[yarddog]

I used to have neighbors who quite literally caught wild hogs for most of their meat. The reason they caught them is they didn’t like the taste of wild hog.

They would pen them up for several months and feed them before slaughtering them.

[Hugin]

Taste varies greatly with wild hogs. A lot has to do with what they've been eating. Here in CA you get very lean, sweet meat from younger pigs in the winter when they are eating a lot of green grass. In the fall, pigs that are eating barley are especially fat and tasty. Medium sized sows are the best tasting. A lot of people go out to shoot a big, tough old, testosterone filled trophy boar, then tell everyone how awful wild pigs taste (and smell).