Blastin' and Castin' in the Texas Outdoors

We havea lot of good times, the road was a drug when we started way back, our wheels rolled on steady, now its forgetting the race to find an open space and leaving that city far behind We’ll be up in the morning before the sun, since anything beats working on the job and everyone knows the early worm gets the fish. The world is your oyster, let the high times carry the low, walk where the sun is shining, lay your burdens down and think to yourself that it sure feels good feeling good again.

Monday, September 26, 2005

this was the biggest pig I ever shot and it also has the biggest teeth I have seen up close

9 Comments:

z said...: Sweet...In and around 200# I'd guess? Nice beak on that thing. You gonna put the euro mount on the skull or just pluck the fangs off of him? Looks like your hand rolled bullets worked pretty well. Did they vaporize his gizzards? And the head shot, how much blow out? Exit hole diameters...I need more data!!!; 2:27 PM
brian said...: Damn, thats a big one! In addition to Chris' questions, I have a few more.

Is it going to taste like the smaller ones? Are you going to clean it in your front yard? Was he caught in the trap or did you shoot him while you were tending to the trap? Did you load it in the truck by yourself?; 3:21 PM
Jefe said...: Nice porker there, but I think I deserve a degree of credit in this catch. If I hadn't been working on an early morning erosion project and had joined you on the hunt, you know that something would have come up so you wouldn't get a hog. Regardless, good job!; 5:22 PM
steven-hoffman said...: I would guess it is around 200#

I was considering the European mount but when I was removing the skull from the neck with the axe I hit about an inch low, further fracturing skull that already sported a broken jaw from the Coupe de Gras.

A 130 grain Nosler Partition was pushed by 58.0 grains of H4831 powder. The bullet passed through both lungs just behind the heart. The wound of the far side of the rib cage was about 2X bullet diameter. The Bullet then passed through the front leg on the far side of the pig making it into a gelatinous mess with the final exit wound being out 1.5 x 2.0 inches.

The pig was groaning etc. so I gave it a shot in the top of the neck/base of head. When I did this that bullet when through the neck and shattered the lower mandible exit hole 2X bullet diameter.

Meat texture/color appears to be very good. I have taken some pigs apart and found the meat texture to be very coarse, (like jeff's last one) or extremely soft (That one in CeeVee). Both of those pigs were predominately edible but better as sausage. I imagine this beast will eat fine despite its size.

He was about as far from the trap as he could be and still be on the property. In all my hunting on the property I have never seen pigs in the pasture where he died. It was just the shortest route from the road to the trapping area.

I did load it by myself but it was quite a wrestling match. I couldn't lift him as a whole by myself so I tied a rope to the lanyard in the bed of my truck, lifted his noggin and tied the rope around his neck so that It held his chin on the tailgate. Then I lifted the back legs up and rolled the body onto the truck.; 5:26 PM
z said...: I know how that solo load drill goes, tonight, when you take your boots off, look inside the left one, you may find one of your balls in there; 6:10 PM
steven-hoffman said...: Once I found a nice shady tree with a low hanging branch I was glad that I had a pickup to do the lifting.; 6:33 PM
z said...: Nice leisurely day today huh? Mosey on out there shoot a big ole ham bone, run home and brag about it in cyber-space, clean him up under a shady tree, and sit around at work monitoring the page and collecting accolades from your jealous compadres. Livin the good life, probably had a beer with the sunrise...Bastard; 7:58 PM
steven-hoffman said...: I shot the pig at approx. 50 yards from the sitting position.

I was at work only marginally late, I had a tall glass of Orange Juice this morning not even any Vodka in it.

I put the ham on ice in the back of the pickup and took him to the cleaning tree for lunch.

I happen to have high speed internet access and a job that required I spend nearly all day today infront of the computer; 8:57 PM
z said...: I still stand by my "Bastard" comment, and its your own damn fault for not adding the vodka. I'm just jealous, all I shot today (so far) was the shit, and all my shit shootin was about the shit you shot.; 9:55 PM