Here's pictures of a hog skull--- killed many years ago in the Ozarks. It was a large hog in the upper 300#'s in weight. The tushes grew behind the grinders, and as a result never got sharp or got ground down. They curved back into the jaw. The tushes can't be removed from the jaw because they come back and hit the jaw. It was killed on a cold January day 15 years ago when a friend and I split up to hunt a hillside. I jumped this hog at about 65 yds, and he paused at about 75 to look back, which was his undoing. He was a mulefoot. Used a 375H&H, 285gr Grandslam, and the bullet did not exit the far shield.





This is a picture of a mulefoot taken from the internet

Hey Steve,

Thanks for sharing those pics....

It's an incredible looking skull....

BTW, what type of "FINISH" was put atop the skull...it looks really GREAT!!!

The skull was boiled and bleached in the usual manner, then spray painted with several coats of cheap clear spray paint. The yellowing has occurred with age.

Also, some folks would have called this a "Choctaw Hog". Besides the mulefoot, he had "wattles" and his fore-quarters were larger than his hind.

Very cool! I hope to one day get one that size!

Justin

Coool !!

Thanks for sharing these pics

Impressive ivories, thanks for posting.

George

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January
about 75 yeards
375H&H, 285gr Grandslam
the bullet did not exit the far shield.

WHAT!!!! thats a tough SOB! how heavy was the plate?

Those are some serious cutters!

Found the old photos.

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Originally posted by SGraves155:
Here's pictures of a hog skull--- killed many years ago in the Ozarks. It was a large hog in the upper 300#'s in weight. The tushes grew behind the grinders, and as a result never got sharp or got ground down. They curved back into the jaw. The tushes can't be removed from the jaw because they come back and hit the jaw. It was killed on a cold January day 15 years ago when a friend and I split up to hunt a hillside. I jumped this hog at about 65 yds, and he paused at about 75 to look back, which was his undoing. He was a mulefoot. Used a 375H&H, 285gr Grandslam, and the bullet did not exit the far shield.





This is a picture of a mulefoot taken from the internet

The tusks look almost like a wart hog. He would have been in trouble in a couple more years, because those tusks would have punched through the skin of his jaw, and infection may have killed him a long lingering death. You did him a favor with that old 375!

These pictures reminds me of a hippo on the Luangwa River, in Zambia. The right tusk missed the grinder, and grew out at a wierd angle, and was about three feet long. My PH wanted me to shoot him, for meat for the nearby village, but we coundn't get a shot at him.

SGraves155, when I read the tital to your posts, it reminded me of my old hunting buddy, my Dad, who has been dead now 25 years. What reminded me of him was your use of the word "TUSHES" for tusks! My father is the only other person, I ever met, who used that word! Is that a common word used in Ark? I don't know where my dad got that word, because, as far as I know my dad never was in Ark.

He was born in Melton, Texas, in 1915. Melton is in the geographical center of Texas, 400 miles from Ark. I was born, and raised in the next county North of Melton, and never heard that word used by anyone but him! I often woundered where the word came from, and though it might be an old English word brought here from England by settlers, but I looked in the dicionary, and it isn't there! So I still don't know
Anyway,thanks, it brought back some good memories of hunts with my dad!

PS:

I shot a Mulefoot, a couple years ago, and it was the first one I'd ever seen, but had heard of them all my life. Do you know what caused this mulefoot?

Mac, I have family that settled in AR in 1874. I knew my Great-Grandparents as a child. My family diary states on the opening sentence: "We moved to Arkansas (from KY) to hunt." He always said "tushes" (and he killed a great number of hogs, Bears & Deer) as did my Grandmother. It is still used today by my friends who live in AR. Good hunting, David

Great skull........does look like an American Warthog!!

I really like seeing the old photos too!!

Thanks for posting this!!

Good Hunting,

Bob

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Originally posted by L. David Keith:
It is still used today by my friends who live in AR. Good hunting, David

I thought it might be an Arkansas Thing. I've never hunted in Ark., so wasn't aware that it was for sure! It must have been common in some other places in old times. My dad would be 92 yrs old if he'd lived till today, And I never knew my Grandfather on my dad's side he died when I was three months old. My sirname is McCartney, and my dad's family came to the US in North Carolina in 1736,and over the next 100 yrs parts of the family migrated to Texas, in 1836, but they came into Tx through Louisianna,near where the town of Tyler,Tx is today. They may have picked the word up in Louisianna. Also in 1836 there were a lot of settelers in Texas from Ark, and Tenn. My moter's family came to TX in 1892, from the OKLahoma Indian Teritory, but as far as I know they never used the phrase. That also may be where it came from!

MAC, sorry it took so long to get back on your question, but I got the word from my father, and he would be 101 yo if still living.
The mulefoots were apparently a result of some inbreeding among the escaped hogs brought in by the spanish explorers. There recently were a few farms that selectively bred the mulefoot in the Missouri/Arkansas Ozarks area, but I do not know if they are still in operation.

Great pic, would love to take one with "tushes" like that some day. Here in North Texas you still here the term tushes used, mostly from older folks and folks who are of rural background.

My Dad, almost 72, still calls them tushes, and to him a small tree stump is called a "stob", like in "Dont run over that stob of you will blow out a tire."

Eterry

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Originally posted by Eterry:
Great pic, would love to take one with "tushes" like that some day. Here in North Texas you still here the term tushes used, mostly from older folks and folks who are of rural background.

My Dad, almost 72, still calls them tushes, and to him a small tree stump is called a "stob", like in "Dont run over that stob of you will blow out a tire."

Eterry

I'm 71 myself, born in Coleman County Texas,in the north end of the Texas hill country, and my dad was the only one I ever heard use the word! Seeing it here brought back some fond memories of hunting with my father, He died in Jan 1981, and would be 92 if he had lived till today. He was also born in that country. We always had wild hogs on my grandfather's ranch, and made good use of them in the smokehouse! I hunt hogs within 30 miles of where I was born, and they are still thick as chiggers in Johnson grass!

I used to hunt with a guy who grew up in the Red River country--and Thackerville, OK. Never heard him use the word "tushes" but he called the car's trunk lid a "turtle shell" and the rear end/differential of the car/truck was called a "third member" -- so guess the local lingo has its own special words.