When I see posts about utilizing wild hogs for meat, I wonder why the hogs are skinned as opposed to the time-honored method of scalding and scraping.
Scalding and scraping is very time consuming. The hog must be scraped prior to gutting. It can't be done in the field: Most hunters lack the equipment to do it at home.
i kill a lot of wild hogs. Takes me 30-40 minutes to skin and field dress a 200 pound wild hog. i skin the animal prior to gutting; makes the skinning a lot easier. Couple times a year i scald and scrape wild hogs for pig in the ground feasts.
Very few wild hogs have bacon. They have a hard scrabble life. Sometimes wild hogs get thick layers of fat like the one in the OP. They are usually eating corn, milo, soybeans or pellets at feeders.
Got a lot of good bacon from this big sow: