I thought boar meat was seriously tainted (as in rank as a billy goat)
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.
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.
I wouldn’t mind sow or young male hog, but a full grown boar has testosterone in the meat and smells like a man’s sweaty t-shirts when cooked.
Feral hogs are hunted and/or trapped in rural areas/communities like this one all the time-they tear up your property, eat your garden and livestock feed, can kill livestock, etc otherwise-and they are some mean dangerous mofos, too-I avoid hiking where I see their tracks. Somebody is always getting a hunt together for them and everyone shares the meat or the live hogs for those who want to pen and feed them for awhile before butchering-some people who raise hogs get trapped young ones to interbreed with their hogs to produce leaner pork that is popular with a lot of natural diet people-I’m one.
This coming Fall I intend to be on the 1st hunt, along with my best friend whose business I manage I’ve never hunted hogs, but I’ve hunted deer since my early teens-my deer rifle is a 270-I’m pretty sure it will work for hogs-I sure don’t want to get closer than I would to a deer-I’m actually afraid of hogs-domestic or wild-and I was raised on a ranch-I’m less afraid of running into a mountain lion-or even a bear than a wild hog...