The meat is pretty gamey for most folks, but the hams are tolerable, smoked with a lot of apple and some clove.
I never found much use for the rest of it, though.
I’m from that area and we call that a “he-hog,” and would only eat it if it had not been chased. That increases the gamey taste. Then, it would take special smoking.
The best pork chops i’ve ever had came from a wild hog.....a female, about 100 pounds.
You can hunt them at night too, in some places. Maybe everywhere by now. As the article states, they are nuisance animals in the wild.
Sausage sausage and more sausage.
Anyway thats what we do with anything over 100 or so pounds. male or not. Sorta creepy but the little ones taste so much better.
Once we had to shoot a big boar hog that got backed into a crawl space of an abandoned south GA house. The dogs had it but it got away after goring and killing one of the dogs. Blood everywhere and total fubar.
Holy cow that thing stank up the whole house even before we shot it. Had to pull it out with a winch and we were so tired, upset, and feeling sick afterwards all we could do is drag it another 200 yards dump it into a ravine and leave. Not a fun hunt.