Cookin Wild Hog

[Jeff]

Odds are its the width of his monitor, and rather then letting his sentences naturally wrap as he types, he's breaking the lines like he was typing on an old typewriter.  When the paragraph displays, it misplaces the line breaks due to different formatting widths from screen to screen and page to page.

[jim king]

This is my favorite form of wild hog.  Soaked in salt and cold smoked over an open fire.
It is wonderful.





This was a young one that grew up and thought it was a dog and lived with our Shepard. One day it just dissapeared.

[ErikC]

  I have sent the hams in to be smoked, and they are good. The best tenderizer I have used for the rest is a sausage grinder. Takes the tough right out of them. And the sausage seasoning helps with the flavor. But even then there is no substitute for cleanliness, as someone already described.

I was at a buddy's today around lunchtime. He said how about a ham sandwich?, so we had one. It was a ham he had smoked from a wild hog a couple month's back. I stand by my original post on this matter, the ham was excellent. It was about a 150 pounder, according to him. digin1

[Ironwood]

I will dig up some pics of my Army days on Oahu. I hunted wild feral pigs w/ dogs knives and pistols (hardly ever used) WOW. Uncle Freddy was the local expert, w/ his WW2 veteran Puerto Rican "Uncle Freddy" (still carried his 30 cal. carbine). What a time. Largest where 275 lbs and MEAN. Nearly killed Uncle Freddy's prized "bitch", he was in tears as we carted her off to Honolulu to get stitched. Boar caught her in the juglar vein. I held pressure on her neck for nearly four hours. Huge mass of blood under the skin on her neck, but she made  it.

       Ironwood

[ErikC]

  I've done that several times ironwood. It is pretty exciting. I also hunt bear and lions with hounds a lot, but I went with other people and their dogs for the hogs. They wore a protective vest and cut shields on the necks also. That's why I guess.

[Ianab]

Wild pigs are a pest animal in NZ like they are in Australia, but still good hunting and eating.

Best i have had is in a Maori Hangi or earth oven.

Big fire to heat up the rocks, then into a hole, wet sacks on the rocks and the baskets of food. Meat, fish, potatoes, kumera, pumpkin sweet corn etc. More sacks and cover it with dirt. Wait about 8 hours, lean on shovels, drink some beer etc.

Then dig things up and have a feast.

Ian

[pineywoods]

Neighbor just stopped by and left a ham and loin from a 275 pound wild sow his wife had killed. It will probably go in the smoker. Corn fed, should be good. Yeah, corn fed wild hog. Deer hunters put out lots of shelled corn for the deer. Hogs and turkeys get as much as the deer..

[ErikC]

  Ian, We cooked a hog that way at mom and dad's a few years ago. Except I dug the hole with a backhoe and it was a hog they raised at their place. But it was sure good, and plenty of time to drink beer while it cooked

[crd1957]

here in oklahoma theres no limit or season on wild hogs . you still need a license. two years back the ok dept of wildlife shot around 150 hogs from a helicopter . two weeks later a whole new group moved in.they tear up yards and cemeterys quite often around here.they dont get very large but their are so many of them. farmers wont let you hunt deer but most will let you hunt hogs.at night they tear up yards on the edge of town.you cant shoot them in the city limits. the law said to try loud music and bright lights. might work but you got to sleep