How big is the biggest pig that you have seen, either weighed or estimated, by measuring the diameter. I have seen several hundred probably more feral pigs that were killed by hunters. My buddies and I have probably killed 200. By measuring, or scales only two have weighed over 200lbs. One shot by me,260+-, measured, one by a buddy, 225lbs weighed. I have seen others at lockers etc, and only seen a couple that legitimately weigh over 200lbs. Texas Boars has quite a few pictures of one's 200-300lbs, but only 5 or so over 300lbs. I hear all the stories of 300lbs, but just don't believe them. Several years ago some guys we were hunting with, came to camp with one they said weighed close to 250lbs. BTW, The two of them had thrown it in the back of their truck. (I can tell you right now that two average guys will have a heck of a time loading a 200lb pig.) I said it wasn't nearly that big. It was a good one, I thought, about 150lbs or so. We weighed it and it weighed 167 as I recall. I think, most people over judge the weight of pigs, because they have little experience with them. How many really large, verified weight, pigs have you seen?

BTW I hunt in South Texas and the Texas Hill Country. It's dry and pretty hard and not lend itself to producing large hogs. Also, most are shot on sight, which might keep the size down I suspect that places where they destroy/ a lot of agriculture, they might grow larger

FWIW, I have had many people say that the larger pigs stink and that they wouldn't eat one. When asked, they admit to never having eaten one.
I will say that I have not found this to be true. The larger ones also bring more money from pig buyers for the restaurant's wild boar market.

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.

Biggest for me was an estimated 350 lbs sow from coastal plains area. The biggest ones we see are in agricultural areas and seem to have more domestic swine in them than the typical S Texas boar. Have seen some that appeared as tall as a cow before and over 8 feet long but no idea of weight.

Along the Texas Coast and East Texas I have heard some credible reports of Hogs over 400 lbs but even in this area one over 150 is considered a real big one.

I've killed one large sow that the guide thought weighed ~275 lbs. Took two of use to drag it to the UTV, and winch to hoist it into the bed. Another big sow I saw killed was huge, filled up a front end loader, and was pushing 500 lbs both were on a ranch in Tennessee

Biggest I have killed by far was a barred hog. He bottomed out a 300 pound scale after being gutted and hung all night. So I would guess he was somewhere over 400. Fat at least a couple of inches thick all around him.

I have killed a few hundred at this point but he wins by far. Only one other that would have been close to 300. Most others that were big enough to take note of were low 200's. Our ranch is in very ideal habitat for hogs and is managed somewhat for larger pigs though.

The biggest one that I've killed weighed about 225 pounds. My buddy wants me to take him pig hunting but I'm waiting till ground dries up. I hunt on private ranches and they close off the roads so we don't tear them up.

Killed a 360lb boar and a 225lb both with 6.8 SPC

Maybe someone can give me a good guess. I shot a couple pigs last year the guide claimed one was about 225 pounds and the other was about 190. The one that was hanging out with the 190er was more than twice as big! I mean HUGE! The guide said it would probably go 450. It was a bore and not the least bit interesting to me.

I got 206 pounds of meat at the processor after they were quartered.

Largest was a dry sow.

Shot her after she made a mess out in the cotton field with a 22-250 AI and a 90 grain a-max.

Shot a bunch that scaled out in the 290-325 range.

When you get up to a really large one they are really large.

The largest hog I have ever killed weighed 220 lbs on the processors scale. The largest I have ever personally seen was this monster my buddy shot. He was using a TC Encore in 308 and 150 gr Hornady Accubond. This bob(big old boar) weighed in at 260 lbs. He was a handful to get loaded up!!

For reference, I'm 6'1", and I'm standing close to it, pushing on the ham to prevent it from swinging around for the photo. Can't remember it's exact weight, but I know it was north of 400lbs. Took 4 of us to swing it onto the back of my 4 wheeler, and I was almost sitting on the fuel tank on the way out so I could steer.

Washington County Ga about 20 years ago.

