How to Field Dress Wild Boar

Once you have successfully hunted a wild boar, you will need to field dress it. Field dressing is the preliminary slaughter of your boar before you take it back to your car. You will need some skill with a knife, as well as a fairly strong stomach. Buying meat in the grocery store is nothing like gutting a freshly dead boar.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Tarp
• Rope
• Triple tree (metal hanging device used to bleed a pig)
• Sturdy hacksaw
• Water
• Knife sharpener
• Knives
• Rubber gloves
• Bucket

Relocate the Wild Boar Carcass

1. Tie a length of your rope around the boar's feet.

2. You may wish to tie a piece of wood to the other end of the rope to make it easier on your hands to pull.

3. Pull the boar carcass to a level area, preferably near a source of water. A sturdy tree with low hanging branches will help expedite your cleaning. This will serve as your field dressing area.

Field Dress the Wild Boar

4. Untie the boar. Attach the rope to the non-hook end of a triple tree device you have brought with you for this purpose.

5. Impale the boar's hind feet on 2 of the hooks on the triple tree device before you begin to field dress it.

6. Throw the rope attached to the triple tree over a sturdy tree branch and haul the boar up so that it is hanging off the ground.

7. Secure the rope tightly so that the boar carcass will not fall while you are performing the field dressing.

8. Put on your rubber gloves. Surgical gloves work best since they allow for maximum dexterity.

9. Slit open the pig down the center of the belly. The cut should run from hind legs to front legs. If the pig was female, don't be shocked if unborn piglets fall out.

10. Take your knife and reach into the main body cavity. Cut out all of the internal organs. Pull all of the innards out at once to make the job go more quickly. Let the organs and viscera fall onto the ground.

11. Locate the liver and place it in a plastic bag. Boar liver that hasn't been cut during dressing is considered a delicacy by boar hunters.

12. Remove the boar's head with a hacksaw.

13. Skin the boar, taking off vertical strips of hide.

14. Clean out the cavity with water.

15. Wrap the carcass in a tarp and carry it back to your car.

Tips & Warnings

• Hunters often leave the internal organs for coyotes and vultures to eat.

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on 3/15/2008 Maybe how it is done in Texas. It will not work with California Boars that usually weigh over 200 pounds and occasiionally up to near 1000 pounds. Never heard of a triple hook but a device called a gambrel available cheaply from most sporting goods outlets works just fine. Best to have some kind of hoisting rack as trees strong enough to use a heavy duty block and tackle on are scarce in pig hunting areas. Using a tripod game hoist which I carry onmy game cart allows you to field dress on location rather than damage the meat by dragging the whole animal to your vehicle. Skinning should not be done until you are prepared to protect the exposed meat using vinegar wash and game bags - usually done back at camp rather than in the field as the hide helps keep the insects away. I hunt free range on public land here as hunting on a ranch is not hunting in my opinion. Also works with deer,