As I am writing this, I’m on day two of a South Texas hog hunt. I managed to kill a nice feral hog yesterday, but just how good is a wild hog to eat?
From my past experience, I’ve enjoyed the meat. Some hunters are put off by the thought of eating a wild hog, thinking the meat would be too gamey. That’s a myth, unless you kill an absolute monster. In that case, most of my wild hogs would go into sausage. But the 225-lb. hog I killed yesterday will taste just like any pork bought from the store.
Outdoor Life has a great recipe for cooking wild hog bone-in pork chops.
With whitetail season pretty much in the rearview mirror, and turkey season just a glimmer on the horizon, our thoughts this time of year tend to turn to hunting non-game species. And if you’re in the South, this probably includes feral hogs. While the exploding population has justifiably earned a “whack ‘em and stack ‘em” mentality among avid boar hunters, other folks venture into the Texas mesquite scrub in search of a single animal to put on the table. Personally, I experienced such a hunt several months ago. It yielded one of the best eating wild meats I’ve ever harvested and prepared. (You can see how to break one down here.) … [continued]
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