We used to hunt peccary at night in the jungle in Belize when I worked down there. We needed them for food. We'd walk on trails until we heard or smelled them then turned out our lights and went quiet to hear where they were. They would just walk right by us for some reason and when we were surrounded on would come the lights and the show began with single bbl 16ga shotguns and one Winchester .22 auto and of course our machetes. Talk about fun! We also shot the larger ones that they called "Juaries", which didn't taste as good. The Peccaries were really good. We'd smoke them on a wood rack over a low smokey fire and just hack a piece off when hungry. The pigs were all a royal pain to clean as they were caked from stem to stern with bloated ticks. We piled the hides, put kero on them and burned them and the ground for 10ft around. We also kept parrots, McCaw, toucans, and a couple of turkey like birds, a small deer, pigeons, and a kind of partridge on the smoker whenever we found them. We all carried sling shots and rocks to harvest the small birds. Except for the river otter and one hawk, that was all some fine eating.
