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simonkenton · February 23, 2010, 01:03 PM

My buddies and I killed over 50 hogs in the swamps in central Georgia back in the eighties.
We processed all that meat ourselves, as the butcher would not take wild hog.
We made sausage with my grinder, we had boneless pork chops, and we smoked many, many hams and shoulders on mesquite or pecan wood.
Most of these hogs were 80 to 200 pounds.
All those hogs were delicious, except one.
That was a monster 450 pound boar that my buddy killed.
One shot in the neck with the 30-06 Winchester Silvertip, the hog dropped.
It was gutted immediately.

That meat was nasty!
The sausage stunk so bad, you couldn't even stand to be in the kitchen while it cooked.
We threw a sausage patty to the dog, he whimpered and ran off, he wouldn't touch it.

We wound up dumping the whole damn hog into a field, I hope it didn't make the buzzards sick.

February 23, 2010, 01:03 PM	#9
simonkenton Senior Member Join Date: April 25, 2008 Posts: 891	My buddies and I killed over 50 hogs in the swamps in central Georgia back in the eighties. We processed all that meat ourselves, as the butcher would not take wild hog. We made sausage with my grinder, we had boneless pork chops, and we smoked many, many hams and shoulders on mesquite or pecan wood. Most of these hogs were 80 to 200 pounds. All those hogs were delicious, except one. That was a monster 450 pound boar that my buddy killed. One shot in the neck with the 30-06 Winchester Silvertip, the hog dropped. It was gutted immediately. That meat was nasty! The sausage stunk so bad, you couldn't even stand to be in the kitchen while it cooked. We threw a sausage patty to the dog, he whimpered and ran off, he wouldn't touch it. We wound up dumping the whole damn hog into a field, I hope it didn't make the buzzards sick.