This is off topic. If your worried about the meat being tainted with piggy taste, do what we do. Dress them and fry a piece of fat off the hog and smell it, taste it. I've eaten 200 plus pound boars taste like they came from the grocery store, but the absolute worst one was 2 pigs about 25...
I've helped a couple of hunters drag and load critters. If i was in the area I'd have done it for nothing. Bad to get old(i know) nice to have friends though.
Well bamboo looks very useful except as fire wood. Impressive skills, and knowledge of bushcraft and woodsmanship. The best job of scalding the hair off a hog I have ever seen.
I "used" to have a friend who always asked me to take him hunting, being a friend I would put him in a good spot, never failed he always shot one. You did see I said used to have a friend, right.
You just need to put him to bed the night before so you don't get to close next morning. Call less than you think you should, and not as loud as you want to, soft calls bring in the big boys a lot of the time. Good luck next time, work has kept me away from home but I'm planning on going this...
Someone already said it but here it is again, turkeys are either very hard to kill or they run in to commit suicide. If you have never ever hunted anything why start with the one we all try and kill and mostly don't, I mean why not hunt squirrel first, kinda ease into it. But if this is your...