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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 2961112" data-attributes="member: 15054">Nice kills there!I shot a mom pig today and a piglet..my bolt action ..223 is just not quick enough in thick brush.I got mine at 1PM in Love WMA about 1-1.25 miles back into the woods following grown over trails...the pigs have the place well rutted up.dressed out the female I say was 190..I could not drag it but a few feet and gave up.I cut the ass end off and the backstraps.. NO smell at all and no ticks or creepy crawlies at all.. very clean and thin hair.I shot a piglet and left it as a chicken had 2x more meat than that and my hands were full with dragging the hams out.Females taste like store meat.. but dry.Males taste pissy even farm raised ones if they have nuts.When you make sausage do not over mix it after you grind it.I found grind 1 time and slightly mix,, just enough to incorporate the spices.Do that and your dry meat will not seem so dry.I hear if the hair is thin like a farm raised pig then they are eating very well,, if the hair is thick like a grizzly bear they are working harder for their food.I do not know,,, I do know I liked the pork chops i made today from the one I shot today.. Yea a little dry and tough as I did not age it.. the rest is aging now  and hams are in brine.Both were bang flop no running at all load was 26gr H4895 and 55gr v -max bullet CCI 550 primer Federal cases. savage axis.So far deer, coyote, bobcat and hogs have all been bang flop with that load.I have underestimated the .223 for many years.Just got a .223 last year.</blockquote>

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