Biggest hogs you've ever caught?

[Circle C]

I've been thinking about some of the pictures of large hogs that I see caught, and how diverse the terrain seems to be. So I thought I would put up a poll to see what type of land produces the largest hogs for y'all.

The four heaviest hogs that I have ever caught were in the following areas.

#1. Grain field - Corn, about ready to harvest - early summer
#2. Grain field - Corn, already harvested, and plowed under - late fall
#3. Grain field - Corn, same field as #1, almost a year later to the day.
#4. Feed lot - bunk feeders full of grain.

So, where have you caught your largest hogs, and what would you assume their feed source to be?

[Mike]

Piney woods of East Texas... barr hogs!

[craig]

#1 dint get a weight but bigger than #2 ,Barr rough mountians, acorns, deer feeders,fall of year
#2 425lbs , Boar corn field, sept.. corn ready to harvest
#3  376 lbs, Boar corn field, sept. one year later not 50 yrds from #2 hog.

these are the top 3.

[olde sarge]

Trinity River bottoms below Livingston dam. Oak, River cane and 50% or so hay fields. Tons of deer feeders spread all over.    John

[dabutcher]

only big hog i've caught was about 320lbs on a wheat field with rice just up the road.  everything else has been pretty normal size 200-250lbs for a big one.

[Circle C]

Mike,

   The biggest barrs you have caught out there, do you think there was any supplemental feed?   corn feeders, rice slurry, other grains?  or do you think it was just naturally available food sources?

[craig]

i thought i would go back and ad weights to make this a little more interesting..      

[elliscountyhog]

#1 Sow winter wheat within city limits and no pressure to move very far just eat and sleep, the boar/barr with her was bigger but didnt catch him, back in the no catch dog days 350lb scale maxed out not sure what she wieghed.
#2 Boar oak bottom and stayed in one large block of timber
#3Corn and wheat with txhoghunter
#4 Toss up between about 5 or 6 hogs in corn/wheat fields

[Monteria]

250 to 300 (on the scale) is a damn big pig here in the hills. We do catch quite a few 250s which I would assume are on wild forage and deer feeders, but not many that push 300. It seems like all of the pigs we catch over 300lb come from game ranches or cattle ranches that feed protein. Our biggest, that we have actually run across the scales, was 347 and he was caught with his head in a protein deer feeder.

Steve

[BarrNinja]

#1 East Tx Piney Woods (Major Creek bottom)
#2 Tx Post oak savanna (River Bottom)
#3 Tx Post oak savanna (Cattle Country about 1.5 miles from river bottom).

Ive hunted corn fields in Millican Tx a few times but thats about it. Those few times were a blast though! Huge tracks everywhere but our biggest hog out of a half dozen hunts was around 225 lbs. There was much bigger there but we never ran them.

River and major creek bottoms produce the biggest hogs for me because of the obvious. Thats what I mostly hunt.

[slimhogdog]

Well we aint got any grain fields (unfortunately) around where im at in the swamp but we get some bigguns down in the deep swamp and marshes in South LA. biggest was a 355lb boar. All natural feed i guess

[Pecos21]

325 lbs (confirmed)- River Ranch, FL in a palmetto head
407 lbs (confirmed)- River ranch, FL in a myrtle thicket
400 lbs +/- Van Zandt County, TX in a pasture
several between 250-300 lbs Kaufman County/ Van Zandt County, TX in pasture/bottoms

[TexasHogDogs]

In 1998 Milam County a 419 lb boar in a creek bottom with grain feilds on every side of it .  Have never even come close to another one that size. Lots of 250 to 300 but none like that.

[duece24]

biggest i got was 325+ and it was next to a property where a lady didn't want us hog hunting on. she fed the pigs corn daily. this one ventured off the property at the wrong time and we got him.

[Mike]

Mike,

   The biggest barrs you have caught out there, do you think there was any supplemental feed?   corn feeders, rice slurry, other grains?  or do you think it was just naturally available food sources?

Some were and some weren't. The ones that were ate a steady diet of rice slurry that the rancher dumped to his cattle... we caught a couple of big sows out there also that would give those barrs a run for their money weight wise. Never weighed most of them, but the biggest confirmed was 385 lbs gutted... I would guess around 450 or better on the hoof?

[ETHHunters]

Ours all come from either the Sabine River bottoms or the pine thickets of east Texas. Biggest one we ever caught bottomed out a set of scales that went up to 350# so dont know exactly what he weighed but they feed alot of protein for the deer on that place. Everywhere else is just acorns corn, and whatever they can root up.

[BLUE LACY]

#1 west texas rocky hills, cedars,the hog had been around feeders
#2 river bottom, wheat fields thick cover

[BugBuster]

Our official biggest was 365 lbs weighed on DNR scales.  This was a big spotted boar hog with 4 inch cutters.  He came out of swamp and marshland not far off of the SC coast.  He cut up two bay dogs, one catch dog and bit the antenae off of a garmin collar.

[de_moon]

Lived on a chicken farm once upon a time.  A BIG chicken farm.  We fed 2 million chickens & all that feed was sifted and filtered before being run into the houses.  There was always lots of chicken feed and even whole corn that didn't get ground up that we had to dumb at the back of the chicken ranch.  Caught a barr hog a couple of hundred yards from where we dumbed the chicken feed.  Not sure how big he was, but the biggest I ever caught.  I'd say 350+, but he may be 400 by the next time I tell this story???  

[Txhoghunter]

Biggest i ever caught and ran across scales was last year at my deer lease. He was 289 lbs. I dont think I want anything to do with a hog any bigger, he was plenty. Mostly hay meadows with some corn, wheat and soybeans around the area I caught him. Caught several in the 260-275 range, mostly from cattle pastures.