A good article in the outdoor section by Ray Sassar. East Texas biologist who work with hogs says a big hog is over 200lbs, 300lbs is huge, and he hasn't seen a 400lb. hog. The article should be online.
I thought our 250lb hogs looked big, we just didn't know how to photo them into 750lb. hogs.
Butch

When wild hogs first moved into our area of south central Texas, I thought it was a godsend -- another opportunity for someone who thoroughly enjoys hunting. I used to take photos of every hog I bagged, but before long, my entire gun room walls were filled. And before long, the hogs -- which can ruin crops in a night and kill more than their share of fawns, kid goats and lambs -- became a nuisance. Now, it's less like hunting and more like damage control.

I've long lost count of the hogs I've bagged, but an older boar in good shape generally runs 180-220 with exceptional animals around 250-275. Those in the 300 pound range don't come along often, and I've taken exactly one that was a legitimate 400 pounder. But even with the number of animals I encounter, I doubt I'll ever see another in that 400 pound range as the odds are well against it.

So these reports of 900 and 1000 pound hogs...well, they're good laughing material. This latest episode makes me wonder how unintelligent one would have to be to NOT be able to see in one cursory glance that the animal came straight from the penned feeding trough. The ears, the tail, the body structure -- it all adds up to a domestic pig that never knew life outside of an enclosure of some sort.

To me, that would equate to shooting Lassie and calling it a coyote...

I killed a pregnant sow that pushed 350 in lower AR around 1987-88. she was holding 9 piglets that were already covered in hair and probably less than 2-3 weeks from being dropped.
i count that as my best pig kill. not for her size but the fact that i killed 10 pigs for the price of 1 ticket.
i say kill everyone you see. we will never catch up to thier reproduction rate.

i've taken or seen taken 300+ in the field

the hog below is a fully free ranging boar... taken on an 11000 acre unfenched cattle ranch


i've seen pushing 400#, when cut up and weighed... and it was a MONSTER

250 is big, but most folks will see one... 300# is rare, and 350 is exceptional

i've also seen a 1/2 wild 1/2 domestic, pen raised boar alive.. 750+ ,, and it was HUGE... he was released and some months later, he was killed... at 750, he was too fat to do anything, and was a frequent "joke" to scare newbies with

jeffe