Properly prepared, I think it tastes like lean pork with a bit of gamey to it-but I’ve been eating it for most of my life-I don’t eat any domestic pork that is not local and free range either-the factory farm pork doesn’t have any taste to me.
I like it as BBQ-marinated in red wine or vinaigrette sauce especially for game overnight makes it delicious, too. Some people put out hog traps, capture some hogs, pen up the adults, feed them plenty of what they give their pigs for a few weeks to get rid of the wild taste, then slaughter and butcher them. They sometimes put the youngest ones with their domestic pigs to crossbreed, which produces piglets that are leaner and some say healthier.
Hogs are dangerous, period-wild or domestic-those feral ones just have bigger tusks and more meanness. As a kid on the ranch, I was chased by more than one hog just because it was bored or having a bad day-I’m not fond of hogs-I’m downright afraid of them. My 1st husband hunted feral hogs on foot, with a .44 mag-but he was a risk taker, bigtime-how he was never fatally charged by a feral hog I will never know...
About 5-10 years ago a ragged tusked 200 lb. boar charged me at full gait before I nailed him between the eyes at 15 yards. I was shaking afterwards