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Subject: Re: RE: rec.hunting Digest   V1 #31
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Date: 14 Apr 91 14:57:29 GMT
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In article <531@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>, hunter@CCC.NERSC.GOV (NAME ) writes...
> 
>	I am hoping to go pig hunting one of these days and I have a
>question about cleaning them. A book that I have says that you need to
>dip them in a barrel of scalding hot water and scrape the bristles off
>before skinning them.  Now, I very seldom take a barrel of scalding
>hot water with me when I go hunting. Is this really necessary, and if
>so, why?
> 
>	Steven Hunter
>	Hunter@es.net

     We roasted a whole pig (100 pounds) this winter for a church
dinner.  The animal was shot, field dressed, and frozen when it was
donated.  A month or two later we thawed it out and attempted to scald
it and scrape the hair off.  It was really hard to get the hair off,
and we wound up leaving a lot on.  This didn't seem to have any ill
effect, at least for roasting whole.  (Our big mistake was starting
the cooking about 6 hours too early.  It was optimally done at 0600,
just in time for an early breakfast!)

Philip Munts N7AHL
NRA Extremist, etc.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks