the wild pig problem

Rebelson

Rebelson

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seems like theres alot of reported sightings in southern ontario theses days and people are shooting them all the time out west from what i hear.

two questions

is the meat any good

and are they really spreading in southern ontario and if not will they?
 
send a bunch of the smaller and younger ones back into MB! We had lots here quite a while back, but they have moved on to new homes. So, I threw in the towel and sold my BLR 358 bore gun:(
 
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Rebelson said:
seems like theres alot of reported sightings in southern ontario theses days and people are shooting them all the time out west from what i hear.

two questions

is the meat any good

and are they really spreading in southern ontario and if not will they?
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the older they are and the bigger they are, the more uneatable they are. If you do get out for a hunt, take a smaller and younger one or two or three. Good luck. Oh, if you do get something, let me know. I'll come over for bacon & eggs or ham & eggs.


EDIT: there is a wild boar site here somewhere, where the sightings are pin pointed. Perhaps someone will post it and you can keep tabs on their movement etc.
 
I shot, cooked and ate a 200lb boar this summer - knocked him over with a 30-30- very moist and tasty (and Europeaned the skull).

I barbequed half of it by burning the hair off, skin on and cutting through the ribcage 2/3 down from the shoulder and rotated the ham into the ribcage to keep the thickness even(ish) and held it together with stainless steel mesh. Brined joints overnight and rented a 5ft electric spit charcoal barbecue. Cooked for about 9 hours on a slow heat and rested before carving. (it weighted about 60 lbs and cooked at about 8lb per hour). On at 8, done by 5, rested and kept warm and eaten at 7.

Served with a crusty white roll (30 for $4.49 from Safeway) served with barbecue sauces (easy to make - did a North Carolina - (vinegar) Tennessee - (Jim Beam) and Chicago (spicy) - Tennessee went first) and freshly made coleslaw (easy to make and much better than bought). So people could load a bun and have bun and beer. Most female advice was potato salad, rice salad etc but then you need plates, knifes, forks and a place to sit (or three arms) so stayed with the pig, sauce and slaw.

Got through 120 buns and fed over 60 people.

Cut ribs off at the end of the evening and served them the next day (very Fred Flintstone) and did a Tonkotsu soup with the leftovers and bones a couple of nights later.

The rest was jointed out by a butcher, packed and frozen. Very tasty!

If yo get a chance - go for it!

On the sighting front, there are doubts as to how many there are - estimates of 100,000s seem wildly exaggerated at the moment (and no roadkill in SK)

If you would like more detail - pm me!
 
with wild pigs I would not worry about the meat if you see them shoot them and if there's more then one shoot as many as you can they are huge problems and if the population gets too big they will do some serious damage to farm land I can't see why people want them in their area just take a look at Texas or many other states dealing with them
 
Ted Nugent ,The Pigman and helicopters.You Tube AR's and AK's.............like the 80's..........Harold
 
In the US I have mixed the wild boar with deer from 50/50 to about 25/75% deer and made sausage. All the straight wild pig I have ever eaten was great, but boar meat can smell really, really bad while cooking, like run everybody out of the camp bad. However that bacon had an excellent taste.

Nothing like filling your deer tag AND then getting a 200 lb pig for deer sausage.
 
We use to have quite a few in our area, have'nt seen or heard that anyone has for years. We had guys who got into the whole game farming, who when the bottom fell out, just kind of left the gate open. Nothing says drug flash back like watching an emu trot by while baling hay.
 
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Rebelson said:
seems like theres alot of reported sightings in southern ontario theses days and people are shooting them all the time out west from what i hear.

two questions

is the meat any good

and are they really spreading in southern ontario and if not will they?
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This is a huge problem in South Oshawa. Personally I think they taste fishy but that's just me!
 
Honestly I can't wait for them to be more abundant in southern ontario. The more hunting time I get and the more bacon and ribs that come my way, well I'll be one happy camper
 
Drewspeed said:
Honestly I can't wait for them to be more abundant in southern ontario. The more hunting time I get and the more bacon and ribs that come my way, well I'll be one happy camper
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or the billions in crop damage these pigs are not good things to have and should not be hunted like game animals they should be hunted like rats
 
While I consider a young wild boar some of the best eating I have tasted, (double smoked hams are excellent) and they are challenging and sporting to hunt, I wouldn't wish them on anyone especially rural folk with agricultural interest. With few natural predators and an enormous appetite which translates into constant rooting the soil for food they can be very destructive to agricultural land.

Imagine a quarter section with enormous holes, troughs and hills all over it coupled with uprooted plants and natural waterways that are pock marked and filthy because of wallows.

In places like Texas where the pigs are wide spread, they are considered public enemy #1 and a great deal of expense and effort is spent to eradicate them. Fencing is of limited value and the only thing that really works is electrical fencing.

All I'm saying to some CGNers who want ready, close hunting access to wild boar is be very careful what you wish for.;) The hunting benefit you reap is not worth the cost in destroyed crops, gardens and fences.

We have enough of a problem with white-tailed deer where I live, I couldn't imagine wild boar!!
 
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