Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Man shoots mammoth 820 pound wild hog in his front yard

I wonder if Trisha wants any of the pork.

I shot a guy's pet deer one time. It had escaped right before early muzzle loader season and they forgot to tell me. I thought it was odd that the deer was looking directly at me and walking towards me. I asked Doug if he wanted the meat and he just laughed and said no. It was the best venison I've ever had.

I don't have much experience with domestic hogs but I know wild hogs pretty well. That hog is a legit 820 lbs but it is not wild hog. It is a domesticated hog that escape a pen at some point. It does not take a pen raised hog long to take on wild hog features once they hit the wild. You can always tell the difference because domestic hogs have a shorter snot and a more compact build just like that hog. It is very rare for a true ferral hog to get over 400 lbs due to the fact they have to find their own food. They are also leaner than pen raised hogs. They hog in the picture never ran because he was use to people. A ferral hog would have been long gone once the dog started barking.

People have pet lions...and if one in in my yard it's getting fkin shot.

Pet or no pet. That's a lot of tusk and weight and I'm not betting on it being gentle.

My point was that it was being called a "wild" hog. Take one look at it and you can see that it is anything but a "wild" hog. And it's behavior upheld that, too. A truly wild hog is not going to stick around with a little dog barking, a kid screaming and a man meandering around just steps away with a revolver.

I'm on the same page as ringworm on this one.

That pig ain't 820 pounds.
That guy looks like about 200 pounds. That pig is not 4 times bigger.
But it is a huge hog. My buddy shot a 450 pound hog in central Georgia, and this hog is about the same size.


I hope he didn't try to eat that monster because the meat would be nasty!

I guess 2K and some horns would have you pissing on the front porch?

The threat of a pig is vastly overrated. Mostly by southern people. And of course Texans.




Dave

In olden times folks with big families would raise a "lard hog" just to render out he lard. I've heard that some got so large they would eat laying down. About 1000 lbs was the highest weight I ever heard claimed.

Was a time when lots of rural folks raised hogs to feed the family and sell food before big commercial operations took control. As in, when i was a kid, and more people were killed in the US , yearly by hogs than by bears.

I don't know that the threat is over rated.

Once one has been flat on one's back with a 250 lb sow standing on one's chest, trying to bite one's face off, one might consider hogs slightly less dangerous than a black bear.

Just cause I had one of her pigs between my knees, nutting him, that bitch stuck her hooves through a 48 inch high woven wire fence and climbed it like a cat climbing a tree. She came over the fence and took my ass. I saw her coming and picked up a 40 inch long pine 1" x 4". I took a swing at her head as she hit the ground, like Babe Rith swinging for the cheap seats.

The sow caught that piece of lumber in her teeth, jerked it out of my hands, and spit it out on the ground. Then she came right up the front of me snapping at my face. When 250 lbs of pork hits you in the chest at full throttle, I guarantee, you do land flat on your back.

The only thing that saved my throat and my face from her teeth, is that I stuffed my right arm into her jaws. She was a small sow, and lacked the power to crush my arm or break bones. I was wearing a heavy down coat. The sow destroyed the coat. There were several slashes across my belly, and the right arm of the coat was shredded. The little pig came running past, and the momma turned me loose to chase after her baby. Feathers from my coat were floating around in a column about fifteen feet high.

Yes, I killed the sow, but not before she finished raising that litter and regained some of the weight she always lost while nursing babies. She made some decent steaks and chops.

Oh, yes, I put the rest of her litter inside the horse trailer to finish castrating them.

I know what a small hog can do to a person, I would certainly not want to tangle with a large hog. Shoot first, ask questions later.

It is pretty amazing to see how fast a pair of pigs can devour a forty pound tom turkey which has the misfortune of dropping into their pen.

A small child would not last a minute longer.

Best hog thread in a while. Keep the stories coming....

Many a body has been disposed of by throwing it into the hog pen. They will eat anything, people included. When I raised hogs, I had a Hampshire sow that was the meanest hog I've ever seen, especially when she had pigs. She would literally eat you up if you tried messing with her pigs. I had an old stable, and used the stalls for farrowing pigs. That sow would climb the walls trying to get to you if you weren't careful. After the second litter of pigs, I put her on the road, as I knew that sooner or later she was going to hurt someone. People who underestimate what a hog can do are people who have never been around them.

Pretty incredible, you're lucky it wasn't worse. Thanks for sharing. Horses and cattle were enough for me, I never trusted them. They're too big and too crazy.

Had pigs on grandma's farm.
I won't underestimate one, esp a sow w piglets.
Absolutely hate 'em. Love porkchops.

Big one like that in the yard.............obviously an escapee.
Would leave it alone (as it belongs to somebody).

If I was outside and it was a threat, sure..........blast it.
Wouldn't go out of my house to pop it.

Wild one? I'd drop the hammer, repeatedly.

They're smart.

Buddy and I bowhunted deer on a farm with free ranging domestic hogs.
Pretty sneaky, we still could only get to about 50 yards and they'd spook.

Somebody tried to start a "wild" population on gov ground near home. Bowhunting deer there.
Dead one somebody popped in the ditch.............never saw a live one.
DNR had 'em on trail cam.

My guess is somebody w night vision got rid of the problem, nipped in the bud.

I was hoping to nail one

So you can immediately tell the difference between a hog out of someone's pen, and a feral hog?

I'm talking the long nosed black variety here. Like the one shot.

The article is up on Foxnews now...without the notation that it's an escapee. They're calling it wild. PIGGY


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sanderdog1 26 minutes ago
As soon as I saw that huge hog I thought of THE HILDABEAST.

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Gruffmyster 26 minutes ago
DANG! I thought that was Maxine Waters & her wig fell off.

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obamaunqualified 27 minutes ago
ROSIE IS THAT YOU .

Thought this was about the WI fella that had just finally had enough of his mother-in law's attitude so,ummm....never mind.

When I was in junior high, my older (by a lot) cousin raised what were then called Spotted Poland China hogs. He had one, Tiny by name, that weighed close to 1000#. I believe that he had bit that mark for the Minnesota State Fair, but the stress of being hauled around to various fairs had slimmed him down a bit. We were at their farm for Thanksgiving when Ron came in from chores looking like he had either seen or was Marley's Ghost. He had been rounding the crib when Tiny came roaring around the corner, bent on mayhem. Ron's escape was a bit on the narrow side. I, to my great indignation, was not allowed to participate in Tiny's "reincarceration". After he was once again "safely" penned up, it became apparent how he had escaped in the first place. He grabbed the wire of the pen in his mouth and walked backward until he pulled it loose from the posts. Ron had been saving him for the next June, when the heaviest hog sold in Sioux City received a dollar a pound premium. This plan instantly went out the window and the next morning saw Tiny's departure from the premises. At the end of the road he checked in at 940#.