How to recover from tough pork ribs.

The positives are that the ribs taste great and have a perfect amount of smoke 

flavoring.

The problem is they are from an old hog that is tough and stringy. Now we have 3 options: back in the smoker, roaster in the oven or add more sauce and crock-pot them. I work for the power company so I’m going with the least amount of electricity, it’s winter – Crock-Pot. (The smoker would would be great in the summer.)

One and a quarter bottles of Heinz Kansas City Sweet and Smoky sauce and one 20 ounce bottle of water. I set the crock-pot on high at 11:45.

While I was waiting I welded up a truck bed rack for 2 full size spare tires that are Toyo 35” off road monsters. Then I watched some Jim Shockey’s Uncharted Hunting shows we have recorded on the DirecTV receiver.  

At 5:50 I checked the ribs. They were coming off of the bones finally.

They are still stringy and not tender enough. These ribs are like beef brisket. We bought these pork ribs at Fry’s grocery store that is owned by Kroger. Shame on Kroger for selling miss labeled meats for the standard price. It would be like selling stew chicken priced and packaged as fryers.

At 8:00 pm they are finally done. After 5 hours of smoking at 200*F and 9 hours in the crock-pot on high they are finally tender. What a CROCK.

I guess I need to go to Texas and hunt for some young tender feral hogs.

I do have 2 Javelina tags. The 1^st tag is an archery only tag that I got drawn for, the other was a handgun, archery, and muzzleloader (HAM) hunt that did not have enough people apply for it, so I bought an over-the-counter tag.

Poaching of Javelina in Arizona is out of control so a lot of people that would have bought tags just poaching, because “everyone else is doing it”.

You have idiots who illegally feed wildlife in their yards, but don’t like the Javelina because they aren’t pretty like deer. They shoot Javelina with pellet guns in town and haul them out to the woods and “dump them off for the coyotes”. Of course they do the same thing to the coyotes that come into their feast.

Then there are the mentally ill and drug addict homeless that will trap, spear and knife the Javelina for food. I find skulls and bones around their abandoned camps of Javelina, bovine calves and sometimes their dogs.

The biggest group of poachers is the Illegal Immigrants (Foreign Exchange Workers). They dump trash in the woods and kill any game animal they can with cheap compound bows from Wal-Mart that anyone can pay cash for. The Arizona Game and Fish is so shorthanded that they can never keep up with this huge group of poachers. When they do make an arrest then there are Sanctuary groups that hire lawyers that claim they are racially profiling. What does poaching have to do with race? Nothing. It makes stopping them expensive.

These people leave their homes and countries they love because the drug trafficking to the USA has destroyed their jobs and lifestyle. Why should they care about the USA or want to be citizen of a country that isn't theirs and has destroyed theirs?            

The problem is illegal drugs being used in the USA. We need to stop the problem to stop the effects of the problem. Get the mentally ill back into safe homes with medical help to stop their suffering. Bill Clinton kicked them out onto the street when he was President, the Bush's and Obama left them there.