[TXnMA]

"Cocke's nephew carved the beast into slabs of bacon and mounds of pork chops."

Let's hope he soaked those cuts in a big cooler filled with changes of ice and icecream salt until the water ran clear. Otherwise, that meat was rank!

I shot one many years ago while deer hunting in the Suwannee river bottoms. Cooking the meat stank up the house -- and you could forget about eating it...

We trap the young ones here in the Texas Piney Woods, (and treat as above) and they are good eatin'! We just shoot the big'uns...

FWIW, if you think hitting a deer messes up a vehicle, you ought to see what hitting one of these feral hogs does -- total destruction!

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I think that hog is what we in Louisiana call Russian Boar
Strain,,,"hair on his back",,They have Bristles that a feral
hog does not have,,,Like you ,I got one on a deer hunt many years ago,,a tad over 300lbs. ,,,yes it was "strong", Still got his "Tusk"...;0)