Bullets alone can't solve Alabama's feral hog problem

[FLA45fan]

In Florida my boss's son used to shoot them with a suppressed AR. Ran a pretty good eradication business first thing in the morning. Also, when I worked at a Best Buy, we had a store party and featured smoked pork bbq from two hogs that were bagged a couple days before. They were smaller and tasty.
We have them out in AZ - they run through the neighborhood a couple times a week, tearing up the landscape looking for food. We can't shoot them there . . .

 

[camper4lyfe]

I wonder what the meat quality is like?

Pretty tasty

IMG_0056 by Jeff, on Flickr

IMG_0169 by Jeff, on Flickr

 

[camper4lyfe]

I went on a boar hunt in northern Vermont about 8 yrs ago.I didnt care for the meat.Like I told my friend when we cooked a loin roast from it,"if a butcher sold me a piece of pork like that,I'd take it back and slap him with it".

You have to at least soak the meat, and brining it is even better. Feral hogs STINK, and the stink is in the meat. Soaking/brining pulls that out.

 

[stokes]

You have to at least soak the meat, and brining it is even better. Feral hogs STINK, and the stink is in the meat. Soaking/brining pulls that out.

Exactly.When I cooked that loin roast it stunk to holy hell,and tasted just as bad.The place I hunted boar in Vermont,I found out later,didnt have what I would call wild hogs.but hogs penned in and released as needed into areas where hunters were on stand.But thats another story.I would have thought boar in this environment would taste more like store bought pig,but no.

 

[camper4lyfe]

Exactly.When I cooked that loin roast it stunk to holy hell,and tasted just as bad.The place I hunted boar in Vermont,I found out later,didnt have what I would call wild hogs.but hogs penned in and released as needed into areas where hunters were on stand.But thats another story.I would have thought boar in this environment would taste more like store bought pig,but no.

That's what we had in Tioga. It was a 200 acre "pen". Definitely not my true idea of hunting, but it was more about spending time with my dad and doing what he wanted to do (60th birthday). They had been wild hogs down south that were trapped and shipped north to the ranch.