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Jeff in TX
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So how big is a 226 lb hog
Jeff in TX
Posts: 2,636 Senior Member
A couple weeks back we got onto the topic of how some folks will exaggerate the weight of the critters they kill, especially wild hogs. This evening my oldest son dropped a nice 226 lb bore. On camera everyone was saying he was at least 275 lbs including my neighbor. Compliments of my youngest son who got me an 800 lb digital scale from Cabelas, we hooked it up to the bucket and tractor and lifted him for his weigh in. So folks this is what a 226 lb wild hog looks like!
Distance is not an issue, but the wind can make it interesting!
John 3: 1-21
John 3: 1-21
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Great score. Got any pics of his 'hooks' ?
Would also be interested if he was hunted with dogs and 'stuck' or shot btw.
( If you think hunters exaggerate, come over and take a trip with me on the charter boat. Fishermen make hunters look like Angels when it comes to telling the truth!) :roll2:
Without truth.........is it really a "lie"?
:sarcasm:
No pics of his cutters but they stuck out about inch and 1/2. We don't believe in hunting with dogs. This hog was fairly regular on the cameras the last two weeks. Winds were blowing hard out of the north which hampers most of our stands as they're all set up for south winds. He played it smart and walked the far south perimeter fence line and set up on him. The feeder was north west of his set up and the hog showed up like clock work. He dropped the hog with a 50 yard shot from his .243 shooting a 95 gr ballistic tip. Shot through the eye, he dropped like a rock.
John 3: 1-21
Excellent. Sounds like your son had a good teacher.
I usually say.
I don't know, they're big as horse. Filled up a the whole freezer.
They look at me funny sometimes. I don't care. What am I supposed ta say?
Yep, I caught a bass once that broke the tailgate chains on my pickup- - - - -the picture weighed 14 pounds!
:jester:
Jerry
Very well played on his part. I know guys who simply sit a given stand come hell or high water and regardless of the wind conditions, then go on to complain about why they never see anything at that spot. Worse, those same guys usually never scout, so they have no idea that they're putting their stink right where the animals used to enter the field...
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A hog is dense and a small one is heavy. But not as heavy as we think when we see them or handle them. A 226 pound hog feels like it weighs 326.
If you have to drag that thing very far you'll think it weighs 400. I think that's a big reason people over estimate their size.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Congratulations to your Son
This reminds me of a story one of my uncles used to tell. In the late 40s and early 50s, he worked at a little store in Juno, Tx. Juno is not much more than a wide spot in the road between Ozona and Del Rio. The Devils River flows nearby.
Any way, some guy came in with a large catfish he had recently caught, and wanted it weighed. They hunt it on the scale, and it went 99 lbs. The guy wanted my uncle to claim it weight 100 lbs., but my uncle refused. It made the guy made because he wanted to be able to brag about catching a 100 lb. fish and have someone to back him up.
[ETA] Where are my manners? Nice porker and great post!
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
But also, another point. The few I've seen go 300 or better weren't fit for the Buzzards. Nowadays, I'll take a 200-250 pounder any day. Boars smell anyway, and the bigger they are the more that smell has permeated the meat. And while a 225 pound boar is usually still good to eat, a 100-150 pound sow is very much better. The very best eating hog I ever killed was a 90-100 pound sow. I didn't weigh it but this is a pretty close guestimation. That hog had an inch of beautiful white fat all over it. The thing, when cooked, tasted like store bought domestic pork. I had shot it to make sausage but the only parts of that hog that went into sausage were the usual tough parts and we ate most of that thing to the last bite as pork chops, roast, and most of this BBQed. If that would have been a big boar, it would have all gone to sausage or chilli meat.
So nowadays if I shoot at a bunch of hogs, I'll always pick the smaller ones, unless, of course, a big bore is the only thing out there.
But we all need to take some big boars out of the heard, because they are breeding stock and if we don't we will surely be overrun with hogs.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Ned, for a big hog like the one here, I would say he would lose fifty pounds removing his skin and innards and maybe more. A big hog's skin alone is pretty heavy, to say nothing of his head.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
@Snake ... we go for sows first to keep them from throwing a litter of 8+ piglets twice a year (and occasionally three times). No matter how many we take male or female, baby or big uns, etc I swear the population is still growing. SHOOT THEM ALL!
- George Orwell
"If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes truth" ...... Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Oh yeah NCFUBAR, you are absolutely correct. Their populations will grow unless you put on a real strong area wide push to lower their numbers. I've said this before on here, but out where I hunt a year before I got on the place, the guy that was leasing one of the rice fields just to the West of our hunting gate put up four towers around the rice field just across the road from our gate. They killed over 160 hogs that summer out of that rice field from those towers using night vision at night.
For three years I saw about 20 hogs total, each year a few more. Though I still managed to kill a few in the first three years, this year is the first year I have seen big numbers of hogs at one time. I've seen it coming because each year I would see a few more running together and could see more evidence of rutting hogs.
So, you can kill them down, but unless you keep the pressure on every year, they're going to come back in Spades.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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