Hogzilla strikes again

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What did he shoot that with? It looks like an AR of some sort but I would think you need something a little bigger than a .223, like a the .450 Bushmaster or .50 Beowulf.
 
well there's the perfect reason for a 30 round magazine right there.
 
The shooter is several feet behind the hog making it appear bigger than it is. Probably not needed as it is big enough without any photo tricks.
 
I read about 'hogzilla' in georgia, seems there was a pbs documentary.
about the same time there was one shot (with a borrowed 30-30, 8 times) in south carolina down in the flatland that went about the same size, 800 or so. a older gent, black farmer asked for volunteers to take it - was tearing up his crop bad. finally borrowed a 30-30 and got it himself.
 
Here is the wikipedia about hogzilla .

If you look at the picture on wiki, the pig does not look "wild". Yes it is hairy but a few things stand out to me;

The over all look of the head look a bit short with the steep forehead seen on domesticated pigs.

The nut sack looks far too protruding for a wild pig. Most I have seen, (granted not as many as some but I have studied boar photos extensively) have the sack much closer to the body. I have seen the distended sack on domestic pigs quite frequently.

Plus the over all body characteristics look more like a pen fed animal rather than a wild lean runner.

I do not feel that hogzilla was a full wild pig. Being hairy means he had been out of the pen for a while but I feel he was let go and went feral.

The pig on this post however shows all the characteristics of a wild boar, long nose, sloping forehead, mane and over all body structure scream wild boar.

So the largest wild boar is still up in the air for me.
 
I have to say the hog definitely looks feral, but the pic is somewhat questionable. I don't understand why guys don't do something to give perspective to the size of the hog. I shoot a lot of hogs and I normally try to put something in the pic to give perspective, like the one below with the rifle on it. I'll lay a shovel down by one or whatever for a size comparison, but a guy in the background just doesn't do it.
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Back fifteen years or so, there was a photo of a feral sow, hanging from a gate-frame on a ranch in the south Texas brush country. Comparing with the probable height of the fence, I couldn't argue with the claim of 549 pounds.
 
Trolling, trolling, trolling, trollingon on go "rawhide".

There are durn few honest hogs that will go over 300, not his one.

Photo shop for sure.
 
Let me clear up my previous post. I am not calling this pig a released animal. It was the original "hogzilla" I have my doubts about. This hog is definitely a wild European influenced boar. Now as to the weight, I assume this outfit used a scale but... Needless to say this is an impressive animal even with the out of perspective photography.
 
Dunno about reversion in "months", but I read long ago that three or four generations brings out the wildness for hair and tusks.
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Exactly right. No such thing as "reversion" in months, or even in a domestic pigs lifetime. It takes several generations to revert back to the physical characteristics that most benefit a hog living in the wild.

But, hogs ARE 'plastic' in their ability to RE-develop their physical make up, as required to survive in their environment.

Where I live (and in most of the South), just 30 yrs. ago...the bulk of 'Wild Hogs' were Piney Woods Rooters. The term (present day) has been bastardized to include ALL 'Feral Hogs" and I can tell you...present day 'ferals' look nothing like PWR's, nor act like them.

Unfortunately, true PWR's probably no longer exist (except in very remote areas of the South).

In our area (Deep East Texas), Piney Woods Rooters...were occasionally encountered...but were never in great numbers. There was NO mistaking one, both boars and sows had a head that looked like a Chrysler 727 transmission and a large, lean athletic body.

Their disposition...is what ultimately lead to their demise. A true PWR was unlikely to 'run' or even 'give way'. They would not necessarily attack you (unprovoked) but they weren't going to yield the way either.

The feral hogs that replaced them...learned very quickly to RUN at the sign of a significant threat...and as such have survived quite nicely.

Today's 'Feral Hog' is a far cry from any predecessor in terms of survival and the application of learned behavior.

For those of you who pursue these pests PLEASE do your best to kill them the very first try! Else.... they will learn from the encounter and only become that much harder to dispatch.
 
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Can you say canned hunt clubs?? Well that a the hunter moved 10 feet behind the hog. Is it 500 lbs?? Could be. I have seen some suwannee river guys gang up to catch 400lbers to sell to Suwannee River Hunting Preserve. Its a canned hunt club. They will fatten a hog up and from a cage release it for near by the hunter and he gets a shot at a "trophy", Some guys don't know the difference between a Russian stock hog and a bacon hog. Check out the site for a lower class of hunting.
They even have a 1086lb hog !! Sure they do, http://www.suwanneeriverranch.com/
 
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