It’s Saturday night at Lake
Mary, Mississippi, and my household has congregated round our big-screen TV to
watch LSU play Texas A&M in Faculty Station. It’s an enormous recreation: LSU is ranked
Quantity 8 within the nationwide polls, and the Aggies are rated Quantity 14.
Neither staff has misplaced a Southeast Convention recreation.

I’m stuffed with a way of
well-being. Family members are gathered round me. Chilly beer is within the
fridge, and we’ve loads of game-time snacks. I regulate my Lazy Boy
recliner to a snug semi-prone place.

All goes properly within the first
half, and LSU exhibits good prospects of beating the unbearable Aggies. Then, my
staff falls aside. Three interceptions and three missed subject targets attest to a
Tiger meltdown. I put together myself for a significant case of the weekend blues. We’re
working out of beer.

Then windfall intervenes. The
recreation digital camera affixed to a pecan tree alerts us to 2 feral hogs rooting about
in our three-acre entrance yard. All misery concerning the ballgame vanishes, and two
members of the family escape their rifles from our gun secure. Armed with a 30.06 and
a 30-30, they creep right down to my house’s floor stage and begin capturing.

Each pigs squeal and head for
the comb. The smaller hog is mortally wounded however manages to journey about 50
yards earlier than succumbing to her wounds. Two generations of members of the family with
flashlights observe the blood path and discover the interloper. She is stone lifeless.

What to do with a lifeless feral
hog? Members of the family truss it as much as one of many metal girders that hold our
dwelling quarters above the annual spring flood waters. Then they subject costume
the pig, dividing it into hams, ribs, pork shoulders, and backstrap. 

The hog slayers ice down the
meat in a big ice chest and name it an evening. We study that LSU misplaced to A
&M by a rating of 38-23, however no person cares.

The following morning, I suggest we
take all of the hog meat to a close-by recreation processing plant and switch
it into pork chops, sausage, and dinner-size pork loins. I provide to foot the
invoice.

We vote, and everybody besides me
opts to course of the hog on our kitchen counter. By two within the afternoon, our
feral hog is parceled and tucked away within the freezer–about 100 kilos of
meat.

Feral hogs are a
main nuisance within the rural South, the place they tear up the panorama and destroy crops. Persons are allowed to hunt them year-around by day or night time. 

Everybody I do know who
has eaten wild-pig meat tells me that the small porkers are scrumptious. Thus, I ended my weekend feeling good about my household’s contribution to feral hog management. And I am wanting ahead to consuming a pig harvested in my very own entrance yard.

Who cares who received the LSU-Texas A&M recreation?