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 Anyone know where this picture was taken? Someone saw it on FB and sent it to me! Thanks Arjun | ||
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That is a huge pig. I can not hazard a guess concerning where it was taken, but I can pretty well guarantee it was NOT shot here in Texas. CONGRATULATIONS to the hunter(s) that got it. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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The picture has a European feel to me, of course I might be full of it too. Darn big hog though, my congratulations as well. "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..." Hosea 8:7 | |||
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The truck is European for sure, possibly Mercedes from the shape of the cab. Randall: Wouldn't you agree that pig has to be all of 600lbs? 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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Somewhere in Eastern Europe for sure " Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move... Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál” | |||
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Unless those men are dwarves, I would believe 600 to be on the low end. A pig can fool you, I have missed by good margins on the actual weight, but I am pretty sure it is over 500. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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It's big...not sure how the one guy is holding the head of a 500+ lb pig up by the ear though given the pig doesn't appear to be resting on the tailgate. Mike Legistine actu quod 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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I'd say Hungary, Romania -- live weight may approach ~500 lbs, I'd say field dressed ballpark ~150 to 175kg. -------- There are those who only reload so they can shoot, and then there are those who only shoot so they can reload. I belong to the first group. Dom --------- | |||
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Looks like there is a fifth man up in the truck pulling on the head. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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One thing for sure they had a big job underway. None of those guys are runts either, all are good sized men. Didn't notice the one in the truck, do believe that's right though. You "kids" have sharper eye's than some of us old guys! 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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Tried google reverse image search and it looks it has been posted first on 19th September 2014 on blogspot.com with comments in Hungarian language. Jiri | |||
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I think I killed my first pig circa 1961. That was in east Texas. I'm still killin' pigs. Biggest I've actually weighed was 315 lbs. That's a big-un' GWB | |||
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The first pig I ever killed was in 1994 or 95, just south of the Red River in Montague county in north Texas. Shot it right at dark and had to call my hunting partner in Fort Worth and he came up and helped me load the thing, I had gutted it. When I got it into the processor the next morning it pegged 325 pounds gutted. Bad part was, the damn thing stunk so bad, that even the ground meat was inedible. We ended up throwing all the meat away. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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I don't even think about processing a hog unless it's under 100 lbs, prefer it to be 75 lbs or under. Most people don't realize how carnivorous hogs are. "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..." Hosea 8:7 | |||
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We have processed hogs up to 200 pounds with no problems. That was my first Feral Hog, and became a learning lesson. As for pigs for personal use, Lora and I don't shoot anything that appears to go over 100 pounds but normally stick to 50 pounders or smaller. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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I shot my first wild hog in 1975 and I've never shot one that reached 300 Lbs. I've seen a couple that would have weighed close to 400 but I've never wanted to haul them out bad enough to shoot them. That thing is way bigger than anything that I've ever seen in the wild. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Mileage must really vary...I have shot a dozen pigs over 150, 3-4 over 200, 2-3 over 250 and 1 over 300 and not a single one tasted bad. Mike Legistine actu quod 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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Mileage does vary, we actually do have some pigs around this areas that will go 400 pounds plus live weight. There are not many, but they are there and between game cam pics and other sign, they are there. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Way back in the fall of 1970. I was trucking in a sorry single axle white dragging a 40' empty box trailer. On a rolling two lane in SD headed E. Don't know where it was now, too long ago. Came over a hump and around a curve and a huge white pig I'd say was close to the size of this monster in the first post ran across in front of me, he just barely was missed. Know full well things would have been nasty if I'd hit it going 60-65mph. Am sure me and White would have ended in the ditch someplace. Hope that pig was as scared as I was over that. 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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Sus Scrofa Attila. http://www.naturetours.fr/inde...7&Itemid=132&lang=en | |||
