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Three shots from a .38 revolver. Pretty good shooting. That was my thought as well...
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You guys comparing farmed pigs with feral pigs is like me comparing antler size of whitetail in a deer farm and a free ranging deer..... And that hog in the photo is no starved down, skinny assed razorback. This hog is in very similar condition to my breeding boar. Look at that ham. It is very close in size to the man's chest. Even the front shoulder is huge. And the guy is reaching backward to put his arm around the pig, so it is no "trophy shot".
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The next day, Wade took the wild hog to Brooks Peanut Company and weighed it on the drive-thru scales. The hog tipped the scales at 820 pounds and had six inch tusks. The article does say this. I'm not going to call the man a liar without evidence showing that he is. That said, we don't have feral pigs here so I have no experience with them.
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Pet pig...from wild stock.
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I'm with a few others here. Calling BS on the posted weight.
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The next day, Wade took the wild hog to Brooks Peanut Company and weighed it on the drive-thru scales. The hog tipped the scales at 820 pounds and had six inch tusks. The article does say this. I'm not going to call the man a liar without evidence showing that he is. . This^^^ That hog seems to be 3-3.5 ft from snout to the mans shoulder. Then add 4- 4.5 to midway up the ham. BIG BAAAACCCONNN. 
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Big hog but not a wild hog. Looks like someone's boar hog got loose. Really not that big for a domestic boar but I don't think it's a piney woods rooter..
Just took another glance.. Has his ear been notched? Looks to me like no - just the tip of his other ear showing in the pic. My uneducated guess would be around 6-650#.
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Hard for me to say what it weights but call me sceptical that its a wild hog. Getting loose and being wild is two different things.
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If I had to move that thing I'd swear it was 2,000 lbs! I've got a 900 lb. Hog in the garage right now. It's a 2015 model. 
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Here is an idea for the doubters... Brooke's Peanut Company (334) 898-7194 https://g.co/kgs/EQs9bn
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I had a couple of sows back in the mid 1980's and needed to breed them. Called a neighbor that I heard had a boar, and asked about breeding to it. He told me that I might want to come and look as His boar was pretty big. I told Him that my sows were big so I was not worried about that. I took them up there, and unloaded where he told me, while He went to get the boar. He came driving a half Land-race and Half Yorkshire that was one of the biggest that I had ever seen. I too, stand at 6'4" and this boar was chest high or a little more to me. The man sold Him at the auction barn a few months later and it weighed over 900 lbs by a little. Can't remember exactly. Threw some good pigs. They averaged 240 at 6 months old. I have seen advertisements of old where they were advertising some boars to breed to that were around 1500 lbs. I think Chester Whites. They used stocks so that they would not hurt the sow. miles
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I used to work on a big hog farm when I was 15 and 16. We had a Duroc Boar that weighed 850. I was 6'4" at 16 and that hogs back was almost even with my shoulder. The one in this picture wouldn't come to my waist and he is lean looking. We also had an old Landrace boar that weighed around 800. He was really long and his back was middle of my chest. This has turned into a "Tall Tail" thread now, hasn't it?  My 2000lb bull doesn't come close to being shoulder height to me. I'm 6'05".
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I've no idea how big a wild hog gets, never seen one. But, having raised hogs and cattle on the farm for many years, I can say that it can be very difficult to determine what they weigh, by guessing, unless you actually put them on scales. Their weights will often fool even the most experienced person. The man had the hog weighed on certified scales, and it's rare for a business to go along with a scam, so I doubt his story is fake. No one on here was there, and if you don't want to believe it happened, then don't. But, don't loudly and proudly say it didn't happen, because you don't know.
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Guess we are not feeding our feral pigs enough, we rarely kill a pig that weighs more than 280# on the scale. Rio7
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I've no idea how big a wild hog gets, never seen one. But, having raised hogs and cattle on the farm for many years, I can say that it can be very difficult to determine what they weigh, by guessing, unless you actually put them on scales. Their weights will often fool even the most experienced person. The man had the hog weighed on certified scales, and it's rare for a business to go along with a scam, so I doubt his story is fake. No one on here was there, and if you don't want to believe it happened, then don't. But, don't loudly and proudly say it didn't happen, because you don't know. Everyone should read this, twice. It's funny how many folks on here are all of a sudden experts in weighing pigs from a couple still shots. The pig weighed a little over 820, but they rounded it down just being conservative.
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Looking at the pic of the hog hanging next to the dude, I can believe 820.
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Ive raised thousands of hogs back in the day , and its entirely believable to me that pig weighed 800 hogs and especially boars are very dense and the weght can sometimes surprise you heres a pic from the Iowa state fair big boar contest and that hog weighed 1270...it takes one well over 1000 to be competetive http://www.agrinews.com/news/iowa_n...0537f51-1b9d-5b78-819b-60f7e478da9e.htmlthe fellas that saw 6 foot tall pigs were truly in the presence of HOGZILLA (grin)
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I don't know jack about pigs. Based on the height/length measurements below (if they aren't inflated) and specified weights (if they aren't inflated), I'd think the one pictured above could be 800. If he was weighted on certified scales I would think its true unless all involved were willing to lie. From: https://www.reference.com/pets-anim...162cf7847cb8f?qo=contentSimilarQuestions"As of 2014, the world record for largest pig belongs to Big Bill, who weighed in at 2,552 pounds in 1933. Big Bill was 9 feet long and 5 feet high, and he was so large that there was a time when his stomach would reach the ground." From: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2004/11/introducing_big_norm_1_600poun.html"He weighs an estimated 1,600 pounds, stands 4 feet high and measures 71/2 feet from snout to tail."
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