Don't you just love it when someone tells you of shooting a (un-weighed) 250 pounder. Then they tell you that they, just threw it in the back of the truck! In my opinion most 250lbrs end up closer to 150lbs. Captdavid

This one is not all that big as far as pigs go, but it was an accomplishment for wifey. She shot it off back porch of the house here, a month after open heart surgery to install an LVAD heart pump.
This was the 88 she gave to our granddaughter this past Christmas as she is no longer able to to hunt.

Very nice Bob... I really need to plan myself a trip one day soon to harvest a oinker or two

Yeah the above photo was in 2012. Since that time our little area has seen a human population explosion. I haven't had pigs on our place since 2014. I think the hay raising boys have done a good job on their numbers.

Matter of fact someone hit a big hog this past week up on the highway about 2 miles from us. First hog I've seen around here since last March.

Looks like a bunch of happy kittens in the background.

Sorry about the wife's health.

Well you know when the sun goes down the cats come out!!!

The sizes of hogs and bears and two of the most grossly exaggerated things in the sporting world. I haven't seen many over 200 but I have seen a few, especially around rice fields.

I killed a sow that was over 200 and the flavor of the meat was fine but it was very tough. I've had no problems with the meat on hogs that were 100 pounds or smaller.

There have been several here that went up to 500 pounds.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/14/north-carolina-hunter-bags-500-pound-wild-hog.html

This one was 700:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/30/father-son-bag-charging-700-pound-hog-in-north-carolina.html

247 pounds on the slaughter house scales.

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Big boys

My bro shot this monster in Tx in 2010 IIRC. 270 lbs. one shot from like 70 yds w/ 130 AB from .270 WSM:





I always hear about how these big boars are gamey but this dude was tasty!

That's about the size of my best. It tasted great. Captdavid

Biggest I have shot was a bar that went 405# in central FL. Punched him twice behind the shoulder with an AR and cheap 55 grain bullets. He took 5 of us to load him and he filled the bed of my truck, easily.


Since then, I have only seen 2-3 that I thought were in that ball park. They either had more Russian in them (could be pure) or were typical scrub/feral bars. I won't say typical boars dont get that large, I just haven't seen one that didn't show more influence from Russian genetics. When I was a Hog Agent for the state of FL during college, I got to hunt and shoot a lot of hogs. A 225 pound boar is a lot of hog that appears and acts even bigger.

In my life I have killed some 300+ hogs in East Texas. Most are feral hogs that show some color of blooded hogs, but the build of "Piney Woods Rooter" stock and are definitely wild.

Most of these hogs will weigh 125-150 pounds. An honest 200 pound hog is uncommon, but certainly not rare. Any hog that approaches 300 pounds is bragging size.

Some 30 years ago a group of hunters brought in hogs that were supposed to be pure bred Russian stock. Of course , being hogs, they soon escaped the property where they were held. Most of the larger hogs we see show definite signs of having Russian blood in them.....and sometimes appear almost pure Russian.

Occasionally (rarely) I have seen hogs that would weigh 350 pounds or more. I personally have taken 2 animals of exceptional size.

One of these was somewhat of a fluke (or freak). This hog looked like a pure blooded hog. It was snow white and the only "wild" trait was it's tail that was like a wild pig not a domestic breed.

This particular animal had lived and fed on a local farmers property that was planted in corn. When I shot this animal I thought I was shooting a huge sow, but upon rolling it over It was discovered that someone had been "working" hogs in the past and cut this hog when it was young. Such "cut" animal tend to grow quite large.

We put this hog on a scale and it weighed 435 pounds. It had very small "tushes" for a hog of this size....maybe 2 1/2" long. This hog had 4" of fat covering it's entire body. This was the only "wild" hog I've ever killed that we could obtain bacon from due to the excessive fat. This hog was a fluke as it obviously had a lot of blooded hog in it's history, had exceptional food and was "cut" at a young age. However it was a wild hog and did weigh more than 400 pounds.

By far the largest hog I've ever killed (or seen) was what appeared to be a pure Russian boar. For years I'd heard the stories of 500 pound wild hogs. Most of the "500 pound" hogs I'd seen were 300 pound, not weighed, hogs killed by others. I'd have bet you $100 that there was no such thing as a wild 500 pound hog....until I killed one.

