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« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2010, 08:10:45 pm »

Caught a big Toothy boar south of Dallas on the Trinity River bottoms that we all agreed would go 450 plus

Caught a Huge Sow in town (McKinney TX) every bit of #350
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« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2010, 08:14:17 pm »

Ive probably only caught 5 hogs that have been over 250.
3 on one orange grove in hobe sound FL
2 sugarcane fields port mayaca FL
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« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2010, 08:22:56 pm »

385lb barr on scale with 4" of its snout still touching the floor.
caught on private ranch,  on a swamp edge surronded with thick palmettos.
food source would probably be lots of acorns, and everything else it could find.

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« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2010, 08:42:06 pm »

565 pounds, so large could not hardlly get hands around back legs above hooves to toss.  Gave up on rollng it and just stuck it standing up.  Catch dogs were two 35 lb game bred pitts, with one cur bay dog.  It did not have but 2" teeth. Caught coming from alfalfa and barley fields in open mowed field.  Recently, 355 pound Barr, big cutters 4"+, eating in abandoned soy bean field (rains ruined crop).  Killed 4 boars over 300 lbs in 2009, and all were much easier on the dogs than the 200 pounders by a wide margin. Still looking out for one we bayed twice last sprins with green dogs and lost it in flooded swamp, tracks so large you make a fist in the track and still see track all around your fist.
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« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2010, 08:57:11 pm »

peanut field on the red river
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« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2010, 07:16:09 am »

In the last 20 or so years around 15 boars 300+ with biggest at 335, he was the only one out of farm land. The rest came out of the hill country. Only 1 of those boars was killed behind a mostly hog proof fence.

Most of them were killed late spring to early fall, right in the hardest part of the year as a rule or late winter agian hard part of year.
I believe where I am these boars or forced to break thier habits when it gets hard and that is why they get caught.

When boars used to kill livestock up here all the time they never did it when the grass was green and the acrons were falling, they killed when it was hard and dry, but once they started they couldnt stop. I believe it still holds true with other parts of their lives and I will even go out on a limb here.................some are going to disagree but dont judge till you walk in the other mans shoes. After 35+ yrs of doing this in the hill country the thought that a hog has to water everyday and lives close to water is not true and the bigger the boar with the more fat content the less I think this is true, the same way with feeding. NOW I AM TALKING ABOUT WHERE I LIVE AND HUNT NO WHERE ELSE, I believe those ole big boars like Chris is talking about at times almost go in to a hibernation, hardly moving and when they do it is only cause they have to (i have reasons for this that i wont type here cuase it will make this to long to read). I also think that during this time when they decied to feed they know it will be worth the effort they put into it and replace the energy lost doing it, in other words an ole big boar isnt going to waist his time rooting up 3 acres looking for a handful of grubs that will not even fill him when he knows he can walk a mile and feed off a dead cow that could keep him filled for a couple of days.

Again this is where I live and hunt, we dont have the fields, feed lots, woods and things most of the rest of the state has. Is there a defference from region to region? Yes for sure, not only in size but habits, life style, diet and many other things.
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« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2010, 07:29:47 am »

Jay, that makes sense. It just amazes me, the few times i've been out to the Hill Country, that hogs can even live out there.
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« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2010, 07:18:04 pm »

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« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2010, 04:40:07 pm »

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You are dead right.  Many scientists declare hogs need water 2 x day and have no sweat glands and need water to cool and all that.  They are tougher then most realize.  I knew a guy that went away on vacation and left two 20 pound wildhogs from south teaxs brush land (about an 2-3 hour or so drive south of Victoria, almost to Mexico, in a pen raised off the ground on a wooden platform.  He forgot to leave them water.  Two weeks later he got home, it has not rained, and they were alive.  Plus he hardly fed them for the first year.    his dogs killed one.  I figured the one left  was stunted in its growth.  It is now near 300 lbs and fat as they get.

Very few boars become predators, but as you state, they become serial killers.  The Calif. ranchesr would dig a large trench with a dozer than drag dead cattle to the pit with trucks, etc.  They did not fire up the dozer to bury them one at a time, but waited until they had a bunch of dead cows in the pit.   In the dry season as you describe, the hogs would hollow out the cows and would come bustin out from inside them with mouths full of maggots.  Nothing better than catching a  maggot mouth  boar eh?
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« Reply #29 on: January 08, 2010, 03:37:03 am »

got one with my dad years ago .  was a monster and was probably just feedin on wheat fields and out in the forest .  the biggest i got by myself was at the same spot and would eat the same stuff i would say
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« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2010, 12:42:21 pm »

1. july 4th wheat stuble next to slick hills 365 3 1/2inch teeth built like a supersized 200# fighter probaly from living in those rough ass hills, my cousin shot the hog 5yrs before we caught em nocked em down with 06 then got up and ran off found .30 caliber bullet in shield when caping                                        2 a month ago 331 on the scales fat as hell 2 inch teeth caught with to curs and one 50# pit couldnt even get the one med size larry paris hoble on correctly mostly pecan bottoms hayfields and some grain      dont usually weigh anything these were just extrodinary in size and as someone else said I dont know what I would do with anything any bigger (both hogs were caught alive) im 6"3 230 fairly stout mybuddy is 5"10 250 and stout as a OX and his brother is 6"2 185 and stout and was a choir  to get down ( sorry I talk so much)
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« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2010, 09:18:58 pm »

1. 450 lb barr hog-pearl river swamp-acorns and deer feeders-was so old his teeth came out curved and grew back into his head about an inch overall tusk lenght was close to six inches
2. 415 lb barr-piney wood land-deer feeders and some cattle farms-bout 4 inch teeth
3. 375 lb barr-not to familiar with the terrain other than big pine plantation was the first and only time i ever hunted it-bout 3 in teeth
4. 350 lb boar-real dog wrecker-dairy farm-bout 3 1/2 teeth
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« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2010, 03:08:05 pm »

As far as body size my largest hog consistantly come from land that has hardwoods bordered by agricultural fields.
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