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They're leaner, and sometimes a bit tough. The traps are very necessary though... hunting them is FUN, but we'll never shoot enough of them for effective population control that way. They breed too fast.
I wasn't criticizing the trap... just noticing they're like sitting ducks and not really thinking about the actual act of shooting one & having the rest run.
So they breed like rabbits...I didn't know that but I should of guessed it with all of the reports Ive read.
Back to the eating questions LOL....
If you caught them... could you fatten one up for yourself? Could you just slow cook to tender goodness?
Do you donate the meat to shelters or....?
I realize there is a problem in that neck of the country and I'm just looking for what good can come of it.
T. Scott is absolutely correct in that these demons breed like rabbits. Also they have no natural predator in east Texas. Some means of mass elimination is necessary. We have eliminated well over one hundred in the last year and the population is larger than ever - they are destroying my pastures.
The meat can be very good to eat. The younger ones are more tender. If they have good browse the meat will be very tasty. They can definitely be fattened in which case the pork is as good as any you will eat, but it is always going to be a bit leaner than domestic pork.
When we trap them live we have a guy come and get them. He feeds some of them out and donates the excess meat to various east Texas hunger programs. Some of them he takes to a large cat rescue program just north of Tyler, TX. They are glad to get them because the tigers and lions love them!
As for hunting, I have had most luck with my Colt AR-15 hunting at night with LED lighting. These pigs are great fun to hunt, but we do have to do more to try to control them. They are quickly becoming a serious problem for land owners and a terrible danger for nighttime drivers.
First, Post a $50.00 bounty. Then require at least 50% of the meat be donated to rescue havens for the big cats and Zoos. Then stand back and let the meat harvesters come in. Ship the extra to Africa for animal feed.
Easing regulations to make donation of hog meat easier might help. Putting a bounty on them might help (but who would pay for it?).
Really, we need a biological vector for engineered birth control... or to get serious about trapping them en masse and just burning/ burying carcasses like Brits trying to stamp out an outbreak of hoof & mouth disease.
Incidentally, I'm thinking about sodium nitrite (pink salt) curing a la Irish corned beef as a means of preserving and tenderizing wild pork after my next hunt.
Eradication of hogs would take pork out of my freezer. I kinda like 'em around. I know that's heresy, but hey, I'm a heretic I guess. I'm losing no money to them, I'm not suffering at all from them. In fact, they fill my freezer all times of the year. They actually SAVE me money.
Every hog we catch or shoot goes to someone who needs the meat. A few are processed at personal expense and donated to the food bank. The rest are field dressed and given away: Some are skinned.
This morning we had 11 hogs in four traps. What a day.
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