Disposing of Carcass (DOC)

[LR1955]

Guys:

Always like reading the hog hunting threads. Personally I think the Grendel is in its own as a hunting round with hogs and other medium game. The biggest thing I get from these threads is the lethality of specific bullets on hogs. Yes, I have hunted hogs and know how thick their hides are compared to other game animals. To me, if someone wants a honest assessment of the Grendel and its ammunition when it comes to lethality, look at the Hunting forum and specifically the guys who hunt hogs apparently for a living or at least for profit.

So for you guys who shoot hogs, when you blast them what do you do with the carcass?

LR55

[Double Naught Spy]

In my case, it depends on the landowner.

On some properties, I can leave them lay for the scavengers.

On some properties, the carcasses need to be moved to the fence line.

On some properties, the carcasses need to be taken to a specific bone yard. Most folks with livestock have a boneyard where they take dead animals.

In a couple of cases, I have to remove the carcasses from the property and I take them to a bone yard at my place. I don't take any more properties with this restriction.

In a in three cases, I make a map for the landowner and he collects the downed hogs and takes them to his designated area.

[kmon]

For a long time I killed all I could and cleaned many for myself and others, the lady I lease a place to hunt from was chariman of the local food bank and knew who would want them. I would gut and quarter them and give them to who she found wanted the hogs. It got to the point [people that wanted hogs were hard to find and some hogs you do not want to mess with too stinky (those to the bone yard) .

I never got as serious as DNS or pigpopper but some years I killed 50 a year. They go make good bullet test media. On place I hunted I could just leave them and they were gone within a day or two from other hogs and coyotes eating them. At times the bone yard can be a good place to kill more hogs.

I have also trapped and sold hogs, which is not nearly as fun as shooting hogs. I bought a Grendel and liked how it worked on hogs well enough that out of all the guns that is what I hunt with mostly now.

[oyster]

Mostly they stay where they're shot. If they're close to a wood line or small enough to drag the distance I'll move them. The farmers I shoot for don't care as long as they're dead. It's amazing how fast even a big hog disappears due to scavengers. I had a big boar literally disappear in about 2.5 wks. I found two toe nails and some fur and that's it. If someone wants one I'll bring it back and usually give it to them gutted, some folks I'll clean it for them if they can't. It would be nice if there was a way for us to utilize more of them and get them in the food system but the FDA needs to protect us from ourselves. I shot 90 last year and most went to feed the buzzards and coyotes.
Jay

[Texas]

120 lb and less sows get butchered, all others are used for scavenger bait.

[A5BLASTER]

I typically use the Jose Whales disposal method.

Birds got to eat, same as worms.

[FLshooter]

[gwtx]

Mostly leave'em lay. Wife won't dress and process them. I took the backstraps one time out of 25 +yrs of shootin them. Didn't know how to prepare them, and they didn't turn out well enough for me to "fool" with them since. Can't find anyone who wants the meat unless it's "cut & wrapped"

[RobertFL]

The hunt club I'm in in The big bend area of Florida has a lot of wetlands and planted pines. What we have noticed here is that even the 150- 200 pound boars eat good. I process them myself. Back straps cut in half, hams deboned, the rest is made into hamburger, all is vacuum packed and frozen. The deer also taste better than the ones I get from my buddy's corn and soy bean farm in Ohio. The head, hide, guts and bones are put in a area designated for them. We have a few hogs on our place and I shoot them when I see them.. I shot 9 last year, gave 3 away to family and a friend, kept 6 for our freezer. I shot 13 or 14 2 years ago. As you guys know everybody wants a hog but only after you quarter and ice it down..

[1Shot]

Where I live in the mountains of TN right now there are no wild hogs. Some are close in NC but not here YET. But I would like to add this thought that my buddy and I discussed YEARS ago. We were doing crop damage control on a huge farm in east NC. We had to take 100 deer a year off the farm. We had a bone yard where we would take the left over carcass after de-boning all the meat off the deer. We processed every deer and gave much of it to people. I had people who would take about 35 of the deer. Most of them were older people and I would just tell them to give me a box of zip lock freezer bags and I would deliver the meat to them frozen ready to put in their freezer. I processed so many deer that it usually took me only average 19 minutes from the time I hung the deer up until I had finished de-boning all the meat off it and I used nothing but a knife.

The funny part that my buddy and I discussed was about the bone yard. If the world goes on for a few hundred or thousand years what would be the reaction of, if some archeologist happened to run into this place. We had been putting 100 deer carcass a year in that spot for over 25 years.

[Double Naught Spy]

The funny part that my buddy and I discussed was about the bone yard. If the world goes on for a few hundred or thousand years what would be the reaction of, if some archeologist happened to run into this place. We had been putting 100 deer carcass a year in that spot for over 25 years.

You know, I did zooarchaeology for 25 years. I was the guy who looked at the bones and teeth from archaeological sites in order to determine what people were eating (animal-wise), how the animals were butchered, etc. We love that sort of problem. No doubt the accumulation will be identified as a deposition area based on the atypical representation of animals there, the few ballistic wounds that will be identified, the various butchery and skinning marks identified, etc. No doubt there will be evidence for scavenging by canids and rodents. Quite likely, there will be some other refuse there that will survive that will indicate it is a human deposition site. There may be speculation as to whether it was a domestic accumulation or some sort of hunting camp type situation.

[just_john]

DNS - you don't look old enough to have done that for 25 yrs!

[Double Naught Spy]

Clean living! I am in my mid 50s. There is a lot of boring stuff, but this is me on Google Scholar ... https://scholar.google.com/citations...24440536183371

[CJW]

Very heavy stuff DNS.......way,way out of my league....

[VASCAR2]

Shooting hogs sure looks more fun than doing all those research projects DNS.