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After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 01:35 PM
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Mr. T.
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How do you dispose of the hogs after they have been shot. I'm talking about the ones you are not planning on eating.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 01:49 PM
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bigjoe8565
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I dump the ones I kill in the same spot everytime. I picked the spot two reasons. I can sit on a ridge overlooking the spot to shoot coyotes feeding on the hogs, and it's a long way from my blinds/feeders.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 01:49 PM
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garyrapp55
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I chain them to the tractor and drag them towards the highway. We call it the bone yard. My family doesn't frequent that part of the property. Buzzards clean it up pretty quick. Smells pretty bad locking the gate sometimes though.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 02:46 PM
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chrswr
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[quote=bigjoe8565]......I can sit on a ridge overlooking the spot to shoot coyotes feeding on the hogs.....[quote]
I like this idea!
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 06:01 PM
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SapperTitan
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Different places we do different things. Out west we drag them off to the range area and shoot the coyotes that come to eat them. Others we just drag them off away from the feeders.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 06:32 PM
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Double Naught Spy
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At my place, we have a designated dump area for carcasses. On the properties I hunt, some require the carcasses to be moved to specific locations and others just have me let them lay. In one case, I text the landowner the location and he uses the tractor to haul them somewhere. On 3 other places, I slice open the carcasses so that they get consumed faster by the buzzards and coyotes.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 06:42 PM
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mikei
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I'm in Central Texas and those hogs we don't eat are taken to a designated "bone yard." Like others here, we then hunt the bone yard on a regular basis, and score quite regularly on the varmints/vermin and even an occasional feral hog that come in to feast on their dearly departed brethren.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 07:32 PM
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colt45-90
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place's I have been on, drug off, not much left after couple of days, mostly to buzzards
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/29/17 08:52 PM
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aggiehunter03
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Leave them right where they fall unless it is under my feeder.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 02:03 AM
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HansETX
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Drag them off and the buzzards and coyotes will take care of them in a day or two
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 02:13 AM
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der Teufel
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Depends upon how full the freezer is at the moment, whether the neighbor wants a shoulder or hindquarter, and how I feel at the moment.
I have two unwritten rules: 1. 2.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 03:34 AM
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passthru
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Kill another one.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 04:53 AM
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kmon11
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Kill another one.
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 03:21 PM
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krmitchell
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Either to the bone pile or drag them off away from the feeder. Our rancher doesn't care as long as we don't dump them in his coastal field.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 03:55 PM
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hook_n_line
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Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 05:10 PM
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Sirrah243
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Drag them off and split their bellies so they buzzards can eat them with ease.
�A hunt based only on the trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.� -Fred Bear
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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11/30/17 09:15 PM
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garyrapp55
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Don't shoot what we don't intend to eat or have someone lined up to pick up. You're not a land owner are you?
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 01:21 AM
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Espy
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We have been shooting so many lately we are hauling them to the dead pile at each ranch we hunt.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 04:24 AM
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passthru
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Don't shoot what we don't intend to eat or have someone lined up to pick up. You're not a land owner are you? Yes but I don't either for the most part. Have let a few lay but for the most part they get cleaned and given to folks who need the meat.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 05:59 PM
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hook_n_line
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Don't shoot what we don't intend to eat or have someone lined up to pick up. You're not a land owner are you? Yes I am. and I trap and I shoot them. If I'm feeling to lazy to clean or handle one I leave it alone and won't kill it. My traps are wired open until I'm ready to work one. I let people come out and hunt hogs or trap hogs out of deer season for free or trade for a little work, but if I find they let them lay, never again. There are plenty of hungry people around who will gladly take a cleaned porker of my hands and they know I will keep the meat as fresh as possible. I won't clean the ones people come out and take unless its decided prior to the hunt or an elder or child in my family takes it.
Last edited by hook_n_line; 12/01/17 06:01 PM.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 06:04 PM
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Navasot
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b Don't shoot what we don't intend to eat or have someone lined up to pick up. You're not a land owner are you? Yes I am. and I trap and I shoot them. If I'm feeling to lazy to clean or handle one I leave it alone and won't kill it. My traps are wired open until I'm ready to work one. I let people come out and hunt hogs or trap hogs out of deer season for free or trade for a little work, but if I find they let them lay, never again. There are plenty of hungry people around who will gladly take a cleaned porker of my hands and they know I will keep the meat as fresh as possible. I won't clean the ones people come out and take unless its decided prior to the hunt or an elder or child in my family takes it. You ever caught a mouse in a trap and threw it away? same thing
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 06:04 PM
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Navasot
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I got a bone yard ill take them to.... you should see the size it can get to sometimes
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 06:07 PM
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hook_n_line
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b Don't shoot what we don't intend to eat or have someone lined up to pick up. You're not a land owner are you? Yes I am. and I trap and I shoot them. If I'm feeling to lazy to clean or handle one I leave it alone and won't kill it. My traps are wired open until I'm ready to work one. I let people come out and hunt hogs or trap hogs out of deer season for free or trade for a little work, but if I find they let them lay, never again. There are plenty of hungry people around who will gladly take a cleaned porker of my hands and they know I will keep the meat as fresh as possible. I won't clean the ones people come out and take unless its decided prior to the hunt or an elder or child in my family takes it. You ever caught a mouse in a trap and threw it away? same thing I'm not trying to come across as "better than thou" I just believe "waste not, want not" Mice are cat food or my dog kills and buries them for later, no traps. Oh yeah. and the raccoons go in the freezer until Miss Sadie or Mr Homer come pick them up.
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Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 07:41 PM
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garyrapp55
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hook_n_line, By no means did I imply any "holier than thou" attitude. I just made an assumption because most land owners don't give a rat's *ss about the hog. Most Texas land owners feel that the only good hog is a dead hog, I certainly feel that way. Unlike yourself, as I can see from your photos, nice work by the way, I only take the back-straps and hams. The rest is for the buzzards. I am an ethical/responsible hunter and will not take deer unless it's a clean kill shot and that is definitely not the only thing that makes a hunter ethical. When it comes to hogs, I try to kill em all and let the buzzards sort them out.
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Re: After the kill..then what?
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12/01/17 07:53 PM
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hook_n_line
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hook_n_line, By no means did I imply any "holier than thou" attitude. I just made an assumption because most land owners don't give a rat's *ss about the hog. Most Texas land owners feel that the only good hog is a dead hog, I certainly feel that way. Unlike yourself, as I can see from your photos, nice work by the way, I only take the back-straps and hams. The rest is for the buzzards. I am an ethical/responsible hunter and will not take deer unless it's a clean kill shot and that is definitely the only thing that makes a hunter ethical. When it comes to hogs, I try to kill em all and let the buzzards sort them out. It's all good but since they eat my corn I'll collect on the bill.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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