Deer vs. Hogs

[djhogdogger]

 

 Bar W, I cook pork backstrap the same way the I cook deer backstrap. Its tastes just as good to me.  

I like it that way but recently I've started leaving them whole after I bone them out and slow roasting them in the oven for several hours on low heat. You can't hardly do that with deer because it dries out. When I was growing up I didn't know there was any other way to cook deer, pork, or fish for that matter than frying it. But anyway you cook it I'll eat it.

 I have to agree with you. Wild pork and deer is way better than anything out of a store. Yea, I like to take the pork shoulder and season it real good and then wrap it in foil and slow cook it in the oven on a low heat over a long period of time.....even the ankles are tender. LOL 

[charles]

hey tn hillbilly, any1 can buy, raise (mother nature did mmost of it) and train a dog, but u try to and sit hrs on end for a kill of this. pls excuse the ford in the background
. aint just any1 can sit and kill a deer this old, especially with a bow. if u think any1 can do it. lets see yaw take ur dogs out of the equation and u go in and bay n catch the hog. dianna, i used to be, mayb still am like u. i couldnt sit still for mmore than an hr and would get restless, but when i didnt hav anything to do, done gave up drinking so i would hav the money for hunting, i mmade myself adapt sat still. the pics are proff. i used to never horn hunt, always looked at it, that u cant eat the hirns and they make lousy soup, but after that kill, my first kill out of 9 that yr with a bow, i shed a lil light on the horns.

[tnhillbilly]

Yes sir, I have spent countless hrs sitting in a stand holding a bow in freezing rain, sleet and snow. used to be a die hard bow Hunter. Hadn't set in a Stand for about 12- 15 yrs. Got bored one weekend in between dog seasons and borrowed a stand from one of my buddies, walked up the mtn. Just grabbed a tree, didn't really care if I even seen a deer, just wanted to go set in the woods. Shot the biggest buck I ever see in the woods.
Mother nature has alot to do with those big bucks too. Yes for the most part bow hunting takes a little skill, but so does raising and training dogs.

not near the size of yours, but for around here it was a trophy,

[charles]

 thats still a fine looking deer. deer in tx aint nowhere near the size they are in kansas and wouldnt have every got to hut ks if i hadnt joind the army but glad im out. still gonna go back and try to tag out on a 1wk hunt up there.

[BarrNinja]

Dinah, for me, it depends on how you hunt the deer to make it the challenge you are looking for to get that since of personal accomplishment.
I love to bow hunt them on the ground and in a climbing stand. Spot and stalk is one heck of a challenge when its just you and the deer.
Putting the sneak on a doe in an open field to finally run an arrow through it is some kind of excitement for me!
I don't knock it at all but I have never killed a deer from a box stand overlooking a feeder or food plot. Its not a challenge for me and don't care to do it.
I have legally shot a few meat animals from a truck though and will continue to do so. They tasted good but I didn't get any satisfaction as far as hunting goes.

Other than that, Id rather hunt with a dog than anything.

[djhogdogger]

Dinah, for me, it depends on how you hunt the deer to make it the challenge you are looking for to get that since of personal accomplishment.
I love to bow hunt them on the ground and in a climbing stand. Spot and stalk is one heck of a challenge when its just you and the deer.
Putting the sneak on a doe in an open field to finally run an arrow through it is some kind of excitement for me!
I don't knock it at all but I have never killed a deer from a box stand overlooking a feeder or food plot. Its not a challenge for me and don't care to do it.
I have legally shot a few meat animals from a truck though and will continue to do so. They tasted good but I didn't get any satisfaction as far as hunting goes.

Other than that, Id rather hunt with a dog than anything.

Yea, we have a deer lease which seems to be more of a camping experience. I love to camp but we actually do more deer hunting, sitting very still either on the ground, or on the 4 wheeler on the woodline next to a hay field not too far from our house. It is very difficult for me. I guess I am too hyperactive.  LOL I don't have anything against it, I just get more pleasure from hog hunting with the dogs. I guess, in my original post, what I meant to say is that hog hunting is way cheaper than deer hunting and I find that hog hunting is more fun ( to me ) and I hope that hog hunting never becomes the big business that deer hunting has become. I wasn't trying to poke diehard deer hunters with a stick. 

[levibarcus]

Hey Ninja! Good to see you back around, I figured a bad hog finally got ya.  

When I was 12 years old, all I did was hunt, and mostly deer hunt. I didn't have friends, and if I wasn't in school or working, I was in the woods. Bow, gun, it didn't matter. I would pass deer up just so I didn't tag out and could hunt all season. Several years while in my teens I passed up some nice deer and shot a spike on the last day of season. lol I still enjoy the heck out of it, but if given the choice to have to give up deer or dogging hogs I would give up the deer first for sure. That may change in years to come, but that's how it is for me right now.

Here is one that I killed while he was working a scrape last year. I feel the same way as the Ninja about feeders and such. This deer came from a spot that has produced numerous deer, hogs, coyotes, bobcats, etc. It is a fancy stand. A tree fell several years ago and I sit in the fork of the trunk on the ground overlooking a couple of natural funnels and feeding/bedding areas.

[T-Bob Parker]

Tom, you look like a young Ray Stevens.

[tnhillbilly]

Tom, you look like a young Ray Stevens.

HAHAHA, thats first time ive heard that one.

[bighogtexasstyle]

well i have been hunting all summer and the only thing i have seen is deer! this leads me to think there are way more deer than hogs so maybe hog hunting SHOULD be more exspensive because they are sooo rare  

get you a walker gyp and cross with your birddog and you'll have some sure enough good deer dogs,or you can come buy old repo and have you a real hog dog if he let you gwet in your buggy.lol

[SwampHunter]

I don't care much for deer hunting, mayb if we could run dogs here I might ,
I like the chase you never know how big a hog they got bayed or shoot it might get away , I been chaseing a 400 pound hog for over a year he a smart dude an keep loosing my dogs but one day I will get him. , alot of people ask me why I dnt shoot him but that another no fun , If I never catch him it's fine with me but  the excitement I get when I think my dogs are after him or I see him hightailing down one of the trails that's fun to me , he sure gives the dogs a good work out , even if I do catch him I may not even kill him I prolly let him
Go ,

[firemedic]

Seems to me that you are either a dog person or not.....as for me...I AM. I have had the drive to pursue and either catch or kill some kind of critter for as long as I can remember....it's part of what makes me....me. I have always loved dogs and I've had one for as long as I can remember. I have hunted deer since I was about 14 and I've taken a lot of them ....and a couple of very impressive bucks for the southeastern U.S. But come on people....deer hunting doesn't hold a candle to hog doggin'.....IF.....you are a dog person.....if you aren't, then you probably enjoy deer hunting or some other pursuit as much as hog hunting with dogs. Not a thing in the round world wrong with that at all....not a thing,....BUT,....in my humble opinion.....nothing can compare to hunting with a big game dog if you are a true, dyed in the wool dog person. I'm guess that there are varying degrees of this....I'm pretty sure I'm on the high side of it though. I've hunted big bucks in NM, TX and here in AL....killed 2 very impressive mule deer in NM and I'm going to Utah to hunt the Paunsaugunt in early Nov. where some mighty large mule deer reside,....but none of this campares to hunting hogs down in southern GA where there's a lot of them and we kill a bunch every year. I enjoy wild hog meat as much as anything I put down my neck......and we eat a lot of deer too....but hog is better to me. Deer are fun until I can run a hog.....my dogs have my heart.....simple as that.