We don't have them statewide yet but likely just a matter of time. There is a small batch running loose in the center part of the state (I forget which county) that the PGC wants erraticated before they spread.
A hog hunt is on my bucket list. And that is a dandy. Probably be a little tough eating though.

Yep, that's a very large piggie.

Be very careful while still hunting hogs with a muzzleloader. i've passed up shots several times for concern of wounding a big hog and getting attacked.

Recently shot a 275 pound boar with big cutters from a tree stand on the opposite bank of West Cache creek. At the shot the hog came tearing down the bank, swam across the stream and headed up the bank on my side. Near the top of the bank the .54 caliber patched round ball took effect and the hog expired.

Wow ... good thing you were in a tree stand. It sounds like he wanted to get even before the ball took him. Very interesting!

I don't know if it is because og that block of whatever in his mouth but while he has the up curl in his upper lip, what I can see if the cutter is not ery large for a hog that size and I can't see the lower one at all.

This made me think way back when my sister was 9 and I was six. We had sows out in the hog pasture and we would get a piece of twine string in their mouth and try riding them. She dared me to try riding the duroc boar and of course, having more guts than brains, I accepted the challenge. I think I stayed on for a few seconds and that fella came after me. I crawled over the woven wire fence but got snagged in the strand of barbed wire on top, sliced the heck out of my pants and my leg. We did end up getting the pony we wanted not too long after that. he he
Nice hog in that pic, I have never had wild pig. How does it compare to the farm raised hogs?

According to the hogs age and size really. Generally I don't much care for a hog over 2.5 to 3 years or over 200 pounds in the wild. Really over 150 they start getting a little rough tasting. But in general, like whitetail, the females are the best tasting. As far as comparison to farm raised, the meat is a good bit leaner in MOST cases not all. It also has a deeper, richer flavor to it. Farm raised pork, in general is a very light flavored meat unless you didn't trim a lot of fat off. The fat is where the flavor is on them. It's partly why it is one of the best meats for smoking. It takes on flavors of additives much better than most any other meat. Wild hogs on the other hand, of course depending on their diet, has much more flavor to it.

I think wild hogs taste like the pork we ate when I was a kid, before they started raising lean hogs because of the fat fear foisted on the country by the government. I agree that sows are better if they are large and a sow without young has more fat as well. Pork fat rules.

Teeth enough to hurt.



He looked like a hippo in the trail camera picture.

that bite to the leg made certain parts of me hurt. Nasty wound!

That is better Semi, you have to show those things off.