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J. Valentine
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Drop to one knee , line up the scope just under his eyes wait till he is close enough so I dont miss , then fire.
The bullet would hit him in the brain . Make a quick follow up shot just incase it only dazed him.
Man thats some big pigs. However I don't see how a wild pig can get as fat as some of these huge pigs being shown nowadays.
The pig could not be 1800 lbs surely?
The bullet would hit him in the brain . Make a quick follow up shot just incase it only dazed him.
Man thats some big pigs. However I don't see how a wild pig can get as fat as some of these huge pigs being shown nowadays.
The pig could not be 1800 lbs surely?
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John Kielly
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Am I too old & cynical? 
I never trust shots of beasts or fish where the harvester is hidden behind the animal.
I never trust shots of beasts or fish where the harvester is hidden behind the animal.
Click - dead primer.
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cwood3
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I am struggling with this. I have 300 acres of prime East Texas acreage (Crockett). I have hog problems. I watched the History Channel show about 'Hogzilla'. Even that one was not that big. When I had Herford bulls, they only topped out at 1600 lbs. That's a pack of pork! Wild hog and Axis deer makes good sausage.
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Dennis Sorensen
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I believe this is one of those internet stories... the text is not true and the pictures have been edited. I saw those pictures a while ago but I think the weight has increased.
It won't be much longer and someone will shoot a dinosaur and post a picture to prove it. Of course there will be no link or documentation to back it up.
It won't be much longer and someone will shoot a dinosaur and post a picture to prove it. Of course there will be no link or documentation to back it up.
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tobybradshaw
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I would use PhotoShop to make myself the size of Paul Bunyan, and have a pork sandwich. I mean, if it's OK to make a pig the size of a Cape buffalo using PhotoShop, why not play the same game?
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Toby Bradshaw
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If you do a quick google search you will see a picture of a Poland China hog named Big Bill who was 5 feet high 9 feet long and weighed 2,552 pounds.
As was said earlier that is one fat pig for a wild/feral hog.Atleast it doesn't have a curly tail which is a sure sign its a domestic.
We have some Durocs that will go 800 pounds right now and if we took them out into a pasture and let a city slicker shoot one they wouldn't know the difference.At auction you can't sell them by the pound as nobody will bid on them so they are sold straight up at around $35-$50 for sausage pigs.
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If you do a quick google search you will see a picture of a Poland China hog named Big Bill who was 5 feet high 9 feet long and weighed 2,552 pounds.
As was said earlier that is one fat pig for a wild/feral hog.Atleast it doesn't have a curly tail which is a sure sign its a domestic.
We have some Durocs that will go 800 pounds right now and if we took them out into a pasture and let a city slicker shoot one they wouldn't know the difference.At auction you can't sell them by the pound as nobody will bid on them so they are sold straight up at around $35-$50 for sausage pigs.
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Boss Hoss 540
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Hmmm---that looks like a fake to me.. Somebody has been at work editing that one. Big ole pig---he is way to clean!
Wild vs Domestic
The way to tell a wild hog from a domestic is the difference between the lenght of snout.
A domestic hog gone wild will develope a longer snout.
The long snout is developed over time from having to root for food.
So wild hogs can be almost any color.
The one in these pictures appears to be a true Russian Boar.
I hunt wild hogs with a 6" 629 loaded with 320 grain Garrett Hammer Heads. Most shots come at 20 feet.
These pictures are traveling all over the internet and most agree it is a very large hog; however it is a shame they tried to make it bigger than what it really is.
Plus those guys in the picture don't look like Coonasses to me; therefore not LA.
When I take pictures of game, fish or tracks I like to include the butt section of the flyrod, rifle accross the antlers or cartridge inside the track.
The way to tell a wild hog from a domestic is the difference between the lenght of snout.
A domestic hog gone wild will develope a longer snout.
The long snout is developed over time from having to root for food.
So wild hogs can be almost any color.
The one in these pictures appears to be a true Russian Boar.
I hunt wild hogs with a 6" 629 loaded with 320 grain Garrett Hammer Heads. Most shots come at 20 feet.
These pictures are traveling all over the internet and most agree it is a very large hog; however it is a shame they tried to make it bigger than what it really is.
Plus those guys in the picture don't look like Coonasses to me; therefore not LA.
When I take pictures of game, fish or tracks I like to include the butt section of the flyrod, rifle accross the antlers or cartridge inside the track.
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I never dragged a 1800 pound animal anywhere before but I would think those 4 guys incapable of handling 450 pounds of dead weight each.
In photo one the Jeep says Nature Tours on the door and I've never hunted anything on a Nature Tour.
I also don't see any blood on the animal and even though that isn't a deal breaker it does seem odd.
Me thinks its a 800-900 pound hog on one of those Nature Preserve show the tourists a pig places that dropped dead of natural causes.
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I never dragged a 1800 pound animal anywhere before but I would think those 4 guys incapable of handling 450 pounds of dead weight each.