We caught this hog in a trap and when we first saw it couldn't believe what we had. This hog stood some 4 1/2 feet at the shoulder with tushes better than 7" long. It was pure Russian (apparently) with high shoulders, tapering to smallish hips. A ridge of stiff hair stood along it's back and neck and the head alone was more than 2 1/2 feet long.

When I shot it we tried to drag it out of the trap, but three men could barely move it. We finally tied a rope and used the truck to drag it out. Fortunately there was a swale where we could back the truck so the tailgate was level with the ground and loaded the hog. He was so long that we had to "fold" his head down to close the tailgate. Laying on his side in the back of the truck, his off side was 6-8" above the sides of the truck bed.

At the camp we tried to weigh him but our scale only went to 450 pounds....and it bottomed out. We finally caught the guts in a tub and weighed the guts, head, hide and meat separately. The total came to 525 pounds. Considering the blood loss and such we "estimated" this hog would have weighed 540-550 pounds "on the hoof". Even if we guessed a bit high this was definitely a 500+ pound (525 actually) wild hog.

I never expect to see another hog like this one and have never seen any killed by others that comes close. A very large wild hog will go 200-250 pounds. An exceptional animal might go 300.......but there are the rare (very rare) "freaks" that will go over 400 pounds. From personal experience a 500 pound wild hog is not impossible.....just damned unlikely.

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Last Monday late in the morning I went from Jacksonville back to Palestine on Hwy 79, and about 2 miles outside of rhe 256 Loop in Palestine I saw 2 road killed critters barely off the roadway, laying on the paved shoulder...that had not been there 2 hours earlier when I went thru there the 1st time.

One was a mature WTail laying on his side paralleleing the Hwy with no body damage in evidence from behind the wheel at 65/70'ish, and the other was mebbe tha largest road killed hog I've ever seen.

The hog was on his belly almost stradling the white line that seperates the shoulder from the roadway, and covered more than half the paved shoulder also laying parallel to the roadway, stretched out perfectly upright and apparently fresh killed as his 7-8+" tall ears were flapping in the wind off the passing traffic. The only damage I saw was a massive Kenworth bumper sized bloody swath on the left side of his head. I'm guessing he was 5 1/2-6'+ long from the withers to the base of his tail, and about 36" tall thru the shoulders from the pavement.

I've hunted the other side of Palestine in the past in the Trinity River bottoms and saw a live hog with his sounder that the TPW Warden running the WMA grinned and said was a well known character that probably weighed well in excess of 300 lbs, and agreed that it would have taken cutting at least 2-3 strands off the bottom of property owners 5 wire fence to drag him out of the creek bank he was dozing on...and this hog on the hwy made that one look like a younger brother.

If I were to guess I'd say this guy on the hwy was well over 250-300lbs and possibly a lot larger than that...and all East Texas Rooter bloodlines for sure with his little not so scrawny arse & long bristle ridgeback laying 2 feet off the hwy.

Ran the errands and came back about 2 hours later and both critters were gone...somebody got a nice set of cutters for sure off the big boy....mebbe some illegal venison too.
Ron

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/monster-boar-saint-brieux-saskatchewan-1.3882630

we grow a few big ones up North.

I shot a few up toward mid 300s , many 200s. In my opinion like with any other animal taste has more to do with age , general health, what they are eating and what they are doing combined with how you care for it after the kill. All things consistant you will likely have better meat from a smaller sow or boar than a really big one. Not to say the larger one will not be good. What would you think would be more tender , a young heffer or steer or an old bull?
I alway look for signs of infection. Dog bites , general injuries and parisites are all possible sources of infection that can effect meat quality. After 30 years of doing this Personally For meat and easy cleaning I would rather shoot four 50lb hogs than on 200 and up.

