My boar mount back from the taxidermist

Pkiernan

Really happy with how this came out.

Not the biggest pig I have shot, but maybe my last chance at a boar for a long while.

Got this fella in California. Hit him at 300 yards with a 180 grain from my .308.

He dropped on the spot.

Will be bringing him back to Dublin at the end of the year to go up beside my whitetail.

daithi55

did he star in the lion king by any chance and sing hakuna matata
well done mate

kildare.17hmr

Looks great lad! Big oul tusks on that fella

ssl

Lovely looking trophy. Wouldn't mind one myself sometime. What bullet did you use

poulo6.5

nice job well done. what else is hanging on the wall with your pig. looks like you have a bit of a collection going on

Savage93

Pkiernan wrote: »

Really happy with how this came out.

Not the biggest pig I have shot, but maybe my last chance at a boar for a long while.

Got this fella in California. Hit him at 300 yards with a 180 grain from my .308.

He dropped on the spot.

Will be bringing him back to Dublin at the end of the year to go up beside my whitetail.

NOW THERE YE GO , for all the unbelievers, this is an irish boar, shot as the OP said in California, which as we all know is just west of Roscommon town.:D:D:D:D:D:D

Pkiernan

ssl wrote: »

Lovely looking trophy. Wouldn't mind one myself sometime. What bullet did you use

Bog standard Remington 180 grain Core-Lokt.

It is the one size fits all for what I hunt here (except for the waterfowl of course!).

Will also use it on a mountain lion hunting trip later this month.

rowa

I feel a mother-in-law joke coming on pkiernan........

Double Barrel

Some good eating there lads.

Pkiernan

I was pleasantly surprised at how well the meat tasted.

The chops were great - not nearly as gamey as I would have expected.

I had the hams cut in half and smoked.

I only got about 1 kg of bacon off him - he was not a fat pig - which was also smoked and is the best bacon I have ever had.

I got over 50lbs of suasage meat off him, which I have been putting into chili's and stews. Bit of a gamey taste off thism, though if I refrigerate them for 2 or 3 days after cooking they are great.

I also got some ham hocks which will go into ham and green pea soup and some ribs which I have yet to cook up.

I have used every part of this guy (except for his rollocks!).


Like I said, the boars (particularly if they have been running with a herd of sows) usually stink something awful and this is imparted into the meat. Either I got a gay boar or he was being kept away by a bigger one.

We have seen absolute monsters there - I missed one in 2005 the size of a VW Beetle at night at 10 yards, which still has me crying today when I think about it 7 years later

Pkiernan

poulo6.5 wrote: »

nice job well done. what else is hanging on the wall with your pig. looks like you have a bit of a collection going on

Actually, that's the wall the taxidermist keeps them on until the owners are in to pick them up.

rowa

Pkiernan wrote: »

I was pleasantly surprised at how well the meat tasted.

The chops were great - not nearly as gamey as I would have expected.

I had the hams cut in half and smoked.

I only got about 1 kg of bacon off him - he was not a fat pig - which was also smoked and is the best bacon I have ever had.

I got over 50lbs of suasage meat off him, which I have been putting into chili's and stews. Bit of a gamey taste off thism, though if I refrigerate them for 2 or 3 days after cooking they are great.

I also got some ham hocks which will go into ham and green pea soup and some ribs which I have yet to cook up.

I have used every part of this guy (except for his rollocks!).


Like I said, the boars (particularly if they have been running with a herd of sows) usually stink something awful and this is imparted into the meat. Either I got a gay boar or he was being kept away by a bigger one.

We have seen absolute monsters there - I missed one in 2005 the size of a VW Beetle at night at 10 yards, which still has me crying today when I think about it 7 years later

Is the size due to them feeding on cattle feed ? Someone told me american cattle feed was laced with steroids , thats why the boars get so large.

Double Barrel

rowa wrote: »

Is the size due to them feeding on cattle feed ? Someone told me american cattle feed was laced with steroids , thats why the boars get so large.

Rowa

Free range cattle get very little if anything in the way of supplemental feed, so there is little chance of boar ingesting antibiotics and steroids.

In the really big feedlot operations (industrial farming) cattle are given anabolic steroids, (sestradiol, testosterone, and progesterone), and antibiotics are added to the cattle feed to promote growth and fight diseases. :rolleyes:

terminator2

he reminds me of the mother in law:D only that would be offensive to the boar

Pkiernan

rowa wrote: »

Is the size due to them feeding on cattle feed ? Someone told me american cattle feed was laced with steroids , thats why the boars get so large.

Where we hunt (a 10,000 acre and a 3500 acre ranch), the ranchers cattle are just left out to eat the grass and fend for themselves.

The only thing they put out for them are salt licks.

The pigs get big because they have no competition and lots of food from the scrub oak trees. They also have no predators (except us!). Even a mountain lion will not take on a really big boar.

We have had times where big boars do not run from people on ATV's. They will stand their ground. This is why I never go there unarmed now. I would love to play chicken with a big boar when I have my Remington 870 slug gun with me!

Spunk84

Mounted in Alaska had a class boar mount, he mounted the boar coming thru the wall,ass was on one side and the other half was on the otherside of the wall and looked like he had ran straight thru the wall .was class

ssl

Seeing a boars head mounted always makes me smile, they look like there having a laugh, but there obliviously not..

iTom

Very nice,would be nice if we had wild boar shooting here.
Pkiernan would be nice to see the rest of your trophy's you have on the wall.