Wild Pigs Population Surging Across The States

Laurie said:
What are your hunters doing?

They make damn good eating. Most restaurants serve it in Germany.
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Now that you mention it, Laurie, over the years I've eaten at a few US restaurants with less mainstream meats on the menu and recall seeing wild boar among the offerings. Never much liked either pork or gamey meats so I wasn't tempted to order it.
 
Can you buy buffalo meat in the US or are they now totally protected?

We have a buffalo farm about 10 miles away and can get the meat locally.
 

Raised pigs on my little ranch, the boar is un-edible unless neutered for a few weeks before butchering. The sow should be edible unless either got into an onion patch.
Warning: It would take a man's man to neuter a wild boar. Did once with a 700 lb boar, supplies needed 'come along', strong tie downs, bucket, table salt & a very sharp knife.
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IFortuna said:
Wow, that is kinda mean toward a good hog that would gladly give its life to feed you. We can't all be beautiful. This hog is beautiful to somebody. Just look at those pretty eyes. Sad, sad face :(
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He's got that WWII look with the deer hunter hat and gasmask on.
 
JustinCase said:
Raised pigs on my little ranch, the boar is un-edible unless neutered for a few weeks before butchering. The sow should be edible unless either got into an onion patch.
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Some people who hunt them here for sport catch them in the wild, castrate, notch the ears then release them. That way they're not reproducing and they're still eating wild which makes their meat incredible tasty. They have a much healthier fatty acid profile than domestic hogs. I've cooked it before, and you can wash the oils off your hands with hardly any soap since it's much a much higher monounsaturated fat content rather than saturated fats of domestic pork.

Farmers in Mississippi can get approval for long guns, suppressors and night vision with no difficulty due to how damaging they are to crops.
 
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StarSong said:
Do people shoot and eat them as they would deer and other wild game?
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Yes, but the few times I have eaten wild bore it wasn't very good. Most of the folks I know who hunt them don't eat the meat, they just do it to get rid of the nuisance.

In most states it is relatively unregulated, little or no limits, seasons, or license required. They just want the hogs gone.

Never hunted them myself but almost went once with these guys https://hogswat.com/ kind of sorry I didn't give it a try. Maybe I still will.
 
Alligatorob said:
Yes, but the few times I have eaten wild bore it wasn't very good. Most of the folks I know who hunt them don't eat the meat, they just do it to get rid of the nuisance.
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A lot of it depends on their forage, sex (unless males are neutered) and whether or not they had a lot of adrenaline in their systems when killed. I'm not crazy about fresh cuts of domesticated pork, but love the wild when conditions are right for good flavor.
 
Lewkat said:
Hogs and pigs of every stripe will eat humans at the drop of a hat. Feral hogs a mean animals for sure.
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They are. There are people who deliberately hunt them with knives in order to prove something.... can't imagine the psychological need for that. That meat wouldn't be good because of the adrenaline. The guy I dated that used to hunt them used a compound bow to hunt most everything including wild hogs. His group were the ones that castrated young boars and notched the ears so they'd know to get those for mild meat.

 
I’ll have to ask my home boy on the left how he feels about being termed a “wild pig.” He may feel profiled, and we may have to consult the Sayer of the Law…

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Laurie said:
Can you buy buffalo meat in the US or are they now totally protected?
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Yes I eat a lot of it. As @fmdog44 says many store stock it frozen. It costs a bit more than beef, but is leaner and better for you. The producers of it are encouraging us to call it bison, not buffalo. For the native north American animal that is technically correct, they are not buffalo. We call them buffalo because they do look a bit like the Asian/European Buffalo but are not related. The problem the producers have is that they don't like the competition from Asian imports and want buyers to distinguish.

The bison we can get is farm raised, but there is a little legal hunting. Here in Utah we do have very limited wild bison hunting, but it is expensive and hard to get a permit.
 
This hunter took down this hog with only a KNIFE!😱


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Check out the knife leaning on the side of the hog.

This next one is my favorite. She had a good harvest.


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In spite of what you may believe or were told Hog hunts are not cheap, they are not free. They are around $500 for a 2 day hunt and 2 hogs, $900 for 4 day, 3 day $975. Plus once you kill the hog it has to be dressed and the meat processed. If you decide to keep the trophy the taxidermist will charge anywhere from $500 to $1500.
If you are a 100% disabled vet you get a free license for hunting anything on public lands. They give you a $40 map book where you can go. The map book is all you pay for. Plus the processing charges later.
 
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