My Stealth Cam I590 pictures

[EddieWalker]

Chris,

Wild hogs are in no way like domestic pigs. I've read and seen on TV shows that say when a pig goes wild, it's DNA actually changes. They grow hari, their ears stand up and their tails straighten out.

I enjoy pork, but I love wild hog. The meat tastes completely different. Wild hogs are lean with very little fat on them. As wild animals, they are incredably fast, powerful and on top of the food chain. A mountain lion won't mess with a mature one, and most of them are safe from coyotes at six months of age. Too strong for them by then!!!

I'm hunted all over the Rocky Mountain Sates, Canada, Alaska, New Zealand and Namibia. I've tasted quite a few animals. Wild Hogs are right up there at the top as being the best tasting. Of course, the big old boars are not all that tastey, but a young one in the 50 to 60 pound range is very tender and flavorful.

The groupof four boars in most of the pictures are in that 60 to 80 pound range. Still very tastey!!!! I've shot 150 pound hogs that were better then most cuts of beef!!!

I don't care for deer meat, but of all the dear species in this country, the Whitetail is the best eating. Still not great, but good for jerky, sausage and stews.

Other good ones are Caribou, wild Sheep and Elk!!!!

The big boar in the last picture is going to be over 200 pounds. It's tough to tell how much they weigh when they get up to that size. They start to look the same after 200 pounds, but will surprise you when they are on the ground.

The funny thing about hogs and hog hunters is how badly those who shoot them exagerate their weight. It's worse then any fisherman that I've ever met. It's even worse then a women telling what she weighs!!!!!!

My experience is you'll end up with about a third the weight of the animal in meat. Get 50 punds of meat and that hog weighed around 150 pounds when it was alive.

Eddie

 

[CurlyDave]

I don't care for deer meat, but of all the dear species in this country, the Whitetail is the best eating. Still not great, but good for jerky, sausage and stews.

I have to agree with you on hogs being right up there on the taste charts for game. Elk is just about the best I have had, although caribou and wild sheep are in the future category for me.

For years, I thought that the only good part of a deer was the backstrap and the rest was only for sausage, but I made a discovery a month or so ago. I took about 3 lbs of venison "steaks", produced by amateur butchers gathered around a picnic table with knives and a few deer, and put it in a pressure cooker with a full quart of barbeque sauce. Pressure cooked it for 30 minutes (the whole process takes more like an hour including heat up and cool down) and it was pretty darned good.

I could still tell it was venison, but it was good venison.

Anyway, there is CurlyDave's cooking tip of the day.

 

[SkyPup]

Eddie, it has been great reading through your stealth cam thread, I need to get me one!

Here are a couple of porkers that I nailed recently in our backyard...

 

[jinjimbob]

Here are a couple of porkers that I nailed recently in our backyard...

Wow, they were armed too? You were lucky.

 

[czechsonofagun]

It's worse then any fisherman that I've ever met. It's even worse then a women telling what she weighs!!!!!!

Nice observation.

 

[Kfbeal]

Those almost look like domesticated pigs. Hope they weren't someone's FFA project. Most of our wild hogs around here are black or dark is why I say that. Nice use of the grapple.

I have a Moultrie that I bought this year to replace my last Moultrie that lasted 3 years. The same type of camera but the pictures aren't as good. Not as good as Eddie's for sure. Mine seem grainy. Plus I have to use standard batteries instead of the rechargable deer feeder battery.

The flash doesn't seem to bother any of the deer on my place. Most of the pictures are at night out here.

About bobcats, I drove the 4-wheeler out a few weeks before opening day of deer season and just sat on it to scope out the pattern. I did have a .243 with me though. As it was getting light, I noticed a round outline that looked like Garfield about 20 yards from me. I looked through the scope and couldn't see quite yet. After about 15 minutes I looked again and it was a bobcat sitting there watching me. No telling how long it was there. She sat there about 10 minutes after I could see her and she slowly walked off. They are pretty animals.

I saw a trailcam pic of a panther or something of the sort in northern texas. That would be kinda scary walking to the stand there at dark.

 

[Ridgewalker]

Those almost look like domesticated pigs. Hope they weren't someone's FFA project. .

I was thinking the same thing. That hog looks an awful like some of my uncles porkers. I wonder if it was a domestic that got away, I
bet he will be some really good eating.

I put my camera's back out this weekend. I put a Moultrie Game Spy 200 on one food plot, it's my old camera, flash and I put my new
Stealth Cam IR up next to my feeder. I plan to compare the two to see if the flash does make a difference. I don't think it does
but my cousin seems to think it scares off the big bucks.

 

[SkyPup]

Wow, they were armed too? You were lucky.

Here are three more I harvested this morning for the BBQ pit, they too were well armed.....

 

[EddieWalker]

248 pictures this week. Most of them seem to be of the birds during the day. They really seem to like the corn!!!! Even the deer seem to be coming around more often. Twice this week. Lots of raccoon pictures, but mostly the same thing except the one I posted That one made me smile.

The last picture was taken while Peyton and I were in the deer blind. We were waiting on them and hoping they would show up before dark. I saw two of them come out of the woods several hundred yards to our left, then they disappeared behind some trees while working their way to the feeder. Peyton is 8 and until then, had been telling me he was cold and wanted to go back to the house. I made him wait, telling him that they come out just before dark. If we go back early, we might miss them. I then made him put his jacket on. hahaha He's cold, but not wearing his jacket. Go figure.

The picture of me is while I'm touching the hogs eye with my barrel to make sure it's dead.

Eddie

 

[SkyPup]

Very nice pics Eddie, you certainly have some major swine on your property.

I've got some great photos I took this past weekend of about 60 Turkeys with a big fat gobbler strutting himself in the middle of the flock, I'll try to post them later this week!