Meat from a source like what's represented, not having eaten it, makes me wonder what it "would" taste like. A wild taste, yes, but hard for me to imagine. I'm a fairly avid hunter.
They are range fed, but they eat literally everything. Not like corralled, farm fed at all.
All that I have had has been quite tasty. Sausage, bacon, & hams that were smoked…. it has all been very good.
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Edit: To be clear, I am referring to wild hogs/boars…. not Javelina.
glad I am not the only one who had to google “javelina”; those look quite nasty. Guess I am too acclimated to city life, the worst creatures I get to see are mosquitoes.
Well you are way behind the curve up there in the PNW…. but check this out….
And by S.E., if you are talking about the Southeast USA…. it is far, far beyond “plants” in many areas of many states. Texas is eat up with them…. a major problem. Here is a link that tells a bit more.
Here is more reading about Texas & porkers of the wild variety…
I am indeed out of the news curve. Until they become more newsworthy as a nuisance, I wouldn't waste the time to go where they are here in WA...yet. I should have been more clear. I do that sometimes and just start rattling thinking people just know. Sorry, I meant S.E. Washington. Some nights, on the weekends, I search Youtube for good hog hunt vids. I can sit and watch them for hours if there's enough excitement. The videos coming out from Texas, that part of the country IS infested bad. Some day I'd like to take a trip there and join in with a hunting party. That would be a kick! I like watching Coyote hunts too that are in other regions. Nothing like that where I am.
I know what you were meaning. You just experienced my lack of info fulfillment as I mentioned earlier. Not intentional, but I sometimes am the reverse to a speed-reader.
I was just summing the invasion up to, when it becomes more pronounced in the news, I might consider making a trip to go help provide the necessary injections ;) :D
You’d honest to God be amazed at the amount of destruction a sounder (family group) can accomplish in one night.
The state is trying to poison them, but the program was just paused until more study could be done. Many are worried about the effect of the poison on other animals, humans who eat the meat included.
ETA: I’m talking about feral hogs, who are larger, more destructive and much more widespread than the native javelina.
In Texas hogs are able to be taken year round no season on them. I don’t know if its still the same way in my state still in Mississippi. As far as I know you can trap them year round here. They tear up so much farmland and gardens and anything else they can get into. But I wouldn’t go in the woods without a pistol at least. At a plant I use to work at by honey island swamp I hit like 3 of them in under 2 years in my mustang. Just ran across the road out of nowhere. The industrial park was a nature preserve. But they hired a guy to trap them and move them.
On another note glad the light worked. I DD c8 can be very bright. I’ve strobed raccoons with 4k lumens and they just sit there. And other times take off. They take off now they know i mean business to an extent. In city limits now so a shot without a suppressor is a no go. They come to steal the cats food. Had a opossum get snarly when I hit it with a x6 triple strobe. Things get kinda intimidating when you corner one and it can’t see. Threw a can of beans at it made it jump off the deck. Deck is about 5 feet up (All I was willing to lose from the store trip)
I had a friend when we were much much younger get ran up a tree with his bb gun. And it was trying to uproot the tree to get to him. So he kept shoptojg it in the face with BBS and yelling for help. Someone was shooting way in the distance. When they guy got close enough it turned and charged him. And took about 4 shots with a 9mm before it stopped feet before getting him with the tusks. Wild pigs/hogs/javelina etc can be very dangerous. Anyone who has hunting dogs. Has had to stitch their dogs up more then one time with fishing line or had to put one down that got gutted by the hog. The dogs hold the hog down while you come up with a knife and slit the throat