I thought wooly mammoths were extinct???

Keg · March 7, 2012, 11:31 PM

Not sure if this is the same hog on the game cam....

Keg · March 7, 2012, 11:42 PM

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Deja vu · March 7, 2012, 11:49 PM

that is a crazy pig. Never seen hair like that on a hog... but I dont have much experience with pigs.

Keg · March 7, 2012, 11:55 PM

This was a strange lookin pig...Extremely hairy..huge head..and strange shaped ears.....

**Art Eatman** · March 8, 2012, 12:15 AM

Looks like it really had reverted to "native wild" genetics of centuries gone by.

PoorRichRichard · March 8, 2012, 12:22 AM

All I see is bacon...

farmerboy · March 8, 2012, 12:56 AM

If it aint the same one, you probably have 80 more running around just like it pretty close.

Rifleman1776 · March 8, 2012, 10:37 AM

Nothing unusual there, feral hog. Needs shooting.

Rembrandt · March 8, 2012, 08:57 PM

Looks like a cross between a Schnauzer and a Duroc....

Keg · March 8, 2012, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Looks like a cross between a Schnauzer and a Duroc....

Yep....LOL

Kreyzhorse · March 11, 2012, 07:24 PM

That is a wooly critter indeed.

grubbylabs · March 11, 2012, 07:57 PM

Just in case you should freeze him after skinning and send him over to me so I can turn him all into bratwursts and make sure it is pig.

Keg · March 11, 2012, 08:52 PM

Grubby..we don't worry with the big pigs...We only eat smaller ones....Most of these bigger boars smell really bad....Wild pig does make good BBQ....

OEF-Vet · March 11, 2012, 08:54 PM

That's one ugly critter.

farmerboy · March 13, 2012, 09:51 AM

Yea, I laughed when I read about eating this one too. Yea Id send him too you so you could eat him. Your house would smell for a month afterwards. hehe! If theyre over about 130 pounds I dont mess with em.

zippy13 · March 13, 2012, 12:30 PM

Keg, is there a Rogaine factory anywhere near you?

BIG P · March 15, 2012, 11:55 AM

Thats the way I like to see them right there.That high speed lead poison is the ticket, good job.

Shotgun693 · March 15, 2012, 02:48 PM

Some places in East Texas they trap Boars, nut'm, cut the tails off and set'm free. After awhile the meat is good and they tend to put on more weight. You see one with a docked tail you know he's a good eating pig.

rickyrick · March 15, 2012, 04:41 PM

They should be shot on sight.

armoredman · March 15, 2012, 04:43 PM

Can't donate the meat to some local homeless shelter? Double duty, feed the poor, and entice them to move on.

rickyrick · March 15, 2012, 04:53 PM

That's a little easier said than done, kinda hard at 2:00 am.

Sometimes you have a willing recipient lined up and they change their minds when you call.

Same thing with trapped hogs, I will hold them live for a few hours for people, but then its lights out. If the weather is too hot I will kill them, I won't leave them in the heat.
Regardless of the final disposition, they will die before leaving my custody. I do make reasonable efforts to give them away, but in the end...they will die.

L_Killkenny · March 16, 2012, 04:08 PM

I didn't open the link, I've seen way too many pics of my mother in law.

LK

Grant D · March 16, 2012, 04:14 PM

A friend of mine that has a ranch in South Texas donates the meat to the locals. He say's it keeps them from rustling his cattle. And he get's a lot of pork tamales!

Slopemeno · March 16, 2012, 04:17 PM

Back when I was 'smithing I had a local state hunter who was hired to clear a local state park of a huge herd of feral pigs. He used a Ruger Super Blackhawk in .44 mag shooting SSK 325 grain bullets at 1400 fps... ouch. He asked me to de-horn the bottom of the hammer as it was tearing up his hand.

He carried a SBH as the pigs loved to get into the networks of manzanita and madrone and a person had to go in on hands and knees to get in there. He said his load shot all the way through the 300 pounders from any angle.

He lined up the local Catholic Worker Kitchen and delivered pick-up truck full loads of them till the park was cleared out.

Keg · March 16, 2012, 04:19 PM

Killkenny.......hahaaaa

Grant..I would like to find someone local to make me a deal on pork tamales....

March 7, 2012, 11:49 PM	#3
Deja vu Senior Member Join Date: March 14, 2010 Location: Border of Idaho & Montana Posts: 1,750	that is a crazy pig. Never seen hair like that on a hog... but I dont have much experience with pigs. __________________ Shot placement is everything! I would rather take a round of 50BMG to the foot than a 22short to the base of the skull. all 21 of my guns are 45/70 govt 357 mag, 22 or 12 ga... I believe in keeping it simple

March 7, 2012, 11:55 PM	#4
Keg Senior Member Join Date: February 13, 2011 Location: Freestone County, Texas Posts: 865	This was a strange lookin pig...Extremely hairy..huge head..and strange shaped ears..... __________________ Hog Hunters never die........They just reload.........

March 8, 2012, 12:15 AM	#5
Art Eatman Staff Lead Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX, USA Posts: 20,929	Looks like it really had reverted to "native wild" genetics of centuries gone by. __________________ You're from BATFE? Come right in! I use all your fine products!

