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 Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
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08/04/14 07:34 PM
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This weekend I got to talking hog hunting with some guys at a bar in Austin and we started showing pics back and forth of hogs we had shot and we started shooting numbers back and forth of what we thought this guy weighed; this pig isn't even half the size of the largest one I had seen killed in the area but I have always wondered what it weighed.....Your thoughts? This is me working on the feeder and I'm 6'3" and at the time 295lbs.  Here is the hog by the feeder; notice where his back is compared to the cross member on the feeder, which is just about even with my belt.   I had been trying to get him and thought he went nocturnal, so I took my 22-250 with me to take out some coyotes that had been hanging around and murphy's law came into play and he showed up and soaked up 22-250 soft points like they were bee stings and fell of in a creek where I put 1 more in him to finish him off. - That's a Ruger M77 laid across him for scale.  Couldn't get him out of the creek, so I tied bailing wire around his snout just behind the tusks and couple months later I had this; put the hat next to it for scale and I wear a 7 6/8" hat. 
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/04/14 07:42 PM
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1riot1ranger
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I think most people over-estimate hog weights. Based on a 270# recently shot off my place I'm guessing that one betwen 250-300 till I looked at the rifle and cap pictures. Now I'm guessing more 225-250.
Last edited by 1riot1ranger; 08/04/14 07:43 PM.
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/04/14 07:44 PM
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Doesn't look like the same hog to me.
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: redchevy]
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08/04/14 07:55 PM
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Doesn't look like the same hog to me. agree
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
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08/04/14 08:03 PM
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ChaseNTheHunt
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Doesn't look like the same hog to me. agree +1
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/04/14 08:19 PM
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Yankee, is that you? that RPMX hat is a dead give away. I always prefer FCS to do my dirt work.
You should give some serious thought to thanking your lucky stars your from Texas.
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/04/14 08:26 PM
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/04/14 08:27 PM
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Did the one you kill have his manhood?
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: ChaseNTheHunt]
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08/04/14 08:53 PM
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Doesn't look like the same hog to me. agree +1 +1 more and "soaked up 22/250 sp like bee stings" sounds like a good argument for a bigger gun. BUT if you had ear holed him the first time he would have only soaked up 1 round.
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/04/14 09:11 PM
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Pig in the game cam pic's is a solid 250lbs.
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
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08/04/14 10:31 PM
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Pig in the game cam pic's is a solid 250lbs. Yep its a fat boy!
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
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08/05/14 12:54 AM
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Doesn't look like the same hog to me. agree +1 +1 more and "soaked up 22/250 sp like bee stings" sounds like a good argument for a bigger gun. BUT if you had ear holed him the first time he would have only soaked up 1 round. I hear yah, I was really wanting my .270 when he walked out; and with his head behind a tree and acting skidish I wasn't gonna give him the chance to run off. This guy or another hog that looks a lot like him turned my feeder over twice. 
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Re: Hog Weight Guesstimate? - Your thoughts
[Re: deewayne2003]
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08/05/14 04:22 AM
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