Posted on 04/28/2020 4:08:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I thought boar meat was seriously tainted (as in rank as a billy goat)
A 300-400lb sow is decent eating, but it has to be cooked very well to avoid trichinosis, and then it gets tougher than I liked it. Had it BBQ-d once. I’m not a big fan of deer, caribou or black bear, either.
I am told the very large boars are not good eating.
Pigs under 150 lbs are excellent eating.
“...I thought boar meat was seriously tainted (as in rank as a billy goat)...”
It is...unless they’re killed instantly. Otherwise, that gland excretion ruins the meat making it pretty nasty.
But a young 200-300lb feral sow is pretty darn good eating. While working in south Texas, ranchers would bring em by the oil well pads we were working at and just give em to us. We’d butcher em, cook em and eat em right there....not bad at all.
In the early 60’s I had a neighbor (country Neighbor), who caught wild hogs with a pack of dogs. They would literally catch them by the hind legs.
They would put them in a pen for a month or so to get the wild taste out of them. Then slaughter and eat them.
“...In the early 60s I had a neighbor...”
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I currently have a nephew who will corral wild pigs,
and feed them out for a few weeks before slaughter.
Hudson’s On The Bend near Lake Travis made wild boar sausage that was delicious! Not sure if they are still in business as all the wild food was delicious.
The bacon cut is also good.
This thread is every bit as awesome as I knew it would be
Around 25 years ago I bought a really pretty pack of bacon at a local grocery. When I cooked it, there was a raunchy taste.
I returned it and the butcher said someone had slipped a boar hog by him. As I said, it was really pretty and had no odor uncooked.
I’ve got a friend in TX, and I’ve been thinking about asking him if he knows anyone who’s doing hog hunting. I don’t have any larger caliber rifles outside of my husband’s Kar98, and I know my .223 isn’t recommended.
We slaughter the wild hogs here in Texas and on a good night can kill 30-40 in a night. For eating we just cut the hind quarters off the 100-150 pounders. This is helicopter hunting. For eradication not fun.
They cook up really well on the grill. Gas or charcoal.
I currently am plagued with feral hogs. We trapped and killed two. The rest are too smart to be trapped.
I imagine younger ones taste a lot better.
When I was a kid we ate a lot of wild game mostly squirrel. The young ones were much better in every way.
“...and I know my .223 isnt recommended....”
Dunno about so called “recommendations”, but a .223 loaded with 50-60 gr. Nosler ballistic tips seems to work just fine on em. It’s more shot placement than anything else. I’ve seen one guy take one with a .17HMR round right to the head and she dropped like a rock.
It’s all about shot placement...
Where do you think Boars Head meat comes from?
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I know a government (Texas) trapper that runs ‘em down with dogs and sticks a knife in them.
.223 or 5.56 is THE preferred round for shooting pigs from helicopters. Must be hollow points. That is about the only round used to kill pigs from helicopters, and that round kills many per year!!
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