As I've stated before, where I hunt there is little crop agricultural. It is basically dry. Our pigs don't grow as large as those where it's wetter, or there's more agriculture. Anything over 150 is big, over 200 is huge. I've killed two, over 200, a buddy one. All were excellent table fare. All were solitary boars. The worst I've eaten were both around 100lb sows that had been nursing. If I had my choice it would be the fattest non nursing sow or boar in a sounder. Hopefully it will weigh 125 or better. FWIW the live wild hog buyer, to be slaughtered for sale to Europe pays a premium for the larger hogs. Captdavid

Captdavid,

We kill feral hogs in the 300# range here in LA. A couple of year ago, I shot a 300# boar in the early morning fog at 225 yds. Drug him to the scales and weighed him, was 300#'s even.

My buddy, Hastings, also a Louisiana hunter, has killed some big ones, as well. Here's a big one he killed last year, didn't weigh him. It looks about as big as my 300 pounder.

Here's his hog.

DF

Dirtfarmer, 300# plus pigs aren't unusual around my place. I weigh 210 and lots of them out weigh me by a bunch. I'm glad I have a stout 4 wheeler and a Ford tractor to move them. We have certainly made them more intelligent and harder to kill. Do you have a picture of that big Russian boar I killed last year?

Another big Louisiana hog from Hastings' place with some Russian characteristics. Another bud from south of us, got a load of Russian hogs from Tennessee and turned them loose in the Red River hardwoods. That was a mistake, IMO. Like Hastings said, crossing them with Russians just makes the problem worse, the hogs tougher and smarter.

My bud's thinking was, if we gonna have hogs, lets raise some good ones to hunt. Knowing what he knows now, he wouldn't have.

DF

That second post by C ROY that has the little girl standing by a big hanging hog appears to be a Russian influenced animal. The hair and the hide alone looks like it would weigh 50 lbs. They probably needed a lot of hair and smarts to survive in a Eurasian climate.

Hastings' first hog looks typical feral, the second shows a lot of Russian traits, including reddish color, ridgeback hair pattern. There would be more differences if they were standing side by side, not hanging from a front end loader.

After watching trail cam evidence of hogs eating hog carcasses, I've about decided to get my pork at the grocery store; I'm done eating these critters.

They're as bad as possums. The old folks would catch a possum, feed him out then eat him. I've kicked old cow carcasses in the woods, had possums run out of the cavity. Yuck.

Hogs are about as bad. They're known to carry a host of diseases; we wear gloves when cleaning them.

I'll keep shooting them for control, not for my freezer.

Just saying. Will probably get push back on that, undoubtedly from those who've not seen the trail cams I've viewed.

DF

I shot down a big boar one night about 10 PM. He fell DRT in the corn he was eating. Went back after daylight to drag him off, and the corn was gone. Checked the trail camera and found that a bigger boar had rooted him out of the way and ate the corn. Got him the next night. They eat fish heads and guts, calf crap, etc. I've quit eating them also and wear tough gloves if I clean one for someone else.

Yep, we can't quit shooting them, trapping them, etc., trying to control the population surge.

My feeling, we're slowly losing the war. Hopefully the nitrite poison technology gets worked out before too long.

We need all the help we can get before we end up looking like Texas and some other areas...

DF

Nice shooting... heck wiith the pigs ,looks like you have a feral CAT problem!!!!!!

While sitting on a porch watching over a valley in Central Texas a Gentleman I only had just met said when asked... " We used to shoot a lot of 300-350 lb pigs here, Then I went and bought a scale. I ain't seen one over 245 lbs. since!"

I shot a 225 lber and 60 lber.....

No they aren't feral. My farm cats. Of those in photo, none of those are alive today. Between coyotes, owls, FedEx driver, etc.

As far as pigs go, we haven't had any locally since 2014. I think the folks moving in the bottoms here are eating or shooting em as fast as they can. The're just isn't any. And we had bunches.

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

This ain't big pigs, bunch of pigs

The biggest pig taken this year at the Campfire Hog Hunt weighed 190 lbs, out of 60 pigs taken.

