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Re: Kill the pigs
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2013, 04:54:46 PM »
For you wordsmiths,
duroc
It translates to what??
дурак
That means fool in Russian.
durak is the English equivalent, but duroc sounds the same.
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Re: Kill the pigs
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2013, 07:23:07 AM »
just a little info on pigs...being in the military now and growing up as a military brat I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB in Cali. where it is the orgin of Russian boars in the Western states. So how did the pigs come here you may ask? well back in the day when Vandenberg was a army base the troops had problems with gophers(troops stepped in the holes and broke ankles) so the army asked them selves what get rid of gophers.....rattlesnakes!!! when the rattlesnakes over populated and began bitting troops they asked themselves what gets rid of rattle snakes? Russian Boars!!! they have a thick skin called body armor which the snakes couldn't penetrate...when the pigs first arrived there was no hunting them and they populated for ten years or so and out ran the base and began expanding off the base...and that is where western states get pigs....eastern states are a mix between 1. boars that have escaped hunting ranches 2. domesticated pigs running free 3. javalinas <---how ever you spell it.... and since those three have mixed we have seen many different characteristic traits change in eastern pigs. All in all I say pig hunting is a blast as long as you don't shoot one too big....the bigger they are the more sour the meat (don't ask how i know  :'( )

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Re: Kill the pigs
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2013, 10:24:32 AM »
Interesting huntingyearround,
In Hawaii, there are Russian Boars on several islands. On the Big Island, it was a sign of manhood when a man with only a knife, waited in a tree and when the boar came by, jumped on it and killed it.
The boars were often seen at cemeteries, where they would dig up the graves.  I was planning a trip to Kalapapa, where the boars were big and plentiful, but the trip never materialized.
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Re: Kill the pigs
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2013, 10:42:12 AM »
If you ever get the opportunity to do it I would say go for it. My friends would always get burnt out by hunting pigs but I couldn't get enough of it. Also with the right of passage and the traditions behind it make it that much better. But again watch out for the meat on the big hogs  :puke: my first pig was a 275 boar and we cut 2" if fat off him took him to the butcher and the butcher laughed. I had it made into sausage and still it was nasty.

 


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