In photo one the Jeep says Nature Tours on the door and I've never hunted anything on a Nature Tour.
I also don't see any blood on the animal and even though that isn't a deal breaker it does seem odd.
Me thinks its a 800-900 pound hog on one of those Nature Preserve show the tourists a pig places that dropped dead of natural causes.
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tobybradshaw
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Hi Lynn. I don't doubt that a hog *could* weigh 1800 pounds -- *people* have been scaled at over 1200 pounds, I think.
But this "hog" smells like a fake.
You can't believe everything you hear, and anymore you can't even believe what you see! (attached photo).
Toby Bradshaw
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J. Valentine
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Click! Crank that bolt like lightning and pray the next one is good!
This picture is from Australia this pig was shot in the Pilabara Area of Western Australia. Spotted during a helecopter muster they say.
It appears to me to be part Duroc Jersey possibly an escapee from a piggery.
Lynn may be able to shed some light on that.
The full size of the pig is fairly evedent from the vehicle and person in the photo.
It only weighs 660 lb . So I can not see that the other pig in question is infact 1800 lb.
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J. Valentine
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I agree , they look slavic maybe Polish , Czeck or Belarusians , Russians , European anyway. The car is a lefthand drive but many of these countries are left hand drive .
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Big Al
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It seems to me that you folks that live in "hog heaven" would want to keep the big breeders and kill off the babies, don't the little ones eat better?
I like to dream about setting down to a whole 12 to 15 pound hog dinner, done BBQ style.
I can just feel the juice run down my chin.
I like to dream about setting down to a whole 12 to 15 pound hog dinner, done BBQ style.
I can just feel the juice run down my chin.
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Nate
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I agree with Al
The best eating wild pigs are 85 pounds or less.
If I have a chance I'd love to kill a bunch of real little ones,stuff them with my special rice, BBQ and pig out!
If you have never eaten a wild pig I will tell you they are very lean. If cooked wrong can be very tuff.
Think crock pot and taco meat.
The best eating wild pigs are 85 pounds or less.
If I have a chance I'd love to kill a bunch of real little ones,stuff them with my special rice, BBQ and pig out!
If you have never eaten a wild pig I will tell you they are very lean. If cooked wrong can be very tuff.
Think crock pot and taco meat.
Butch Lambert
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OK guys, I have photos of Pat Byrne with his hog kills. How about 19 since the first of Oct. and the majority taken with his long bow. It ain't even a recurve. You bow hunters will understand what a feat that is.
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digisol
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That certainly puts a stop to the term "send the dogs in after em" unless they are mighty big and nasty dogs or better still well trained lions.
Them there pigs are near as big as our NT buffalo, would be interested to know if someone has info as to what breed they are, I seen some pretty big domestic boars and old breeding sows that have ate at their leisure, 1,000 + lbs would be easy in some which look like short leg hippos, but wild pigs here in Australia would be classed as being big at anything over 350 lb, most remaining now a long way away from the coastal fringe.
It's common here that a .243 with a poorly aimed head shot will skid off a wild boars skull, there wouldn’t be many that would use less than a .308 for the average size wild pig hunt here which kinda gives away just how big the common size are now days, even a .308 might be overkill as the normal pig hunt would be a matter of having a hide near the water hole pretty making easy targets to be fair.
Not sure how old or genuine the pic is but any Australian shooter that claimed a wild pig at 1,800 lb would be on every newspaper and TV station in the entire country and I've been shooting for 40 years, they simply don't get that big, possible buy doubtful, and near every part of the country, even the most remote areas has been visited by someone hunting wild pigs, horses, NT buffalo, and even wild camels of which we have more than the Arabs do.
Most real pig hunters use only dogs and a knife, rarely a rifle would even be taken out of the vehicle, but a large calibre handgun might be prudent in some areas to be taken along, just in case.
Them there pigs are near as big as our NT buffalo, would be interested to know if someone has info as to what breed they are, I seen some pretty big domestic boars and old breeding sows that have ate at their leisure, 1,000 + lbs would be easy in some which look like short leg hippos, but wild pigs here in Australia would be classed as being big at anything over 350 lb, most remaining now a long way away from the coastal fringe.
It's common here that a .243 with a poorly aimed head shot will skid off a wild boars skull, there wouldn’t be many that would use less than a .308 for the average size wild pig hunt here which kinda gives away just how big the common size are now days, even a .308 might be overkill as the normal pig hunt would be a matter of having a hide near the water hole pretty making easy targets to be fair.
Not sure how old or genuine the pic is but any Australian shooter that claimed a wild pig at 1,800 lb would be on every newspaper and TV station in the entire country and I've been shooting for 40 years, they simply don't get that big, possible buy doubtful, and near every part of the country, even the most remote areas has been visited by someone hunting wild pigs, horses, NT buffalo, and even wild camels of which we have more than the Arabs do.
Most real pig hunters use only dogs and a knife, rarely a rifle would even be taken out of the vehicle, but a large calibre handgun might be prudent in some areas to be taken along, just in case.