Javelina it's gotta go with bacon..right?

[curtintex]

No sir. Not as long as their are other animals that I can eat.

[Cajun Blake]

I've cooked it slow and low for 10 hrs in a brown gravy

Definitely had a strong taste as it was OK , I'd eat it again if that's all I had left in the freezer and was starving

[curtintex]

I've cooked it slow and low for 10 hrs in a brown gravy

Definitely had a strong taste as it was OK , I'd eat it again if that's all I had left in the freezer and was starving

If Ragin' Blaze can't make it taste good....it ain't fit to eat.

[DeadeyeDeb]

Ate it for years.
Do not kill a mature critter.
Friends give me heck about eating rat.
There is only one way to get it's cape off. Only one way...
Pull it out of the freezer and soak it. You can use milk or Italian Dressing. Cook it hot and fast.2nd Year I snuck it into meals at camp everyone turned to the dark side.

I could go on for an hour about Collared Peccarys. All the kidding I got pushed me to research them. Spent a number of hours in our main library. They have done a good bit of research on them, but as of 10 years ago there were still questions.
Absolutely an incredable spieces, and will never shoot another. {Dolphin cool}
Yes I know they are a problem in some areas and need to be thinned.

And oh heck they are good.

I've cooked it slow and low for 10 hrs in a brown gravy

Definitely had a strong taste as it was OK , I'd eat it again if that's all I had left in the freezer and was starving

Funny how some like it hot and fast and some slow and low!!!!!

[critter69]

We eat it all the time, in fact as I type this Iam eating summer sasuge we made out of last years javelina. We do sausage's out of most of the meat. But have made small butterfly steaks out of the back straps and they were not bad. But the sausge we make is actually realy good.(If the wife will eat it, any one will eat it,believe me)

[RiverRat1]

I have smelled it being cooked a few times and I about threw up each time. That is one thing Im never going to try.

I wanted to try it but could not get past the smell trying to clean it.

If Ragin' Blaze can't make it taste good....it ain't fit to eat.

It's the carp of the mammal world IMO. You "can" eat it but it takes too much preparation and care to make it good. Just not worth the trouble IMO. Carp are the same way..stinky/gross on the outside and full of bones, but if you take enough time and care cleaning/cooking they are edible also...

I'll stick with feral hogs.

[topher]

We eat them, make tamales out of them and you can't go wrong by doing this. Passed them out to some friends and said they loved them--what kind of meat did you use--Javelina!! LOL!

[Geezy Rider]

Killed this 28 pounder.


Put him on ice for a week and poured several coke's over it while on ice. Then salt water brine for twenty four hours. Wrapped in bacon and smoked for ten hours.


It was dry but the meat was very good. Next time I'll inject it with some Tony's.

[cowboy1g5]

Killed this 28 pounder.
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Put him on ice for a week and poured several coke's over it while on ice. Then salt water brine for twenty four hours. Wrapped in bacon and smoked for ten hours.
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It was dry but the meat was very good. Next time I'll inject it with some Tony's.
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That, my friend is awesome!

[Humper]

They make great sausage, brats and tamales! Joe and the guys at Syracuse custom meats make it for me. I've had several folks rave about how good the sausage and brats were!

[txdukklr]

I've had it a couple of times in tamales

thats sufficient for me

[systemnt]

I've eaten off a roadside cart in Mexico a couple times..so pretty sure I have....javelina or terrier..

[Thumper]

I have smelled it being cooked a few times and I about threw up each time. That is one thing Im never going to try.

I've cooked some that had a faint musk smell, but you couldn't taste it.

I have eaten it several times. It is not as bad as a bunch of people think.

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[Mike Javi Cooper]

I've eaten it for years, in fact I got my nickname from all the javi's I've killed and eaten in my lifetime.. Some of the finest dining there is, if taken care of correctly...

[Goldeneagle]

Never been around a Javi, but there ain't no way they smell worse than those stinkin wild goats that used to be around Possum Kindom Lake.