Ive seen wild sows get to 400-500 lbs in east and west Texas. Some were flat scary in size, but they were black and white or tan and black and had not yet reverted to their old genetic characteristics.
There are humans around i could say the same about.
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What a JOKE. That's a floppy-eared, pen-raised, corn-fed domestic hog...
Truly wild hogs here in TX do not get to 807 pounds...ever.
I've killed well over 400 hogs, and those that approach or reach the 300 pound mark are extremely rare and probably represent no more than 1 percent of the population. A good, fully-mature boar around here will go 180-220.
A guy I knew a few years back killed a hog about 30 miles from where I live that looked like the ones in your pictures.He had the head mounted. It was huge with huge tusks. I have no way to verify it but he said it was weighed at 500 lbs. We don't have near the numbers like you guys do though.
This is the biggest hog -that I believe is true free range .
I've seen one hog over 300lbs. killed on our lease , myself -never killed a 200lb'r --yet .
Known Glenn Guess for many years. Big hog for sure.
Glenn had a wild hog he caught as a piglet and raised in a pen. That hog got huge! Scary big. People used to make the trip just to see that boar in his pen. (That wasn't it in the video, BTW)
What a JOKE. That's a floppy-eared, pen-raised, corn-fed domestic hog...
Truly wild hogs here in TX do not get to 807 pounds...ever.
I've killed well over 400 hogs, and those that approach or reach the 300 pound mark are extremely rare and probably represent no more than 1 percent of the population. A good, fully-mature boar around here will go 180-220.
Same here. We have lots of feral hogs (from time to time...they are very nomadic). We have a contest for the biggest hog every year, and the winner is typically around 230lbs. The largest ever was 340. We use scales. If we didn't, they would be a lot heavier.
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Came across it in a place where no-one shoots 'em. Most hogs take off like scalded cats, this one wouldn't, just stood there all PO'd for a while before moving on.
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The boy in that first video is NOT a Texan, and much more used car salesman than hunter! If he thought he was in thick brush, he'd run away in fear on my coastal property! Lot's of BS floating around about hogs.
As to golf carts, they can be very effective. Mine will go anywhere my 4WD Mule will - and a lot quieter.
Going out to fill up my pig pipes and roll barrels this morning, especially after watching this stuff! Don't want dem hogs to be running wild though the woods, eating all the deer - AND EACH OTHER!
This is the biggest hog -that I believe is true free range .
I've seen one hog over 300lbs. killed on our lease , myself -never killed a 200lb'r --yet .
Known Glenn Guess for many years. Big hog for sure.
Glenn had a wild hog he caught as a piglet and raised in a pen. That hog got huge! Scary big. People used to make the trip just to see that boar in his pen. (That wasn't it in the video, BTW)
I pen raised a boar I caught in a trap about 20 years ago. When oldest son was in college He was trapping and selling hogs for spending money. I asked him to take the boar to sale. HE got big with no fear of people. I was afraid he'd get out and eat some kid! He weighed 307.
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I've killed a few hogs in my day and the biggest was estimated to be 225. 3 of us estimated the weight and 225 was the lowest, so that's the one I use.
Shot the hog while crawling on my hands and knees thru a thicket. 12 ga 3" 00 buckshot at about 20-25 yds.
I don't believe I've ever seen a 300 lb wild hog. Not saying they aren't out there, I just haven't seen one.
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If someone has a permanent "hog hunting operation", then it's a pretty safe bet that they go down to the local sale barn and buy whatever swines they run through the ring on sale day.
Lots of youngsters make their beer money by trapping wild hogs and selling them to these places.
Like as not, there will be just run of the mill domestic hogs in the mix there too. And about as "wild" as a show pig in a livestock show.
I've only killed one feral pig. It was near Show Low AZ of all places. Taken with a muzzle loader. Did not weigh it, but doubt that it was more than 75-80 lbs.
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Same here. We have lots of feral hogs (from time to time...they are very nomadic). We have a contest for the biggest hog every year, and the winner is typically around 230lbs. The largest ever was 340. We use scales. If we didn't, they would be a lot heavier.
Scales are like Chronographs, they ruin everything!
Killed lots of hogs and I doubt any of em were 200 lbs. Close but not quite.
Once again I say,
20 pounders are delicious!!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
Biggest boar I've killed was a measured 300 pounds, 200 yds early morning in a fog. It was so foggy, I could barely see the hog outline, too foggy for range finder to work, figured out range after fog lifted.
140 gr. SST behind the ear from 6.5-284. Dragged hog behind 4 wheeler to skinning shed for weighing. Then to the bone pile.
We put out a trail camera only to find out hogs were eating hogs during the night. Nasty critters...
Of course, this hog was free range, got fat eating Louisiana bean crops and hardwood river bottom acorns.
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