Big Whopping Hog

RetiredUSNChief said:

White a challenge getting that bugger in the bed, I imagine!

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That's what front loaders are for.....well, besides shoveling dirt...

Flintknapper said:

Supposedly 363 lbs. (It's not said how that was determined). Killed last May.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/03/06/texas-hunter-kills-massive-boar/

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The story you linked is dated March 6 2020. If it was killed last May I wonder why it's in the news again.

Engineer1911 said:

I'm not a hog hunter, but I don't believe a truck tailgate holds 370 pounds without braking the cables.

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Yeah, it will if the cables aren’t shot. I’m near 300 and have stood on the tailgate a few times and pulled decent sized bucks straight up and in so at least 500 pounds on the tailgate at one time for a brief instance. I tried that stunt in a Mazda b2000 once... interesting results on that attempt... one cable held.

Think how many of us have driven quads up ramps off the tailgate.

Harbor Freight sells ramps that hook up on the end of the tailgate to load quads, riding lawn mowers and other things.
My fat ass and a riding mower are well over 500 pounds and the weight is right at the end of the tailgate with these ramps.

I put my Harley Road King in the bed of my F150 a few times. I won't do it again as I have a trailer now but I had complete faith in the cables holding.

Here bouts in N Florida wild hogs get much larger than 400 pounds. With a farm and two ponds I check all around the ponds every week for hog sign. When I find any sign, I hunt the hog down and eliminate it right then and there. But if you have feed and water they will not stay away for very long. I ride my fences and ponds with an electric golf cart converted for shooting/hunting, it is relatively quiet and is quick.

Around these parts the hogs are contaminated and will contaminate your water sources, creeks, ponds, etc. so my tractor is used to dig a hole, lime them and bury them away from the water source in hard clay.
Ed

Armorer 101 said:

Here bouts in N Florida wild hogs get much larger than 400 pounds.

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FERAL hogs in Florida, or anywhere, can get larger than 400 lbs. They are very uncommon in Florida and elsewhere, however.

Armorer 101 said:

Around these parts the hogs are contaminated and will contaminate your water sources,

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Hogs are not contaminated, LOL. They don't carry anything not already present on local wildlife and livestock. They certainly can cause problems with local water supplies because of their predilection of spending time in the water and doing what they do, which is also a problem with cattle or livestock production in general.

Double Naught Spy said:

FERAL hogs in Florida, or anywhere, can get larger than 400 lbs. They are very uncommon in Florida and elsewhere, however.

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Exactly, the giant that I shot, 545 lbs, was clearly a domesticated pig run feral. I don't know anything about domesticated breeds but someone suggested Duroc. It was banded black and tan and very thin of hair. Hogs will run wild (feral) and by about the third litter, begin appearing more and more like "boar" - they get harrier, tusks growing out etc. There is a great picture earlier in the thread showing the variations and this devolution process.

My late friend killed one over 400 lbs(scale maxed out) on the Ocmulgee river here in South GA. Really good pull for three of us to drag it about 150 yards and load it into a boat to cross the river .....

Double Naught Spy said:

FERAL hogs in Florida, or anywhere, can get larger than 400 lbs. They are very uncommon in Florida and elsewhere, however.

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The average adult wild hog weighs about 110-130 pounds.

300 pound wild hogs are seldom encountered, 350 pound wild hogs are very rare, 400 pound hogs are so rare as to be nearly non existent.

In 20 years of trapping and hunting wild hogs i may have killed one that weighed 400 pounds. Hog was in a rough area and was not retrieved. The largest weighed boar hit 383 pounds: No other hog i've weighed came close to that one.

Maybe in OK ...but down here in the South there are lots of big hogs killed ... by the way the scales were certified by the State of GA for legal trade ....

The price break down for folks that trap them looks like this.

Currently, live sale prices
are around $0.10-$0.20 per pound for feral hogs weighing up to 100 lbs, $0.30 cents per pound for animals between 100 and 150 lbs, and $0.60 cents per pound for feral hogs 150 lbs and heavier

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https://wildpigs.nri.tamu.edu/media...oved-holding-facility-guidelines-in-texas.pdf

If the average of feral hogs were over 150 lbs the break down would be different.

One in the wild, that’s not being fed like one pinned up, is not commonly found 400+ lbs In this southern State.

I've shot wild hogs when I was out deer hunting and already had my buck and doe hanging in the cooler.... deciding to take something different I took a 356 lbs bore in Arkansas about 13 or so years ago. all black with a sort of horse mane I guess its what they called razor backs. took a slightly smaller one that "looked" meaner than all get out. it was sort of rust colored with a little calico type pattern, they said it was a feral hog mixed with a "Russian red".