Texas Hog for jjhack

[Walker]

jj, this is what you want when you do your Texas hog hunt.
This hog weighs #274 and is currently leading the Los Cazadores heavy hog division.

 

[SDHNTR]

Whats on his head?

 

[Walker]

Sorry, didn't catch that photoshop. The guys over at texasbowhunter.com did that. That added hair is from a guy named Buck Medley (really that's his name.)
Buck is sorta a legend at nighttime bowstalking for big hogs. Here's the real guy and his hog.

 

[bigtusker]

That's a brute!

 

[bayedsolid]

Nice hog!!

He should have dug a 3 foot hole, stood 5 feet behind it, and called it Hogzilla. Now thats what a 274# hog looks like.

 

[Shot]

Thats one big hog. Looks to me that it should weight much more

 

[PIGIG]

need hog!!!

i am having withdrawls

 

[VHRAM]

NICE HOG

 

[larrysogla]

That is why I use potent calibers when hog hunting in big ol' Texas. You never know when Mr. BigBadBoy will show up for an introduction. Need to anchor him, not loose him to die a wasted death out of bounds of the property line. Gives me goose bumps when I see pictures like that cause I know they are out there in big ol' Tx. They are fat, big & heavy. 'Nuff said. larrysogla.

 

[jjhack]

Your right! that is the real deal! Look at the gristle plate and the area it covers. you can see the thinner hair and the wrinkle right at the top of the front leg. That gristle plate is nothing to take for granted. it's a serious problem for bow hunters!

 

[Timjackson]

Holy cow!!

I live in Texas and have killed a few 250 - 300 lb. hogs, but they were not near that big.. That pig HAS to weigh more than that!! Hell, he looks like he is almost 6 feet long...

 

[Walker]

Los Cazadores is a annual, well known big game contest in South Texas. I'm sure that hog was weighed on certified scales.

 

[larrysogla]

I & my buddy have also bagged boars in the 200-300 lbs. class. This pig in this thread is way, way

bigger & bulkier. If it was weighed on a certified scale & the numbers came out as 274, then it must have been in Kilograms, not pounds. Certainly, that boar will easily tip the scales at over 500 lbs. If 274 kilos is converted to lbs.(multiply by 2.2 lbs/kilo), it will be approx. 602 lbs., which is by the size in the picture just about right on. It is a beautiful, nasty looking, mean, mouth watering, black haired warrior in the brush. WOW!!! It is huge!!! We must also be cognizant of the fact that muscle is much heavier than fat. Wild boars are more muscle & very little fat, thus are more denser & heavier per body mass, while farm pigs are boxed-in their pig corral & fed bulk-up diets & proportionately have a lot of fat per body mass, therefore are lighter per body mass. Same size boar, the wild boar(in Texas at least) will be much heavier than their farm pig cousins. The ones we shot in California are lighter & thinner(very much lighter). 'Nuff said. larrysogla.

 

[Walker]

The only kilos in South Texas are highly illegal.

 

[bayedsolid]

Larry--There is no way that hog is 600#. Most bull elk don't get to be 600#. I see pictures of 100-150# hogs and most of the time the guy that shot it calls it a 400# hog. A 300# wild hog is ENORMOUS. It's tough to even move 300lbs of dead weight. If I look at the last 100 hogs I caught, I would be lucky to have 1 or 2 at the 300# mark, yet guys that have only killed 4 or 5 hogs inevitably have 2 or 3 of those over the 300 lb mark. Most guys are going to have one hell of a time getting a 200# hog out of the hills, much less a 500lb'er and then load it up and bring it to the scales to be weighed. Ask Bigtusker how many 300# hogs come off of his ranch.....or better yet, if he's ever even seen a 500-600 lb hog on the place. They just don't get that big without being castrated and a whole lot of domestic in the mix.....and a lot of luck to boot. A 250 lb wild boar hog is about as big as they get. Sure there are exceptions, but for the most part a boar in his prime will top out there and then just regress.

 

[Live2hunt]

Well said Bayedsolid. I've killed many pigs in both Texas and California. Only had one boar that I think may have tipped the scale at 400 lbs. Two of us had a hard time just trying to rolled the beast over. We had to cut it into four pieces in or to load in the truck. At home we put the pieces together on a scale and it read 292. I'm guessing with the gutts that boar may go 400 lbs. Like you said many people claimed the hog they killed was 300# which in the picture they posted, the hog look to me like it was a 150 pounder. My dad killed one in Texas that a couple of my hunting buddies guessed it at 250#. Even the ranch owner said it would be 250#. When we put it on the scale, it only read 175.