I hunt all around that area. That is a very good pig. As you can see, even though you all had rain, it's a pretty dry area. Pigs have to hustle to get very big. Too bad you weighed it. If you hadn't, it would have been close to 300lbs. Captdavid

I think for a commercial hunting area he was lucky to get that big. He was not a young boar, as evidenced by his cutters



At my deer lease there is a sow who is pretty smart and constantly moves around, never going to the same feeder twice, and never going into traps. She's had several litters in the past 5 years and the landowners are eager to see her dead. Just guessing she's now well over 200 lbs.

Weight of any animal is a funny thing. Many years ago, some friends and I won a King Mackerel tournament with a fish that weighed 39.7. Just after we took it off the scales, two guys drove up and asked what was in the lead. When told, they started high fiving and grinning, said they had a 50 lber in their cooler. The fish they pulled out would have been lucky to be 25 lbs, guy running the tournament laughed them away from the scale, refused to even weigh it. Next weekend we got one that WEIGHED 48, after being on ice over 6 hours. Before heading in to weigh it, I spoke to a friend on the radio, told him we had one bigger than the fish that had won the tourney the week before. Some clown came on the radio, asked how much the one in the tournament weighed. When I told him, he started chuckling, said "they" had caught one over 60 lbs recently, but of course never weighed it. My response was, well, my 39.7 won us $10,000 dollars, how much was yours worth?

No more comments from him.

Somebody ion here pretty much nailed it, said he used to kill a lot of hogs over 300 pounds, but then he got a good scale, and hadn't killed one over 200 since!

Mike

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Prolly none of the above would break 175 lbs-----------on a scale.


GWB

GWB, you obviously know not of what you speak!

My friends and have killed many that size and we didn't even have to weigh them to know that the weigh at least 250-300 pounds!!!!
:):) captdavid :):)

I've never killed one over 300 in the wild that were wild. Very few over 200

Not disagreeing with anyone here that the average pig is likely in the 100-200lb range. There are some big ones running around, though, especially in the agriculturally intensive areas in the South. Peanut farmers seem to have more than their fair share of big hogs on their properties, no doubt a result of their diet. How much domestic swine is bred into these pigs, I don't know. I do know that in Georgia, pigs can vary tremendously in their appearance, some having the classic razorback, big forequarters, long snouts, other looking just like a domestic pig and varying colors. The latter tend to be the bigger ones, in my experience.

Now thats what i was talking about. Good job.

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Guess his weight.

Matt,

What did he weight, or what weight estimate do you have?

Tell us about hog hunting in Sweden.

DF

Mohawk,

What's the height to the bottom of the feeder?

You want 7' if there is cows around. You best have it tied down well if there are cows or pigs. They learn if they bump it, corn will come out. Hanging feeder is best. They hit legs, it won't make corn come out. I like to pull them up from a tree limb. I put wench on tree, cable goes up to limb with pulley. My son in law hunts where they have black bears. Hanging feeders only way to keep a bear from jacking feeder up.

I was able to hunt three different styles in Sweden:

The first is over bait in the forest. This is mostly in the winter and in the dark. It is dark for upwards of 20 hours a day mid-winter. The snow aids in viewing them as it make it much brighter. When the ground freezes hard and there is too much snow and ice for the boars to get much food. They really depend on these bait sites to get them through the hard times in the winter. The hunter generally sits in an elevated blind.

The second is driven hunt. This is a catch all using beaters and dogs to push game to pre positioned hunters. Europeans have this technique down to a science. This is how much of the moose, boar and deer are harvested every year. Really fast shooting and the Swedes are pros at it. There is a learning curve but I grew up water fowling so I got the hang of it pretty fast.

The third is still-hunting fields. This is early in the morning and late in the evening as the light permits. In the late spring and summer you can spot and engage game for almost 22 hours a day. The boars will come out into the fields and make quite a mess of things. You can also catch them out in the snow covered fields at night in the winter but it is hard to make shots at distance in the dark.

