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Never saw one 6' tall but did see one about 5' or so at the shoulders. He was more leggy than the one in the picture. miles
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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) This one weighs 1270 and is about the same height at the shoulders as the dead one. That one appears to have better muscle but this one has a lot more belly. Take off a few hundred lb of lard and they probably aren't that far apart in size. ![[Linked Image]](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/agrinews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/26/026b8cd9-b613-55dd-810a-acf17f34ca94/53eb793d6dbd4.image.jpg)
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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) 1300 lbs and that hogs back tops out about 3ft 6.
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When I raised hogs, a market sized hog, or top hog as they were called, weighed between 220-240 pounds. I think the weight has since increased, but that's irrelevant. A hog that size isn't as big as you might think. I also sold cull sows to people wanting to kill a bigger hog for the sausage or hams. I've seen many of them weigh 500 pounds. I didn't let the boars get real big, because I didn't keep them much over a year, as I was always keeping gilts to breed, and wanted a new boar to breed them. So, I never had a boar hog get to anywhere close to being what could be considered weighing a lot. But, if they live long enough, domestic hogs can reach incredible weights, as the pics here show. There is no reason a wild one couldn't either.
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Damn, that thing looks like a side of beef hanging there!
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Some of you need to spend less time indoors and on a computer...  Even in hog hunting contests with thousands of dollars up for grabs, the winners very, very rarely exceed 400 pounds.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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TRUMP- GABBARD 2024
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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) This one weighs 1270 and is about the same height at the shoulders as the dead one. That one appears to have better muscle but this one has a lot more belly. Take off a few hundred lb of lard and they probably aren't that far apart in size. [i][/i] God Grief!! You could take a COUPLE hundred pounds off that one for the knutts! Slice them biguns up to fry and they'd be the size of pancakes!
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Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
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Looks like somebody's trophy "wild hog" got loose and a non client popped it.
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The land of the free because of the brave.
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No clue what it weighs....but that is a big azz hog!
Gotta love a schnauzer. You know that little dog still thinks he was gonna whup it. Probably got pissed when the old boy shot it and ruined his shot at glory. Lol.
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Hey pig fuucker!
Every one looks up..... You rang????
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"Man shoots mammoth in front yard". would have been a lot more fun.... 
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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". Maybe it was a trained circus hog on stilts?
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A big musk ox of 600 lbs is roughly waist high. A yearling bull moose of the same weight is shoulder to head high. Ya gotta have legs!
Last edited by las; 07/19/17.
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As pointed out on another forum, the hog belonged to Trisha Garcia of Samson. It escaped its pen while the family was on vacation. Was supposedly quite gentle.
Anyway, the hog looks far too clean and soft to have been living in the wild. Also, I seriously doubt a truly wild hog would have stuck around for a dog's barking, a kid yelling in the house and a guy meandering around with a revolver. Things just didn't add up with this story from the very beginning.
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Oh, now it's gunna get good.
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It escaped its pen while the family was on vacation. Was supposedly quite gentle. Is now supposedly quite freezer packed.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
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Is now supposedly quite freezer packed.
Well, I seriously doubt that since he left it overnight in the Alabama summer heat.
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Hard to legitimately compare an actual "wild" hog with a pen raised domestic version. The wild ones have to hustle their own food!
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