Opening day of Deer Season !
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TWO GUNS
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Sounds Like a Great Day In Michigan,</P>
Down here in LOUISIANA, Bow season opened up in Oct 1, Our muzzleloader season opened up last Saturday, Regular rifle opens up this Saturday. Took out a big wild boar the other day, and late yesterday evening, me being down sick, went anyway, and killed a 288 lb. wild boar hog . I felt like crap >>>>> But the RTV, doen't even look back. It will haul wild swamp hogs as well as deer. This is my first hunting season with the RTV, and love it. Makes hunting even more enjoyable, and easier. Can haul anything and everything a man wants >>>>></P>
How, in the name of God, did we ever make it without the RTV !!!! [
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Down here in LOUISIANA, Bow season opened up in Oct 1, Our muzzleloader season opened up last Saturday, Regular rifle opens up this Saturday. Took out a big wild boar the other day, and late yesterday evening, me being down sick, went anyway, and killed a 288 lb. wild boar hog . I felt like crap >>>>> But the RTV, doen't even look back. It will haul wild swamp hogs as well as deer. This is my first hunting season with the RTV, and love it. Makes hunting even more enjoyable, and easier. Can haul anything and everything a man wants >>>>></P>
How, in the name of God, did we ever make it without the RTV !!!! [
]</P>I use to raise pigs. I was told once that you can't eat a breeding active boar because the meat has a stong gamey taste and odor. I didn't believe the guy and had one of my boars butchered and most of the meat smoked. I was wrong it was uneatable . Is this true with wild boars too?
TWO GUNS
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Somewild boars can be eat. But there is some that cannot be.</P>
99% of the time, when you walk up on them after you shoot 'em, you canpretty much tell then. If he is a " bad " hog, you will smell the nasty foul oder when you get to him. And if you don't smell nothing bad, well, he's pretty much worth bringing in and butchering. also,when you go to butcher a wild swamp boarhog,when you cut into him, cut youself off a chunk, and smell it, trust me, you will know if it worth going forward with your butchering,or if you need to discard him. Another thing, a person will know whenthey put the pork on the fire if it is bad, it then will have a horrible smell. You will learn in time. Different folks have different ways of testing there meat, I smell mine before I go on threw with the butchering, that way you haven't wasted all that time >>>>>> Young boars, are hardly ever bad. I like mine to be in the 80-110 lbs frame ......</P>
We shoot hogs all year round down here onour farms and plantation !!!!Will not keep a hog, sow or boar in the summer, usally drag 'em off to the bayou or sloughs and feed 'em to the alligators. But when the weather changes and starts to cool down a little, around the end of September , we will start bringing some in, butchering some for the freezer and giving most of them away. Down here, they are such a problem, they tear up deer plots, farming fields, and eat up good vegitation in the woods. That why we do our best to take as many out as we can. They are horrible now than they ever has been, and getting even worst ever year. Seems like you would finally kill 'em out, but isn't no way, just try to slow them down the best way you can >>>></P>
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99% of the time, when you walk up on them after you shoot 'em, you canpretty much tell then. If he is a " bad " hog, you will smell the nasty foul oder when you get to him. And if you don't smell nothing bad, well, he's pretty much worth bringing in and butchering. also,when you go to butcher a wild swamp boarhog,when you cut into him, cut youself off a chunk, and smell it, trust me, you will know if it worth going forward with your butchering,or if you need to discard him. Another thing, a person will know whenthey put the pork on the fire if it is bad, it then will have a horrible smell. You will learn in time. Different folks have different ways of testing there meat, I smell mine before I go on threw with the butchering, that way you haven't wasted all that time >>>>>> Young boars, are hardly ever bad. I like mine to be in the 80-110 lbs frame ......</P>
We shoot hogs all year round down here onour farms and plantation !!!!Will not keep a hog, sow or boar in the summer, usally drag 'em off to the bayou or sloughs and feed 'em to the alligators. But when the weather changes and starts to cool down a little, around the end of September , we will start bringing some in, butchering some for the freezer and giving most of them away. Down here, they are such a problem, they tear up deer plots, farming fields, and eat up good vegitation in the woods. That why we do our best to take as many out as we can. They are horrible now than they ever has been, and getting even worst ever year. Seems like you would finally kill 'em out, but isn't no way, just try to slow them down the best way you can >>>></P>
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DieselHound
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Deer opener was on November 3rd for us in Northern Minnesota. Here is a picture of the buck I got on the second day of hunting. I had two big bucks fighting 30 yards in front of my stand! RTV came in handy.