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Pisgah Forest Hog Just saw this on the evening news- about 50 miles SW of me in Transylvania County, NC. What a beast- 707 pounds! Doug Wilhelmi NRA Life Member | ||
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Dont know about NC but here in Texas they will not get that big native free range. That is a big pig anyway you look at it. I wish I could connect on one half that size. I am just not sure about 700 pounds though. | |||
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Smells very fishy.... a big hog no doubt...but If you look at the photo of the hog hanging next to the guy the measurements don't work, unless the guy is 7'. I once worked with a guy who was 7' to the inch. I would also like to know how they dragged and loaded it, if it weighed that much, in the mountains of Transylvania county. It's been about a decade since I turkey hunted there, but as I recall it was not flat... obviously its possible with mechanized help. I was in on a hound hunt in eastern NC that resulted in the killing of a black bear boar that weighed 426lbs. I helped drag it about 50yrds to the back of a bulldozer which then got it out of the woods. I think it took four of five of us with straps tied to the front legs just to move it. I killed one the next day that the rug measures just over 5 1/2' from nose to tail that we had to pack out in quarters as the two of us could barely roll it over to skin it. Point being,its really difficult to move that much dead weight. Gonna take more proof to make me believe. | |||
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As a N.C. hunter, I want to believe it. But I haven't gotten there yet. I'm not really new. I had 1,000+ posts going back to 1996, when I suddenly found myself unable to Log In, in late 2013 | |||
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I know, Ken. I've killed a pile of hogs in NC (Johnston County) and haven't seen anything anywhere near that stature. Who knows....... "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Any trail cam photos? | |||
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One of my good friends shot a huge pig one morning on the Trinity river bottom here in east/central Texas. He told me he had just shot Hogzilla,,,, he was swearing it was at least 500 lbs. Well one was one heck of a big pig, we had to use a 110 hp tractor with front end loader to put it on a 16 ft trailer and use chains to load it with. We took it to a local slaughter house to weigh it because of it size. It didn't hit 500 lbs but was around 480 lbs. It had been castrated and released and it looked like "porkey pig" it was so fat and big. It was free range but there are a lot of big pigs that people catch with dogs and castrate and release to make them huge. A 500 pound pig is a monster,, 700????????????? you can make more money, you can not make more time | |||
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The guy featured on the news was VERY careful not to reveal the location...so no trailcam photos, just the stuff on WLOS TV feature. Doug Wilhelmi NRA Life Member | |||
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They sure didn't drag it or load with out some mechanical help that's for sure. | |||
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Must have lived behind a MacDonald's dumpster :-) | |||
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Biebs, that's funny | |||
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They're full of Pisgah. Never had that big of a hog on the FIL's farm. | |||
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+1  Although not stated quite so succintly, I think that is the general consensus among folk that regularly perforate porkers. JAPPF, GWB | |||
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Well...the subject line of the OP IS phrased as a question.... Doug Wilhelmi NRA Life Member | |||
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It was correct to question the news media's foolishness. | |||
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I saw a legitimate 350 lb sow...oh wait it was on the UC Berkeley campus and had a flannel shirt and a backpack. Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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That is a big hog. My biggest was a 385 lb boar I shot on a lease in South Texas, real close to the town of George West. It was weighed not guessed at. I didn't think it was that heavy, just king of long and lean, almost all head and shoulders, did have some mighty big hams on him. Keep yer powder dry and yer knife sharp. | |||
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There is a story about it in the March 2015 North Carolina Sportsman. Said it weighed 580.5 lbs on a set of certified scales but that was after being field dressed. Estimated the "guts' would have brought the weight up to 707.5 lbs. | |||
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I saw a report that said they had weighed the intestines the night before on a smaller uncertified scale http://texashuntfish.scout.com/story...pound-wild-hog
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We have too much crystal meth in the desert to have any local sow weigh 350 pounds. There are some enlisted wives that will top that, but I haven't seen one in a long time. | |||
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Long time ago at a livestock sale I saw a hog go thru that was 500lbs. Looked big as a calf in height, a real monster and wasn't much of a pet, auctioneers wouldn't get in the pen with it. Seems like it went for sausage n bacon. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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