My Hog Hoist

[2LaneCruzer]

I saw a Duroc boar at the stockyards...or I should say I smelled him a mile away. He probably weighed 750 pounds; biggest one I have ever seen. The stench was overpowering. I don't know how t hat translates to butchered meat, but it didn't do much for my appetite.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

ZERO smell, tastes SOOOOO GOOD, nice and tender. It is our first wild hog, not a ton of them up here, yet. I guess we got lucky. The guy had cojones(balls) the size of jumbo baked potatoes.

 

[N80]

We have lots of wild pigs where I am. They are a nuisance and very destructive. I shoot them whenever I can. The 100 pound or less feral looking sows are fantastic eating. White meat. No gaminess at all. No fat so you have to consider that when cooking them. I seek them out. We grill the tender loins and back strap. Grind pretty much everything else.

The big black boars (Russian stock) are inedible as far as I am concerned and I leave them where they fall. Can't even give one away to the local folks. They have an awful musky smell that even permeates the meat. Smell lingers even after you drag one off.

I usually fetch the ones I keep with the tractor bucket but hang them from a rafter in the tractor shed for butchering.