Author Topic: What do you get done with your hogs? (Read 2291 times)

.308sniper · « **on:** April 17, 2006, 03:19:37 AM »

If you shoot a trophy hog what do you get done to it.

elmer · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2006, 06:59:15 AM »

If you are talking about the head, I have had a shoulder mount from one and a European mount for another.

If you are talking about the meat, trophy hogs aren't the best eating but are edible (at least in the 175 to 225lb range). I take the meat and soak it in ice water for a few days, draining and replenishing the water each day. I save the front quarters for smoking, the tenderloins and backstraps for cooking and take the rest to have sausages and links made.

drdougrx · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2006, 02:01:16 PM »

sholder mounts....please look at some of mine at the FOTKI site below.

elmer · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2006, 05:19:16 PM »

Doug,

Really enjoyed the tour of your trophy room.

I keep telling the wife that we need to raise the roof over the garage so I can have a trophy room, but she isn't buying it yet. :-) Actually I don't have much to display yet, but I'm working on it.

drdougrx · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2006, 03:09:38 PM »

Hey Elmer,

Keep work'n on it! There were times when my taxidermy bill looked like a car payment!!! Later this fall I'm going to add a buffalo and maybe a buckskin colored TX Dall. I'm still waiting for 2 fallow mounts and have NO IDEA what I'm going to do with the brown bear, alaska moose and caribou I plan to hunt in the fall of 2008.

Such problems!!!!!!

curdog · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2006, 03:34:52 PM »

as long as the meat is iced down most are good to eat.as many hogs as we take he has got to be a monster before i will have it mounted

elmer · « **Reply #6 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:08:47 AM »

Doug,

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm starting to feel the pinch. Tonight I'm picking up an Axis and Fallow from the taxidermist. I also have a Blackbuck and Whitetail at the taxidermist and a Bobcat in the freezer.

Charles
aka Elmer

drdougrx · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2006, 05:25:32 AM »

Elmer!!! OUCH!!!!

My biggest delivery was a red stag, 2 hogs, a 4 horn and an angora goat.

Gotta do it!!!!!

elmer · « **Reply #8 on:** May 05, 2006, 03:28:08 PM »

Doug,

I liked your online photo albumn so much that I am starting one too. You know what they say about imitation. :grin:

Charles
aka Elmer

http://public.fotki.com/ElmerF/

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #9 on:** May 05, 2006, 10:15:23 PM »

never was much on mounting trophys. most ive done with a hog is keep the skull. I hate to waste money i could spend on guns and loading on mounting animals. As far as the meat goes i try to shoot pigs that go around 200 lbs. Sows preferably and lately just bone the meat like I would a deer.

drdougrx · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2006, 04:02:59 AM »

Hey Elmer!!! God job on the fotki site! Please turn your comments "on".

elmer · « **Reply #11 on:** May 08, 2006, 11:08:34 AM »

Thanks Doug.

Comments should be on now.

Troggy · « **Reply #12 on:** August 15, 2006, 08:53:33 AM »

EAT!!!!

JeffG · « **Reply #13 on:** September 24, 2006, 03:11:34 PM »

Buns, onions, and beer.

Oh, taxidermy! Too bad you don't live in Wisconsin, you could use my taxidermist, she is a gem.

Tn Jim · « **Reply #14 on:** September 24, 2006, 03:59:05 PM »

Good looking hog Jeff. Where did he come from?

countryroads · « **Reply #15 on:** September 24, 2006, 06:25:01 PM »

JeffG,

That's a great looking hog. I'm looking at mine on the wall right now, and I'm wishing he wasn't black. Mine was 187 pounds, how much did yours weigh? More importantly, was he as tasty as mine?

Ruskin · « **Reply #16 on:** September 28, 2006, 04:28:21 AM »

Doug

I looked at the 7x57 on your web. Don't let the"experts" tell you it is an obsolete cartridge. I have a friend that had one customed by Guncraft in Ruskin, Florida. He loads with barnes bullets and loves it.

The rifle went to afghanistan and has confirmed kills out ot 700 yards. There is tremendous potential.

OSPD312 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 29, 2006, 04:47:55 AM »

That looks to be a Chilean Mauser from the crest that is stamped on the reciever...7x57 is a good round but not obsolete...You got a good deal on the rifle regardless. The M1 garand was gonna be a 7x57, but Mcarrthur said no since the already had millions and millions of 30/06 ammo in supply.

Jack

JeffG · « **Reply #18 on:** September 29, 2006, 05:19:10 PM »

Sorry so slow, work has been bad news. He is from Renegde Ranch in Cheboygan Michigan.

drdougrx · « **Reply #19 on:** October 01, 2006, 12:08:22 PM »

Hi All,

The msuser is from a venezualan contract but was made in herstal. It's a deal no matter what the caliber is!

kp! · « **Reply #20 on:** November 23, 2006, 08:42:19 AM »

So far, all I've done is keep the skulls. Once the critters have cleaned them up, I paint em' and put em' on display in the barn next to the hangin' rack. I have several in white, one in silver galvanized (umm...we were out of white), one camo (still ain't bought no white) one waiting to be painted, and a couple in the gully being processed by bugs.

kp