Last week they stood me up 4 nights but I got even last night--2 boars and 2 sows this morning. That makes 38 so far this year on this ranch. And, that added $20 to my wallet due to the county's $5 per pigtail bounty. Gonna go collect this afternoon.
The largest had some respectable dentition--
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Good job anmd I wish that bounty set up was started in EVERY county.
Agreed! On recent hunt on YO Schreiner Ranch, the pigs tails were cut off and saved to take in for a bounty paid by the county. IRC, the bounty was more than $5, but I am not sure exactly what it was. I dropped two sows and donated them to the ranch for the guides bounties and the buzzards.
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Larry--it was "sort of" at the same time. Those 4 -- rather the last 3 were tearing around inside the trap pen--which is 100' around. Took a full magazine from my Remington Nylon 66 before I had all 4 down with a coup de grace to the earhole for two of them.
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In some areas around the state if you could work it out with the buyer, you could trap the things figure out a way to restrain the pig long enough to take a pair of loppers, whack the tail off, sell the pigs to the buyer and haul the tails in for the bounty.
You can either kill them and cut off their tails, or if you trap and sell them to a commercial buyer, their receipt can be used as "proof of kill" to claim the bounty as well.
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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting: That would make things easier.
Back is still cranky from dragging them to the trap door and then wrestling them out -- but there are no buyers close enough to make it worth their while.
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Dustoffer, I had no idea there were any buyers at all for wild hog carcasses. What do they do with the meat, since it wouldn't be inspected in any way? And by the way, congratulations on a job well done.
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Bill--I don't know any of the particulars on this.
Here's a list of stations in Texas--there are a bunch. Most of the ones I've read any details on only buy hogs 70# and up. I guess that the smaller ones' yield doesn't justify the labor to process them maybe? I've heard of some who only buy them live and that means you have to have a gate or other means in your trap pen to shuffle them into a trailer for transport.
As far as I know they only buy live hogs and they will take 70 pounders and up but prefer 100 pounds and over.
Bill these buyers have holding pens and when the get enough pigs og the right size there are companies around Texas that will contract with the buyers and pick them up a truckload at a time. Fronteir Meats in Fort Worth is one I can think of at the present.
I believe they come out to the buyers facilities and pick up th.e pigs a semi load at a time, transport them to the companies processing plant and butcher them.
They have inspectors on hand and as the meat is inspected it is then handled just like domerstic pigs from feedlots.
I have seen brochettes of Wild Boar at higher end grocery stores in Fort Worth at $10.00 a popund.
I'll be darned. Next time I see "wild boar" on the menu, I'll have a bit of a clue. Be interesting to talk to an inspector about what they look for in a wild vs. domestic carcass, if anything.
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I agree--$5 per tail isn't much but it covers the cost of the corn--nearly. The county got $15,000 in grant monies which is only good thru the end of August, so I'm saying no way 3,000 hog tails will be turned in in 5-6 weeks. Money left over goes back to the source as I understand it.
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