Josh, they all don't stink, the vast majority do not. Also, there's no way a pig at a feeder can get enough corn to make it a staple in their diet. There's never just one pig. The bulk of their diet is gonna be a local food source. Cipriano has had the good fortune to shoot 2 huge, old boar. When you want to eat a pig, you shoot a smaller one. My favorite are about 125lbs, but I've eaten them up to about 250lbs.
Not only that, people can mistake the smell on the outside of a pig for how the meat will taste. My wife grew up on a hog farm, believe me when I say that they can be the worst smelling animal on the planet. The last big boar we got stunk pretty bad on the outside, but once his hide was off, he was fine. I'm too stingy to assume they're gonna taste bad until I get to actually smell the meat. So far mine have all been good. I have a friend that runs night vision hunts down by Houston. His clients kill hundreds of hogs a year and the last time this came up on the hog forum he said he'd never had a bad one. Hunted hard like that, the average size of the pigs are gonna be a little smaller. Just like with deer it's crucial to get the animal gutted and cooled ASAP. He's also anal about washing them off before field dressing them. There might be something to that as well. Also it is much more important with boar to not cut into the private area. The bacteria that live around a boar's you know what are nasty. One of the guys took some of that stenchy stuff to a scientist to try and see if it could be reproduced and sold as a lure. They told him it was a biohazard.
George
