Another Hogzilla taken in Ga.

[Mad Professor]

With all the recent interest in hunting hogs I thought this might be interesting, they claim 1100 lbs live weight! That's a lot of bacon!!!

See:
[url] http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10674297/detail.html[/url]

 

[Runner]

If 1100 pound boars are running around the woods, then I am joining Roundball! A man could have a sudden serious need for a rifled 62!

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Wow, that's just a hop and a skip across the state line from here. We've got 'em here, there has been 500 lber's taken and I got a 300 lber but that one is a true monster. Just think of the size of the chops on that rascal - big as a dinner plate!!

 

[Runner]

Your last sentence made me laugh! A picture of Granny Clampett drawing lines on the hippopotamus sprang into my head. Wringing her hands and jumping up and down at the thought!

Someone used to use a tagline that said. "Life woud be more interesting if squirrels were 400 pounds!"

 

[rabjr]

Thats cool, anyone know what Traditional type weapon and load this guy used?

 

[Mad Professor]

No mention of the weapon in the article, just the game with a picture. As some here are hunting such beasts I thought mention of their potential size and that picture was provided (to back up said size) it would be appropriate to post.

Did not mean to ruffle your feathers :surrender:

 

[rabjr]

Nothing wrong with posting the story, just should be in the non-muzzleloading forum and not here if he did not infact use a Traditional weapon. :v

 

[paulvallandigham]

The article says he is an archer, and he is shown with a bow and arrow. I can only assume he used an arrow to kill it.

 

[bob1961]

there's no way that "hog" in that "picture" can even weigh 800 pounds....the first hogzilla don't even weigh 900 pounds and was way larger then this one :rotf: 1100 pounds ok :surrender: :v ..............bob

 

[rabbit03]

Everything is bigger in Texas!

> Check out this little Texas piggy ?

> THEY ARE THE PIGS FROM HELL AND MY FULL SYMPATHY IS WITH THE FARMERS AND
> RANCHERS HERE IN TEXAS WHERE WE HAVE SO MANY. THEY ARE KILLERS.
>
> To those of you that live in the country,please be careful
>
> when going out at night,and please take your gun,to those
>
> that don't live in the country,get your gun and come on
>
> down.We have hogs here on our place but we can never see
>
> them,just tracks where they have been.They have torn up our
>
> fields,no grass,so guess they are looking for roots
>
> and/orgrub worms.
>
> This thing was shot near Lake Falcon . An old farmer was pumping water
> near the lake with his truck when it came out to get a drink. Maybe next
> time you are wandering around on the ranch at night, you will be a
> little more cautious when you hear or see pigs.

rabbit03

 

[rabjr]

Thats a crutch Paul he's shown with if you click on the set of 8 pic's, not a bow and arrow and see nothing that mentions archer but I could have missed that I suppose. :v

 

[rabbit03]

I have to agree with you Bob but this one I sent a photo of would go about 800-900 lbs.

rabbit03

 

[bob1961]

i noticed how they don't have a picture of the hog on the scale showing the 1100 reading, wonder why :hmm: :v ..............bob

 

[Rebel]

Maybe cuz their scale only went to 400 and the rest was just guessing. :grin:

 

[Roy]

How can you guys tell about the weight? (serious) I couldn't tell if it was 800 or 1100 if it came up and bit me in the butt. All I'd know is that I had a big hole in my backside. :haha:

 

[Slamfire]

When I was a kid we butchered 400 lb hogs every winter. There was one at a neighbor's place that weighed over 600. I can't tell from the tv captures how big this on iw. :surrender:

 

[davy]

Either way ... thats alotta pork chops & cracklins! :surrender: :hatsoff:

Davy

 

[bob1961]

how much weight do ya think the branch that's holding the rope will hold, giving the tree looks to be bout 24" in dia. from the video of the woman standing next to it in the beginging of the video....i measured myself and my girl friends shoulder width and came up with a measurement of 18", my girl said she was bigger then she is so i made a guess of 24" fer the tree's dia....how big of a dia. do ya think that branch is 7-8" dia if that, also the rope was pulled by the pickup truck off to the left to haul that pig up to that height also....that would put alot of stress on that branch 48"+ out from the trunk of the tree too :hmm: :v ..............bob

video link.........

 

[Wehrmacht]

Gentlemen,Gentlemen....this is as fraudulent as it gets. I'm sorry, but wild or so called feral hogs do not get this big. The truth will probably come out in the end, and when it does you can count on major changes. I've spent a career extending over 45 years in forest and wildlife management here in the Deep South,including where this hog was taken,as well as the infamuous "Hogzilla", and I can tell you with 100% accuracy that there are no 800 or 1,200 wild boars in the woods in Georgia or anywhere else in the Deep South.

I've hog hunted about all of my life since I was around 12 years old or so, mostly with dogs, and I'll tell you for sure that you will remember every wild boar of 300 plus pounds that you catch (or wish that you hadn't caught). And besides that, it's not the 300 plus pound hog that runs your Vet bill up, but rather it's the 180-220 pound boar that cuts your dogs all to pieces :shocked2:

I'm willing to bet you that when the facts are known about this hog...if the facts ever are known...that the picture will change! Just my thoughts :hmm: