Umm..guys?

Yvsa said:
Nova, I'll bet they are tasty!!!!:thumbup: :D
I've always imagined wild pig to be a helluva lot less fat and a helluva lot sweeter than farm raised pigs. Am I close at all? :rolleyes: :confused: ;)
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Yep, you got it exactly right Yvsa!!!!!

Wild hogs, where they don't have access to game feeders or other artificial food sources, rarely have more than 3/8" of fat on the outside of the carcass and little or no "leaf lard" in the body cavity. Very little "marbling" within the meat too. Even in years when there is a bumper crop of acorns and hickory nuts-wild hogs' favorite food. And the meat is a good deal sweeter and less musky than that of domestic pigs. (Assuming that each was harvested in an equally humane manner.)
Now taste is a very subjective thing, so I'll just speak for myself. The Very Best meat I've ever eaten was a young Florida wild hog, harvested around Hallween and slow-roasted/wet-smoked over a fire of green blackjack oak. The taste alone justifies hunting them!!!!!!!

Getting back to the original course of this thread.....yes, a khukuri can be an efficient tool to harvest wild hogs. I usually use a khuk (for you purists-an 18" BGRS by KNN ) to dispatch them where shooting would be innappropraite. Does the job quickly and generally without the noisy complications that sometimes accompany "sticking" a hog.
Used to use a small axe but the khuk is a lot easier to carry in the woods and swamps plus it's useful for other jobs too.
 
Sombody's reference to the Darwin Awards is appropriate here. Trying to knife a whirling boar, with the dogs underfoot, is just begging to get your ba!!$ ripped off; and guess what, no more little Cantinistas running around.
 
jurassicnarc44 said:
Sombody's reference to the Darwin Awards is appropriate here. Trying to knife a whirling boar, with the dogs underfoot, is just begging to get your ba!!$ ripped off; and guess what, no more little Cantinistas running around.
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Definitely not darwin award material. It is standard practice. If I could afford to, I would go Boar hunting with a knife.
 
That's way more ballsy that I will ever be:eek: My hat's off to anyone that can stick a pig like that. Personally, I don't think I could do it. I mean if I HAD to, I guess I could, but my humane side would rather must blast them in the head with a big bore of some kind, than stick them and let them bleed out. Amazing and i'm sure very thrilling, though:)

Jake
 
jurassicnarc44 said:
Sombody's reference to the Darwin Awards is appropriate here. Trying to knife a whirling boar, with the dogs underfoot, is just begging to get your ba!!$ ripped off; and guess what, no more little Cantinistas running around.
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It's a fairly common practice throughout the south and not nearly so intense as you've imagined it. Three categories of dogs are generally used for the hunt; Strikers: Hounds with a keen sense of smell, that initially pick up the hogs scent, Trailers: Large, aggressive hounds like Catahoulas, that give chase and bring the hog to bay, thus also known as bay dogs, and Catch Dogs: These are generally large, powerful, bulldog variants that are specifically bred and trained for the task of tackling the hog to the ground and holding it there. They do so by clamping onto the hog's ear, thereby controlling it's head, often with a team mate siezing the hog's tail or hind leg, further immobilizing it. A catch dog, once he's got his jaws clamped on, is almost impossible to shake loose, and in fact is often difficult to remove even after you've killed the hog.

So, as you can see, it's the dogs that take all the risks, once the hog is down, you can walk up and dispatch the critter with little relatively little danger to yourself. A quick thrust with a keen blade in the right spot and it's pork. ;)

Sarge
 
Sarge - you goin' any time soon? If so, drop me a line and I'll bring two knives with me. ;)
 
Wild boar tastes bad. They need to be captured, castrated and fed a proper diet before you can eat them. Wild sows are not as bad.

Steve
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Trailers: Large, aggressive hounds like Catahoulas, that give chase and bring the hog to bay, thus also known as bay dogs,

Sarge
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"Catahoulas." Now that's a breed most people haven't heard of.:eek:
Our daughter has one that she has trained for a service dog and Boo goes everywhere with Carrie!
Boo picks up and drags the hose for filling the water tank on their small ranch and has walked the stallion when Carrie wasn't able and also helps take care of Diesel, the little Dexter Bull that Carrie is training to pull. I'm surprised she hasn't saddle broke Diesel the Dexter Bull and rode him but I'm not going to say anything as that could be next.:rolleyes:
Boo is also Carrie's protector. A mild mannered and gentle looking dog albeit a large one Boo can be quite aggressive when need be.:thumbup: :cool: :D
Carrie's one of our good Cherokee daughters.;)
 
Steve Poll said:
Wild boar tastes bad. They need to be captured, castrated and fed a proper diet before you can eat them. Wild sows are not as bad.

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I'm single, live alone, and eat my own cooking, so if I was ever captured by cannibals, I reckon they'd have to treat me similar. :eek: :(

Catahoulas Yvsa? Yessir, them ain't city dogs, sounds like Boo's living the life of Riley. :D

Sarge
 
Daniel Koster said:
Sarge - you goin' any time soon? If so, drop me a line and I'll bring two knives with me. ;)
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Dan besides me figuring you're probably way too busy, I just don't have the connections I used to for that sort of thing. Boy we'd sure have a time though wouldn't we? I do have a buddy that could set me up for a gun or bow hunt on some pretty good sized porkers, but it just ain't the same as the classic chase with dogs. We've got plenty good hogs down here, and as "nuisance animals" (think crop damage, competition with whitetail deer, etc) there's no closed season or bag limit on 'em.

Sarge
 
Steve Poll said:
Wild boar tastes bad. They need to be captured, castrated and fed a proper diet before you can eat them. Wild sows are not as bad.Steve
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That may depend on the type of animal, and what they've been foraging on. Some the best meat that I've eaten has been wild boar that my aunt in Germany prepared from pigs that my uncle shot there.
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Dan besides me figuring you're probably way too busy....I do have a buddy that could set me up for a gun or bow hunt on some pretty good sized porkers...
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Yes and Yes!

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Steve Poll said:
Wild boar tastes bad. They need to be captured, castrated and fed a proper diet before you can eat them. Wild sows are not as bad.

Steve
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;) ;) Yes, sadly this is true. :( Wild hogs (both boars and sows) are filthy, smelly, dangerous critters. And harvesting them should be left to specialists (like ME!!!) :D

(irony mode- off)

No offense Steve but I've heard this "wild boars taste bad" thing since I began hunting in Florida. I've come to beleive that this was concocted by hog hunters to keep others from horning in on their action. ;) ; :D :D

The belief that "Wild boar tastes bad. They need to be captured, castrated and fed a proper diet before you can eat them " may be true if you run an old boar with dogs for a couple of hours, let him fight his way out of two or three "bay-ups", use three or four bullets to kill him and then leave him uncastrated while you drag him out of the woods and haul him back to camp.
The meat will smell and taste so bad that you'll wish you'd left him in the woods. Treat a deer (or a beef) the same way and you'll get the same result.
My experience has been that if a boar, even an old boar, is harvested so that he loses consiousness instantly, is castrated and bled immediately after death, and is skinned (to remove the subcutaneous musk glands) and dressed as quickly as possible; its meat will be as good as that of a similarly aged sow. It seems to me that the conditions of slaughtering and butchering have much more bearing on meat quality than does gender. YMMV
FWIW, farm raised boars are castrated to make them put on weight more rapidly and make them easier to handle.

gyr
 
No offense taken, GYR.

My wild boar experience is based on wild pigs trapped or hunted in north central Florida. I'm glad your wild pigs taste good. The ones around here really do taste nasty. Perhaps it is diet related.

Thanks, Steve
 
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