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Monday, May 16. 2011

Stalking Sus scrofa

A group of them is called a "Singular" of boar (although the use of the term is disputed; see James Lipton, An Exaltation of Larks, Penguin
Books, 1991). An alternate term is a "Sounder" of swine.


Posted by Gwynnie in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc. at 14:07 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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The manly method of hunting boar is on foot with a .357 magnum. Alternately, one can use a lance on horseback like the Californio vaqueros did.
#1 Whitehall on 2011-05-16 15:23 (Reply)
The young manly way is with a longbow. The old manly way is with a .308, and that's the shoe that fits me.

What matters, manly or womanly, is that you get away from the idiot box and the pavement, get into a wild place, and hunt!!
#1.1 Gwynne on 2011-05-16 17:50 (Reply)
Even with dogs, hunting boar is manly. And becoming as neccessary as hunting whitetails, the way things are going.
#2 Commander Clopfelter on 2011-05-16 15:52 (Reply)
Just took a 300lb boar out of Saluda County the other day. Biggun that was. The club that I bought into has 3,000 acres up in Saluda and the place is full of feral piggies. They've been knocking them off as fast as they can - the meat goes to homeless and meat food lockers for needy folks.

I actually had some bacon from a feral pig Saturday evening - don't know what it as, but it tasted different - pretty good.
#3 Tom Francis on 2011-05-16 17:37 (Reply)
Damn the homeless! Why do they always get the good stuff?!
#3.1 Big___Al on 2011-05-16 22:52 (Reply)
Check out our Uncle Sam's essential service, the National Feral Swine Mapping System, at http://128.192.20.53/nfsms/

I think the feral swine are convening in Washington DC, but they don't admit it on he map.
#4 Gwynne on 2011-05-16 17:45 (Reply)
I've met a few singular bores...
#5 Big___Al on 2011-05-16 21:17 (Reply)
Wild boars are so common in TX that hunters killing them are performing a public service. The Smithsonian magazine recently had an article on them, which may have been here in Maggie's Farm.
#6 Gringo on 2011-05-16 22:28 (Reply)
Years ago I did a newspaper story on a Red River County Texas hog trapper. A TV news idiot a few days ago said the meat is not edible "because of bullet fragments." Texas has about half the feral hogs in the US.
#7 Sgt. Bob (Link) on 2011-05-16 23:32 (Reply)
Wasn't Ol' Yeller a Blackmouth Cur - Texas hog dog?
#8 Commander Clopfelter on 2011-05-17 01:50 (Reply)
Here in south Florida we kill lots of wild hogs but only rookies will kill stinky boars for food. Mostly what everyone is looking for is a good Bar hog. A Bar hog is one that has been live caught, castrated and had the tip of its tail cut off which is a rodeo all in itself. A Bar hog will grow bigger, lose the chest shield and the meat is sweet. We've cut as many as 10 a day some years.
#9 Rick on 2011-05-17 06:28 (Reply)

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