Whats he biggest boar...

[HOGHUNTER714]

For me it had to of been the hog that I saw on my pig hunt last month. I shot and missed a big ol boar. He must of toped the scales at over 350lbs. Boy he could run.

 

[bubba]

Here are the pics of the Boar taken at FHL:

 

[Freedivr2]

Thanks, RIFLEMAN, for explaining how to put pics inside a post, I think I got it! I edited the previous post with the 450 lb. boar, and here's a pic of the 400 lb. sow that my hunting buddy took last spring close to Cambria........

 

[Freedivr2]

Here's my pride and joy from last spring, a 250 lb. (conservative estimate, didn't weigh it) boar that I dropped with a head shot from via an open sight .357 (from approx. 25 yards) last spring....Not a humengeous boar, but one with a nasty disposition, even after being head shot....growled pretty good at me when I walked up on it.

 

[Tusker]

Freedivr, how long were those tusks? That is one fine looking hog!

 

[Freedivr2]

Thanks Tusker. How big were the tusks on the 250 lb. hog? Never actually measured em, til tonight when I took these pics. The lower tusks are 2 3/8" long and the upper tusks are about 1 1/2" long. They're kinda thick, that's what I thought was kinda cool (not like little pencils as some boar have). The diameter of the lower tusks are about the size of your index finger. The diameter of the upper tusks almost the diameter of your thumb. Must've been eatin a lot of calcium, who knows.........

Hey, here's something kinda wild, and I didn't know this until I was foolin around with the tusks on this particular boar; The tusks coming out of the jaw are only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. I pulled one all the way out of the jaw and that sucker is about 5" long!!!!! Here's some pics with the tusks in place, with one of the lower tusks pulled out of the jaw, and finally, "How to make your hog look like a Warthog in one easy lesson". The .357 factory load (158 gr) did a pretty nice job (see the left side behind the eye socket).

 

[Tusker]

Freedvr, Sorry, I meant on that 450lb bad boy. Those tusks look at least 4 inches in the pictures. The 250lbers was nice too, of course. I just killed a 240lbers last week and the tusks were barely an inch and a half long. Small tusks but big head and decent body. Riflemans hog was a tusker, too. Makes me want to go out again! But $500 a pop plus misc expenses, overnight costs etc, I gotta pace myself. Do the POR guys do any good on large boars? How about HL? Any good boars taken out of there?

 

[Freedivr2]

The big guys lower tusks were right at 3.5". Nice and bright white, aren't they? We found a tube of colgate palmolive in his stomach (ohhhhh bad joke, sorry).

No idea about POR (Camp Roberts?) or Hunter Ligget, I've only hunted FHL once, no luck (unless bandtails count....they had some HUGE bandies up there a dozen years back...real mature birds).

I'm going to try around Lompoc in a couple of weeks, I've heard a lot of good things about that area. Saw some real good sign last month up near Buellton, so I'm going to try a little farther West.

 

[Tusker]

Freedivr, when you say Lompoc, do you mean private property guided? I know Alfred Luis offers guided hunts at the Coho Ranch south of Jalama. Don't know anyone else who guides near there. As for Buellton, I was near there last month and found lots of sign right by the freeway just 1 mile south of the 154 exchange. It is private property, though, so I didn't go in far, but lots of rooting and tracks visible from the freeway about 50 yards in at the acive creek that you can't quite see from the freeway. I'd sure love to be able to pay a trespass fee to hunt that area. Found lots of fresh bedding areas as well.

 

[Freedivr2]

Tusker..........No, not a guided hunt in Lompoc, BLM. This will totally be an exploratory venture two weeks from now. I got the tip about Lompoc from some Hunter Education instructors out of Santa Maria last year (at the annual conference...they held it up there last spring). So, I'm goin pokin around up there. I'm gunna ask one of the guys if he can give me a little better information that I have so I can zero in on a couple areas.

Funny deal, I saw the same thing around Hwy 1 and 154 (I think that's it......whatever the Hwy that goes by Lake Cachuma). My wife and I went on a wine tasting thing about 6 weeks ago, and coming out from Fess Parker's winery, when we got to that junction, I noticed a whole lot of rooting as you did, right next to the offramp (on the East side of Hwy 1). Here's the pic of that, maybe even the same group of hogs that did the rootin you saw in that area

And if you thought you could never actually have a genuine coonskin cap from ol Daniel Boone, well then, I got some good news for you..........

