Ian
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Finally uploaded the only picture I took of the last boar I got, it's the one I described in Rick's Oregon Pig thread. I was too tired and dirty to get any pics of the whole thing, and I'm not accustomed to photographing my groceries This one came in at 310 lbs despite the smallish tusks, and surprisingly didn't have that awful rancid odor that so many of the Russian hogs do. That's a bunch of steaks, roasts, and believe it or not, BACON. Got two nice bacon slabs right at 2" thick, a real treat as most of the wild pigs don't have ribs or bacon worth keeping.
Rifle used was my Springfield M1A, bullet was the 311679 cast of three parts clip-on, two parts stick-on wheel weights, water quenched from the mould. Shot was high, broadside right behind the shoulders, through a rib on each side and on into the sunset with an impressive exit hole. The alloy did the job nicely at over 2100 fps muzzle velocity.
I skinned and fleshed the skull and jaw and buried them in a fertile spot about 18" deep, will dig it up later on this year and clean it up for a mount. I've done the boil-and-pick routine on deer and am not going through that again just for a pig skull. I've read about the bury method and it seems to work, we'll see. If I can remember or find this thread again I'll update it when the time comes.
Rifle used was my Springfield M1A, bullet was the 311679 cast of three parts clip-on, two parts stick-on wheel weights, water quenched from the mould. Shot was high, broadside right behind the shoulders, through a rib on each side and on into the sunset with an impressive exit hole. The alloy did the job nicely at over 2100 fps muzzle velocity.
I skinned and fleshed the skull and jaw and buried them in a fertile spot about 18" deep, will dig it up later on this year and clean it up for a mount. I've done the boil-and-pick routine on deer and am not going through that again just for a pig skull. I've read about the bury method and it seems to work, we'll see. If I can remember or find this thread again I'll update it when the time comes.