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I like your hog trailer...
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I'm behind the curve! My biggest thus far have been 175 and 169....
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It is around 6-1/2 feet to the bottom of the controller box. He is a pretty good sized one for that arid rocky country. My niece ended up getting him. My scales only go to 200 lbs and he bottomed them out so not sure what he weighed. A little over 200 I think. We kill lots of hogs on this ranch and normally a really big one is 130 to 150lbs.
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[/URL] Guess his weight. The largest I've killed killed was 218 and I'm sure this one is bigger.
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This is feeder pen with trap gate set. You can see the half ass braces on feeder legs. Helps keep hogs from shaking corn out. There is a 1/16 cable that runs from 2x2 holding gate to 8" cap to back of pen.
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Granddaughter at 8 with first pig.
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Here's another feeder pen. I haven't raised this one up to 4' yet. You can see stand on the hill behind feeder. Trap gate stays up unless we set it.
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Granddaughter at 8 with first pig. That photo sure made me smile. Congrats.
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I have 750 acres that I live on, bought the land in 1997. Don't have any feral hogs. It's weird. No creeks, only ponds is the only reason I can think of. BIL has plenty of hogs on his place west of Brady, all small. Friends place between Hunt and Leakey is overrun with hogs, never seen one that would come close to 200 pounds.
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We only shoot sows because we eat the meat. From my experience boars right around 200 lbs. and under are not to bad to eat as long as they are not lathered up breeding. We have killed some nice sows, they are always near active agriculture and have plenty to eat. Luckily the biggest had good logging roads to get a front end loader for the retrieval. [Linked Image] [Linked Image] [Linked Image] [Linked Image] Big
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Biggest I’ve killed is a sow full of pups, she weighed 215 This pig killed yesterday evening in Weirgate Texas I wish he would have had a scale, I think it would go 400.
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On the subject of big hogs their were some monsters on the lease I had north of Guthrie Texas. Lots of big ones, average size seemed to be over 200 pounds. Another area with a lot of big ones is around Benjamin TX but I hear they started shooting them out there from helicopters. They are fun to hunt but they are also a curse.
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On the subject of big hogs their were some monsters on the lease I had north of Guthrie Texas. Lots of big ones, average size seemed to be over 200 pounds. Another area with a lot of big ones is around Benjamin TX but I hear they started shooting them out there from helicopters. They are fun to hunt but they are also a curse. Curse is right, plague is another good word
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On the subject of big hogs their were some monsters on the lease I had north of Guthrie Texas. Lots of big ones, average size seemed to be over 200 pounds. Another area with a lot of big ones is around Benjamin TX but I hear they started shooting them out there from helicopters. They are fun to hunt but they are also a curse. Curse is right, plague is another good word I am pretty sure anyone who has not lived around them for a while cannot imagine the damage just a few hogs can do overnight. Even one full grown hog can till half an acre in a night when the soil conditions are right.
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On the subject of big hogs their were some monsters on the lease I had north of Guthrie Texas. Lots of big ones, average size seemed to be over 200 pounds. Another area with a lot of big ones is around Benjamin TX but I hear they started shooting them out there from helicopters. They are fun to hunt but they are also a curse. Curse is right, plague is another good word I am pretty sure anyone who has not lived around them for a while cannot imagine the damage just a few hogs can do overnight. Even one full grown hog can till half an acre in a night when the soil conditions are right. You should see what they can do to a football field
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200 pound pigs are big. We kill lots of pigs a year and true 200 pound weighed pigs are not common at all. I know certain areas have bigger this or that though. Soil nutrition, hunting pressure etc...
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Since this thread started Ive shot a bigger pig than my previous ones #279
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That is a big porker. It is typical of the biggest ones I have seen as it looks like it has more domestic hog traits. Don't know if this happens by breeding or is a genetic trend where some revert back to the domestic side of the gene pool, probably both. I have heard of many instances of where the feral boars were trying to break into a domestic pig pen especially one with a sow in estrus.
The long snouted ones that look like Eurasian boars usually don't get over 200 lbs. but there are exceptions, especially in East Texas and elsewhere.
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I’ve killed a bunch of 190-200 lb pigs. I’d like to get a really big one
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