Anybody cook a whole hog?

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If you can get your hands on a 30-40lb pig(let) they are pretty delicious. One of the awsome results of working to eradicate feral hogs from conservation land is that all hogs are to be shot on site, regardless of size. They breed so quickly that even just a couple little ones getting away means a whole pile more in just a matter of months.

I've had just as many that were poorly smoked as done correctly, but if you can figure it out it is worth the effort!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLv5fmW0Al4

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When we were doing AFF classes for big groups of Japanese we'd always have a big banquet on their final night. (No, not before their first jump, LOL.)

One time we decided to do up a hog. A local jumper assured me he knew a farmer and we could get a good sized one for a song. When we got to the place I was expecting it to be all packaged up but the truth of it was quite a bit different.

"Sure thing, ya'all go up to the big pen and pick one out. Did you bring a gun?"

"Ah, no."

"Okay, use this," he said handing me a 357 magnum and six rounds and he warned me, "hit 'em square between the eyes or he won't go down."

As we drove up to the big pen I handed the pistol over. "This was your idea," I said, "you shoot him."

"All right, I'll shoot 'em, but you pick out the one."

So now I'm looking at five or six 400 pound hogs. I felt like that guy picking out Jews train-side. "The big one," I said, "no wait, the small one," dammit I thought, "just kill one already!"

And oh boy, it didn't go well. It took four rounds to the head and that hog squealed like a human being the whole time. By the time we hung him up back at the DZ and dressed him out I never wanted to eat pork ever again. Our quests loved it, and probably won't forget it. But neither will I. The smell of bacon makes me wretch now . . .

NickD

We had a pig roast back in Missouri, that the pig was killed in the back or a pickup with high sidewalls on it, By a drunk biker using a knife....It made one hell of a noise, the biker required stitches!

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Thanks for posting. That video is the perfect example of how a bunch of idiots can impact the opinion outsiders have of an activity quite unfairly to people that do it in a far more respectable manner. I've been out with several people that hunt with dogs, all of whom ran far more professional operations than that. Each dog was trained for a specific task, it was quick and a very clean kill. No hog tying, etc. and the pig was almost always dispatched within about 30 seconds of the dogs getting to it (which is about as quickly as the humans could catch up). Somebody is bound to get killed (or bit by their own untrained freakin dog) in a mess like that!

I decided after observing a few times that hunting with dogs isn't for me, but I hate that people see a video like that and form an opinion about anyone that might hunt in that fashion when these guys are providing a HORRIBLE example.

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