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Originally Posted by Tcoat
When Dad went pig "shopping" he would grab the .22 leave just after dark and return less than an hour with a still warm pig that would have a bullet hole just behind the right ear. The pig would always be just a little short of when normally slaughtered. No doubt there was a pig farmer within a 20 minute drive that wondered where he lost one to every 4 months or so.
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Nah.....I reckon he just got a deal on a young tender one, that the pig farmer didn't want to feed out ......
Speaking of shooting hogs (one more story .....
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I was quite young and had my bolt action, single shot, .22 rifle with short ammo out around the hog barn. We had this old hog that had gone paralyzed in the hind quarters that was not recovering and just eating feed.
My father told to me to shot it, since I had my rifle out there. So, I sat down in front of the poor hog and fired a round ..... right between the eyes. The hog did nothing but squeal loudly ...... so, I pumped another round between his eyes and another and another ...... I was crying the whole time because the hog wouldn't die and just kept squealing.
My grandfather jumped off the tractor and slammed the hog in the head with a 2 pound hammer ....... and then it quit squealing.
Then my father scolded me for using so much ammo ....... and that I should have known to shoot it from
behind the head!
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