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Have not posted for a while so I thought I would put this one up. Sorry for the somewhat 'colourful' first picture. First pig / animal with me new Sauer 101 in 6,5x55 SE - was a terrible angle but managed back of the neck and out the offside front. A midnight sounder of 5 - 6 pigs. Dropped on the spot. No meat damage. Dressed out at 21 kgs. Good eating young boar! Waidmannsheil !








Ps the cut in the front leg is where the sample was taken for the trichinosis test - one piece of internal muscle (typically the diaphragm) and one external muscle sample (typically taken off the front leg).

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Charlie, who does the trichinosis test? Is that a standard practice there?

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Biebs hi. Internal muscle (typically a piece of the diaphragm) and an external muscle sample (usually off front leg) are taken and submitted to the State Vets Office along with a form stating where shot, age, sex and weight. The Vets Office does the tests free of charge and if you do not hear back from them in 48 hours from submission then you can process the pig. If it tests positive then they call you and you have to deliver up the carcass. Has never happened to us so far.....

Needs to be done on all wild boar and badger.

System works pretty well.

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Nice shooting! How are you liking the Sauer 101? Accuracy good?

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Liking the 101 a lot. Good groupings at 100m and pretty good at 200m but thats more me than the gun. Looking forward to taking it to Africa in May / June for long range springbok!

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Needs to be done on all wild boar and badger.

I knew that economic conditions and fuel prices were making things difficult in Europe, but they've got you eating badgers?

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We had this conversation before on AR - smoked badger hams ..... a delicacy in many parts of Europe. Nothing else really gets used eaten other than the hams. But a lot of folks render down the fat as a rub!

Have eaten smoked badger on one occasion on a Ritz cracker and must say that it was not at all bad !

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