Our hunt club put on a pig picking on new years back in the day.....normally we would reserve a split spine hog from a local processor, but one year we forgot. We had to buy a medium live hog and dress it ourselves.
A local 85 year gentleman and his wife with much experience in the matter agreed to host the process. Tub of scalding water was prepared to prep the pig for removing hair. The process for putting the pig down was for me to restrain the animal by grabbing the hind legs while a 22LR was centered thru the forehead. The elderly gentleman then slammed a ball-peen hammer to the same location, then follow that with a deep slashing of the throat with a 12" knife. We let the pig bleed out for 20-30 minutes.....about 2 beers.
The pig eventually died from drowning once we tossed it into the tub where it decided to come to life, about a 4 minute struggle to survive under water.
It's about the most cruel thing I ever imagined being done to animal.
