Cleaning a feral hog in 15 mins

I had a total of 19 mins of video, I only edited out my walking to camera, moving gut bucket, cooler, or standing around talking and getting something to drink.
If you check the video responses the 1st hog I cleaned is on THE HOG ZONE channel. Hope this helps. Big thanks to TXBucksnort for the invite and great company. Check out his channel y'all
http://www.youtube.com/user/TXBucksnort
http://www.youtube.com/user/THEHOGZONE

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[Austavious1]

was the giant bowie knife strictly necessary? personally i find a four inch blade is enough for evertlything you need to skin basically any animal in the US. but i guess to each his own. he did get the job done in a timely manor.

[deepfriedking]

@Austavious1 I've cleaned all sorts of critters with nothing more then a 2 inch pocket knife. I have found using large blades speeds things up. We still had another pig to go with this load. When you do more then one hog at a time, you can't mess around being slow

[towlebucket]

If he's especially big or if I'm camping and won't be taking him home to skin, I like to remove the head first and then gut while he's still on the ground (to remove some weight) and then finally skin. I've found that gutting is a helluva lot easier while the hog is on the ground but propped up at a 35 to 45 degree angle, against a rock or on a hill or incline.

That's just my way though. This would work well too but I don't own any spreader bars.

[deepfriedking]

@towlebucket Done it that way also, I use to have a cradle I layed the hog in and it worked great, but that was a long time ago. Thanks for watching Might want to take a look at THE HOG ZONE

[Sledge276]

Is the knife dull or is the hide really that tough to get off? I ask because I'm new to hunting and haven't cleaned one before.

[deepfriedking]

@Sledge276 Not dull cut a football in half and that's what you are dealing with. Big boars especially. Unless the pig is a small sow you can't just pull off the hide

[deepfriedking]

@SonsoftheRight Awesome put up a video I'd like to learn if it's faster. I use a large knife to open the pig so I can cut through the ribcage, I'm not butchering here i'm getting them in the cooler.

[SonsoftheRight]

good try, little fella, but you went about it all wrong. The whole time you had the pig on the ground, you were just working against yourself. I clean dozens of pig a year and know what I'm doing. Your inexperience especially showed when you used a large knife to open the pig. Anyone who has cleaned a pig knows how to get the intestines out without cutting the stomach, etc. And there is an easy way to cut through the joints at its point of articulation without all that barbaric hacking.

[beerscientist357]

@SunnyMoon2010 The skin gets to hairy

[deepfriedking]

@carolynsheepshearer thanks I plan on it