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The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the season and region of shooting wild boars as well as their sex on the dressing percentage and the percentage of prime cuts in their carcasses. Investigations have been performed on the carcasses of 40 wild boars (boars and sows) of about 50kg and about 2 years of age shot during spring and autumn in areas characterised by different food availability: forest adjacent to agricultural land, and marsh offering limited supply of food for a wild boar population. After shooting, the carcasses were weighed and eviscerated, and the dressing percentage was calculated. Skinned carcasses were divided into the following prime cuts: ham with hock, loin, shoulder with hock, belly, neck, and yowl. Subsequently, the percentage of prime cuts was calculated. The results showed that carcasses of wild boars shot in autumn, when a great deal of food is available, were characterised by a higher percentage of cuts with ample adipose tissue, i.e. neck, belly and jowl, in comparison with boars shot in spring. More and higher quality meat was obtained from the carcasses of animals shot in the forest adjacent to agricultural land. Their meat was characterized by a higher percentage of hams and loins despite a large amount of adipose tissue. The effect of the animals’ sex on the dressing percentage and the percentage of prime cuts was somewhat lower.