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BIG PIG DOWN
- Thread starter pdubya
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HorizontalHunter
NES Member
Congratulations on the porker. Make sure that you save some of the fat to send to our troops for use as a bullet lube.
Bob
Bob
Great idea Horizontal but these pigs don't have layers of fat like your standard porkers but will consider on the next one but this has already been butchered. 190lbs, headshot from a mere 45 yards. Thank you scent blocker!
A club up around Newport, NH I've been going to since I was 6 with just a fishing pole until 12 when I started hunting up there.....coming up on my 40th birthday so 33 years of just bliss for this Everett city kid.
![[grin]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/041.gif "Grin [grin]")
I used old faithful 300 savage, 150gr. I say old faithful because I'm like 100-1 because last week I missed a 125 yard shot on my first cow elk because I had knocked my scope off the hinge after sighting it in. I can flip my scope off to iron sights for close shots in the thick NH brush and I must of knocked the scope loose taking it out of my truck mi WILL harvest an elk and would gladly donate a large portion to an NES cookout lol. Maybe grab a small 125lb pig for a full roast as well, just say where and when.
Originally the pigs were brought over in the 50's and do what pigs do best and that's multiple, and quick. Purest strain of Russian black boar in North America, no mixing with the local swine, that's why the nose is long and the hair is bristly and the fat is on the outside not in the meat, pretty lean. A few have been known to escape here and there and mix with domestic pigs but when they have the habitat and food resources sitting on 30,000 acres or like 45 square miles they breed like wildfire.
Mass-diver
NES Member
I hear they have elephant there...or at least they should for the cost of membership
Don't worry about it - keep posting...Nice shot and nice pig! Congrats!
Everyone has offerings others do not get like sleeping in the WhiteHouse, hunting in Corbin Park, owning a Ferrari or dating a super model....I'm very fortunate to have done one of those but not for a lack of trying. I'll post a few more takes from hunting and some views of the scenery, hope most of you enjoy them. Happy Saturday.
Nice! Looks like a beautiful spot!
Nice hog pdubya. Jealous as we got rained out.
BTW, keep posting as it is appreciated much more than not.
BTW, keep posting as it is appreciated much more than not.
That is simply amazing. I think you have made a bunch of us jealous.
I am not connected with this at all, but they have pig hunts here as well,looks like a lot of fun and freezer stock up in the same trip.
I'm going to test out my new ar build on one of these pigs![[smile]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/001.gif "Smile [smile]")
hunttheridgevt.com in vt.
I would rather take my a r and dog down to fla. to pig hunt but its not in the cards right now.
I'm going to test out my new ar build on one of these pigs
hunttheridgevt.com in vt.
I would rather take my a r and dog down to fla. to pig hunt but its not in the cards right now.
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Boghog1
NES Member
Very nice Pig, keep posting. I admit I am jealous but happy for you that you can go hunting in a place like that. I want to hike that mountain someday before I die I will make it to the fire tower.
There some, so called "canned pig hunts" around us in the North but these are as close to "free range" as it gets but with an obvious 12 foot fence sitting around the 30,000 or so acres. Not meant in any way as a "look what I can do and you can't" posts at all and I hope it wasn't taken that way by the lot of you it was merely a I'm thankful to be able to hunt here and get some pork in the freezer for the winter. The miss on the Elk was a bitter pill but makes me what to hunt smarter, better and double/triple check my gear prior to heading out. Thanks for the kind words and if they are enjoyed, I have 30 years worth of photos I can keep adding.
