The other thing to do is to cut a bit off the ham and fry it up in a pan before you even bother processing the whole thing. If the ham is bad it becomes coyote bait. Also I refuse to hunt them as long as there are acorns on the ground, for me it brings a real bitter taste to the meat. Unless I was doing a favor for a rancher hogs are safe from me October to February.

Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.

"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper