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Apparently Peccary is not something you want to eat.
After a bit of curiousity, I did some searching on Peccary. Also known as Javelina in southwestern United States and Mexico they require some knowledge on how to skin and cut up the animal. Done wrong it tastes apparently so bad that dogs won't touch it.
Not suggesting we make it something inedible in game but it was an interesting thing to find out.
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☭Woodsman☭ Oct 10, 2018 @ 6:04pm 
I had to look up what you're talking about since you didn't give details and the same is true for a lot of wild animals. they're filthy so you gotta get the skin off ASAP and you don't want to use the same knife to butcher it, at least not without cleaning it first. It also helps if they're younger. The fact I saw a lot of people mention soaking the meat in beer, citrus, milk, etc could be to hide bad flavor but it could also just be to counter the gaminess of it.

I've never been hunting but I spent some time in the Philippines where most cattle are fed with wild grasses on the side of the road. You couldn't really tell the difference when it was ground up in a burger, but steak was so rubbery it was hard to eat. If they soaked it in something a few days and/or slow cooked it, it probably would have went down a lot easier.
Reifel Oct 11, 2018 @ 6:14am 
the "Peccary" is Caititu ou porco-do-mato (Pecari tajacu) = more specific collared peccary
its true, i found a brazillian research that tells that meat is rejected because bad smell and hard meat
page 10
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bgoeldi/v11n3/1981-8122-bgoeldi-11-3-0691.pdf

"‘ESTE EU NÃO COMO’: ESPÉCIES REJEITADAS
PARA O CONSUMO" ( 'this i dont eat': species with consumption rejected )

only 17% tells that eat every kind of meat

i discover that collared peccary eats snakes (cobra) too
Last edited by Reifel; Oct 11, 2018 @ 6:17am
Whoa, that's interesting Reifel. They eat snakes. Cool!
Blood Haven Oct 11, 2018 @ 9:25am 
Calories and nutrition trump taste in a survival situation but I see what you're saying. If it was hyper-realistic it would probably cause a sanity hit if it was deemed "one of the bad ones".
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Date Posted: Oct 10, 2018 @ 1:10pm
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