Coming to a restaurant near you. The USDA is now on board with harvesting wild boar for public consumption. They currently have 15 inspection facilities for wild boar. Blame Christopher Columbus for the invasive species. Chefs transform destructive invasive animal into gourmet delight: 'It's a real easy equation'
Seems like after the Pig Bomb documentary came out about wild hogs destroying crops and property, there were several TV shows that followed people who were trying to thin them out. As I recall, they were all trying to trap them, rather than just shoot.
They are a huge problem out here in Oklahoma. They will destroy crops and fields which in turn can damage tractors when they are harvesting the fields. One popular way is to bait them to a food pile and then blow them up using tannerite. You can get 10-20 in one explosion.
The males are particularly so. It helps if they are castrated and then"harvested" later. Their testosterone, if released into their system, gives the meat a bad odor and taste. I'm fine with other people eating it, but no thanks for me.
There are wild hogs on Southern Georgia islands that eat mostly shellfish in the marshes. The hog meat tastes like shellfish. It's pretty interesting.
Not to turn this into a gun thread but the one legitimate use of AR-15s I’ve heard is for hunting feral hogs.
When I go to my property in OK, I will spend a lot of nights thinning out the hogs. when I ate meat decades ago, I thought both the males and females tasted fine but if was shooting to eat (versus shooting to cull) I would hit smaller ones (< 125) in a way that turned them off like a light switch. They do have less fat then the hormone laden crap most people eat so it is easier to dry out the meat.
That has always been my stance. Thru trial and error, I have found the fifteen round clips are best. I would also say that the AR-15 should be chambered in something heavier that .223
That apparently is key if you're not going to castrate them, don't give them a chance to generate a flood of testosterone. Many years ago a local Tampa radio shock jock, Bubba the Love Sponge, went to trial along with a few others over a radio "stunt" where a hog was slaughtered in the station parking lot and then cooked. They were charged with animal cruelty. Bubba was represented by Norman Cannella, Sr., a friend of mine, and somehow hog testosterone became an issue in the case. I learned way more than I ever needed to about that topic. Bubba was acquitted, by the way.
I guess it's good he was acquitted, do you really want to head to prison known as Bubba the love sponge?
He was the guy who "allegedly" secretly filmed Hulk Hogan having sex with his (Bubba's) wife in their home and then released the video to Gawker Media. Hulk sued Gawker out of existence ($140 million judgment) and Bubba settled with him. Hulk was the best man at Bubba's wedding and is the godfather of his kid. Sordid stuff.
