Update on the Super Pigs

[aschler]

Maybe but at least I came legally, 1955.

Good luck doing that now. It took me over 4 years to bring my wife over starting in 2017 and I'm lucky I lived in the midwest; still probably wouldn't have happened if I lived in California or Texas.

 

[DDB TX]

The meat is usually fine on any size pig. I have had two 100# sows that were not edible. Not even close. I have never had a big boar that was bad.

A lot of people who say "Big boars ain't fit to eat." Are just repeating what the internet told them for years.

Some pigs aren't fit to eat. I don't know why. But my experience is that a big boar is every bit as good as a 100# sow.

I have had the same experience. Big old boars taste fine but smell bad, and cleaning a wild pig that has been gut shot is really unpleasant. My avatar picture is 3 we got in a wild afternoon shoot just west of Graham in Young County, TX.
The best wild pig I ever got was in a heavy acorn year outside of Llano, a pregnant midsized sow, she had 2 inches of fat on her, all from acorns. I made an Italian dish called Lardo out of some of the back fat, basically salt it, put in some herbs, and cure in the salt for a few months. Then thin slice it onto hot toast, and it melts like butter. One of the best things I ever ate.
The famous Italian and Spanish hams and prosciuttos and such are made from pigs which have been "finished" with live oak acorns.
I know a "government trapper" over by Gatesville, TX who traps hundreds of pigs a year. He puts used motor oil on his corn, which does two things. Hogs love used motor oil so it draws them; and it keeps the deer and coons from eating all the corn.
I have video of an 8 point buck that low crawled into a low trap, twice in one day. Slow learner. Talk about a rodeo, getting him out of that thing.

 

[Lee7588]

I have had the same experience. Big old boars taste fine but smell bad, and cleaning a wild pig that has been gut shot is really unpleasant. My avatar picture is 3 we got in a wild afternoon shoot just west of Graham in Young County, TX.
The best wild pig I ever got was in a heavy acorn year outside of Llano, a pregnant midsized sow, she had 2 inches of fat on her, all from acorns. I made an Italian dish called Lardo out of some of the back fat, basically salt it, put in some herbs, and cure in the salt for a few months. Then thin slice it onto hot toast, and it melts like butter. One of the best things I ever ate.
The famous Italian and Spanish hams and prosciuttos and such are made from pigs which have been "finished" with live oak acorns.
I know a "government trapper" over by Gatesville, TX who traps hundreds of pigs a year. He puts used motor oil on his corn, which does two things. Hogs love used motor oil so it draws them; and it keeps the deer and coons from eating all the corn.
I have video of an 8 point buck that low crawled into a low trap, twice in one day. Slow learner. Talk about a rodeo, getting him out of that thing.

Those are finished on acorns just not from live oaks, live oaks are a US oak. Old boars taste fine if they haven't been run. Once the adrenaline is flowing they aren't as good in my opinion. Lardo is awesome, if you are able to replicate that you have something good. I have heard that about motor oil before only used in a wallow instead. Not sure why they love it.

 

[victor3ranger]

Well sir they can take below zero, snow and ice. Any of you guys ever see a grass/thatch hut these hog build for shelter? Trappers are catching 40-50 in a single drop on cell traps, helo's are shooting 100's per flight, how would you measure this problem. If you are raising anything for a profit that's livestock, exotics, crops, the hogs will eat you out of business. I have personally seen at a corn feeder a boar come out of the tall grass and take after an axis doe that was eating corn and 15 minutes later doe came circling back by running full out, mouth open and tongue hanging out and boar steadily gaining ground. This was on a property where I was working and this feeder was in front of the house and set for lunch time entertainment. They will destroy the turkey populations by wrecking out the nest and eating the eggs, they eat fawns, lambs, goats and I suspect calves as well plus wreck out the fence to get in. I road on a combine cutting milo a few years back in DHanis Texas and in the middle of the field there were acres of nada, just rough plowed earth. You cant afford to loose 25% of a field crop nor 1/2 of a herd of anything. I was daylight calling on a place on the Seco and heard somthing on my left and it was a 200# class black Russian boar sneakin up on me at 20'. They are predators no doubt. They are eatable and no season, feed the hungry.

I have, it's pretty amazing to see during the dead of winter, first one I walked up on I had no idea what it was, when I got right next to it I started poking around, heard the grunt and the mound moved a little, took me a second to realize what I heard so I started backing out when she poked her head out enough to sniff.
She had a litter in the hut
Steam was rolling out when she was trying to figure out what was outside.

 

[victor3ranger]

If you shoot them and let them lay there for a day, you can go back and usually find yotes feeding on them

I have yet to catch yotes feeding on them yet

 

[Lee7588]

I have yet to catch yotes feeding on them yet

Lol different area with different food availability I guess

 

[Darryle]

That rifle has a 24" 6.5 Creedmoor barrel. I sat in a blind every night for a few weeks trying to kill him. This boar would come in about 30 minutes after I would leave every time. I waited one night in the truck after I walked out and sure enough he didn't come in. I waited the next night same scenario, except I left and drove north around the county roads and back to the farm from the south, down wind of the feeder. I parked in front of the neighbors house in the ditch, took my boots and anything off that would make noise. I crawled under the fence south of him and kept him on the camera the entire time. I slipped to within 125yds of him and shot him twice, thru the panels, once in the lungs and once under the chin.

If you have never dealt with an educated pig, you have no idea how intelligent they really are.

I drug him off and his carcass was gone within a few days. I won't eat them, at least the ones around here, for that reason. There is nothing a pig will not eat, nothing.

I put that pen up to keep my cows and donkey off the feeder. I had to cut an opening after a fawn got trapped in there. Otherwise, it would have been closed off.

 

[victor3ranger]

They are indeed extremely smart, far smarter than most of Washington DC

 

[victor3ranger]

Maybe we should do the same thing Texas is doing with Illegals and we should capture these wild pigs and ship them to Washington DC and turn them loose

 

[Lee7588]

Maybe we should do the same thing Texas is doing with Illegals and we should capture these wild pigs and ship them to Washington DC and turn them loose

I think there is enough fat pigs there already

 

[Backwoods towny]

Maybe we should do the same thing Texas is doing with Illegals and we should capture these wild pigs and ship them to Washington DC and turn them loose

I think there is enough fat pigs there already

The pigs would definitely feel at home in the swamp.

 

[victor3ranger]

I think there is enough fat pigs there already

Good way to keep all the pigs together

 

[Phil Rizzo]

Trying to kill a big deer today? Or maybe just a doe?
Better find another spot, won't happen with those in the vicinity.

 

[victor3ranger]

Trying to kill a big deer today? Or maybe just a doe?
Better find another spot, won't happen with those in the vicinity.
View attachment 524485

Target rich environment right there