St. Gunner
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Here is a 395lb live weight boar hog we bayed and shot with dogs Monday afternoon. He dressed 335lbs, had a girth behind the shoulders of 4'9" and was 5'6" from nose to base of tail, and 6'8" tip of nose to tip of tail. He was just over 16" wide at his widest on top. He stood just a fraction over 36" high. He didn't have but one good cutter and it was only an inch long, his other was broke off clean at the gum and his wetters where wore down to nubs about an inch wide.
He took a 20gauge slug high behind the shoulder at 10yds(it hit 5" below the top of his back, buried 8" into the body and lodged against the vertebra). Never even phased him, he broke, smashed a dog, and took off. Just as he cleared the top of the creek bank he broke hard right and I was given the chance to put a 1oz 12 gauge slug into his head. Entered just below and behind his right eye, and exited just in front of below his left eye.
It took 3 stout men to drag him about 10' to get him to a place a 4 wheeler could drag him on out of the brush. It takes a heck of alot of hog to make the 400lb mark, despite all the claims of such. Heck we came up short by 5lbs.
He took a 20gauge slug high behind the shoulder at 10yds(it hit 5" below the top of his back, buried 8" into the body and lodged against the vertebra). Never even phased him, he broke, smashed a dog, and took off. Just as he cleared the top of the creek bank he broke hard right and I was given the chance to put a 1oz 12 gauge slug into his head. Entered just below and behind his right eye, and exited just in front of below his left eye.
It took 3 stout men to drag him about 10' to get him to a place a 4 wheeler could drag him on out of the brush. It takes a heck of alot of hog to make the 400lb mark, despite all the claims of such. Heck we came up short by 5lbs.