Hot afternoon hog

[6GUNSONLY]

Nimrod .308 and I snuck up on this porker Thursday afternoon while he was pilfering the apple crop on "the farm" (Nimrod's little corner of paradise). A 180 gr. Speer RN out of my BLR .308 ended his apple thieving (and everything else, except providing us some hams and pork loin).

 

[stevemb]

Yum ! Am smelling bacon and hearing a Hank jr tune in my head right now.

 

[Arokcrwlr]

Nice Ken! I like that BLR...

 

[jgt]

I hear a tune in my head, but it's Gene Watson."Hogs in the Hot Afternoon" :wink: :roll:

 

[jgt]

All kidding aside, I love it, thanks for sharing, especially the picture. Looks like you do have a paradise there.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Great shot.

The only thing I don't like about the BLR is that it is made in Japan (on the other hand, to be fair, I drove a Mazda for years....go figure). But it IS an American design, and has an interesting design and manufacturing history. Mine's a .243, also a "Blowning." Action is as slick as a well-used '92.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Thanks guys. Nothing wrong with the Japanese-made Brownings, but this one is a first-year production Belgian-made one.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Not just a good 'un, but a RARE 'un! I guess the only rarer ones are the very few made in Ohio.

 

[Rumrunner]

Nice job with a nice gun. Enjoy the pork.

 

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CHOP CHOP

 

[Big Old Boy]

If he's been eating apples should be some good pork!!

 

[WendyZXZ]

Looks and sounds like a great shot and bacon!

 

[Joe S.]

kill em all! congrats!

 

[6GUNSONLY]

kill em all! congrats!

We try, but there always seems to be more of them. That's the third hog from that spot in a week.

 

[Joe S.]

Theyre hard to control. Luckily they haven't found our land but we know they're close.

 

[NH Rugerman]

Wish we had 'me like that up here in NH....makes me hungry just thinkin 'bout it.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Theyre hard to control. Luckily they haven't found our land but we know they're close.

I would think so. My son works out of West Point and they're overrun with them there.

 

[stevemb]

Have some of the Tampa area family up now. A couple of the clan there hunt and keep all their freezers full of feral hog. They say they like the ribs, loins, hams, but the bacon not as good. I wonder if its a taste thing, or the feral hogs lack fat content. Maybe they have the fat content if taken older/bigger ? I don't know.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

The ones we kill around here have very little fat on them, so not much in the way of bacon. We just took the hams and backstraps off this one; that way you don't even have to gut them - just skin them down from the hind legs to the shoulders, cut out the backstraps and cut off the hams. Let the varmints have the rest.

 

[Ruger Packer]

I once had a made in Japan .308 BLR. One of my favorite whitetail rifles when I lived in Wisconsin. Wish I still had it. Sold it to finance my move to warmer climes.

Nice hog!!!