I took this boar using the third technique. I made my way to the far end of a very large hayfield that was just starting to come up for the year. Found a rock pile on the edge that gave me a wind I needed and sat. This boar was shot at 0330 in June. Notice that the sun is up. The photo was taken where he fell at around 0415. He fell at the shot as the angle I had put the exit in the CNS. He weighed in at 280 pounds dressed, skinned and trimmed IIRC. I don't know the live weight but I am 6'6" and 250 pounds for reference. We used a tractor to get him out. He scored CIC silver. A lot of luck and some really great Swedish friends brought it together for me. I had a many great hunts in Sweden and this one is one of my most memorable.

Would you believe my wife didn't want me to get a shoulder mount done to hang in the bedroom? I tried to tell her that it was a once in a lifetime boar but she was having none of it. I had a small tasteful mount done with the tusks and she like that much better.

Yeah, don't believe my wife would want that monster hanging in her bedroom either...

Your current location is a good jumping off point for some unusual adventures.

DF

Yeah, I am planning to go back to Romania this fall with the same Swedish friend that made that boar happen and hunt with my friend Horia of Unforgettable Hunting for roe deer and boars. Romania has some monstrous pigs. You are more than welcome to join us.

I'm working soybean, peanut and corn patches. The damage is truly unbelievable. 3rd generation start growing the longer snout. Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Pseudorabies are all in Oklahoma from the hogs.

Yep.

I gave up eating them, but not shooting them.

DF

I'd rather hunt hoglets than just about anything.

There are undoubtedly hogs in the hill country that weigh in over 300 lbs, but seeing them and getting a shot at them is a rarity.





a fair size one that was weighed but I do not remember the weight.





IIRC this one was weighed at +/- 275 lbs.










another that weighed in @ +/_ 275 lbs.





I've been hunting the Texas Hill country 45 to 60 + days a year since 1999. This is the only pig I've weighed that was over 300 lbs. IIRC, this one weighed 315 lbs.

ya!


GWB

I like your hog trailer...

DF

I'm behind the curve!

My biggest thus far have been 175 and 169....

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.

I think the smartest animals I ever fooled with.

The largest I've killed killed was 218 and I'm sure this one is bigger.

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.

Granddaughter at 8 with first pig.

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.

That photo sure made me smile. Congrats.

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.

Big

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.

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

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...

Since this thread started Ive shot a bigger pig than my previous ones #279

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.

I’ve killed a bunch of 190-200 lb pigs. I’d like to get a really big one

Very Nice!

I like that classic BDL as well!

And being the gun slut I am,I sold that one off, trying to fins another stock like it right now!

I like those old BDL’s too, this one is a 30-06

ya!

GWB

Biggest sow

Biggest boar

He is big, and ugly, going to lease next weekend.

Hope to catch some.

395lbs live on the hoof. My FIL trapped them for years and sold them live on the hoof and got paid by the pound. They would get sold to a processor in Ft. Worth I believe.


Any pig over 200lbs is big.

Biggest I've seen was a 320 pound barr alive at a hog buyer. Biggest i've seen killed was an old boar at about 265. I killed a 258 pounder once. Like has been said, anything over 200 is big.

133lbs.

One of three I perforated last week.















Any guess as to weight?

Quein Sabe,

GWB

250-275.....same as my mother in law.

That’s funny

Biggest one I ever saw was one my dad shot when I was a kid, weighing in around 260lbs. They don't get much bigger than that here because of the winter. My personal best is a 165lbs boar. In the last years I have rarely - if ever - seen a very big one. Maybe that's because they're easier to hit but I don't have a clue.

326# And UGLY ----- Rio7

great pictures ! thanks for posting,Pete53

I have killed right at 75 pigs in the last 12 months. Most have been in or around peanut fields. The pigs cause us lots of trouble here with crops. I would say we have better than average growing conditions for pigs due to the combination of cover and irrigated crops. We have quite a few larger than average pigs. Anything over 200 is a pretty dang good pig though.