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HUH????? G "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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George, among animal people, biologists/mammalogists/taxonomists and lay people(hunters), there have always been, always will be individuals or small groups of individuals that, for lack of a better word or description, like to develop or invent new species/subspecies of animals or birds, usually over minor differences in size or color of hair coat/feathers or location. Out sized or smaller than normal specimens can be or have been declared a new subspecies or species even by knowledgeable researchers. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Never seen a feathered pig but there are all kinds of distinct species roaming that part of Europe. I have seen and eaten them. | |||
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I have seen lots of wild boar in India. These are not the real harry one like from Europe. Most are smaller pigs with maximum 350 lbs boars. How ever there are places in India where a big boar goes over 600 lbs. Probably local food sources and genetics. Arjun - I know if a big sow shot in the mid 1970s on a drive near Sriharicota island in Pulicat lake (your home state in India) that went over 600 lbs (275 kg) weighed at a government crop centre. The animal took at least 2 shots from a 300 win mag and at least 6 LG or Ball shots and still traveled over 300 meters after the first rifle shot. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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+1! While I have had an occasional stinker, it never correlated to size. My largest boar was 319 and he ate just fine. I'd say maybe 10% or so stunk (stank?), all boars. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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Austria? Hungary? Europe for sure! | |||
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The largest Boar I've shot weighed field dressed 330 lbs (150kg), and was shot in Hungary. The lower tusks were 8 1/4" (21cm). The car broke down on the way out from the fields, a little too much boar for it    -------- There are those who only reload so they can shoot, and then there are those who only shoot so they can reload. I belong to the first group. Dom --------- | |||
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Whilst on a driven boar hunt in Alsace I witnessed the hunter next to me kill (one shot 7x57) a boar of 320lbs. It was considered a great boar but not the largest seen by the hunters or beaters that season. My host travelled to Turkey specifically to shoot an 'Atilla' boar. The trophy shoulder mount made the 320 pounder look like a scale model. Is it a sub species or is it just that piggies in countries with Muslim people are not subjected to the same hunting pressure? I don't know. However I do know that it is possible to go to certain areas with the very specific intent to kill a pig over 500lbs and there are areas where mature boars never reach that size. Boar on some walled estates in Europe are fed heavily but do not reach the size that free ranging boar in other countries reach. Maybe it's climate, maybe genetics, maybe the boar in Christian Europe do not frequently get to live to gigantic old age due to hunting pressure. I would really like to see genetic comparisons done. It would be nice to get to the bottom of this issue. | |||
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I don't know for certain that I have ever shot one that weighed 300, but I have shot several that "scared that number". And over the years I have shot several truck loads of hogs, lots of them boars. An anecdote about whether or not boars are fit to eat: Years ago my son shot a boar of about 180#. When I went to get him I could tell it was a boar by the time I got within about 30'. None the less, my son was about 17 at the time and I was NOT about to teach him it was okay to waste game. I decided to do my best and just see how things turned out. Mark had shot the hog cleanly, in the head, and I saw that as a positive. I cleaned the porker and quartered it, covering it with ice. Over the next five days or so I kept the meat iced, but not floating in water. Once I got the hide off the critter, most, but not all, of the boar smell disappeared. The place we had taken the hog had been baiting them with rice. It was a WMA, and this was a control type hunt, to keep the numbers down. The boar had about 2" of fat above the root of the tail. I decided to cook the boar in his own grease, thinking that would make him stink if he was going to. I took a slab of fat from above the tail, heated it, and fried several chunks of backstrap that I had cut to ~1/2" of thickness and rolled in seasoned flour. With the exception of it being a bit dense and chewy due to it being wild, I could not tell it from pen raised pork bought from the local Kroger. I firmly believe that if they are not actively rutting, are dispatched cleanly, and are taken care of, with supreme care taken to get the glands out of the meat, there is nothing wrong with a wild boar. Just my $.02... | |||
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Doubless: Maybe that's where Kroger's get their pigs! 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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Great wildboar Dom.
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