Estimated at 500-600 pounds!
Based upon comparison with hogs taken by other hunters which weighed 150, 250, and 300 pounds and all were dwarfed by Hogzilla.

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Nice one!

Rifle? Trap? Bullet?

It looks like a big Duroc, it should eat well.

.308 Winchester 150 grain Hornady Interlok. It shot through the upper shoulder, breaking the back - bang flop. The guide dispatched it with his .45 auto.

It had been on the property 5+ years; an old Duroc that had been seen only rarely amongst the woods and creek bottoms. I have hunted boars with dogs there several times and never saw any of the large sows there. The ranch owner says mine has a sister the same size, but I will not need any more pork for some time, so no one even tried to find it.
We were just lucky to see about 30 large hogs at 8:30 AM feeding in a large clearing and were able to approach unseen from a ridge above them and had time to watch them feeding and pick out the ones we wanted to shoot.

Congrats.

An honest question not meant to start a war as they are an invasive species, can you eat one that big?

I had the tenderloins off a large boar I shot in Austria. It was good eating.

Well, not at one sitting.

However, the back straps(approx. the size of the same cut on a large calf) and tenderloins will be fine to grill.

All the rest is being ground by Po Boys Outback Game Processors into tasty breakfast sausage, some of which will be given to friends and some eaten by my family. Our part should last about a year, since it usually takes two normal sized hogs to last an entire year.

WOW!

Thank you Chrselton. Sounds like the sausage would be great in some breakfast gravy.

Nice piggy! I'm waiting for all the resident experts to say it can't be that big.

My biggest weighed 259, and this one dwarfs him. One of the ways I "size" a hog is the diameter of the foreleg and this one is large for sure.

Lheym500,
That sausage is a hunting camp favorite.
When I do breakfast, the sausage is cooked first and then crumbled and then mixed into scrambled eggs before they solidify. Add Tobasco sauce and chow down. Never had any complaints.

PS My Doc says no gravy, so I must manage somehow!

Big piggy for sure,
Too bad you didn't have a good scale handy.
Would be nice to see some actual weights for a change.

Thanks for sharing, enjoy the eats.
George

No gravey!!!!!!!

I would report him to the state medical board. No Ky doctor south of Lexington would dare such barbarism.

I will steal the scrambled egg prep though.

Good for you, very nice hog. I hope you shot a couple more for good measure.

that definitely looks like a big pig!

Glad you got him/her.

ya!


GWB

that's some good eating, right there

I always preferred young for fine eating and big ones for sausages
Awesome pig BTW

a pork belly from a hog that size would make some mighty fine home made bacon!

grill the loins or split longways and get pork chops

brine and smoke thethe hams or bone em' out and sloooow cook for pulled pork

yum!


GWB

That's a big slab of bacon!

Great looking pig, being a sow it should be good eating. I go along with the weight range estimate, I have seen a few over the years approaching that size. Congratulations on a successful hunt.

Thanks Crazyhorse,
I have seen pix of a few this size at lodges along the Red River where they have lots of cover, water, and access to agricultural crops.
I do not reckon to ever shoot a larger hog, so this sow will remain my personal largest.

Holy crap. Bet that one has some huge back loins. Wow!

The meat processor called today to see if I was serious about making 95 pounds of breakfast sausage. Naturally, I said yes!

Another personal best -

My best boar weighed 385 lbs. Had good taste but really tough. Gave most of it away except the breakfast sausage. It was good!

Damn nice pig! Congratulations!

Thanks Rusty.
The sausage is ready and I will pick all 95 one pound packages of it tomorrow. This will top off our freezers and my son's too.
Then there are the tenderloins and the sections of those giant back straps.
We are going to have to have a wild game cook out soon to make more room in the freezers for an exotic I need to shoot.

It probably is a Duroc, that someone released.

An ex friend of mine in Salt Lake went to a place like that in Idaho, he shot a Hampshire and a Duroc, both old breeder boars. He asked me about them in photos and I told him they were domestic pigs.

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Originally posted by Fjold:
It looks like a big Duroc, it should eat well.

Final word on Hogzilla -
had the first of her breakfast sausage this morning and it is GREAT!
Lots of good eating ahead.