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Going trapping-hunting some this weekend. Hope to kill a few of those corn waters. Aoudads too if I see them.

I need to get my boy to help me post a couple of 600 lb pigs. Both killed in Centerville Texas. Both hanging on scale so it's not a guess!!

Almost ten years ago

235 on the hoof

We've had feral hogs on our ranch in central Texas for over 30 yrs. I have killed well into the hundreds and seen that many killed by others.
I agree most hogs are exaggerated but I've seen a few, like a handful, that were 300 lbs +/- from our area, and yes they were weighed on a scale.
Biggest off our place was 289 lbs but that was 12 hrs after being shot.
I would say most mature feral hogs are 80-175 lbs on average.

Bill

DirtFarmer , Hastings ,

Those are some nice hogs !
I'm going to continue eating the pigs here -they're about the only big game here . Besides alligator .

Hanco ,

Looking forward to seeing those big hogs .

Mike

The largest I've shot that was weighed was 218 pounds and it was all 3 of us could do to get it on a platform 24" off the ground. I shot another that was about the same size, but scales weren't available for that one. In my experience, a 200 pounder is a whopper.

Biggest hog I've seen here in the local area had totaled a Kia up on the Farm to Market road. Dunno what it weighed.

Them black hogs are hard to see at night!

Are you baiting hogs with kittens?

Mebbe.......

Ive killed several in MS that were over 300#.
This one weighed 327#, killed it with a 223 64gr Gold Dot.
Plenty of sows in the 320-340# range, but majority of the hogs are 150-175#.

This is about the usual findings for a good night. Little ones and big ones.
The one on the right was about 260# i think?



This one was fun. I could smell one but couldnt tell where it was, he made only one sound as we were walking by him goin down a dark road to a food plot. It was too late, he took a round to the neck from 8 steps in the woods. Scale showed him to be 295# i think.

This is the biggest one ive seen in the area we hunt. Neighbor got this one sneaking thru his cows. Didnt weigh it but its 350-375 easy.

Growing up and hunting in middle Georgia I've taken over 300 + hogs... most were well short of 150 lbs. I've killed two that scaled 280 and 300 + because the scales bottomed out. For years we hunted a hog we called VIN because the first time I saw him he looked like black VW beetle coming thru the woods. (No weapon) we had trailcams of him but he was only seen two other times and was never killed...that was 10 years ago.

I caught a barred male last year that maxed out a scale at 275# he had 4 inches of fat on his back. The dairy next to this place feeds them well with silage

...or baiting the kittens with hog?

Most hogs I have taken were 100 to 135 lbs but a few years ago on our Texas hunting lease my hunting partner shot the biggest beast of a hog I had ever seen.

We could not drag this sucker by hand needed to hook it up to his 3/4 ton diesel truck. No scales available but I am 6'4" 285 lbs and the hog was way bigger than me

Most people vastly overestimate the size of pigs.

Last 3 hogs i've shot were 150-175 lbs. When I sent my buddy a picture of them, he thought they are 250 lbs.

He shot one 25years ago and the guide told him it was 225 lbs but his scale was broken. Over 25 years he's become a 300 pounder. I think he was actually about 200 lbs.

I agree.. The first ones i killed i was guessing they weighed 200# and they ended up only being 175#. Then i started under guessing them.. One i thought was 250# was 320#. So i just stop guessing If i weighed them i would take a picture of the scale so i would know. If i didnt weigh them i just loaded them on the basket and gave them to somebody.

I took this one is Sweden in June of 2013.

Small one is 450, bigger one is over 600. Centerville Texas