Thats a HOG

[Thomas]

Those are one tough brave fellows.

Hunters bag, tie 790-pound “BoarZilla” hog | The Flash Today: News & Sports - Always Free, Always Local

Rest or the story.

Hunters bag, tie 790-pound “BoarZilla” hog | The Flash Today: News & Sports - Always Free, Always Local

 

[bullbreaker]

Neat story with a lot of detail. Thanks for postin it .

 

[drssg]

Interesting. I've never heard of people trying to capture live hogs. Is that common?

 

[Soundguy]

Places like Florida and Texas have problems with feral hogs destroying land. At least in Florida, not sure on Texas, you can hunt hog year round on private property, no hunting license needed.

Alternately, you can trip them, then pen raise them, worm them, fatten them up a bit and fill the freezer on the cheap.

I know many that do this, and have helped. I used to have a hog pen mover contraption I built for my tractor front end loader, have moved many hogs that way. I'll see if I still have pics.

http://www.tractorshed.com/gallery/tphotos/a121133.jpg

 

[texasjohn]

Great story. I admire the two fellows who wrestled it to the ground and tied it up, etc.... That actually takes some significant skill. And apparently nobody got hurt, which is a clear possibility with those teeth. In the end, a fellow proved it was his hog which had escaped his small place. Under similar conditions, I would have shot it, no way at 72 could I have wrestled it to the ground and tied it up. And, that is one GOOD catch dog!!

 

[drssg]

Places like Florida and Texas have problems with feral hogs destroying land. At least in Florida, not sure on Texas, you can hunt hog year round on private property, no hunting license needed.

Alternately, you can trip them, then pen raise them, worm them, fatten them up a bit and fill the freezer on the cheap.

I know many that do this, and have helped. I used to have a hog pen mover contraption I built for my tractor front end loader, have moved many hogs that way. I'll see if I still have pics.

http://www.tractorshed.com/gallery/tphotos/a121133.jpg

Wow! That may fill up a freezer on the cheap, but I think I'll pass. I'm not ashamed to admit that fighting a 700lb hog for my dinner is beyond me.

That is a neat pen mover contraption you built!

 

[HCJtractor]

Those guys are crazy! I would want a bullet in its head before I would grab his leg!!!

 

[texasjohn]

Those guys are crazy! I would want a bullet in its head before I would grab his leg!!!

Hey, the first fellow, the football player weighing in at 240 something lbs, said the TAIL was all he could hold on to until his buddy arrived, couldn't hang on to the leg! Took the two of them something like 15 minutes to get it turned on it's side! :shocked:ig:

I agree, I'd not try to take it alive...and, would REALLY, REALLY be careful about bullet placement with my .223 semiautomatic...I think it might even take a couple of shots to make sure it is down.

Of course, the rest of the story is that it actually belongs to somebody else, having escaped from it's enclosure. So the judge is allowing the fellows to charge the owner something over $700 for its capture and feed bill.

Yes, in Texas, feral hogs are varmints and can be hunted year round, night or day. Very damaging to everything wherever they are.

 

[roadhunter]

This whole thing just seem stupid and made up to me. Wrestling domestic animals is nothing special and that animals was clearly being fed to get that large.

My guess this was all staged from the huge domestic pig that supposedly nobody had ever seen to the overalls and no shirt outfit the guy was sporting in the pics. Just a way for a couple of Texans to get some attention and return the pig to it's rightful owner who had been feeding it to get that large.

I could put on some overalls after work and walk out and rope a heifer and wrestle it to the ground and it wouldn't be much different than this. It's simply not a wild animal.

 

[texasjohn]

roadhunter, I understand that is how you feel, and you are entitled to your opinion.

Having read both newspaper reports, my opinion includes:
Stupid...yes, for me, but not for two guys who have that much experience catching hogs with dogs, as a team.
made up...being a hunter myself, the details of the account are very believeable, as are the photos and weigh tape
wrestling a 790 lb hog and tying it up is a unique feat, anywhere it might be done, pasture or pen
while rare, a hog in the wild CAN get that large. The genetics are there from escaped domestic hogs and Russian boar stock
For it to be staged, the two guys, the County Commissioner, hog owner, and Justice of the Peace, newspapers and Texas Parks and Wildlife would all have to be in on it.
On the day of the catch, the weather WAS warm and overalls sans shirt are used in rural Texas, sold at TSC and other stores.
I would like to see photos of a 800 lb bull, not halter broken, which you roped, in the pasture, single handedly and hog tied it without other equipment. The rope is a more immobilizing assistive device than a dog.
Agreed, it was not a "wild animal," not having been born in the wild, but that doesn't mean it wasn't feral or dangerous...hogs do have teeth and try to use them when cornered.