Author Topic: Stinker (Read 686 times)

rickt300 · « **on:** December 18, 2005, 04:51:26 PM »

I posted my last two hog kills reported as bullet tests in the medium bores forum under "Corelokt does it again" and "testing ballistic tips". The hog I took yesterday with a Combined Technology ballistic silvertip 150 grain bullet from my 7x57 stunk! Like boiled piss BAD! He was about 50 pounds and when we went to get him we though something stunk in the brush we were in, threw him in the truck, got in and immediatly smelled him on our hands. Drove away from the feeder and tossed him out. Anyone else experienced this?

FWiedner · « **Reply #1 on:** December 18, 2005, 05:15:04 PM »

I've shot a couple that smelled like piss. Some kind of territory or dominance thing, I'm sure. Or maybe it turns on the sows.

It washes off, and I don't believe that it affects the meat any more than any other fact of having been a boar.

In fact, there was one time that I was sitting on a stand and I smelled a boar coming in long before I ever saw him. He was darned quiet, but stunk to high heaven.

A load of 00 buck behind the ear at about 2-yards stops a 200lb boar in his tracks. :grin:

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rickt300 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2005, 07:53:01 AM »

There was no way I was going to gut that stinking pig. I have killed a bunch of feral hogs and never have I smelled anything like that. The smell transferred to out hands just throwing him into the truck. He was very well haired and kight brown but that odor kept him off the menue.

PEPAW · « **Reply #3 on:** December 19, 2005, 08:21:27 AM »

Wonder if he was wounded or injured somehow?

I bath mine with soap and water before skinning or gutting them. Hang them with gloves and turn on the high pressure sprayer. Helps with the little critters too. Makes them more photogenic also! :lol:

Many times I have smelled bedded hogs before I saw them, but I figured it was their "poo" I smelled, not the hogs.

pepaw

howie1968 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 19, 2005, 10:55:25 AM »

hey RickT I have experienced this quite often actually i shot a few pigs a couple weeks ago and one of them stunk so bad i couldnt stand it nevertheless mine ended the same way yours did

Wynn · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2005, 02:01:31 PM »

I've smelled a few coming in. During mid day when they are bedded up, it is a good way to hunt them. Usually have to wait them out until dusk though as there is no way you can get to them in a Palmetto thicket without alerting them. We have used catch dogs though to flush them out for the shot. It can get pretty intense when a big boar explodes out of a thicket mad as heck that his nap has been disturbed.

rockbilly · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2006, 05:36:02 AM »

:shock: Boy, you worried bout the stink on one of them little ole hogs, come on down to Texas and lets go after one of them big ole javelinas.

You have never smelled stink untril you have gutted a big old Texas boar javelina. Bout like gutting a skunk. :wink:

MikeyB · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2006, 01:36:28 PM »

Quote from: rockbilly

:shock: Boy, you worried bout the stink on one of them little ole hogs, come on down to Texas and lets go after one of them big ole javelinas.

You have never smelled stink untril you have gutted a big old Texas boar javelina. Bout like gutting a skunk. :wink:

No kidding. The feral boars we shoot stink so bad we just drag them off into the brush. Only keepers are the young ones and the sows.
The area around our feeders smell like it too.

MikeyB