Neil's Wild Boar Hunt, September 2011

A View from Neil's Deer Stand

Recently Neil hunted for a wild boar in his deer stand.  He is assigned a piece of land to hunt and manage the game on.  He videoed the boars and set out field corn to draw them in.  One night he went out on a quarter moon with overcast skies to scout from the deer stand.  Sure enough a gigantic boar meandered in.  He watched the boar for twenty minutes to confirm it was indeed a male.  Finally he shot and went down to view his catch but he could not find his kill.  Neil went to find the forest ranger, a friend of his to help him hunt down the whereabouts of the pig.  They followed the blood trail till its end and discovered a mass of coarse hair with rounded sharp tusks.  The meat had to go to the forest office.  

Neil and the boar

The forest office butchers the meat and sells it to restaurants.  If a hunter desires the meat of his hunt he must purchase it.  Neil's boar meat went to make the brots at a local fest.  Naturally we had to go to the fest and taste it.  We arrived at the Rodenbach Fest and heard the sounds of a chain saw.  Chain saw wood carving was occurring before our eyes.  An over sized log was being converted into a meticulously carved eagle.  Another man carved the trunk of the tree into a husky looking mans face teamed with a burly beard (think Father Time).  Our main goal was to try out the wild boar.  We headed to the food stand and ordered stewed deer meat in wine sauce and of course wild boar brots.  We ate happily to Neil Diamond's greatest hits playing in the background and at the moment "Sweet Caroline" was ringing along.  The brots were indeed fantastic.