Any issues with shooting hogs and leaving them lay?

no

Buzzards gotta eat, too....

But why be wasteful? Plenty of people could use the meat.

I don't see a problem with it though but I personally would never do it.

I have tried to give it away before 9 out of 10 people want it quartered and on ice, the tenth guy wants it processed.


Also, when you are killing ten a week, cleaning all of them can be pretty tedious.

not so much with leavin'em lay, but "shootin'em in the guts" will get me angered.

Nope

I'll shoot them and dump them. If somebody wants it fine with me but the most ill do is gut it

Im not a "shoot in the guts guy" though

We eat some and leave some, yotes and bobcats gotta eat too, don't shoot in guts to run off and die, I shoot to kill.

i'm 1 of the 10 that would rather hunt my own, hunting gives me exercise, the work comes whin got one down, have to back pack it out... call it poormans hunting..

Ok. Your award is in the mail

Anyone ever sprayed a roach and watched them run around, flip over, kick and spin and die eventually?

I have only eaten 3 hogs out of the last 400 or so I have killed. A few went to other people that wanted them but most fed the other critters.

In cases where the hog population is abundant the old gut shot is the best! Why? Hogs will eat other hogs especially if they are wounded and bleeding. Todays feral hogs could possibly be diseased and dangerous for human consumption. We usually have our ranch flown with helicopter for hogs coyotes and cats.

Sociopath? Give me a break.

"Same as worms".

No issues here with leaving them lay.

i think it's great that u have tried to give away the extra meat.. have even swallowed my pride an excepted hog meat whin some one else offered.. went out helped load them up & did the quartering myself..

It's legal. Therefore I have no problem with someone doing it. I personally don't kill things if I am not going to eat them. But that's my personal choice.

WHAT HE SAID

If I don't need one I don't shoot it. If I make arrangements to give one away I will kill and quarter for whoever needs it. Quartering is very easy and doesn't take long and is a weak excuse to not give them away. Anybody should be able to quarter a hog in 10-15 minutes and that amount of time is not much if its giving things to people they need or want. I wish for everyone shot in the guts to run off and die ten would replace it. Processors who are in the hunters for the hungry program will take quartered hogs too so I give them to the processor who donates their time and it eventually ends up at crisis centers and soup kitchens. I don't do it to feel better about myself I do it because I want to hunt and respect the hunt and the game enough to make use of it.

I take some and leave the rest. Apparently some of you folks have have never been close up and down wind to a old boar hog. There are some things that when you smell it, you ain't going to eat it!

Agreed!

I trapped for a job for several winters I think I've smelled as bad a hog as there are and cleaned em and they all smell the same on the inside. Haven't found one yet I couldnt make taste good. It's just easier to say they stink than clean em.

I will kill everyone I see, if it's small and I'm out of sausage I'll clean it. If I've got meat in the freezer, I don't even go look at it, unless I have to drag it out of a wheat field ect...

So how does it make it best that the hog you gut shot dies a horrible death and then feeds the hogs you consider a pest? As opposed to making a good kill shot and eating or dragging them off? Dumbest post ive read in a while.