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[Andrew Vida]

Butchery is ugly, foul business as far as I am concerned.  When I was a 
kid I spent time on a farm out by grandma's place.  I helped the farmer, 
whose name I oddly no longer recall, with a little of this and that.  He 
raised hogs among other things.  Every day we slopped them with moldy 
bread, some grain, and water.  They loved it.  One evening he told me 
that in the morning he was going to slaughter a hog for market and asked 
me to pick one.  I did.  The next morning, come feeding time, all the 
hogs were doing their usual thing, crowding the trough except the one I 
picked out.  That boy was trying to squeeze himself into a crack between 
the boards in the barn.  That experience never left me.  They know. 
They want life as much as do we.  That is nothing any decent person 
treats lightly.

wmullett at bright.net wrote:
> When we butchered, we only used a 22, but that was with them standing still.  When you came back to shoot the second one though, they all jammed themselves into the corner with their heads tuned, squealing like mad.  Kind says they understood what was happening.
> 
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>> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:23:38 -0400
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>> peter fels wrote:
>>
>>> Don't wanna bore you Mike...But you are probably 
>>> gonna want  more than 4, .22 zip guns to confront a boar.
>>> Probably. 
>> 	I'm not sure a .22 lr would even succeed in pissing one off much more 
>> than it already would be if it felt the need to charge you.
>>
>> 	Speaking of which, I have no idea what would be a reliable one-shot 
>> stop for such beggars.  Biggest I have is a 270 and I do wonder if it is 
>> enough.  Great on  deer and humans, but those boar are crazy tough beasts.
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