Arguing on the internet just gets you dirty and makes the pig happy.

  I wouldn't argue, that hog looks happy to get out of that wallow.  I'm not so sure he will be happy where he's going though.

I have spits to butterfly one that size...

  Could one be done on a dangle spit if you chopped it up?  I suppose you would need a few of them.  I looked at prices in the store and a pork shoulder is astronomical compared to a few years ago.

Don't y'all have feral hogs you can take with your pocket knife?

  Maybe that's what's been tearing up the raised beds!  I'm holding a vigil tonight.  Would a serrated bread knife work on the devils?

Shot from a cannon?

    Cannister shot?

If you put rock salt and pepper corns in the cannister shot it'll be ready for smoking soon as you get it cleaned.

Frosty The Lucky.

  Where can I rent a cannon?

Got a falconette in the smithy; 2" bore...Please do NOT shoot hard boiled eggs out of it----it's a real pain to clean the bore afterwards.

  I would never shoot hardboiled eggs out of a cannon.  I can't imagine who on earth would think of such a thing.  How did you get the bore clean btw?

Well there was this feast and we had DOZENS of leftover hardboiled eggs; *after* we gave away as many as we could....and we were going out in the woods shooting and I had been invited to take the cannon, (I had two named Vox Populi and Vox Dei)....

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

As a smoothbore, we removed the breech and ran the oversized steel bore brush through using a 1/2" drill and pouring buckets of rig wash through until it was *shiny*.

The smell of vaporized egg plating the barrel innerds was most amusing.

10 hours ago, Nodebt said:

  Where can I rent a cannon?

What are your ballistic aspirations? In other words, what do you want to fire and to what distance?

Ha ha but not really kidding...

  I want to shoot imaginary hogs in my yard with hardboiled eggs, Robert.  Probably 10'.

That's probably within the muzzle blast; when I shoot imaginary hogs in my head I use at least 25'!

  I bet hardboiled eggs aren't effective at that range.  Maybe if you didn't peel them the shells would act as shrapnel.

Frozen hard boiled eggs should hold together the length of the barrel. 

Frosty The Lucky. 

Or put them in a sabot, even a heavy paper one should do..

  Maybe I will mount a Phalanx CIWS on each corner of the yard and call it good.  3000 rounds, 20×102 mm, per minute each = shredded pork.

Shame on you Nodebt; you're a blacksmith---mount Vulcans!

"The 202-pound weapon fires $27 cartridges at 6,600 rounds per minute; costing around $180,000 to fire it for 60 seconds."

  $180,000 × 4 = $720,000. 

Back to cannon &  hardboiled eggs....

If you aim, you don't have to use a full minute of fire.  Or are you one of those "Spray and Giggle" types?

I will attest that spray and giggle, aka accuracy by volume, is quite invigorating. When your barrel gets hot enough to light your smoke, you’re doing it right!

Good grief, the largest rifle I've ever shot a javalena with was an M1-carbine, 0.30 cal. pistol ammo. Dad hit one with his 8mm Mauser and darned near cut it in half. Non were very large, maybe 150lbs. for the largest taken in the hunt.

Were they a problem here I'd put up motion activated lights and an alarm.  I have an appropriate rifle to apply a little permanent deterrence. The couple times a bear has come snooping around, the Great Pyrenees Mountain Dog Buran, Buran ran it off easily enough, he growled. The second time we were between LGDs and I had to shout at it. 

Moose are much harder to run  off and THE most dangerous animal in Alaska. Stupid giant deer kill and injure more people than all the other animals in the state put together.

Frosty The Lucky.