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Thad in AR. 
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Posted: 23 Nov 2018 at 6:22pm |
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We won’t eat any hogs over 90 to 100 lbs. around here.
I was given a ham off of a big sow from West Texas. Threw it on the smoker. It was awesome.
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Dave H
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Posted: 23 Nov 2018 at 3:42pm |
Nan I would hate to be around if and when Ken catches some of them pigs. I m gonna say the the meat may be tainted from that diesel.
And the aroma that may come outta the whatever he squats in just may be too aromatic for the environment. 
Ummmm, maybe a little DEF would do the prep/cleanup.
Edited by Dave H - 23 Nov 2018 at 5:37pm
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Posted: 23 Nov 2018 at 12:36am |
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did you have ham fer Thanksgiving Ken?
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Ted J
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Posted: 22 Nov 2018 at 8:14pm |
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Well Ken,,,,,,,,how'd the eye exam go? Ya got great eyes, so you can look at them 20 something gals like Tom sees all the time now? Ya just can't remember WHY??!?!!
Any hog huntin since? yeah, that deal with the diesel just didn't sound good to me. Would YOU eat something that was a foul smelling as that??
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 18 Nov 2018 at 7:27pm |
Not Yet Joe Not a good time for me to catch even one. Got a eye exam set for Monday Morning. I will set the trap to trip when I get time (and maybe some help standing by) to do the processing. In the mean time I will pin the gate open and keep the trap baited with corn. Once I get a few to go in and out freely again it should be easy to catch several at a time. That's if the Damn Coons quit tripping the trap first. It may be time to bait the trusty Have A Heart with cat food. I got pix of 5 coons and 2 possums in and around the trap at the same time. A Red Fox too. And a just curious Bobcat
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Posted: 17 Nov 2018 at 10:12am |
Did Ya ketched em, Ken,,,,??? 
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 15 Nov 2018 at 9:57am |
Here is what I did for last nights try to trap a pig or two. I misted a cup of diesel on the ground and on the corn just inside the trap gate. Game Cam showed no coons anywhere in sight in or out of the set trap. Plenty pigs looking into the set trap. 5 at once . Count them. They smelled the diesel too and would not enter. I think corn smelling like diesel is OK with Pigs is Bull Hocky 
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Ted J
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Posted: 15 Nov 2018 at 9:55am |
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Them coons are good eatin, but greasy. At least they are up here. I'd rather have turkey though,,,,,,it makes you go to sleep and you miss the women talkin....hehehe
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 9:34pm |
Pretty Tempting when I had the can of Golden Maldrin in my hand today. Afraid the hogs would eat a poisoned coon. Looking at all the trail cam pics of those hogs on the outside lookin in and thinking so close but so far because of racoons tripping the trap first. I built a 3x3x3 coon catching live trap to keep them from eating the yard cats food. Bait it near the Hog Trap with catfood and bring them live to the hood . Folks there would rather roast a coon than a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner
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DiyDave
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 6:42pm |
Ken, try the pepsi and fly bait trick, gets rid of coons fast, usually within 10 feet of the pan... 
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 11:50am |
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Reminds me of being in a fish house staring down the hole looking at a northern pike staring at my sucker, but not taking it. Excitingly frustrating.
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 9:48am |
OOPS. Forgot to reset to correct Date and Time. Hogs on the outside looking in last night. Bacon and Sausage on the hoof.
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 8:50am |
Trap was tripped early by coons. This happens allot. Camera shows 2 coons playing in the trap in the first 3 pictures last night. After the trap got tripped I could see at least 3 maybe 4 hogs scarfing up corn just outside the closed drop gate in the next 50 or so exposures . I hear wetting the corn with Diesel keeps the coons out of it. Pigs don't seem to mind the taste or smell of corn wet with diesel. Time to try it and see. I sure hate missing the hogs because they can't get into the trap.
Edited by Ken in Texas - 14 Nov 2018 at 8:54am
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 8:46am |
I remember dad doing hogs. He got post of boiling water and poured it on the hog. We didn't really have the resources for a scaldron. The last one he did was a sow, weighed 400 pounds. It had a heart attack and fell off the chute when he was loading it to take to the auction barn.
I remember taking my first wife home for a visit. About half way down the walk she stopped, turned to me and turned green. She motioned over her shoulder and there was a half hog hanging from the clothes line pole. She didn't eat pork for a few years after that. My dad made the best breakfast sausage I ever ate, and mom made the best donuts in the lard.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 8:20am |
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Surely you eat the middle out of them hog mellons
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 14 Nov 2018 at 1:34am |
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a HOG MELON is a watermelon that for any reason is not fit for sale. Culls. Pigs and cows love them. I have cut and eaten a few myself. They are usually Free for the taking from local growers.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 8:10pm |
Father in law told me his Dad would take pigs up and scald them in the hot springs to scrape'em when he was a kid. I helped a friend butcher 3 of them little Kune-kune pigs (like little bacon bits!) we skinned'em, gave me a whole new respect for the butcher that skins our real sized pigs!
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DiyDave
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 6:38pm |
I can remember scaldin and scrapin hogs, almost every weekend, when the weather was nippy, as a kid. We hadda ole bath tub, with a fire pit dug under it, 2 guys dip the hog, then scrape the hair off, gut it, then a ride up to the garage, to hang till cool, then up to the basement to cut it up, and use everything but the squeal!
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 6:23pm |
 chaskaduo wrote:
Is a hairless Hubert is a Huey? |
The Huey was what I rode on when I had a "high and tight."
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 6:22pm |
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you can scrape the hair off Hubert? |
Dip them in a barrel or kettle of scalding hot water, works better if you throw a few ashes out of the fireplace in it, and then use something flat like a hoe with a short or no handle to do the scraping. Grandpa had a BIG cast iron kettle built into a brick fire box that worked great. The top was just over knee high and easy to slide a hog off the trailer into the kettle. Had one hog so big that Dad had to use the WD and crane to handle it.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 5:39pm |
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Is a hairless Hubert is a Huey?
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 4:51pm |
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you can scrape the hair off Hubert?
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 3:33pm |
what the hey is a hog melon? 
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 3:16pm |
One I caught on Camera last night had big tusks sticken outa his jaws. He never entered the trap. A smaller one went in but missed triggering the Drop Gate. I rebaited and reset again for tonight. I wish I could find another box of Hog Melons. All that's left of the first 50 is pieces rind scattered about.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 1:06pm |
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Remove his rear bumpers and feed him about 2 months and the strong scent and taste is gone. Good sausage is worth the wait.
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Dave H
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 11:39am |
Ken, how difficult is it to skin one out? Does the hide separate off quite easily?
When I grew up, the domestic hogs were always scalded and the hair scraped off. Same as Hubert.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:09am |
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Hormel also pumps the pork with some kind of sodiumdiekillyourassoff solution and calls it Always Tender. Open the package and it reeks of sulfur. I avoid it like the plague. Thing is they are not necessarily the frugalist buy.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:55pm |
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Ken, you should try a pit. We used to do that every year for our wild game feed. Dug a hole in the ground, put in some green limbs and then coals. Then more green limbs and then bury it. Got it started and let it go for 18 - 24 hrs. Man was that good!!
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Posted: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:05pm |
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Hormel company butchers ALOT of old boars cuz they can usually buy them from the auctions for pennies on the dollar. as soon as I open one of them packages...I just toss it in the garbage! now other companies are starting tro do that, cept Jimmy Dean! i'll take a gilt or sow anyday!
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