[Terry Mross]

I’ve heard they taste great! Seriously. They need to simply open season on them everywhere.

I’ve been told javalinas taste lousy and stink something terrible.

[umgud]

I’ve been told javalinas taste lousy and stink something terrible.

They're not too bad if you deep pit them, but most folks throw the meat away and eat the rocks.

[NewJerseyJoe]

> simply open season on them everywhere.

I've edited a number of articles about wild hogs in the last few years. To the best of my recollection, they are considered an invasive species in every state. A hunter still has to follow whatever hunting and/or gun rules exist in his state, but IIRC the wild hogs can be taken at any size/age, with any permitted weapon, and as many as the hunter wants to kill. They breed maniacally, eat anything, and are crazy dangerous, even at a relatively young age.

[squarebarb]

Only when they are yoiung, under 100 lbs. they are an absolute plague here in south Texas, they kill fawns and any young things they can get hold of including ground-nesting birds, they destroy fences, uproot wetlands, threaten people and breed like flies.

Nobody seems to know what to do about them.

I always thought Texas A&M could put out some kind of birth-cojntrol bait. Hogs will chew gum without swallowing it, they say. So...

[org.whodat]

You shoot the males, you barbecue the females. That is why mr farmer castrates baby pigs. Now if you find a castrated wild hog you can eat him as well. Otherwise if you are hungry, well your ancestors did not bitch about the taste.

[oldsicilian]

Ate wild boar in a restaurant in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Wonderful. Dark meat, rich in flavor.

[OregonRancher]

I’ve been told javalinas taste lousy and stink something terrible.

totally different animal. Much smaller and rarely over a
hundred pounds, they travel in packs.