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I finally got back the mounted tusks of the big boar I shot last December during a drive hunt. It was a big and impressive animal weighting 106 kg (234 lbs.) dressed, which would indicate a live weight of 130-140 kg (290-310 lbs.).
Both tusks were broken and about to be resharpened. It's a pity but very common with big, old boars. One wonders how long the tusks were when intact.
I've laid a 9,3x74R round (the same as the one which felled the boar) alongside for comparison.

that's a mean lookin cartridge!

Nice display.

That's a very cool way of displaying them.

Did you slide the tusks out of the jaw or just cut them off at tooth-level?

Nice, very Nice!

Very nice.

BMT

Bluedreaux,
The sawed off groin was boiled* to allow pulling out the tusks (as a rule of thumb, 2/3 are burried for 1/3 showing).

*BTW, if you want to avoid divorce, don't do that in your kitchen...

very nice looking method of mounting the tusks.

Yes, I like.....

Great looking mount. I really enjoy hog hunting in the US & want to hunt an European Boar. Many US taxidermist can repair horns, antlers, & tusks. You broken tusk could be like it was before.

I know taxidermists can repair tusks and antlers (and even make them grow...), but I never accepted such proposals. I insist on staying with the true and natural character, size, colour, etc. of trophies. To me it's part of the respect I pay to the fallen animal (if not good/handsome enough, why kill him and take a trophy ?). The latter is only a reminder of an adventure and its real value lies in my my remembering of it. To each its own, this is my view

Hello Andr�, Hi US hunters,

If you like tusk i show you these ones from a Lithanian wild boar shot in battue in 2006, they are not world record but a good trophy of 22cm, the boar was shot with a Merkel SR1 semi auto in 9,3x62 with Aimpoint Micro H1 and Norma Oryx bullets during a product test hunt. This boar is not an sus scrofa attila like the turkish or bulgarian ones, its an european sus scrofa scrofa. The same familly of all the western boars. They can grow to 250kg sometimes a bit more but it's not so common. As Andre told i also prefer not to correct trophy small default, i prefer the real and natural way.

Dom

As long as we're showing wild boar pics...

My first boar. The game warden estimated his live weight in excess of 300 lbs.



The skull is being cleaned and boiled for some form of mount. Now that I've seen your tusk mounts, I think that will be in order if I kill another one with largish teeth...



Rifle is a .338 RCM, and I used a 200 gr Hornady Spire Point driven by 58 gr of Reloder 15. Muzzle velocity was app 2750 fps; three-shot groups ran just over half an inch.

Dennis

Andre, Marseille: Thanks for sharing! Those tusk mounts are unique and very pretty. Makes me want to take my 9.3x62 out for some Oregon feral hog culling

Very nice!! I really dig the tusk mount, classy.

Which is the wild boar ? Very nice. Should make a great trophy regardless of what you do with it.

Our friends from Europe do look slightly more civilized, don't they? Might could be that they are, comes to that .

Dennis

a couple of so called European Mounts.

Makes my 280 pound bear look small.

Nice BOARS by the way everyone. Those European hogs are some nasty looking SOB's.