Can anybody explain why its common practice to remove a boar hogs testicles immediately after killing. My butcher claims that it makes no difference after he's dead.

I didn't know it was "common practice". I have shot numerous boars and have never castrated. I just removed them during the skinning process. Your butcher is correct.

FWIW, I have several pounds of pure pork summer sausage left from three boars I shot the third week in March. I have fed it to numerous friends, and all are amazed there is no "boar taste".

It's common in this area of LA/MS. Especially the older men insist you have to do this to prevent tainting the meat of a Boar.

Must be a regional thing. Or a preference for extra fresh mountain oysters....

Over here we remove the penis and the urine string of warthog to prevent the urine taste. Cut around it and pull it out.
I do not have much experience with warthogs but the ranchers where they shoot them daily insist on doing it, even for those being sold.

I am really not surprised, just didn't know it was "common". My late father used to insist I cut the metatarsals off any buck I shot, and metatarsals on the ones he shot were all removed when he brought them in. I never was able to convince him he was wasting his time...

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Originally posted by Doubless:
I didn't know it was "common practice". I have shot numerous boars and have never castrated. I just removed them during the skinning process. Your butcher is correct.

Same here.

Is it a regional thing maybe? I've never heard of it either.

Its common practice here in Hawaii although im sure its about carrying less weight on your back instead of tainted meat. Also alot of hunters in the hunting clubs weigh thier hogs for the annual competion and hogs must be fully dressed and oysters removed

I whack em off first, stick them in my pocket, cause there the first thing I fry up when I get home!

Never heard of cutting one once hes dead. We usually bar a trapped hog, so that he cant breed any more. Or bar him and pen feed him some, so he eats better. But it doesnt make any difference, in my opinion, once hes dead.

I have seen natives do this in India, supposedly not doing this taints the meat! Probably old wives tails but it always produced a laugh.

Texas is a big place but I've never heard of the practice in the parts of it I frequent. Since the testicles are internal it really doesn't make much sense once he's dead, they just come off when field dressing/cleaning.

The meat is better is they're removed several months or more before they're killed. There a are a few folks who still catch feral hogs and occasionally castrate and release the young boars.
I've never heard of doing it immediately on a dead hog either. Certainly comes off as you're field dressing.

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Originally posted by reddy375:
I have seen natives do this in India, supposedly not doing this taints the meat! Probably old wives tails but it always produced a laugh.

I'm surprised that "natives" in India bother at all with pigs. I have seen (literally) swarms of pigs of all ages wander about towns in India, unmolested. The Hindus won't touch meat of any kind; the Muslims won't touch a pig. So, who is eating them....."cheaters"??

Now, it could make the hunt much more interesting if the first shot had to remove the nuts, we have the texas heart shot, we could call it the Louisiana flavor savor or some such.

sorry guys, I'm clearly in too good a mood for my own good today.

Red

I thought it was a givin that you shot the nuts off first. Regardless of what you call it, I want to know what the minimum caliber required to do this at 600 yards is.

B-B GUN with lead b;s

Hitting the boar in the nuts makes them really squeal !!!

And sit the ass on the ground fast.

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Originally posted by reddy375:
I have seen natives do this in India, supposedly not doing this taints the meat! Probably old wives tails but it always produced a laugh.

It is a wives tale; The "smell" is in the fat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint
Which is why when raisig hogs I had Yorkshires

Don't know about any benefit but its certainly easier than the other way 'round. Been there tried that; never again!