Big sows and barrs are just as good (are better)than little ones, as long as they have plenty fat. Some lone boars are okay, but if they are with, or chasing, sows they will be rank.
Fat is the key to good eating, and corn is the key to fat.
I am much the wiser. Any time I've tried the wild hogs there hasn't been a corn field for two states around, and they were awful - the reason I haven't shot one for a long while.
Seems in this case, basting in whiskey (the hunters, not the hog) might have helped as well.
