Is it safe to eat 400-800 pound wild hogs?
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,227
You can eat the big ones but if you want pork for the freezer you're better off with a couple of 150-200 pounders than one big one. Biggest I ever shot was about 375 and I made him into sausage and ground pork. He ate just fine that way.
#17
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 42
We ate this one. He didn't smell rank but then again it was soggy flooded lowcountry so maybe it cleaned him up or something. He was mild tasting and delicious! I pressure canned him, he wasn't even tough. Maybe just a tad chewy but very edible. Not sure how much he weighed. Not 400 lbs though. Still the biggest one I've gotten.
Here they are in the truck. Got a little one too. You can run but you'll just die tired!
Here they are in the truck. Got a little one too. You can run but you'll just die tired!
#18
There is a condition in farm raised boar hogs called "boar taint". Breeding boar hogs lie around and get very fat. Yep, the meat stinks. The "taint" is in the fat. In pepperoni making all the fat is removed from the meat. That is why old domestic boars were formerly sold to the "pepperoni man". Now the meat packing plants are butchering old boar hogs and folks are getting domestic meat that is not fit to eat.
Folks who have never seen a big wild boar hog often condemn their meat as bad. i've trapped and shot many hundreds of wild hogs; some weighed 400 pounds, and numerous boars weighed over 300 pounds. Have never seen a wild boar hog with "boar taint", mainly because wild hogs have a hard scrabble life and they seldom get fat.
Folks who have never seen a big wild boar hog often condemn their meat as bad. i've trapped and shot many hundreds of wild hogs; some weighed 400 pounds, and numerous boars weighed over 300 pounds. Have never seen a wild boar hog with "boar taint", mainly because wild hogs have a hard scrabble life and they seldom get fat.