A freeze is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

 Some day I would like to roast a whole small young hog on a spit over a pile of hot post oak coals. Turning it ever so slow until the meat falls off the bones

   I've never ate wild hog although I expect they are no different than other meat,,it's all in how you take care of the meat after the .22 in the center of the head,,,no different than a cow. Of course a tough old,,I mean OLD boar might tend to be a little "tastee"  

 I'll bet one of them yearlings would be many wonderfuls smoked for 10-12 hours,,,,MMmmmmmmmm

     Can't wait to check my trap at first light.

 Yeah,,Hubert,,thas kinda like shootin a deer that has been run all over the mountain dodgin them 30-30 bullets from them curtain climbers that only manage to kill the mountains. One of the boys shot a nice buck one year that we heard all kinds of shootin on the other side of the mountain,,,and when thet poor old Buck came over the ridge,,his tongue was hangin so long he kept trippin over it when Jerry finally shot it. That  thing was so adrenalined up the meat was not fit to eat. The Boys learned a good lesson that day. 

Ken, how difficult is it to skin one out?  Does the hide separate off quite easily?

When I grew up, the domestic hogs were always scalded and the hair scraped off.  Same as Hubert.

Dip them in a barrel or kettle of scalding hot water, works better if you throw a few ashes out of the fireplace in it, and then use something flat like a hoe with a short or no handle to do the scraping. Grandpa had a BIG cast iron kettle built into a brick fire box that worked great. The top was just over knee high and easy to slide a hog off the trailer into the kettle. Had one hog so big that Dad had to use the WD and crane to handle it.

The Huey was what I rode on when I had a "high and tight."

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I remember dad doing hogs.  He got post of boiling water and poured it on the hog.  We didn't really have the resources for a scaldron.  The last one he did was a sow, weighed 400 pounds.  It had a heart attack and fell off the chute when he was loading it to take to the auction barn. 

I remember taking my first wife home for a visit.  About half way down the walk she stopped, turned to me and turned green.  She motioned over her shoulder and there was a half hog hanging from the clothes line pole.  She didn't eat pork for a few years after that.  My dad made the best breakfast sausage I ever ate, and mom made the best donuts in the lard.

    I hear wetting the corn with Diesel keeps the coons out of it.   Pigs don't seem to mind the taste or smell of corn wet with diesel.   Time to try it and see.  I sure hate missing the hogs because they can't get into the trap.

 

    Looking at all the trail cam pics of those hogs on the outside lookin in and thinking so close but so far because of racoons tripping the trap first. 

    I built a 3x3x3 coon catching live trap to keep them from eating the yard cats food. Bait it near the Hog Trap with catfood  and bring them live to the hood . Folks there would rather roast a coon than a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner

  Did Ya ketched em, Ken,,,,???

     Not a good time for me to catch even one.   Got a eye exam set for Monday Morning.

 

      I will set the trap to trip when I get time (and maybe some help standing by) to do the processing.

 

      In the mean time I will pin the gate open and keep the trap baited with corn. Once I get a few to go in and out freely again it should be easy to catch several at a time.

     That's if the Damn Coons quit tripping the trap first.   It may be time to bait the trusty Have A Heart with cat food.  I got pix of 5 coons and 2 possums in and around the trap at the same time. A Red Fox too.  And a just curious Bobcat

 

 

 

Nan I would hate to be around if and when Ken catches some of them pigs.  I m gonna say the the meat may be tainted from that diesel.

And the aroma that may come outta the whatever he squats in just may be too aromatic for the environment. 

Ummmm, maybe a little DEF would do the prep/cleanup.