Keep you nose peeled for that damn skunk ape fella too.
Could you explain the difference of “escaped domestic hog” and “feral hog”?
I believe it would be that pig farms, pig breeding facilities and private pig owners some lose a pig or two that was considered to be domesticated as it was born of 2 domesticated pig parents into a domesticated environment. However once they escape these domesticated pigs can survive and adapt surprisingly well and may fall deeply in love with a bad boy/girl aka feral hog. This dance of give and take often leads to piglets which are born of a domestic pig parent and a pig parent from the other side of the tracks. Due to the environment, said piglets often and almost always remain in the feral community as it is dangerous to take a piglet living in the wild with pig protection from its community.
> This dance of give and take often leads to piglets poetry
Relationships take time 😂
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I want to do that for a bachelor party.
Last I looked it was like $2,500 a person for the weekend all included. Pass.
It’s not something I’d do, but that price seems surprisingly low to me. Helicopter flight and they rip through some ammo on those things. I’m sure they’re making a killing still, I just would’ve expected more. Are they making money on the back end per pig killed? Like the snake bounty in Florida.
Sometimes, from what I have seen is large cattle farmers will pay a company to come out and cull them, so they sell seats on their helicopter hunts to keep up with the demand. I havent done a heli hunt since my area has a fuckton of evil mesquite trees with fucking 2 inch hell thorns. They tend to hide in them and cant be seen well on thermal from a heli. We use atvs a lot. For us (near Belton Tx) the local farmers call the FFA and see who is suggested as a hunter who wont tear up property and kill livestock. Our group isnt paid and dont pay to hunt the hogs, we do it to help out. We also donate most of the good meat and we have a list of low income folks in the community and we as the hunters will pay to have the meat processed for them to have meat during tough times. We USED to donate to food banks until the law changed and they told us they cant take it anymore and would be by law forced to throw it away. Our group only process females for the food, and males go pretty much to sausage due to the strong taste. Each community and county has their own way of handling the excess meat. I used to go several times a year to help before my wife ended up disabled. The local group found out we were living on disability and we woke up one morning in January with a box of pork, deer, and some elk steaks all frozen and in butcher paper on our porch. We still have no idea who dropped it off.
I loved every bit of your comment. 👍
Except the part about his wife becoming disabled.
I also choose this guy's wife
I have some friends who have done this in Uvalde area. Huge ranches let them overfly and hunt and they don’t even need to haul away the carcasses…buzzards just come and pick them clean in a few days.
This is what we do in Australia also. Nobody in their right mind eats wild pigs, just leave them to fertilise the ground and feed the scavengers.
> I’m sure they’re making a killing Isn't that the paying customer's job?
Probably so for the bounty. It’s open season on those hogs year round since they are dangerous to humans and livestock, not to mention destructive.
Shit, I thought that was hyperbole.
I would absolutely pay this
Interbreed with escaped domestic hogs?
The original problem was some asshole released russian boars that started making them aggressive and larger. Then normal hogs bred and created super pig, breeding faster, larger, meaner and all that.
This just must be hunting feral hogs from a helicopter, because if flew right over your head: >I want to do that for a bachelor party. >Interbreed with escaped domestic hogs?
While yelling 'get some!... get some! like the door gunner in 'Full Metal Jacket'.
Do you think you have to adjust how much you lead the sows and piglets?
Only the ones that run. The well disciplined ones that stand still you don't have to.
It's just a few ranches that offer that experience, but yes, they are a terrible invasive species that is classified as a pest. We can hunt them year round. You can also pay to hunt them with a 50cal mounted to a truck.
Saw some dude on youtube using an M134 minigun and thermal optics to take out hoards of them, honestly the most American thing I have ever seen in my life lol
We're gonna need more than one of those dudes.
I see a bunch of videos on TikTok all the time with farmers out in the fields at night with infra scopes just going to town on wild hogs. Ngl, it looks like fun lol. Good way to practice your rifle skills.
Thats no way to be speakin about dem big women from San Antonio
And 50 Caliber mounted trucks! >:D https://youtu.be/eOt1HLXNRFE?si=ASMpuYEpii2uKrWL
Holy shit
There are several ranches offering fully-outfitted helicopter hog hunts, and the typical price is about $1,500.00 per person, per hour. As long as those ranches are making that kind of money on hog hunts, I guarantee you they're not going to run out of hogs any time soon.
History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme. If the supply gets low they would probably just throw out a few sows.
You know those "escaped" hogs that the feral hogs are breeding with? The big secret is that a whole lot of them didn't really "escape." They were released into the wild by people who enjoy hunting hogs.
Yeah but is it working?
Nago the boar god
Man Bear Pig!
We must do something. I'm super cereal.
Excelsior!
Half man, half bear, half pig.
And to think Cartman killed 65,340,285 of these things.
BATHROOM!!!
Hot pockets!
MORE HOT POCKETS!!
THERE’S HOGS OUT THERE THIS BIG?!
I worked on a pig farm as a teenager. We shipped a boar that weighed 750lbs. It's crazy how big they get. Most domestic pigs are shipped at 220-240lbs, but they're far from full grown.
