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240 Lb Boar
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09/18/15 10:30 PM
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der Teufel
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Whew! This was by far the largest hog I've shot while hunting solo. If I had not had my hand truck, he'd have stayed out in the field as coyote and buzzard food. As it was, I had to haul it over 300 yards on the hand truck up and down a bit of a rise, and I stopped three times to catch my breath. Once I got it on the truck, I made sure it was well up onto the truck bed. I did NOT want to have to load it again if it bounced off! Just before sundown on Tuesday, 15 September, I was looking over a field that had some cattle spread out in it, and off in the distance I saw what looked like several hogs come out of the woods maybe a half mile away. I started hiking that direction, going down a hill and through some trees so that I lost sight of them for several minutes. When I made it to the top of a small rise in the pasture, I saw only cows, and thought that perhaps what I had seen were really cattle on the other side of a rise, only partially visible through the weeds. I figured that as long as I had moved locations, I might as well stay there for a while and see what developed. As I scanned the field minutes later, I saw two very large hogs to my left. The closer one was maybe 125 yards away, the second on perhaps 50 yards further out. I looked through my binoculars and my rifle scope for over a minute to be certain I wasn't looking at a calf or a cow because they were so big! As I've mentioned before, I'm maybe an average shot but I get lucky now and then. I aimed for the shoulder, but hit a little lower than planned. The bullet hit low in the right shoulder, breaking the leg just above the 'knee' joint and then entering the body too low to do significant damage. The hog went down, but after thrashing for maybe five seconds it got back up and took off at a pretty impressive gallop for having only three good legs. It was running across in front of me from right to left, so I waited until it got to it's closest distance from me, which was roughly 100 yards, and shot again. I didn't lead it nearly enough and the bullet hit the left hindquarter, breaking the hip. With two legs broken it ran no more, but managed to get back to a sitting position. My third shot hit it directly behind the left eye and put it down for good. As I walked up to it I was a bit amazed to see how large it really was. We've taken several hogs on this property that weighed 200 pounds or more, but it's not common. Here you can see the heart girth was just over 44 inches, indicating a weight of around 240 pounds. It looks like I'm really pulling the tape tight, but that's really just showing the shoulder muscle definition this guy had. I would not have wanted to tangle with him Mano a Mano . . . This last photo shows him hanging. His nose is about six inches off the ground, and his hind legs are about six and a half feet in the air. A hog this size can certainly do a lot of damage, and we're glad to have him removed from the property. This guy's final act will be to go through the grinder and end up as ground meat and sausage.
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5935362
09/18/15 11:03 PM
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Joined: May 2011
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Double Naught Spy
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Ah, he looks sleepy! Good job!
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5935367
09/18/15 11:07 PM
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texassippi
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Nice sized hog. Good job!
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5935542
09/19/15 01:11 AM
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Lance Vick
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Congrats trophy hog ,great story
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5935759
09/19/15 03:44 AM
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customcutter
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Good write up, glad you got him!
God Bless
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5935838
09/19/15 09:50 AM
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Jhop
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That's a big hog to handle by yourself. I think I'd just drug him to the edge of the field and donanted him to nature.
Retired U. S. Army, which means I still have to work to make a living.
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5936688
09/20/15 01:26 AM
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flintknapper
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That's a great hog!
Nice cutters on him too.
Most folks don't realize that ANY hog over 200 lbs is a pretty big animal. Where I live.. Boars between 200 and 300 lbs. (at maturity) are fairly common, but we have excellent habitat. For your area that is an exceptional specimen. They are handful to load by yourself, huh?
Good Job! Now just 2 million more to go.
Flint
Spartans ask not...how many, but where!
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5937166
09/20/15 02:49 PM
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Freeman
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I swear I saw that pig on the west side of FM 932 last week when I was passing through south Purmela!
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: DrifterAT]
#5938219
09/21/15 02:10 AM
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SnakeWrangler
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Nice hog
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: SnakeWrangler]
#5938815
09/21/15 02:45 PM
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skinnerback
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Nice hog
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5948102
09/27/15 12:38 AM
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nak
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Great Kill...now go find more
We all need to practice Whoa more.
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5948241
09/27/15 02:14 AM
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Ramsey
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Big Beckett!!
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Re: 240 Lb Boar
[Re: der Teufel]
#5956679
10/01/15 10:48 PM
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scottfromdallas
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Nice hog. I love that tape measure trick. Such an easy way to get close on weight.
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