The Joy of Getting a Pig

[lmjpsl]

After years of hunting for pigs, we mostly came back skunked. However, when the upside of hunting occurs, there is the joy of reaping the benefits. It's not just the getting of game but also the joy of hanging out with your sons and friends. For me, I also like the preparation and cooking of the game. I have made some excellent flavored sausages (I like the spicy ones), red beans and rice with the smoked hamhocks, and stuffed jalapeno peppers with the meat from these pigs. My sons really like the tenderloin portions.

Besides the pictures of successful kills on this hunt in Mendocino County, I am including a video in which we could enjoy just seeing pigs without the strong desire to get one. We could pass on these because we already had two pigs for the day.

YouTube - Wild boars 2010 10 23 14 00 15

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A major point to learn from this hunt is not to give up hope of one day finding the game. It didn't happen overnight for us. We have enjoyed the other things that come along with hunting.

 

[vpc209]

wow...great job....congrats!!!!!!!!!!

 

[zweeterpan]

Wow! That's pretty sweet. Good job!

 

[Krisdude]

nice , way to go getting the pork it took me a few years to get one my self, went all over on hunts till I got a chance to go a mile from my house on privet property for one good job

 

[BelchFire]

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However, when the upside of hunting occurs, there is the joy of reaping the benefits. It's not just the getting of game but also the joy of hanging out with your sons and friends.

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We have enjoyed the other things that come along with hunting.

This is the part that PETA PITA doesn't understand; there's SO much more to hunting than the kill. If it was only for the kill, then shooting fish in a barrel would be fun, but it's not.

KUDOS, man! That sounds like it was awesome. :smiley-mouse:

 

[Caviel]

Great hunt!

 

[k_rad]

Try an Oso Bucco recipe with-out the beef bullion for the stock, instead us a chicken stock. It is the bomb for wild pig...

 

[chefdave22]

+1 what K_rad said, but use veal stock....waaaayyyy harder to come by, but worth every penny if you find it. Chicken stock will totally work though.

 

[cheta]

Wow sounds like a great day in the woods.

 

[lmjpsl]

I've never tried Oso Bucco before but I will give it a try one day. I like preparing my meat myself and not sending it to a butcher. Once I'm home with the meat (even for deer), I cure it in icey water with curing salt and brown sugar for a couple of days in my big fishing cooler. I like smoking the hams from which I make sandwich meat and hamhocks. I use the hamhocks for a variety of dishes like red beans and rice as well as collard greens. I make sausages and ground meat from the rump, shoulder and flank. I make sausage varieties like apple, garlic, spicy, and extra spicy that I infuse with habanero peppers. Along with other wild game I get, I put it all together to make an "off the hook" gumbo.

 

[Kentuck]

Man that video made me want to go out and get my bow!

Private or public land?

 

[lmjpsl]

Kentuck, it was private land. It took us a long time to find some decent private land where we don't have to pay.

On another note, there were thousands of yellow jacket bees around and on the carcass. They crawled all over me so that I thought they didn't sting. However, I squeezed one of them against the meat and it got me. I thought I had mistakenly cut my finger off. Is there a remedy to shew the yellow jackets away?

 

[justjeff1982]

My Grandma would use spray starch not bad for you and it makes them easier to deal with, Nice Job BTW