Question about field dressing hogs

[antharper]

They are. Or you can cut them in two if they won't fit. This was about a 30-35# pig my son shot. Made some excellent bbq.

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That’s the size I pick out if there’s several .

 

[Railroader]

Little Pig, whole on the smoker makes some outstandin' fare...

 

[NCHillbilly]

Biggun whole on a bigger smoker ain't bad, either.

 

[sghoghunter]

I could keep some folks fat and sassy if it wasn’t so much of a headache

 

[sleepr71]

Backstraps & hams are it for me. Once it gets hot..they stink like crazy & wallow in the mud a lot. Always,always wear gloves when handling hogs.!

 

[NCHillbilly]

Backstraps & hams are it for me. Once it gets hot..they stink like crazy & wallow in the mud a lot. Always,always wear gloves when handling hogs.!

Shoulders make much better bbq than hams, just sayin'. When you buy domestic pork, you get Boston butt (shoulder) instead of fresh ham, for a reason.

 

[dwhee87]

When all the processors have closed for the year and you don't have the time/facilities/etc. to fool with it, do this:

Feral hogs are so detrimental to all native animals, that you are doing a service, by letting them just lay there for the buzzards.

If you are in the mountains, the bears would appreciate it!

That hog has a ton a fat for a wild pig!

That's exactly how I do it, also.

 

[sghoghunter]

This here guys is how ya field dress them swine. Them red headed turkeys was happy. Figured the yotes would have got to them before the birds but only one passes through

 

[frankwright]

This here guys is how ya field dress them swine. Them red headed turkeys was happy. Figured the yotes would have got to them before the birds but only one passes through

I killed about 125lb pig one sweltering hot July evening. I was way back in a swamp but I took the shoulders and backstraps. I about had a heat stroke doing that.
It had some decent tusks so I planned to come back in three days and get the head.
When I went back, I could see a greasy spot and that was it. No blood, hair, bones or anything.
Nature had done a job on that thing.

 

[sghoghunter]

I killed about 125lb pig one sweltering hot July evening. I was way back in a swamp but I took the shoulders and backstraps. I about had a heat stroke doing that.
It had some decent tusks so I planned to come back in three days and get the head.
When I went back, I could see a greasy spot and that was it. No blood, hair, bones or anything.
Nature had done a job on that thing.

What’s amazing to me is that the yotes isn’t really interested in hogs near as much as the buzzards are. I’ve only got two pictures since Sunday afternoon and only had one in each picture. Couple years ago I got a few pictures of other hogs eating their share

 

[bany]

In good hog areas I think the yotes are spoiled on fresh suckling pig.