http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/173608.html it seems as big as a hippo
2007-05-26 09:15:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
The wild hog you are referring to is actually a feral hog. Domestic stock that has escaped at sometime, they have offspring & are just as wild as a true wild boar. A true wild boar is of Russian descent & they don't get that big.
I've seen hoggs on farms that people have kept for years & feed them allot, that have gotten to the 1000 pound range. In order for a pig to reach that size it would have to have allot of food avaible all the time and be smarter enough to avoid wild predators & hunters for many years as well as have the genetics. Food is usually hard to find in the woods and wild/feral hoggs travel long distances in search of it. It's kind of hard to belive that a 1000 plus pound hog is crusing the woods for say 20 years or so withput being seen or shot. It would have to be covering allot of ground to find enough food to reach that size and were not talking about Alaska here.
I kinda bought the first one but they are popping up everywhere now so I'm wondering if in order to get some media attention folks are taking grandpas old hog out to the woods & shooting him, then claming his wild.
2007-05-26 11:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by fishhunt987 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An unofficial world record wild boar was killed last week in East Alabama. It tipped the scales a 1060 pounds. It was killed by a 11-year old boy using a Smith & Wesson .50 S&W Magnum Revolver.
2007-05-26 09:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stateside that's pretty much the record right now. I've heard of feeder hogs that get that heavy. The biggest one I've ever seen evidence of and heard about was killed in Mexico in the Eighties. I saw the stuffed head in a restaurant outside of Monterey, Nuevo Leon (Mexico). I couldn't put both arms around the neck. The tusks (4) were nearly a foot (12") long, but they were broken. The restaurant manager told me it had weighted 750 kilos (1,650 US pounds).
I'm waiting for one weighting a ton to break the record.
Now I use a .458 Winchester magnum to hunt feral hog.
H
2007-05-27 02:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also doubt that the huge hog was really wild. My guess is it was a tame one that was stocked for the hunt. The kid shot it and chased it? Seems to me that a wild hog would have charged after the first or second shot.
Wild hogs over 800 pounds probably are not wild, but since there is no way to prove it what do you do?
2007-05-26 16:09:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biggest I've ever heard of is 1100 and some odd pounds, killed in Louisiana I think , I seen this in the bathroom of a Basspro store in Cincinnati.
2007-05-26 10:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by frankcujo89 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok that hog was an anomaly wild boars do not normally get that big...plus that wouldnt be alot of of sausage hell i doubt they ate that thing...that meat would taste soooo BAD!!!! incredibly gamey it would be the worst meat of your life...but a average wild hog/boar will only get up to about 500-600...but taths pushing it really far
2007-05-26 09:38:45 · answer #6 · answered by neosnipez1989 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they can get to 1000lbs. most of the hogs that get this big are feral hogs. this means wild domestic hogs, russian boars have very little fat and are not near as large
2007-05-26 23:00:57 · answer #7 · answered by charlsyeh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw this article and picture the other day. I was amazed! Thats a lot of sausage.
2007-05-26 09:19:26 · answer #8 · answered by Cathy S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1000 pounds.
2007-05-26 13:50:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
should be able to get to 1500 pounds
2007-05-26 09:18:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