Big Game Hunting New Zealand Sep/Oct 2015 | Page 22

If you have some
slope to work with
face the head of the
pig downhill so that
the gut contents
sit forward out of
your way. Open
up the skin layer
by removing the
pizzle. For a sow
just make a nick in
the skin layer then
push the knife along
held sharp side out
and heal down so
as not to cut into
the membranes that
hold the entrails in.
Now put a short
nick in the last
membrane just
enough to see the
entrails without