Wild hogs move into Mid-South, Fayette County officer kills 600-pound boar

The Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 12/23/06 | Shirley Downing

[ZULU]

Hmmm.

I REALLY like wild boar, Properly prepared, it is superior to domestic pork with darker, moister meat. A German restaurant I frequent serves it often.

Hmmmm.

[FreedomPoster]

Those Germans know how to do pork. A killer meal I had a few months ago while in Germany visiting friends, who used to live here:

http://images19.fotki.com/v33/photos/7/77755/4270289/LinnBerg2-vi.jpg

Roast suckling pig.

[NewJerseyJoe]

that's one of the best photoshops I've ever seen. Thanks for the chuckle!

[No Truce With Kings]

"All over the country people and agencies complain about wild pigs, but generally won't let us common folk hunt them or charge us when they do."

As far as I know, you can hunt for feral hogs at any time in Texas, if you have permission from the property owner. When I lived in East Texas, we would regularly get feral hog carcasses from a friend that hunted them -- generally to get rid of ones making a nuisance of themselves.

Feral hog? In Texas, it's what's for dinner.

[girlangler]

I have a much higher chance of being et by wild hog here where I live than in west Tennessee. The Cumberland Plateau area is full of them, and we have several hog hunting operations running up here.

Also they are in the Great Smoky Mountain Natl. Park and the Cherokee Natl. Forest. They are VERY destructive.

I know both Ben Layton and Gary Cook (Region I west Tennessee TWRA manager). Gary Cook is one of the finest men I know, an expert on coyote hunting and an accomplished writer.

I am also very close here to the TWRA's elk reintroduction area, and about 30 miles from Kentucky's, and bears are migrating into this area of Kentucky just above me (they were reintroduced into the Big South Fork a few years ago, and are making a comeback in Virginia, also near here.

So, I could very well walk out into my woods here and see an elk, a bear (I do have lots of deer) and a host of other critters. My neighbor did see an elk at my gate once.

Hope you have a blessed Christmas.

[billhilly]

Thanks, and you too. I knew there were plenty of wild hogs in your area, but six hundred pounders are not common are they?

[ZULU]

That looks like the right habitat for a wild boar!!!!

I LOVE German cuisine.

[pray4liberty]

Cocke's nephew carved the beast into slabs of bacon and mounds of pork chops.

Shucks. I could give him my recipe for Pork Chops with Garbanzo beans.

[Redbob]

"I have heard that about the larger big boned thick skulled animals and hollow point (expanding round) ammo. But still you got him, although someone that was not as good a shot might have choked and got only one round in on the boar hog."

You put a nice spin on it, thank you!

But the the true story is rather long, and involved two scrawny but fearless hounds, and yours truly running up and down hills and across streams to get in those three shots whenever the hounds would hold the beast at bay. It was closer to a biathlon than to a "hunt."

[RunningWolf]

No the real story is even more impressive. Count 'Wolf on your team ;)

I guess I was projecting there a little bit, with a understanding to the tenacity of a boar hog/the effect of various munitions.

J.