274 is about right for the hog in this post. Considering the guy standing next to it was 200+ #. If the guy is less than 200, then 274 is kinda pushing it for this hog.



L2H

 

[larrysogla]

Bayedsolid,
When we bagged our pigs in Calif, they looked to be 120 lbs. in size, but the guide who is not a big guy would pick it up & toss it in the back of the pickup. I did pick up one of the pigs just to get a feel of it's weight & I could lift it off the ground. I can manage to lift around 100 lbs. more or less. I asked the guide his estimate & he said 100-120 lbs. Now, the same length pig we shot in Houston, it took 2 of us to lift it barely off the ground(I am 165 lbs., 5'10 & my partner is 200 lbs., 6'). The estimated 350 lb. boar my partner shot in Houston, 3 of us could lift only 3/4 of it's body trying to hang it to be skinned. Finally tied one end of the rope to the rear bumper to lift up the boar with the rope looped thru the main roof beam. When it was still laying in the field after it was shot two of us tried to drag it on the hayfield with a rope tied around one of the front legs & with a strong heave in unison, we managed to advance the pig only a foot through the grass on each heave. We finally tied the pig to the rear bumper & dragged it behind the van all the way to the shed. This estimated 350 lb. pig is not that much longer than the Calif pig we harvested which the guide would toss in the back of the truck. I can only speak from experience & from the input of that Calif guide & the Texas ranchowner who traps these boars everyday in his ranch.
This last Texas trip of ours, the pigs we bagged, my buddies split the interstines to inspect the stomach contents & the intestines were bursting full with acorns & green shoots. I guess from my non-expert opinion that the abundant rainfall in Texas, Luisiana, Florida & Georgia makes their hogs better fed than Calif pigs(except probably the ones feeding on crop fields, even then this is seasonal, while in the rainy States, the vegetation is lush year round???). Anyway who am I to project live weight on an animal just from pictures in my computer monitor. All I know is that those Texas hogs are HEAVY, very heavy, with the same body length as the Calif hogs we shot. Have you shot yet a Houston hog

feeding on peanut farms???? Those big Houston boars do not have a bad smell but smell of fresh crushed green grass. I have seen a lot(lots of them over the course of 16 yrs.) of hogs shot at FHL too & they are also light per body length. 'Nuff said. larrysogla.

 

[dreaminhogs]

Did you get that with a 3" pocket knife?.....sorry couldn't resist.

 

[bayedsolid]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>

Have you shot yet a Houston hog  feeding on peanut farms[/b]

Actually, I have....and I didn't really notice anything fancy about length/weight of the Texas hogs. Sounds like you've experienced something different than I have so I can't really comment on the difference between the two. I'm still sticking by my story though. I really think most folks way over estimate weight for the most part. If that hog in the pic that Walker posted was weighed on a certified scale at 274#....I'm going to believe it and it's tough to argue that it is anything different. It looks like a 275lb hog to me.....even if it is from Texas.

I was looking at that beast in the pic again and re-read what was originally posted about it. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>

This hog weighs #274 and is currently leading the Los Cazadores heavy hog division.[/b]

See...that's the point I'm making.....a 274lb hog is a monster. It's leading the heavy hog division. Where the hell are all the 500 lb'ers much less the 400 and 300 lb'ers?
Larry--I'm just giving my opinion on this anyway so please don't take it like I'm trying to be a know-it-all or something. Just in case....let me buy you another.

Oh, hell....it's early

 

[larrysogla]

Bayedsolid,
I'm a mechanic & I can manage to lift 100 lbs. & my buddy is another mechanic & he can easily lift 100 & the ranchowner does chores everyday in his ranch & he can easily lift 100 also. Now if 3 of us can only lift 3/4 of the body of the pig then I guesstimate that the pig is getting closer to 350 rather than 300. The length of the pigs we have been shooting in Houston is not that much longer than the Calif pigs I see harvested at FHL. When I see a lone hunter skinning a pig at FHL I ask him who helped him load his nice pig in his truck & they reply that they loaded the pig in the truck by themselves & I believe them 'cause the pigs are not barrel chested as the ones we have been shooting in Houston. Thin body in comparison. Of course all these are like I said, just guesstimates. 'Nuff said. larrysogla.