Shooting hogs = eating hogs...or does it?

[Land_Owner]

Some of you guys must be reaching 300#'s yourselves eating all that pork.  Or do you just leave them lay there?

I eat all of mine.  I see nothing wrong, if you have the acreage and a large infestation of the pests, to just leave them lay there.  The buzzards need to eat too.

[Reverend Recoil]

All the ones I kill are eaten by humans.  I fed wild pork to twelve hungry co-workers at this year's Christmas party.  There were no left overs.

[S_J_KENNELS]

I will eat the little 50-80 pounders I trap, and the bigger ones we trap we send to a slaughter plant that buys them.

When we are running the dogs everything is killed and 90% are left in the farmers trash/dump pits to feed the buzzards and yotes. During grain season we kill more then we could eat if we wanted to, and folks around here don't want them any more. SO the yotes eat good LOL.

[DennisB]

I've got hogs and no deer or turkey where I used to have deer, turkey, and few hogs.  Me and my buddy on the lease love eatin' them (you should try my skillet-fried backstrap) and will continue to do so, but at this point I'm not gonna stop shooting just because the coolers are full. 

[drdougrx]

OK Dennis....what's the recipe?

[gstewart44]

I use head/neck shots and harvest all my swine.    I then freeze the hams, shoulders, loins, tenderloins.   four times a year I will slow cook a bunch of it after marinating in a garlic lime mojo and bring it in for work.   They love the Cuban pulled pork.   

I always keep a ham, shoulder and strap in my freezer.    Anything after that I give away to people at work.

[gendoc]

i got a 90# russian yung'un bout 3 weeks before christmas.
and smoked the hams on the BGE with pecan wood and sliced pineapple
had 9 people eat'n, and all them said " thats the finest ham thats ever been eat'n "
it was gud, if i say so myownself....

[rockbilly]

You can take one to the processing plant here, have it processed, made into sausage, whatever and still can't give it away. 

I have eaten a few, but most we shoot are just left where they fall, matter of fact, I shot one yesterday, it would have gone near 200 lbs, just left it lay.  Most of the largwer boar we kill smell so bad I wouldn't want to eat them anyway, the sows aren't quite as bad so we rip the backstraps out, take the hams and leave the rest.

Six-seven years ago I had never seen a hog on my place, I have a bunch there now.  They have ruined a great spring by turning it into a wallow, the deer numbers are down, and every fence needs some kind of repair.  I just wish we could get rid of all of them, I shoot all I see.

If anyone lives in the West Texas area (Abilene) drop me a PM and I will call you next time I kill one.

[elmer]

I have eaten or given the away. However, we are to the point of killing them even if we don't want the meat or in the case of summer, can't stop working and take time to clean them. I am thinking about taking a small cooler when I am out working and just taking the backstraps.

[delt167502]

if someone would like to get rid of some of there hogs pm me .i could help out .

[Jacko]

Not many folks eat much wild pig meat in Australia, if we do it's the young stuff. First feral Boar I ever saw was feeding inside the rib cage of a putrirified cow carcass, sort of left a lasting impression on me. The only time I ever take a young pig for meat is during a good season when they are eating plenty of herbage or crops. Even though I eat my store bought pork with a colour still in the middle I slow cook any wild pork in a camp oven until it's falling apart to make sure all parasites are killed.

We have a thriving wild pig carcass export industry to Europe, good or bad seasons, apparantly the ranker the better

regards Jacko

[jmayton]

If I know of someone who wants the meat, I'll butcher it or take it to them.  Otherwise, they get to feed the scavengers.

[jjvw]

I'll help shoot em too. Been looking for a place to hunt em down there.

[john keyes]

I've had a few that I couldn't eat.  I do the frying pan test:

-cut off a small piece of meat
-put in skillet with fire underneath

if it smells like someone urinated in the skillet....toss the meat.  if not, proceed with butchering, grinding, sausage making etc.

[DennisB]

if it smells like someone urinated in the skillet....toss the meat.

    Great description!

[HL]

One thing I have also found to be true. When you kill hogs and pile them up, not only do the buzzards and yotes come feeding, but other hogs will clean up the carcasses faster than the yotes or buzzards.

I dropped a large sow and let her lay where I shot her. I went back the next day, the only evidence left was half the skull and about 6" of spine, in the middle of a large hog rooting area that wasn't there when I shot her. The only thing I can see is that a large group of hogs came in and chowed down. No other predator tracks around and there was not time for buzzards to find the carcass.

[gendoc]

round here we only shoot small ones to eat.
we let the big ones make more lil'uns 

if the population explodes like every where else has, we might thin them out.
mostly our hogs are in swamp areas and not that many in rual areas...YET !!!

local farmers have stopped letting people hunt them due to livestock theft
and poor ability to tell the difference between a hog and a cow...

i know that sounds stupid but, thats what they say

i think soon this will change   ........i can't wait !!!!!