Brooks Carmichael's Warthog Hunt in South Africa Aug 08

02 October 2008, 09:17

Andrew McLaren

My friend Brooks asked me to post these photos of his big warthog. He will tell the story himself.

Here he is sitting behind his trophy. Note that the tusks looks smallish, but this is due to the very big size of the warthog. Brooks will state the measurement and weight himself.

How do you like this for length of pig? Brooks can state his length himself.

OK Brooks, it's 'over to you'!

In good hunting.

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02 October 2008, 13:21

Fallow Buck

That's a great pig!!

I saw some really big bodied pumba's in RSA but they seemed to have a sixth sense whenever we got into the area. You could see them take off from a long way away while may of the others just hung about.

It was the only time I thought Bow hunters would have had an advantage as the pigs were coming to water where the blind was, but I didn't wat to rifle hunt over water.

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02 October 2008, 15:53

Brooks Carmichael

I told you in earlier post of hunt to S.Africa how things could go wrong. Where I had lost luggage, plane problems etc. I did manage to take this warthog. This warthog was one of two animals I took while in S. Africa this last August, the other was a waterbuck. This warthog weighed in at 246.5 lbs. The body is so big the tusks looked so small because of its body size.But the warthog tusks came in at 13 inches not the largest but respectable. I shot this in the northern cape while visiting a ph friend. He had heard about it raiding a maize (corn) field and several hunters had tried for it and but no luck. After several days of hunting the warthog. It made a fatal mistake. As you can see it, it is now mine. I am going to have it made into a life size just because of its size and the difficulty of taking it.

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