>>1256902Nope, they really aren't good eating. At all.
First of all, you can't get any decent amount of bacon off a wild boar, they don't have the fat distribution or deposition that domestic pigs do.
The hams you can always use, but they're pretty gamey even on sows. With boars, just forget it.
The only real way to make use of boar meat (or even feral pig sow meat) is to adapt to a gamey, tough, nasty source of protein or to make sausage. That much is doable - grinding it up takes away the toughness, adding spices helps mask the gamey taste.
Most hunters I know cut the loins, hams, and shoulders and throw out everything else. Then take it all down to a local processor to run through the grinder/mixer and season it up for them. Sometimes they'll add spare beef fat scraps for free, helps it cook better and taste a little more like something fit for human consumption.
