No backstrap, Ratdog68. He was a stinker and it was a terribly unpleasant night with virtually no wind. I could hear everything in the woods around me quite well. I thought some armadillos were a sounder of hogs for as much noise as they were making in the dried forest litter. Anyway, I did a cursory skinning around the head and upper neck to look for any signs that the bullet actually penetrated all the way through the skull. No luck. The skull was a mess with a lot of sharp fragments and I gave up the search. The hog went to one of my bone yards and was split open for the buzzards. All in all, until being shot, the hog looked to be in good health, few ticks, no fleas, no visible injuries, and with a nice layer of fat.