 

[so cal hunter]

I have a hunting partner that ownes a ranch just down he road from camp-5 outfitter's in monterey co. 2 week's ago they shot a boar that weighed almost 400 lbs. it was taken with archery equipt. 2 shot's to kill it. one tough hog!

 

[Tusker]

Coon skin hat...good one. You were on Foxen Canyon Road when you went wine tasting, right? There are lots of sign along that road, particullarly wherer the Alisos Canyon Rd and Foxen Cyn Rd meet. Look under the large oak tress right beside the road. Lots of rooting for acorns, I'm sure. Yes, Highway 154 is the number aka San Marcos Pass. I saw mine just south almost exactly one mile where the turn off from the 101 and the 154 is in the North bound lanes of the 101. That entire area is pig country, but all private property. I did not know there was BLM land near or around Lompoc. Good luck. If you want company, I would gladly tag along and promise you first shot if a hog is sighted. I live in Santa Maria. I believe I know of the guys you speak of. A guy named Tom Martinez runs the hunting safety courses out at the SM gun club with a few other guys.
If I find out where that BLM land is, I won't go until after you have as a courtesy since you made mention of the place first. I would appreciate a report once you have checked it out. Let me know, please. Nothing greater then "discovering" new areas to hunt hogs. And this one in my own back yard! I bet these rootings along the freeway etc are totally night time/early AM (dark) by weapons of grass destruction. I also bet if you set up before sun up and wind was in your favor, you would catch em heading back to their beds and sight them.

 

[Freedivr2]

Tusker, you're thinking right along the same lines as me. No, don't wait for me to go up there, but that sure is a nice gesture. You go get the jump on me if you want, it's OK. Man, if I lived where you do, I'd know that country already (lol). And you're exactly right, that was the road we were on. Where it intersects kinda with 154 and 101 is where I took that picture. What I wonder is; who owns that property and would they allow a hunter or two an occassional hunt? Since you're so local, is there anyway you can find out who owns that property?

I did meet Ted Martinez last spring. I believe he got a 25 year plaque or something or other, a special award for teaching a zillion students up there or the like. And we had that Hunter Education Seminar at what I believe is the Santa Maria Gun club, not 100% sure, but it was about 2 miles east of 101 and we shot some trap there. Never will forget the Santa Maria tri-tip they served up for lunch...mmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmm. They also had some goofy kinda trap game where the dang birds didn't get very far off the ground if I remember. Heck of a thing to snap shoot trap.

I'll be plenty glad to compare notes with you on what we find up there in a couple weeks. But like I said, don't hold back, the more eyes out there the merrier.......it might be more appropriate to PM me to talk about the whens and wheres. Or email me, either way. Hasta, amigo

 

[tnctcb]

my biggest was 201 but if you go into the bathroom of any bass pro shop in the country there is a picture of an 1165 pound boar that was taken about an hour from my house.there are no game farms or anything like them in that area that i know of. man can you imagine that monster stepping out at you.they dont say what it was shot with but i bet it wasnt a .22lr

 

[JOE MACK]

Biggest one I've ever taken was just a shade over 275LBS. I usually try for the ones that are roughly 150LBS. I think they make for the best pit cookin'. The spit I use isn't all that big, either. RKBA!

 

[oljim]

The largest hog taken off my place in texas is this one...he's a scaled-weighed 300 lb'r....

Whew!,,,took 4 of us to load this sucker up on the back of my pickup truck...ain't nowhere's to grab a hold of when you're liftin' a hog that size!!,,lol,,,

This hog was taken during the past season,,,while a hunter was out hunting deer. Was almost dark-thirty when the hog came lumberin' out,,,

Glenn didn't much figure a big buck was gonna be anywheres around with this big ol ugly texas hog cruisin' the area!,,lol,,

 

[boarhuntertx]

A good friend of min took this hog near Cotulla in S. Texas. It was just over 400#..