I'm not bragging, as wild hogs are nothing to brag about, but here in central California we've got more hogs than you can possibly shoot, drag and skin. They run in packs as large as 40 or more in lots of places. Lots of 'em on public land, but most are on private ranches and farms. I'm fortunate enough to have hunting rights on two ranches, and we make a day out of calling 'yotes, hunting hogs, and fly fishing for blue gills in the retention ponds.
As for how them hogs taste, well, whatever they've been eating in the last week or so is what they taste like. I killed a monster boar of just over 300 lbs. eating on a dead horse. He smelled worse than the carcass of the horse when we gutted and skinned him. Had to throw him away Buried him, actually. Can't leave him for the coyotes, as that's considered game abandonment in Cali.
This year the price of a pig tag went up to almost $18. Three years ago you could buy a 5 tag book for less than $10, now F & G has realized what a cottage industry pig hunting has become, and are cashing in on it's popularity. No in-possession limit and no limit on how many you can take in a day. We usually pass on any pig larger than 100lbs. but we'll definitely knock down a monster if we happen across one. BTW, we've been surprised to have 'em come in to our predator calls when calling 'yotes. And just for general information, don't pack a .40 caliber sidearm as back-up when pig hunting. I did that once by mistake, and my buddies are still laughing about that one. That story comes up every year at deer camp. Maybe one day I'll share it with ya. I'll have to change the name to protect the ignorant (me).
Peace and God bless, Wolfsong.
