I've heard people say big ol boars don't taste good, just grind them up for sausage. Well tonight we had chops from the #225 boar my son shot last month. Those chops tasted really good. I suppose some may not taste so good, but I will not be quick to pass judgement just because a boar is large.

I guess it depends on the environment of the boar. I shot a huge boar at an outfitter in TN. He was processed that day and put on ice. That's the best hog meat I've ever eaten. I've shot numerous large boars on free-range private land here in SC and they have all been horrible, no matter how the meat was prepared.

I don't doubt some can be horrible. This guy was shot at Guana River which is located between the beach and the intercoastal waterway. I really expected him to smell and taste like the mud and oysters. We killed one out there that when we gutted it, it smelled like intercoastal waterway mud.

It's pretty much their environment and what they're eating. I hunted a ranch in Central California that grows thousands of acres of barley. The hogs (the rancher calls them "Barley Sharks") bed down in the brush during the day and eat 'till gorged at night. Even the 350 lb boars taste outstanding. The meat is about the color of rose' wine and it's the closest I've seen to commercial pork. Then I've had 100 lb sows that have been eating "pookie" (term of art) that taste that way!

You mean to tell me all those boars I'm passing up on "taste good". Damn, I guess I will have to start taking them out.

I usually don't shoot boars, I've never had good experiences with boars for eating. Now they are Texas hogs that eat just about anything that don't eat them first.

the restaurants i sell too wont take em but at 175 +/- 5 lbs...i agree 225 is good but i stick to about 200 or less..when they say a big pig dont eat so well, they mean 300lbs+

certainly if you are feedin it good veg and stuff it will be more farm raised than wild and will taste better...nebraska beef and hog taste better cause they feed em st8 corn..hence the term corn fed...

but a pig out scavenging fer food isnt gonna taste like a barley fed pig.

i have found pocket knives, a gold highschool ring, key chains, shower curtain rings, what appeared to be a piece of a ball point pen , nuts and bolts, wire, shell cartridges, nail clippers you name it inside of hogs....and when ya shoot em in the trap, their buddies love the strawberry covered corn!!!!!(blood on corn, they will stop worryin bout bein shot and eat the strawberry corn) so the bigger the pig, the bigger the junk they can eat

Yep, anautical45 you need to start nailing those hogs! It's your turn to tell the ol pig hunting stories. Murphys law to the pig hunter. When you ask someone to fill your feeder you can bet that is the time the pigs will show up and the guy who is filling your feeder will surely get the pig. At your blind under your feeder and it will be a trophy. Hope your feeling better.

We sometimes do, but after marinating it for 2 days in the Refrig in Kirby's Cuban Mojo..........

Now why do you have to bring race into this? Mojo? That sounds nasty.