They are very good eating when you kill them on the hunting preserves. Beeing in the wild and eating whatever they can find may be a different story. Worth trying though. Saves you between $500-600 to go hunt them. We used to go bowhunting them, what a blast. I actually hunted that preserve in Homer. I think it is Cold Brook. The hog I got there tasted great. It was a canned hunt but it was like they let them out of the barn and chased them up the hill to us.