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How do y'all take the gamey taste out of a boars meat?

Gamey taste is from stress. Take the boar alive and feed it corn for a few days or so. Then replace the water with cheap booze. When the hog is too drunk to know what is happening you kill him. I do not notice it as much if you catch the hog and leave it tied for a few hour while you are still hunting. The hog will calm down and just kill him fast. The fast painless death is not only humane it also gets you meat that is not gamey.

Soak it in vinegar over night, I've also heard milk works.

It's the testosterone that makes it gamey. I have shot big boars that were just cruising with a head shot when they had no idea I was around and they had no bed taste. So like posted above the only way I know of is kill them when they are calm. Tie and leave for a while then sneak in and 22 just above the eyes or behind the ear.

Cut em and turn em loose! Takes out the gamey taste 100% of the time

Well my buddy shot him and we already got him cleaned, anything I can soak him in? I've heard of the vinegar but was wondering if there was anything else

  put the meat in an ice chest with some lemon juice and salt , [ not much ] and leave the drain valve open and keep adding ice as needed for a couple days and you are good to go .. me I like the gamey taste in a boar hog .  kinda like folks wanna know how to get the fishy taste out of fish  ?  .  and then there's the old advice I give everybody , throw it on the smoker and let it cook , when done right it taste mighty fine   lol .

I've actually heard the milk works great, it supposably help tenderize it also.

I debone mine and cut it up into smaller pieces and soak it in ice water for a couple days. Change out the bloody water and keep plenty of ice on it. The smaller the pieces the better it will be able to soak.

I gave up on the boars long long time ago...

a 300 pound sow tastes just as good as a 50 pounder...

I've tried everything and I finally came to the conclusion that some stink and some don't. I've shot some young ones in the head that died right there and never knew what was going on and they still stunk. I've also shot some huge ones that had been bayed for a long time that didn't stink at all. I think it has to do with genetics. Best way is to just cut them and turn them loose... works 100% of the time.

Make sausage out of it.  Personally I like gamey taste.

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Onions, garlic, salt (if u choose, lemon juice) a lil vinegar and a lot of ice n like me whitten said, leave drain open n add ice as needed, keepin meat completely covered. Let set for 2-7 days till u cant smell the meat n there aint no blood runnin outa the drain but no longer than 7 days.

In my opinion...the best way would be to kill a sow.  ;D

 If I do decide to cook a pig...I put them on ice for couple days. Drain water and add ice as needed. I feed most to buzzards.

Bleed him out on ice for a few days like half breed said that's works for any kind of wild animal

We de-bone the hog (both sows and boars) while they are hanging. We cut into smaller pieces and soak in ice water and vinegar. We use 1/2 cup of vinegar to a 100 qt. ice chest. We drain and change out the water and add more ice and vinegar . We do this for 3 or 4 days. The last day do not add vinegar, just ice water.  Meat taste just like store bought pork.  Just make sure to keep draining and adding ice.

x2...only thing I do different is add salt...been doing it this way since I was a kid, but I don't waste my time on boars...

one of the reasons why this works so well is that the smaller the meat chunks the more blood bleeds out...deer meat will look like it has been bleached and when you cut into the meat it looks like lean beef...

I hunt with a 77 year old man that has caught hogs with dogs all his life and had probably forgot more than any of us will ever know. He swears that if you catch a boar
.Step #1Bring it home alive.
Step#2 Dispatch and Remove all male components sheath included.
Step #3Hang him up and run cool water through him for a couple hours. Let it over fill. You want the water to cool him from the inside out.
 Step #4 dress,skin,& quarter
I haven't been hard up enough to try it. He swears its the only way.

I have a question then....just what is 'gamey'? I'm being serious here, not making fun of your post at all Steven. I really don't know what folks talk about when they refer to meat that is gamey. I've eaten wild game all my life and I just don't get what they're talking about when they say some cut of meat tastes 'gamey' or 'wild'. To me the flesh from different critters has a different taste....some of it is better than others. I do believe that care in the field can make a big difference in the quality of the meat of any game.
We kill a few big, old boar hogs every year and eat them just as the rest of them and it's just as good as a pig to me. What I do with any hog meat is trim all the connective tissue and fat from each cut before I cook it.....if it's a bit bloody I'll soak it in salt water for awhile and that seems to do it. I put the hog meat I get in ziplock bags and never mark it as boar, sow or anything other than the date I put it up. It all tastes great to me.
I've heard folks talk about older critters being gamey or strong and I guess that can be the case, but I just don't see it myself. Game tastes like the kind it is to me......venison tastes just like venison, pork tastes like pork, duck tastes like duck.....you see what I'm getting at......I guess I'm just saying that I don't know what wild or gamey is.....it tastes like the game that it is to me. That seems to be a generic term that folks use for meat that they know before hand is from a wild game animal......might not be used if they thought it was beef or chicken or domestic pork....just my opinion.

  i'm like you firemedic  , I eat my hogs like a banana , just peal um and eat um  lol , and I have had many people tell me they won't eat a boar hog .  but have changed their minds after I snuck them in on them after I smoked them .  but the wild boars will have a stronger flavor and a stonger smell to the meat especially when made into pan sausage and fried indoors and that distinct smell is what turns some folks away .

I guess that may be the reason I don't get the whole 'boar hog' smell thing Halfbreed,....I very rarely have any of the hog meat I get made into sausage.....I'm not a real big fan of sausage, I prefer bacon much more, so I don't eat much sausage at all. I can see where frying it from a boar hog might be a bit more odiferous though.....lol.

Maybe your nose and taste buds are just old and worn out...  ;D

I for one can taste a boar hog unless i soak the meat in ice water with a little white vinegar. The boar meat that has not been treated the way above will have a strong twang to it. To me it kinda tastes the way strong pee smells. I have talked to a few people that swear that it dont taste any different to them. But to me it does FOR SURE.

now that is funny...  :)

Best way to do it is cut when they young and catch them when they old LOL!!!

Could be.......but I'm not the one whining about smelly/gamey hog meat either....... :laugh:

I've had people tell me they couldn't tell a difference and I went and hunted in their area and the hogs really didn't stink. I've killed some that obviously had a lot of Russian in them and they didn't stink. I really think it has a lot to do with genetics

Cut and release

Yeah pretty sure the best way is to cut their nuts out, let em back go, and then catch em again later on  ;D

im with halfbreed put him in a cooler ive kept them in a cooler and added ice for about 5to6 days the meat comes out pretty and white

Don't eat it..

I thought the only reason to cut and release was to win hog hunting tournaments.... ;D

Ha ha ha ha ...... :D

We eat it all never had a bad tasting one yet

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