March 11, 2012, 07:24 PM	#11
Kreyzhorse Senior Member Join Date: April 12, 2006 Location: NKY Posts: 10,808	That is a wooly critter indeed. __________________ "He who laughs last, laughs dead." Homer Simpson

March 11, 2012, 07:57 PM	#12
grubbylabs Senior Member Join Date: October 11, 2009 Location: Hansen Idaho Posts: 1,366	Just in case you should freeze him after skinning and send him over to me so I can turn him all into bratwursts and make sure it is pig. __________________ * (Swinging club) Whack! whack! whack! * Nope, the old nag's still dead . (Capt Charlie)

March 8, 2012, 12:22 AM	#6
PoorRichRichard Senior Member Join Date: April 13, 2011 Location: San Berdoo Posts: 262	All I see is bacon...

March 8, 2012, 12:56 AM	#7
farmerboy Junior member Join Date: May 16, 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 1,343	If it aint the same one, you probably have 80 more running around just like it pretty close.

March 8, 2012, 10:37 AM	#8
Rifleman1776 Senior Member Join Date: April 25, 2010 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,834	Nothing unusual there, feral hog. Needs shooting.

March 8, 2012, 08:57 PM	#9
Rembrandt Senior Member Join Date: August 10, 2002 Posts: 1,794	Looks like a cross between a Schnauzer and a Duroc....

March 11, 2012, 08:52 PM	#13
Keg Senior Member Join Date: February 13, 2011 Location: Freestone County, Texas Posts: 865	Grubby..we don't worry with the big pigs...We only eat smaller ones....Most of these bigger boars smell really bad....Wild pig does make good BBQ.... __________________ Hog Hunters never die........They just reload......... Last edited by Keg; March 11, 2012 at 08:59 PM.

March 11, 2012, 08:54 PM	#14
OEF-Vet Senior Member Join Date: October 23, 2011 Location: Backwoods, PA Posts: 265	That's one ugly critter. __________________ Jim "If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton Jr

March 13, 2012, 09:51 AM	#15
farmerboy Junior member Join Date: May 16, 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 1,343	Yea, I laughed when I read about eating this one too. Yea Id send him too you so you could eat him. Your house would smell for a month afterwards. hehe! If theyre over about 130 pounds I dont mess with em.

March 13, 2012, 12:30 PM	#16
zippy13 Senior Member Join Date: August 23, 2008 Location: SoCal Posts: 6,281	Keg, is there a Rogaine factory anywhere near you?

March 15, 2012, 11:55 AM	#17
BIG P Senior Member Join Date: July 8, 2010 Location: North Georgia Posts: 1,460	Thats the way I like to see them right there.That high speed lead poison is the ticket, good job.

March 15, 2012, 02:48 PM	#18
Shotgun693 Senior Member Join Date: September 3, 2011 Location: Poteet, Texas Posts: 959	Some places in East Texas they trap Boars, nut'm, cut the tails off and set'm free. After awhile the meat is good and they tend to put on more weight. You see one with a docked tail you know he's a good eating pig.

March 15, 2012, 04:41 PM	#19
rickyrick Senior Member Join Date: March 15, 2010 Location: Mesquite Jungle Desert, West Texas, USA Posts: 2,278	They should be shot on sight. __________________ *Navin R. Johnson*: "He hates these cans!!!! Stay away from the cans!!!!"

March 15, 2012, 04:43 PM	#20
armoredman Senior Member Join Date: May 22, 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 3,385	Can't donate the meat to some local homeless shelter? Double duty, feed the poor, and entice them to move on. __________________ http://czfirearms.us/ same original CZForum, new location.

March 15, 2012, 04:53 PM	#21
rickyrick Senior Member Join Date: March 15, 2010 Location: Mesquite Jungle Desert, West Texas, USA Posts: 2,278	That's a little easier said than done, kinda hard at 2:00 am. Sometimes you have a willing recipient lined up and they change their minds when you call. Same thing with trapped hogs, I will hold them live for a few hours for people, but then its lights out. If the weather is too hot I will kill them, I won't leave them in the heat. Regardless of the final disposition, they will die before leaving my custody. I do make reasonable efforts to give them away, but in the end...they will die. __________________ *Navin R. Johnson*: "He hates these cans!!!! Stay away from the cans!!!!"

March 16, 2012, 04:08 PM	#22
L_Killkenny Senior Member Join Date: February 2, 2007 Location: Iowa Posts: 2,549	I didn't open the link, I've seen way too many pics of my mother in law. LK

March 16, 2012, 04:14 PM	#23
Grant D Senior Member Join Date: August 14, 2011 Location: Brazos County, Texas Posts: 547	A friend of mine that has a ranch in South Texas donates the meat to the locals. He say's it keeps them from rustling his cattle. And he get's a lot of pork tamales!

March 16, 2012, 04:17 PM	#24
Slopemeno Senior Member Join Date: January 19, 2007 Posts: 2,109	Back when I was 'smithing I had a local state hunter who was hired to clear a local state park of a huge herd of feral pigs. He used a Ruger Super Blackhawk in .44 mag shooting SSK 325 grain bullets at 1400 fps... ouch. He asked me to de-horn the bottom of the hammer as it was tearing up his hand. He carried a SBH as the pigs loved to get into the networks of manzanita and madrone and a person had to go in on hands and knees to get in there. He said his load shot all the way through the 300 pounders from any angle. He lined up the local Catholic Worker Kitchen and delivered pick-up truck full loads of them till the park was cleared out.

March 16, 2012, 04:19 PM	#25
Keg Senior Member Join Date: February 13, 2011 Location: Freestone County, Texas Posts: 865	Killkenny.......hahaaaa Grant..I would like to find someone local to make me a deal on pork tamales.... __________________ Hog Hunters never die........They just reload.........