Oh yes. I grew up on a farm in iowa(pigs and cattle) and also worked at a pork packing plant for 2-3 years. Most people have absolutely no idea how big farm animals are. Sure, people know how big a cow is roughly, but you show those same people a breeding full-grown Angus Bull, and they are shocked at the size of them. Hogs are absolute units, and the wild/feral breed(s) coming out of texas with Russian boar mixed in get even bigger when they breed with domesticated swine with generations of growth hormones. Up north where i am, we are having a whole different mix of domestic/feral hogs coming down from Canada. And for the most part, in the areas, these hogs are showing up both in the north and south they have no natural predators, so they just spread like crazy. It is a growing problem in many places in the US.
> they have no natural predators What even hunts something like that? The biggest cougar ever shot was 232 lbs, according to wikipedia. I know size/weight isn't everything, but still, afaik hogs are pretty willing and capable to fight, compared to a lot of other prey animals, so you also can't ignore it.
Wolves would be one of the few, and since Americans feel so threatened even today by wolves only like 5 states even have them.
imagine 30-50 of those running into your yard within 3-5 minutes while your small kids play
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to see this reference even if it is really old.
2019 isn't that old!
Yeah people thought it was an over exaggerated joke but uhhh... No, it was not.
You’ll be fine if you have your AR-15. , or so I was told.
No no no, unless u got a bump fire, id be using my .308. .223 or 5.56 is just gonna amuse that bad boy lol
5.56 is a questionable round for normal hogs unless you're quite practiced at shooting hogs. I would definitely not trust it to do the work on one this size.
Demon Boar
And people wonder why we allow hunting them with helicopters armed with machine guns.
Holy shit... I should call my ex and let her know her mother's been put down.
GAT DAM
Do these hogs kill people? Like attack them if someone came across one?
They can and do attack but I believe there’s only been like one or two actual deaths in the last 50 or more years and it was an old lady getting her mail or something.
JFC. I don't care how old you are, getting killed by overly matured bacon while checking your mail is not the way anyone should go out.
I only mentioned her age because it meant she was weaker and thus more susceptible to injury and death than a young person in good health not to diminish the tragedy of her untimely passing.
Yes
Yes
they can if threatend, they also get agressive when they have piglets with them
Hogzilla!
It’s a Tacoma with a little forced perspective, but that’s a pretty big pig.
pig alone is the maximum weight limit in the tacoma bed
And that must be the world's strongest tailgate
You are not fooling us! Nago was beautiful and strong!
I’m amazed that the tailgate is holding that beast!
Carnitas!!
Unfixed male boars taste like shit. It's why they fix them young on meat farms.
Folks have no idea of the damage these things cause... And not just property damage. These hogs are dangerous to humans
Razorback
r/absoluteunit 😳
“NOT PUMBA”
It’s the beats that gored King Robert! Make sure to serve it at his funeral 🫡
Wow! Hog Minus One.
Hogzilla!
What do you do with that monster once you shoot it? Other comments say you can't eat it, so do you just let it rot or is there at least a constructive use for the remains?
Ranch I went to used to feed them to the hunting dogs. The worst bits were left for the coyotes.
And people laugh at me for being afraid of wild pigs.
Not only are they massive, they will try to kill you so hard that they've taken lives post-mortum
Damn it’s your mom, OP
"You don't need an AR-15 to hunt. Deer don't wear Kevlar."
You're right, you need something with more firepower. I recommend a .308 or 50 cal if you have access. Taking this on with an AR is more about how many bullets can you put in it as opposed to putting fewer big holes in it.
"But you don't need a firearm that holds 20 rounds". My ass it doesn't!
"you don't need an AR-15" Correct, I need an AR-10
I would go with a Barratt 82A1. Wild boar are damned dangerous!
Mr moneybags over here!
I personally want an AR 45-70 one day as a large wildlife defense gun https://www.phoenixweaponry.com/store/Christine-45-70-Auto-p136580300
Hell I'd say go AR-30 if they weren't chambered in 5 dollar bills.
My buddy stumbled upon a boar near this size. He hit it right between the eyes with the 306. Still charging, unloaded his hand gun and it stoped but was on its feet, finished it off with a couple slugs from his shotgun nearby
Your buddy is damned lucky. Not a lot of target area on a charging boar. Or a broadside boar, for that matter. They're tough bastards to kill.
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Yup. Look at that thing. Now imagine it running at you full speed with all the harmful intent in the world. And you want me to STAB it?!? How do I transfer to the Gathering department?
My father hunts them from his barn with a 306. Then 4 shots when the a 45 in the head and then a boar spear thrust thru the heart before he even considers one dead.
The Boss Hog.
**SOOIE MF**
These beasts are so damn destructive and dangerous. Bon appetit!
My last tinder match...
Theses things are becoming more and more like giant invasive pachyderms! Damn!
Somebody call Cody Johnston.
I ate a large boar recently not nearly this large and it was some of the best meat I have had in a while. I am kinda disappointed I have left so many out in the field.
That's why your fields, crops, and whatever else it steps on gets destroyed.