I'm not much of a cook, so I'm sure it could be done allot better, but in my pitiful attempts to cook wild hogs, it's always turnd out very, very good. I must disagree with BBB in that they taste like store bought pork. In fact, I don't think there is any similarity between the flavor of them at all.
Wild hogs are very lean and have very, very little fat on them. They eat only natural foods and are on the move all the time. They are pure muscle with incredible strength and speed. Nothing on the continent, including bears and lions can take down a mature hog.
There are only a few wild game animals that I will eat as steaks without any other ingredients to cover or mask the flavor. A wild sow hog is one of those animals. Boars are iffy at best. The bigger the boar, the worse it's gonna taste. If you wound one and he has in adrenaline up, you can just about forget eating it. But a nice 100 pound or less, wild sow is about as fine a meat as you could every hope to have.
Here in Texas, they require a hunting license to shoot, but landowners can have depredation hunts for them without licenses. You just need to get a permit and then anybody can shoot them on that land. There are no limits on how many you can kill, nor are there time restrictions or method restrictions. Wild hogs are an introduced species that do a tremendous amount of damage the the land. The hurt farming, ranching, landscaping and native wildlife. There populations are increasing and there range is expanding. It's pretty much a forgone conclustion that there is no way to get rid of them and no amount of hunting preasure that will slow them down.
Eddie
