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Had a great hunt today and took a feral sow weighing 500-600 pounds.
Without livestock scales, the weight was estimated based upon comparison with hogs taken by other hunters which weighed 150, 250, and 300 pounds; Hogzilla dwarfed them all! Lots of breakfast sausage soon.
According to the rancher, thee is a twin sister still out in the woods where this one had lived for 5+ years.
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Sixgun wrote:5-600 hundred pounds???? Those things get that big? Dang, I'd think I'd be afraid to sleep in a tent down there.---6
I almost shot a 475 pound pig, but it was a domestic one we had that escaped and was about to go play in traffic, and we didn't want her to cause a wreck. A bucket of corn later, she was back in the trailer, and off to the butcher. We're talking LOTS of meat....!
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I shot one years ago,222 lbs of meat! Best bacon I've ever had!
Aunt & Uncle had a breeding sow that got long in the tooth, decided to take it to butcher. Went around a turn and it fell out of trailer. Broke its hips. They shot it right there in town, winched it back on trailer and off they went.
Jerry,
Nothing special, just my old pre 64 Model 70 Featherweight .308 with 150 grain Hornady Interlok bullet.
Under cover of a line of cedars, we were able to stalk with 50 yards for a downhill shot that went through the upper shoulder and broke the spine. Dispatch was with a .45 auto..
PS this was my first hunt since an eye operation last fall, and was great to get a shot at a big target!
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That sounds like a good time!! with Blaine on that one, its a bucket list hunt for me!
they are tuff for sure as I ran over one with a 6 axel log truck & she managed to squeeze
under them all & get up & run off, the owner came out & shot her & took her to the butcher
shop & said later that nothing was broken on her, she was bout 400 lbs & running down the road
just a bit slower than I was going
marlinman93 wrote:Wow! That's a big old hog! Something I want to try some day also, but need to travel as no hogs in Oregon beyond pig pens.
MM , my old bear hunting buddy claimed there are/were feral hogs in parts of eastern OR.
He had a friend who used to hunt them from horseback with hounds. Just one of the things we allways planned to do but never got around to. These were feral hogs not the wild pigs like they have in the south ,they were at one time domestic ,many generations back.
Jerry,
No, was hunting with some local buddies.
Joe lives 500 miles south now, or he would have been with us.
We are trying to arrange an exotic hunt soon down in his new territory.
THAT DARN EYE OPERATION CANCELLED MY ENTIRE DEER SEASON!
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marlinman93 wrote:Wow! That's a big old hog! Something I want to try some day also, but need to travel as no hogs in Oregon beyond pig pens.
MM , my old bear hunting buddy claimed there are/were feral hogs in parts of eastern OR.
He had a friend who used to hunt them from horseback with hounds. Just one of the things we allways planned to do but never got around to. These were feral hogs not the wild pigs like they have in the south ,they were at one time domestic ,many generations back.
There are feral hogs in the Olympics from when the timber camps closed, and let them loose. I've tried to find them (no season, or license needed) and I've seen where they've torn up ground, but they are nearly impossible to find in the daytime....
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Nothing special, just my old pre 64 Model 70 Featherweight .308 with 150 grain Hornady Interlok bullet.
Under cover of a line of cedars, we were able to stalk with 50 yards for a downhill shot that went through the upper shoulder and broke the spine. Dispatch was with a .45 auto.
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I remember my first pig, not anywhere as big as that one but the 22 lbs of bacon was best I've ever had! And the spare ribs oh man were they good!! Only thing better is a nice young cow elk in the freezer!
GunnyMack wrote:I remember my first pig, not anywhere as big as that one but the 22 lbs of bacon was best I've ever had! And the spare ribs oh man were they good!! Only thing better is a nice young cow elk in the freezer!
Agreed!
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Fred,
You are welcome to drop by for a visit and a roll of breakfast sausage; it should be ready next week.
Ricky and Joe will drop by when convenient also.
Same goes for any other Levergunners in the area, like Griff, Vance, etc.
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It'll be a few weeks before I get back home... I'm doin' a round trip run from Charleston to Spokane, No. Texas is a bit "out-of-route" for me... I'm going to try to stick this out for two more rounds, then head home for a week... Then back to this for a couple weeks, at the end of April I've got a Ship's Reunion. It'll be 44 years since I've seen any of these guys.
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No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
twobit,
Shhhh - do not tell anyone, but that hog came from The Boars nest in OK just north of the border. The key is hunting areas near the Red River drainage as the Red has many "YUGE" hogs living in the the bottom land and feeding on adjacent crop fields.
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That is one big hog, very cool thanks for showing it.
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Wish we had those up here instead of the stuff everywhere turkey`s they planted in this area that don`t have enough meat on them worth shootin.
Something other than deer would be fun.
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