KILL 'EM, EAT 'EM OR BOTH?

[Blindgreed1]

I will catch and release if it's not what I'm after for dinner and i've never buried a pig, but I've buried two Javalina in a fire pit for 8 hours and the meat was amazing.

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Had to look up Javalina.

Wild Pigs. Rodent? Javelina – (pronounced “have-a-lean-a”), a mean, nasty, evil smelling, highly destructive little animal with a bad attitude.

Well, yes they look like wild pigs (they have tusks and can get up to around 120 lbs) , but they're actually a member of the rodent family. If they are properly cleaned the meat tastes like a cross between beef and pork. They're mostly blind, which is why they seem to have a bad disposition. I've never suffered any damage from javelina, so i'm not sure where the "highly destructive" thing comes from. They eat prickly pear cactus though, so I guess that could become an issue with desert landscape? I dunno, but they are quite tasty when dropped into a pit with a good bed of coals and covered with dirt for about 8 hours. I used very minimal seasoning on mine. After 8 hours I dug them up, unwrapped them and in the process of rolling them out of the wrappings all of the meat fell off the bones.