giant wild hog
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+1 to boars tasting and smelling terrible. I disagree with the thought that if the "male parts" are removed quickly after death the meat won't stink. We castrated a couple boars at about 75lbs then fed them out to 250ish. It was too late, the meat seemed good until you cooked it, then the musk came out. Ruined a good cast skillet. Some people don't mind this smell/taste, my wife has no idea what I'm talking about. Having worked on a large scale hog operation for a number of years I directly associate that smell with the froth and funk of a big boar. To this day I can't eat a generic pepperoni pizza (cause that's what they make with boar meat).
All that being said, IMO that is a domestic pig. If I had shot it, and couldn't force myself to eat it, I'd at least have made it into ground pork or sausage and donated it.
All that being said, IMO that is a domestic pig. If I had shot it, and couldn't force myself to eat it, I'd at least have made it into ground pork or sausage and donated it.
alsaqr
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So will I. Last year I killed over 45 wild hogs. Every one of them were eaten by someone. Many were processed at my expense and given to the food bank and the sheriff's drug court.
One evening last summer I stopped at a convenience store to get some ice for the 200 pound field dressed sow in my truck. Two teen-age boys looked at the hog and told their mom who came over and looked at it too. Mom said: "I sure would like to get a hog like that one." Asked the lady what she would do with that hog. Answer: "Feed it to my family." Told her that she had a hog. Her sons loaded that hog into their truck along with the 12 bags of ice I had bought.
JimKirk
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Well you didn't read what I said, I said
Your findings may be different than the group that I hog hunted with. We alway ate everyone we killed and we killed many many hogs. Not one smelled boar hoggy. I would like to have a dime for every "mountain oyster" that I've help lay on the ground. I know well what one smells like. We grew and butchered our own hogs and the meat for several families around us. The photo with the pole with the hogs on it, was the site of many "hog killings"!
I am not sure if you saw the Discovery Channel "Hog Show" or not, but We have dragged some big old hogs off that river swamp, some of them "big azz hogs" and boars.
The Hog in the photo is a Hampshire breed, it is not a wild as "wild breed", it may have been loose or in the woods. Yorkshires are white.
Jimmy K
pwillie
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..that hog was killed in Florida,Alabama,and now Texas...boy,he sure gets around..Hogzilla?
JimKirk
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Hogzilla would make this one look like a pig.
Jimmy K
Jimmy K
qajaq59
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If it was too tough to eat why shoot it? If he just wanted a pig's head to mount he could go to the nearest slaughter house and buy one. People are so silly.
Me, I'd have gotten a few buddies and a grinder and it wouldn't have been tough very long!
Me, I'd have gotten a few buddies and a grinder and it wouldn't have been tough very long!
jimmyraythomason
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Eating a hog isn't the only reason to kill one. Do you have any idea how much land damage a hog that size would do?
qajaq59
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I hear that a lot and my land backs up to a golf course so I know it is true. However I notice that no one lets you go out and whack them without having their hand out, so I guess that isn't the main reason they want them thinned out.
jimmyraythomason
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"no one lets you go out and whack them without having their hand out, so I guess that isn't the main reason they want them thinned out."-qajaq59. Land owners having trouble with feral hogs generally take all of the help they can get. That may not be true with all of them but I suspect it is a majority of them.
Art Eatman
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Necrothreadia is bad enough, and wandering all over the countryside away from the OP doesn't help...
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