Priority #1 Kill pigs

every hog I have shot I left it lay

A friend of mine with takes them to a processor, pays the fee and then drives it over to a charity for the homeless. I never said anything to him, he has good intentions and gobs of money, but I'm not sure the charity actually uses it. I can tell you that any charity (in FL anyway) that gets $$ from any .gov establishment will throw it away.

Edit: Every state and locale may very well have different criteria for acceptance.

If you are going to hunt someone else's land, ask them where they want them dumped. Slice them open on the quarters and the buzzards will clean them up quick. We have one place on the ranch by a big dead oak where we dump all dead animals. It's like the buzzard sonic drive-in.

Nothing could be further from the truth, no one is starving in the us that doesnt want to. Just take a look at the bottom of your check.

No Shit! You don't have to go to Appalachia. No, they aren't all black. I can tell you that there are MANY kids right here in the Tampa Bay area that get nothing to eat except the free breakfast and lunch they get at school. It's not the kids' fault but they are still hungry. Bad choices by the parents (usually only one), loss of jobs, you name it. My heart doesn't bleed for most, but the kids don't deserve to go hungry. I guess Texas is Nirvana.....dumb ass..........

You both are missing out. y'all are either lazy or just can't cook worth damn

I had heard that a hog over 150lbs is not fit to eat. Well let me tell you that is far from the truth. During my Texas hunt Theredgoat and I talked about how he takes care of the animal after the shot. First he said if he does not have an unlimited supply of clean running water he lets em lay. in other words you need to get em cleaned and cooled as soon as possible. We killed an estimated 250lb boar and when we walked up on him I had serious doubts about his theory. He smelled BAD I mean like he had been rolling in his and 200 other hogs piss and crap, We killed the boar at 0230 and had him home by 0430. Since it was night it was much cooler than the days even in early March. The first thing we did once we got him home was rinse him off for about 20-30 minutes, or until the water ran clean. This removed most all the smell but there was still a funk. Next he instructed us to be very careful to have a dirty and clean hand. Dirty hand for pulling on the hide and the clean one for knife work. If we contaminated the clean hand or the knife we were to wash it off before continuing. Once we got the skin off we rinsed for another 20 minutes. By the end of this the meat had a sweet smell and no evidence of the previous funk was noticeable at all. We cut him up and each took a 50lb ice chest home with us. I was still a bit skeptical and did not try any for a couple of months. I finally cooked up some ribs. WOW was I surprised. Though I would not call it tender it was not tough either and tasted better than any pork I had eaten before. If it was cut super thin it literally melted in my mouth. I am sold on wild pork. like I said it has a different consistency but still very nice flavor and well worth taking the time to do it right.

Now if it were in the heat of the day and we were more than an hour or so from a cool water source I would probably let em lay. They are an invasive species and a total nuisance. I would not feel bad dropping a few to feed the yotes and buzzards.

I don't think twice about leaving pigs lay. If you want to to clean em and eat em cool. If you don't, I won't think less of you.

I don't know what kind of hogs you have in the US but the meat we take from the hogs we kill over here has as much flavour as deer but is as fat as pork. Heck, it is pork!

I wouldn't leave them lie unless I was on a vegetarian diet.