I have weighed perhaps a thousand or more Javalina and very few over 25 pounds gutted, so I seriously doubt that any of them make 40 pounds and if one did it would be world class.

The only way to judge the size of a Javalina is to shoot the biggest one in the bunch....

As a kid growing up in the Big Bend, I shot them for my dad with a Stevens single shot .22 short, at a price of 2 cents for each pair of ears, tusks or tail, whatever....I literally shot hundreds of them and earned enough money to buy my first good .22, a Win M-63 auto, and it was my new magnum, it killed much better than the shorts killed...I weighed them and made notes of their stomach contents for the Game Dept. at Black Gap and they gave me another 2 cents for the information and the bag of guts, that paid for my ammo....again the big ones weighed about 25 to 28 pounds gutted and 32 to 35 pounds whole...

As a side note they make the best softest, toughest gloves I have ever owned, as do pronghorn antelope, both much better than elk or deer....

Thanks Ray, That puts it in better perspective for me. It is hard to judge size normally, let alone when you dont have the experience with a particular animal. So, since I take it my estimates were about 10 lbs high I can expect 20 to 30 lbs. I guess I will pick out the biggest ones and hope.

Mike,
As many of them as I weighed, I still cannot judge the weight of a Bobcat or Javalina, to much hair!! I can judge beef, deer and elk, even horses, but not pigs and cats. Bear will fool me big time, they always look like 1000 pounds animals to me...

Mike: you were real close in your first post. Javelina are best judged by smell; the more they stink the lower the trophy value!