Posted: 12/2/2008 8:00:40 AM EDT
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Hey guys. Anyone have a link to Texas World Hog records?
I've got a girl who works for me who's boyfriend shot an "1100 lb hog" in Mason County (TX) on Thanksgiving day. Working on getting the pics from her now. She doesn't have the camera with her. I saw a printed pic she brought from home and the thing is massive. I'll post it up once I get a copy of the pic. ETA: OK, I see that the "world record" is 1051 lbs seen here. Now I'm thinking 1100 lbs is exaggerated or the pic is a photo chop. The pic is of her boyfriend as I've met him and the hog is freaking huge. I'll see if she sends the digital pic and go from there. |
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It never ceases to amaze me how many "500-800lb" hogs are killed here in Texas. I hear these tales, and then I ask a simple question like, "Gee, how did you get that thing into the back of your truck?", and the answer is, "It took 2 or three of us to load him up! Man! We barely got him in there!"
I've hunted hogs most of my life here in Texas. I've killed probably near 300 of them in that time, and seen another 200-300 killed while I was around. The biggest one I've ever gotten weighed right at 375lbs. It took 4 of us to load him into my truck. I guess I'm just unlucky AND weak. 
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It never ceases to amaze me how many "500-800lb" hogs are killed here in Texas. I hear these tales, and then I ask a simple question like, "Gee, how did you get that thing into the back of your truck?", and the answer is, "It took 2 or three of us to load him up! Man! We barely got him in there!" I've hunted hogs most of my life here in Texas. I've killed probably near 300 of them in that time, and seen another 200-300 killed while I was around. The biggest one I've ever gotten weighed right at 375lbs. It took 4 of us to load him into my truck. I guess I'm just unlucky AND weak. Same here. People just guess at the weight and go with that. I'll admit, I was shocked when I started weighing them myself. In fact there was a recent thread where the poster estimated his hog's weight at 250-300. It was about a 140 lb pig. I don't even question them anymore. All hog hunters should have a set of scales. |
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That was, as I said immedietely in the very first thread of this, an escaped farmers pig. As it turned out it was a pet pig that was sold to a game farm and then killed by the kid.
Not a wild hog......not any kind of record for sure. |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 Not a feral. Crushed up snout is indicative of a domestic. Hair coat is wrong as well. TRG |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 Not a feral. Crushed up snout is indicative of a domestic. Hair coat is wrong as well. TRG Yep. Obviously a farmers pig. A big farmer's pig for sure, but it was grown to that size in a pen. |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 Not a feral. Crushed up snout is indicative of a domestic. Hair coat is wrong as well. TRG Yep. Obviously a farmers pig. A big farmer's pig for sure, but it was grown to that size in a pen. Some good meat on it. But, I bet there will be a pissed farmer nearby. TRG |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 thats not 1100 pounds |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 Not a feral. Crushed up snout is indicative of a domestic. Hair coat is wrong as well. TRG Yep. Obviously a farmers pig. A big farmer's pig for sure, but it was grown to that size in a pen. Some good meat on it. But, I bet there will be a pissed farmer nearby. TRG It was taken on a pay per hunt lease. Could be a bought animal or a farmers stray. |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 Not a feral. Crushed up snout is indicative of a domestic. Hair coat is wrong as well. TRG Yep. Obviously a farmers pig. A big farmer's pig for sure, but it was grown to that size in a pen. Some good meat on it. But, I bet there will be a pissed farmer nearby. TRG It was taken on a pay per hunt lease. Could be a bought animal or a farmers stray. I'd be willing to bet it's a farmer's stray. Buying a hog that size, just to let someone shoot it? Pricey. TRG |
Looks like a Duroc show pig that got to big! My daughter has raised two for the local fair. We kept the first one for three years and got it butchered it weighed 404lbs, now this pig was feed good quality feed for the whole time. Then we also had a pet feral hog named fat albert it got big but nothing like the Duroc.
