GATOGORDO: THESE RANCH BOYS SWEAR THEY WILL TURN ON THE TRUCK. THEY TOOK ME OUT AFTER HOGS ONE NIGHT. WE WERE IN A SPECIAL TRUCK WITH SPOT LIGHTS ON IT TO RUN AFTER HOGS. HE SAID IF HE CUT AFTER THE HOGS TO HANG ON. FORTUNATELY WE SAW NO HOGS. I WASN'T TOO SURE ABOUT THAT METHOD OF HUNTING. I TOLD HIM TO SPOT THEM AND ID SHOOT FROM THERE. I LIKE THE RANGES.

Roger on the 7 RUM overkill. You don't want to ruin any more of that excellent meat than necessary. If you have the time and light, look for a big sow for meat or a big boar for mounting (or like Stonecreek said, anything under 100 for the grill).

Trying to find a 600 pound hog is like trying to find a virgin in a whore house...they might exsist, but dont hold your breath. My biggest one went just over 300, but that has been the exception not the rule. They also seem a lot heavier when you are dragging one, they loose weight when you hang them. The 7-08 will do fine, if you do your part, but I dont shoot behind the shoulder, although I know some that do with pretty good success.
BTW, the wife and I stuffed 30 pounds of bockwurst and bratwurst this morning from wild hog and deer..it is great.

Good luck and good shooting,
Eterry

i hunt on the ga-sc border just south of augusta and in a normal year we kill 3 or 4 300 pounders as well as 80 100-200#, our scale peggs at 300 pounds. i would estimate that the biggest hog we have killed is under 400#..i never take a body shot just head shots but i have all season.

i have killed many hogs with a 140 sierra bullet and a 7x57 at about 7'08 velosity so your 139's should work well.

i'll be the practical one.
the 708 will take hogs. if i were hunting a KNOWN area where i would see 250+#, i would load some 160+ grain bullets at "coasting" speeds, and have the sd.

but,400 yard shoots and 300# hogs don't mix. since shot placement is so crutial to not loose the animal, much less taking him cleanly, 150 yards is the MAX.

a 300# hog is more like a 120 BC outside of a texas gameranch... there sure a a few, but i'll never see one.

the gaints are out there, don't be fooled by the town talk... they are wary, wise, dont move much and could probably consume dog, hunter, and the hunters lunch
jeffe

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Well, I don't know if you live in town or not, but I live on my ranch near the Red River and have a fairly sizable place on the Sulfur River as well. As far as E Texas goes, it doesn't get much better for hog habitat than that. Out of the TENS of Thousands of hogs killed (just as an example, my neighbor to the immediate E has caught over 200 on his place along the Red in the last year alone, says he can't tell that he's made a dent) or caught up here every year, about every other year, I HEAR of one that wieghs 500 pounds or more (I've never heard of a claimed 600 pounder except on the net), I think there have been a couple that actually have weighed 500 plus, but the odds are phenomenally low. Secondly, wild hogs by their very nature have to MOVE a lot to find food, I've heard of them moving as much as 15 miles in a night. The idea that some 600 pound wild hog is laying up in the bushes maintaining his body weight is pure hokum.



Eterry:



I have heard of those virgins in a whore house, but the search was so expensive that I had to call off the hunt.

Hey Gato,
we aren't disagreeing on facts, just measuring level... to me, a 300# is a monster... 500 pounds of hog would be a nightmare, that isthe absolute lord of the jungle, top of the food chain.

i have HIT, with my car, 250+ lbs of hog outside of the sam houston nat'l forrest...

I've seen, hanging on scales, 320+ taken from bayou bottoms north of dayton

i've seen tusks that are 6" long.. but that means squat, as i;ve got a4" set, from a 105# pig.


500 pounds, in the deep piney woods... i would thinkNO..no oak mast to eat and pinenuts are barely worth diggin out... in an OAK forrest, with swamps for fishing, frogs, other hogs, ... certainly....

this is kinda like arguing about 500# cat fish in the bottom of old dam resevoirs... town folksay "thos can't exist" while the corps of engineers states that they CAN (mother retired from 30 years at the corp)...

i have only SEEN an estimated 450#... at night, while on 4wheelers, off caney creek (san jac river)... we got a good long look of a tank charging accross and up the creek

jeffe

gato i hunted deer along the red river this past november. i believe it was the red river. along the oklahoma and texas borders? i was hunting about 30 minutes north west of quanah. are you familar with this area. could you set me up on some deer come fall. i come out with a group who quail hunts only. they think im the bottom of the barrel for hunting deer. they tolerate me because they like me. really, i would appreciate some help on the hunting. i got to within 352 yards of a 140 class eight point but could not get the buck to stop walking before disappearing into a plum thicket. sorry i know this area is for hogs. i walked up on a bedded boar in the dark while on the river bottoms. he bolted over the sand burn and huffed at me for disturbing him. he was not happy. the guy i was with said we were lucky to have not gotten charged. is he correct on that? will they charge? i have heard the locals say that when they run them across their wheat fields in the truck they will turn and try hooking the tires.

Snider700:

Sorry I can't help you, I am not a guide or outfitter, nor do I do commercial hunting on my place at this time. Quanah is well over 300 miles from me and I have no knowledge of that area. I'm in NE Texas, near where Ok, Tx and Ar join on the map.

As far as hogs charging, NORMALLY unless cornered or wounded they look for a way out. A hog's way out is often the way their head is pointed when they decide to leave, if that happens to be in your direction, you will be "charged". However, if they are hurt, or sows with pigs that they perceive you as threatenting, or even boars having a bad day, they can and will come after you but it is rare in my experience. They unhinge their jaws and "clack" them together, it is then time to shoot or climb a tree or have some damn good dogs. I can imagine that hogs would try to hook a truck tire if they were pursued across a field, haven't seen it, but it certainly could happen.

BTW if you think running over a deer in a car is a bad idea, hit a big hog sometime.