Wild Hogs - any good to eat

Winchester1 · Sep 26, 2012

I know this is not a hunting forun but lots of "country people" read it. Answers are normally pretty accurate and reliable.

Has anyone ever eaten wild hog? Any good?

Thanks,

Bill.

steve in wi · Sep 26, 2012

We had a wild boar brats,made up. Tasted really good I would say a little dryer than reg cooked normal.but it didn't,t taste dry.god stuff we had from OK.

Morgan Flowers · Sep 26, 2012

(quoted from post at 03:19:25 09/27/12) I know this is not a hunting forun but lots of "country people" read it. Answers are normally pretty accurate and reliable.

Has anyone ever eaten wild hog? Any good?

Thanks,

Bill.

We just got through skinning 6 a couple weekends ago. The smaller they are the better. I don't have any experience with the bigger hogs but the 80 lb and under are tasty. We don't make any sausage out of it but the sausage is good even out of the bigger ones if you know what to put in it. It is much leaner than tame hog.

Gambles · Sep 26, 2012

About a year ago, my brother shot a few of them and gave me some of the sausage. It tasted pretty good.

John A. · Sep 26, 2012

Winchester 1, Here in Texas, Little sows up to about 120 lbs, Boars up to 60/70 lbs. Fix them any way you like!
Anything larger than 60/70 or 120 lbs, They get tooo Nasty to eat! .....Gut shoot and leave for the Buzzards!!!! We have too many, & No use for hogs here, they tear up more than they are worth.
Later,
John A.

BCnT · Sep 26, 2012

yep,ditto what John said.

Dean Olson · Sep 27, 2012

Shoot a small sow to butcher. Depending on what it's been eating it will be from ok to very good. I don't care for a boar of any size.
I prefer the ones living near the grain fields vs one from the woods eating who knows what.

TomA in CA · Sep 27, 2012

We got a 140 lb. Female a few years ago. It was the finest pork I have ever eaten. Way better than the supermarket pork we get here.It was in february. I assume it had been eating acorns.

Wile E · Sep 27, 2012

I dont know if it is good to eat....But type in Hog hunting from helicopter on you tube. That looks like fun.

gene bender · Sep 27, 2012

All depends on where you live and what the hog had to eat quality of the meat is related to food available and of course what you like for taste.

Haley · Sep 27, 2012

We hunted wild hogs with dogs back in the early ninetys and caught them live.We would put them in a pen and feed them nothing but soaked shelled corn for about a month.We butchered them at what ever size they were and that was some of the finest eating you will ever find.Anything from 60 pound up to 350 pound boars or sows/guilts tasted pretty much the same,very lean meat.We did catch two domestic/wild cross one time that pushed the 700 pound mark that we didnt eat.When we cleaned the first one it had about 8 inches of fat where the pork loin meat was supposed to be and needless to say the dogs ate good off of these two.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 27, 2012

Nothing makes better tasting pork than if the
hog was fatten up on Acorns,the Spanish were shipping over Acorn fatten pork and it was selling for around $70/lb in NYC awhile back.

Richard G. · Sep 27, 2012

My son shot a gilt when he was about 14. Was up in the mountains scouting for deer sites. The hog was about 100 pound female. Cut it's throat to bleed it and no blood came out. Thought the meat would spoil, but gutted it with a dull pocket knife and found he had shot it through the heart. Shot off a pole with my 303 Enfield and tied it's legs with my belt and my flannel shirt sleeve. Got home all bloody and my wife thought I had been shot. Skinned the hog saved the hams and shoulders and tenderloin.
Froze the hams and shoulders.
Cooked on my shop stove all day in a big pot with potatoes and onions and salt. Was some of the tenderest and best eating ever.
I believe boiling all day takes any wild taste out.
Richard in NW SC

Bill(Wis) · Sep 27, 2012

I ordered the "Braised Wild Boar in Riesling" one time at a fine german restaurant. $25. It was OK but nothing to write home about. A bit of a wild taste that I can do without. I prefer domestic pork. Best thing is to try one and see if you like it. I would think the smaller, younger ones would taste better and be more tender.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 27, 2012

What is 'wild taste'? I'd guess ANY taste because those confinement raised hogs these days have no taste at all.

MN Scott · Sep 27, 2012

If you eat wild hogs make sure you cook the meat thoroughly. There is a much greater risk of Trichinosis in wild hogs than in domestic raised pork.

Nancy Howell · Sep 27, 2012

I"ve had it one time. It was excellent.

What the others have said is correct. You don"t want one over 150 lbs.

Wear rubber gloves when field dressing, butchering and cook the meat done.

They are much leaner than store bought pork and much better tasting.

Winchester1 · Sep 27, 2012

Thanks for the responses.

pat sublett · Sep 27, 2012

Wild taste is that taste that develops when you carry it home in 80 degree weather in the back of the truck. Wild hogs, more appropriately called Farrell hogs, are no different than tame hogs. Taste better if they have been fed corn rather than acorns.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 27, 2012

I disagree I'll take the acorn fed or barley fed pork over corn fed any time.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 27, 2012

I used to fly for a Col that shot deer with his .45 out the open door. We'd land and dress them out and throw them on the cargo racks and take them back to our base camps for the guys to cook.

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