Big Hogs in North Carolina?

28 January 2015, 08:01

marshmandan

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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13 February 2015, 01:10

drwes

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?????????????

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27 February 2015, 06:54

Snyper

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Estimated Estimated the "guts' would have brought the weight up to 707.5 lbs.

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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With the aid of other hunters, the Florences loaded their truck with the 7' 4" hog and took it back to their camp.

Unable to find a scale large enough to weigh the buffalo-sized beast, they took out the intestines and weighed them separately.

They measured a whopping 127 pounds. The following day the hunters were able to measure the carcass, which came in at 580 ½ pounds.