How this meat reaches the table is a story that is quintessentially Texan, involving rugged individuals, a love of the outdoors and, yes, guns. To tell that story, let’s go back to earlier this year, before the coronavirus, to a wheat field in north-central Texas at dusk.
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Aren't pigs a special privileged race that are more equal than others?
ReplyDelete(George Orwell, Animal Farm)
We live in Orwellian times!
DeleteI trust the irony of pigs being the Special Ones is not lost on the reader.
DeleteNot lost. Pigs and monkeys have been traditional cultural self-representations of the Chinese people for thousands of years.
DeleteInvasive - intelligent - difficult to find in person (but you see their sign a lot). Sounds like feral hogs alright. I was lucky last year, killed a single sow while deer hunting on stand. Wonderful tasting meat too. More hunters should take advantage of this resource. People who will ask to be payed to deer hunt will give hog hunters a break just to be rid of them.
ReplyDeleteSame here in South Africa feral pigs are great sport and great eating.
DeleteToo bad ANTFA & BLMers can't be designated as "wild boar".
ReplyDeleteI think you spelled boar wrong shouldn't it be bore
Delete@Anonymous: Unfortunately there are just as many landowners in Texas that want to turn hog hunts into a safari and charge outrageously for the privilege of killing "their" hogs. As long as that sort of behaviour continues, feral hogs will be around, because the "guides" will never let them be completely exterminated. Not that I am faulting them taking the opportunity to turn quarter sections of useless scrub into money, of course.
ReplyDeleteYeah, got invited to one. No thanks. They literally bait them and the rate them and you pay based on rate.
DeleteR.D., scrub land isn't useless.
DeleteA friend in NE Texas two months ago got a feral boar from the second floor of his house, a 100-yard shot. He always carries a .357 when going to the barn and a Winchester 94 when going into the woods. When I was growing up in the area, there were occasional stories about wild hogs in the Sulphur River bottoms, but nothing even close to the numbers now.
ReplyDeleteI've eaten wild boar, but with jelly to calm down the "gaminess" of the meat. I enjoyed it. Tastes better than Kangaroo tail, fer sure.
ReplyDeleteIf the federal government would just get its head out of its ass and approve microencapsulated sodium nitrite poison, we could end the hog menace overnight.
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