I started out using a tape and doing the heart/girth measurement thing, but to be honest I'm not sure how accurate that is. We shot a pregnant sow last spring rooting peanuts that according to the tape was over 275. Not long after that I bought a scale and carry it plus a hoist with me when I go pig hunting. If it looks interesting, and if I have time I try to weigh them. Otherwise drag them off or leave them lay according to landowner wishes. I have killed 3-4 more sows out of that one field in the last year that were legit weighted on a scale 200 lb class pigs. At a different place last fall I killed a sow and a boar at the same time over a pig barrel. Sow weighted 199 and the boar 224. One night last fall me and a friend killed some pigs out of one of his peanut fields. Didn't have time to weight the big sow, but she was the real deal. I'm guessing 250 from just seeing and weighing a lot of others from that area but I don't know. Killed a couple more big old sows in another field 2-3 miles from that one, 190-220 lbs.

Doing crop damage control work we stalk big sounders in open fields at night, start with the big pregnant sows or sows with litters and work down, so many of the ones we kill are the top end, cream of the crop. The biggest ones are the ones to go down in the initial countdown shot.

I did kill a big old boar down by Ozona a few years ago. I'm not going to say the numbers several other experienced folks threw out because I think they are on the high but it was for sure a legit 300, and probably closer to 325 lb boar.

Not a very good picture but these were 199 and 224, verified on a scale the next day. So maybe a touch heavier when first killed.



Boar in this picture was 195 lb.



Couple pretty decent sows in this batch, maybe 170-180.



Big preggo sow here pushing 200.

That is cool, gotta make me something like that.

That is cool, gotta make me something like that.

Several places sell them, they are called the hitch drag. About $75 plus shipping. That version will pull 6 pigs. I am not sure on the weight rating of it, I am thinking maybe 1200 lbs? They make some smaller versions called the pocket drag and the big boy drag. They have a single handle, single strap, and 2 cable loops, They are rated for 600 lbs and cost like $20-$25. I keep the hitch drag in my truck, but carry one of the pocket drags folded up in the battle belt I wear out stalking pigs. That way if I am out with someone else and not in my truck we still have something if needed. Beats the heck out of using rope and it slipping off. If you get that cable behind the upper teeth good it will not pull free. Pretty easy on and off too. Sure has made my life easier.

A buddy and I walked up on two in turkey season that were in the 500lb range...maybe 600. There backs were over belt high easy. A little crazy when all you got are some no 6s on ya. I literally thought someones cows got out.

Had one about 350 in front of the turkey blind the other morning.


In a duck blind one am and my buddy starts running out into the water, had one 350 plus come out 10ft to his right. Then the thing came behind me and started breathing down my neck. Something out of a horror movie. Really freaked him out and he unloaded his gun in its direction.

Thanks, I’ll check into it, I could use it at times. Here is a few, have many pig pics, no end to the bastards




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Keep up the good work!!!!! You can’t kill too many pigs!!!

We didn't weight these two that me and my daughter killed. Stalked them at night over a barrel.



Not a good pic of him, bigger than he looks here, but he was over 300.



After being drug off



This one wasn't big, maybe 160, but had neat coloration.

My partner in this picture is 6'2". This was before I had a scale, and we pulled the tape to a TIGHT 47" heart girth measurement on the big one. Chart says that is 270 lbs, and I don't doubt it one bit. She was very preggo.



This one was from the same field a week before, she taped 41", which is 210 lbs. Back when I was still shooting digital NV, before the swap to thermal.

You get extra points for spotted pigs, killed an all white male that weighed 195 a few years ago.

Killed this one Saturday night, stalked him out in the tall wheat next to where they are about to plant peanuts.

That’s a nice piggie, best thang, he is dead!!!!

+1


ya!

GWB

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JTP, A pig that size can do a lot of crop damage, Good Job. Rio7

For sure Rio. Got peanuts going in the ground later this week about 300 yards from where he was killed. Got a little rain last night out there, not a bunch, but enough that with the pivot rolling we can go ahead and plant. Will probably have some busy nights once that happens.

Lone pigs aren't too awful though. It is those sounders of 30-50 pigs of all sizes that really get in the pocketbook quick.

JTP, A sounder of pigs, can really tear hell out of a field over night, good luck with your crops, shoot all the pigs you can. Rio7