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In the fall and early winter whitetail deer, goose, duck, and turkey
are hunted. But feral hog can be hunted year round. This is because
feral hog are plentiful as well as downright destructive to crops and wildlife habitat.
Feral hog are simply domestic hogs that have escaped and bred with European wild
hog.
A month ago now a friend and I were hunting for hog in 38 degree rainy weather, and he was fortunate enough to bag a 300 lbs. boar. We had to track him into heavy brush in the dark after he was shot, which was scary, but found him within 100 yards. He was a tremendous animal! He was covered with course black hair which also stood straight up on the back of his neck. He had razor sharp tusks (Texas ivory) that were 3 inches in length, making me glad that my friend had not just wounded him. We about wore ourselves out getting him to a place that we could access by truck, but with a little sweat and quite a bit of grunting we got him into the back of it.
Gutting, skinning, and quartering a 300 lbs. animal was a new experience for me and I learned a lot. Unlike domestic pork a feral hog eats acorns and various roots as his primary diet. Therefore there was little to no fat on him. Afterwards we could still hardly lift the ice chest. We carted the quartered hog to the meat processor where my friend gave instructions for the cuts he wanted.
Before you get too put off by all of this remember that this is similar to how all meat was come by back in bible days (but with arrows and spears instead of bullets). Though you might have sheep, goats, or cattle in your backyard, the processing would be about the same. Esau preferred the wild game to domestic.
I hunt with a Marlin 336 lever action rifle in .35 Remington caliber with a 2-7X32 scope.
My back up handgun is a stainless Ruger Super Blackhawk with 4 5/8" barrel in .44 magnum.
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