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OB thoughts on male hogs
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:01 pm
What are your thoughts on eating male hogs. No experience here We have a lot of hogs and I plan to start thinning. Have heard mixed reports about should eat vs not worth it. Thanks in advance for assistance.
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Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:02 pm to hunt66
If not really young or barred, I'm not eating one.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:04 pm to hunt66
I'm not eating a boar or a sow that weighs over 300.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:04 pm to hunt66
hopefully BP will chime in on this, but he proved me wrong on what i used to think. I wouldnt eat big ones, just the little fellas, and he cooked some up the other day that was great. Said as long as you clean em quick there isnt much of a problem. Really quick, like within 30 min of the kill.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:04 pm to hunt66
Over 100 lbs a for sure gut shot and let the buzzards eat em. But I prefer the females 100 % of the time and I also like them to be under a 100lbs...perfect hog for me is about a 60lb sow. Some will say size or sex doesn't matter but I am not a fan...or big pigs or males pigs
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:05 pm to chickman1313
If you shoot a pig you need to get them gutted and cleaned as soon as possible. They spoil faster then B$B's sperm.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:08 pm to hunt66
Sows: young
Male: Bars only or young boars
Male: Bars only or young boars
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Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:20 pm to hunt66
I've eaten quite a few boars and never had any trouble with them tasting bad or strong. I even made some sausage out of a 300+ boar and sausage came out good.
I would stick to the smaller ones though if I had a choice.
I would stick to the smaller ones though if I had a choice.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:24 pm to chickman1313
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Said as long as you clean em quick there isnt much of a problem. Really quick, like within 30 min of the kill.
I've heard this and what does the cleaning really quick supposed to do? I'm kind of skeptical on this old saying. I've left a hog overnight(when in the upper 30's) and cleaned it the next morning and never had a problem with the meat or the taste of it.
Some of the old timers in my area used to say that you had to cut the nuts off of bucks and clean them right away or they would go bad or taste bad. I never ran into that problem either.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:25 pm to JasonL79
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out of a 300+ boar
You sure it wasn't a bar?
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:26 pm to JasonL79
I've had a 320 pound hog made into sausage before, mixed in pork with it. It came out great.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:27 pm to Junky
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I've had a 320 pound hog made into sausage before, mixed in pork with it.
So, you mixed "pork" with "hog"?
crazy
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:28 pm to TigerDeacon
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out of a 300+ boar
You sure it wasn't a bar?
A bar?
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:32 pm to JasonL79
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A bar?
Castrated male.
They are good to eat and are generally the ones that get that size.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:32 pm to JasonL79
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A bar?
no nuts
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:40 pm to TigerDeacon
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So, you mixed "pork" with "hog"?
crazy
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:42 pm to hunt66
I shot 3 males last year that went 50-60#. Cut the backstrap out of the first and ate it. It tasted fine. I enjoyed the look on Alx's face when we met on the trail and he saw raw meat stacked on my stand. Gutted the second but it spoiled before I could get it out. Left the last one for the buzzards. Wish I has set up a game cam like Faxis.
My thought is you shoot every pig that you can, and eat the ones you can haul out. If a male, if it doesn't stink too bad and is under 100#, i would definitely clean and eat it if not too much trouble hauling out. Females are all good. I have killed multiples on hunts, but if too much trouble I leave them. As Josey Wlas said, "Buzzards got to eat, same as a worm".
My thought is you shoot every pig that you can, and eat the ones you can haul out. If a male, if it doesn't stink too bad and is under 100#, i would definitely clean and eat it if not too much trouble hauling out. Females are all good. I have killed multiples on hunts, but if too much trouble I leave them. As Josey Wlas said, "Buzzards got to eat, same as a worm".
Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:51 pm to TigerDeacon
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A bar?
Castrated male.
They are good to eat and are generally the ones that get that size.
Never heard that term. No he had nuts and it took 3 of us to drag him like 20 yards at a time, not a fun 300 yard drag. I'm not saying he was as tasty as a smaller one but when mixed with some pork
the sausage wasn't bad. I'm sure the domestic pork I mixed in helped it out though.Posted on 11/8/11 at 4:52 pm to Mung
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My thought is you shoot every pig that you can, and eat the ones you can haul out.
This is my motto with hogs also.
Posted on 11/8/11 at 5:01 pm to JasonL79
My problem is that on the refuge we hunt, no 4 wheelers on trail to the 2+ mile hike into my stand area, so unless the haul out is easy, I feed the critters.
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