If you look close you can compare the two in the second picture. DRJ |
| I know that in certain areas mine included. That some domestic pigs that got lose and never caught have bred with wild hogs. Which has helped in producing some big hogs. Easy to tell which ones have domesticated hog in them as they are usually bigger and have a different color. Black and white spotted. There is one in the heard that is tearing up my grandfathers land that is a little over 4 ft long. Having problems hunting them as they have gone completely nocturnal. |
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I know that in certain areas mine included. That some domestic pigs that got lose and never caught have bred with wild hogs. Which has helped in producing some big hogs. Easy to tell which ones have domesticated hog in them as they are usually bigger and have a different color. Black and white spotted. There is one in the heard that is tearing up my grandfathers land that is a little over 4 ft long. Having problems hunting them as they have gone completely nocturnal. It's not their bloodlines so much as their lifestyles. Wild pigs run EVERYWHERE, all the time. They roam and roam and then roam some more. It is very hard for a pig to grow to be 500lbs when, as it is growing up, it is constantly running everywhere. If you took a baby wild hog and put him in a pen and fed him high protein food all day everyday, you are going to get a pig that looks a hell of a lot different that it's sibling that ran in the wild it's whole life. |
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I know that in certain areas mine included. That some domestic pigs that got lose and never caught have bred with wild hogs. Which has helped in producing some big hogs. Easy to tell which ones have domesticated hog in them as they are usually bigger and have a different color. Black and white spotted. There is one in the heard that is tearing up my grandfathers land that is a little over 4 ft long. Having problems hunting them as they have gone completely nocturnal. It's not their bloodlines so much as their lifestyles. Wild pigs run EVERYWHERE, all the time. They roam and roam and then roam some more. It is very hard for a pig to grow to be 500lbs when, as it is growing up, it is constantly running everywhere. If you took a baby wild hog and put him in a pen and fed him high protein food all day everyday, you are going to get a pig that looks a hell of a lot different that it's sibling that ran in the wild it's whole life. I have done this with wild hogs or pigs, I have caught just born pigglets and bottle raised them and feed them all sorts of feed. Yes they do get fatter but they never get as large as duroc's or other domistic pigs. There jeans are very different from the other types of swine. You can cross breed the two and realy come up with some freaks also, done that also but not on purpose. I will look threw my photos some where I have some pictures of three year old wild hogs that I raised from birth, they where fed well and givin shots. But they never got large. DRJ |
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I don't understand why these guys claiming '3,000 pound hog killed' don't just hang them up on a scale and take a photo of the scale. If I shot one that big, I'd never post a photo without one of the hog on a scale. 
Jeff I asked her when she first told me if they had taken a pic of the scale. She said they didn't. That's why I had 1100 lbs in quotes in my original post. |
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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=6096 Here it is. Resized in Photoshop Elements 6.0 Not a feral. Crushed up snout is indicative of a domestic. Hair coat is wrong as well. TRG Not to mention the floppy ears, wild hogs don't have floppy ears. |
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In fact there was a recent thread where the poster estimated his hog's weight at 250-300. It was about a 140 lb pig. I don't even question them anymore. All hog hunters should have a set of scales. Gander Mountain, Moultrie 440lb game scales $29.95. Just got an extra set this weekend.
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| I must say I need to retract my statement about the 4 foot long pig. As I was drinking that day. Got a report on the pigs from my cousin this morning. He saw the heard last night and counted 38. Before he started playing artilleryman with his 45-70. Also said it looked like the biggest one might have been 3 foot long. |
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It does look like he's standing well behind it in order to make it look bigger.
Of course the looks big, he's standing 10 feet behind it. 1100 pounds, BS He is either standing right behind it or someone did a hell of a PS to get the shadows the way they are. |
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It never ceases to amaze me how many "500-800lb" hogs are killed here in Texas. I hear these tales, and then I ask a simple question like, "Gee, how did you get that thing into the back of your truck?", and the answer is, "It took 2 or three of us to load him up! Man! We barely got him in there!" I've hunted hogs most of my life here in Texas. I've killed probably near 300 of them in that time, and seen another 200-300 killed while I was around. The biggest one I've ever gotten weighed right at 375lbs. It took 4 of us to load him into my truck. I guess I'm just unlucky AND weak. Same here. People just guess at the weight and go with that. I'll admit, I was shocked when I started weighing them myself. In fact there was a recent thread where the poster estimated his hog's weight at 250-300. It was about a 140 lb pig. I don't even question them anymore. All hog hunters should have a set of scales. I think I know what thread you are talking about.... was either a 140-150 lb hog or the guy 750 lbs and 7' 6" tall |
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Don't know if this will help out any. The building behind him looks like a dry van trailer. The avarage hight of those trailers are 13'6". The shadows I'm seeing don't look like they have anything to do with the pig. Maybe I need glesses
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