I’ve always heard that the sows taste better than the boars. And why would someone trap them. I thought it was generally shoot on sight.
They even get wise to traps. We have caught up to a dozen at a time in the right trap. Not all big ones.
I'm not sure I've ever eaten a large boar. Young boars are OK.
But never ever try to dress one that has been eating peanuts (they like to destroy peanut patches). If they eat a heavy diet of peanuts they are so greasy they are worthless. You cannot get it off your hands.
Most feral hogs are pretty lean. If they are not confined they are less apt to have diseases. We've made some great sausage from them. At times we pinned them and fed them a while before we butchered them. Some of them required adding a little fat to make them sausage cook properly.
We have a meat house at the farm. With commercial equipment and walk-in box. We never do it commercially, but have dressed a lot of game for family and friends. It takes several knowledgeable bodies to do it generally.
And we have a big pit type smoker that we make the best beef sausage ever made. 100 year old recipe.
I once asked a south ga redneck the same question.
His answer was the meat is much better if the hog is fed corn for a month or so before slaughtering...same as a domestic hog.
And. farmers like to breed wild sows with domestic boars. Something about the genetics make them preferable to pure domestic hogs on the local meat market.