Jerry, I enjoyed your story of the javelina hunt very much. I remember hunting those crafty little piggies back in the early sixties and I never even saw one. We would find an opening in the brush where they had been and you could even smell them but we never got a shot. I also appreciate your story about food or lack of it. Been there and it ain't pretty.

Here is a small herd enjoying my garbage. I am well familiar with them lust filled and otherwise if you dont get into the scent glands the meat tastes fine. You wouldnt know what you were eating. Most people (90+% ) get into the glands when they are butchering and the taste and smell is terrible.

Zack, you have my sympathy, having to put up with 'em at home, if they're even half as bad as we've been told. Yikes! My only experience with anything similar was feral pigs over in California, and it tasted very good indeed. Tough to put down with a shot to the shoulder- like Jerry mentioned. One in the shoulder and the SOB was back to eating in about twenty seconds! One behind the ear and he was dinner.
Vall, I never heard 'em called skunk pigs, but it seems an apt term, given all that's written here. 
We're gonna like this new section, I bet.