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Is it safe to eat 400-800 pound wild hogs?

Old 09-02-2014, 04:26 AM
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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.
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Old 09-03-2014, 02:59 PM
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you can live off of it but it tastes like sh!t
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Old 09-04-2014, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Ridge Runner
you can live off of it but it tastes like sh!t
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Ridge "Crocodile" Runner,

How long have you been waiting to use that line?
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Old 09-04-2014, 01:10 PM
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But, it is good "****".
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Old 10-03-2014, 05:57 AM
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I think some folks are more sensitive to the flavor issues than others.

With that said, there is no safety issue based on size unless it falls on top of you from the skinning hook.
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Old 10-03-2014, 07:01 AM
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The odds of killing a 800 lb wild boar are slim, and 400 lbs is a big wild hog.
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Old 11-23-2014, 06:44 PM
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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!
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Old 12-02-2014, 04:30 AM
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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.
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Old 12-02-2014, 09:52 AM
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I ate this one, it tasted great, a little tough but tasted great and this feral hog was well over 400lbs.




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Old 12-02-2014, 10:09 AM
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That is a sow, the bad taste is with big old boars. Sows do not produce the things in their body that boars do after a certain age.

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