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JimAZ:
I'm in the same boat with CaptJerry.  I tried several different ways to prepare wild swine several years ago.  It was all awful, just too gamey.  I did have some success with having a moist cook, but not flavor.

CaptJerry:
Boar is a male. Sow is female.
Around here, you hear them called wild pigs or wild hogs, wild boar.
By choosing swine, I covered all the nasty, destructive critters without being discriminating  :pig:

Extremely lean meat. Not enough meat on the ribs to bother with like a deer.
I've done them low and slow, hot and fast, always injected and always wind up with  :puke:
I've done young ones, old ones, males, females, spotted ones, solid colored ones, shot ones, trapped ones, smart ones and dumb ones.

As far as Andrew Z. I have a pair of sneakers I'm about to retire I'm sure he would find quite tasty  ;)

Reason behind this question is it's almost fall. Time to be spending more time in the woods and my fragile culinary ego can't endure
another failure.

Here is a prime example of what I thought was the perfect sized porker which was a epic failure. I would guess HER at 130-150 lbs.

CaptJerry:

--- Quote from: Kristin Meredith on September 13, 2017, 10:12:08 PM ---This is meant in all sincerity -- Andrew Zimmern has often shown wild hog hunts and kills and then they butcher and eat the meat.  I assume that is the same as wild swine.  Is he just lying about the stuff being good to eat or does the wild swine vary from region to region?

--- End quote ---

Good question. I'm going to set aside my opinion of Andrew Z and give this a minutes thought.
I hear others talking about how good wild swine is all the time. Good in regards to food is so subjective.
Reckon whenever I hear someone claiming to know what their doing cooking these beasts I must make myself available
to sample. Providing it's prepared with fire and not in a crock pot.

As far as region goes, this has merit to their food source.
Wild pigs are omnivores. Basic diet of my local area is acorns, grubs, bugs.
I would imagine if they had access to a corn or soybean field on a regular basis they may be tasty.
Smell is what wild pigs rely on to get by, which when you think of it is quite amazing considering how bad they smell.
How can they smell anything else?

We bait with corn and jello. Raspberry jello works best. No I'm not yanking anyones chain here. They love the smell of jello.
And no, you do not have to prepare the jello. Just dump a box with your corn and be prepared to have a root you can bury a
small SUV in.

Kristin Meredith:
Thanks for the info.  I watch these shows and often think "How can all this stuff be so wonderful?"  But I suppose he could be getting hold of some wild boar that are in more of a farming area and eating more corn.  Or he could just be fibbing. Andrew really lost my interest on one show where he refused to eat SPAM saying it was the worst stuff around.  Ok, I like SPAM and some don't, but he showed a food snobbery and ignorance of the product that he claims he is above.  I feel the same way about Guy Fieri.  I think I have gone to 4 or 5 places he has visited and thought were great and I was disappointed in every one.

And thanks for hunting and killing those wild swine even though you can't eat it.  They are a really harmful to farmers and a hazard to people and you are doing the community a great service.

mowin:
While the pigs we know came from true wild boar, they are much different. 

Wild boar(male or female) shouldn't be confused with wild feral hogs. Many states have a huge problem with wild feral hogs. These are basically the same pig we get from the supermarket, just wild.

Now from what I understand, at least from reading and talking to a few who have hunted both,  wild boar is good for sausage. Wild feral hogs, are better for chops, roasts ECT.

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