707 Lb NC Russian Boar

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Snyper

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We grow the hogs big, just like the bears:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/30/father-son-bag-charging-700-pound-hog-in-north-carolina/

You might have to go to Washington to find this much pork.

A father-and-son hunting team killed a 707.5-pound wild hog earlier this month deep in the mountains of North Carolina with a single shot. The North Carolina Sportsman reported that Bruce Florence and his son, Jonathan, were on the side of a mountain on Jan. 16 in Transylvania County when the two split up. Bruce sat down while Jonathan investigated a rustling in the brush.
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Shooter2675

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Wow you'd need something more than a .22 for that sucker. Some people I know have taken smaller hogs with rimfires but for that thing I would almost feel under gunned with my AR-15.

John
 
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Saltydog235

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Big hog but it isn't 700lbs big. Read a couple of different reports on that pig and they don't add up. For instance, two men aren't dragging a 700lb pig anywhere. It'll go 400 at most. No wild/feral pig in SC/NC is going to have the diet and nutrition to get that big. Sorry, I don't buy it.
 
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rickyrick

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Hmmm umm that's an unbelievably large wild pig... Musta found a good food source.

I guess those "Russian" pigs are bigger than "non-Russian" pigs hehehe
 
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JohnKSa

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Here's another picture

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And the article that it came from.

http://abc13.com/society/hunter-kills-707-pound-feral-hog/492886/

The article says the hog was 7' 4" long. Unless it's traditional to include the stretched out rear leg in the measurement, the guy standing beside the hanging hog in the picture must be really tall...

Assuming the guy in the picture isn't unusually tall, I'd say the length of the hog is overestimated by about 16" in the article.
 
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rickyrick

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Forced perspective in the left pic...

I call bs... It's a big pig, yes. But it's a fed pig. Canned hunt even maybe
 
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Scorch

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Maybe a canned hunt, and yes, it's forced perspective. It still looks like a 350-400 pounder, not a small hog by any means. But 707 pounds? I don't know . . . . Consider that the man standing next to the hog probably weighs 180 lbs, that hog would weigh about twice that. 700 lbs is the size of a steer.
 
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Snyper

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No wild/feral pig in SC/NC is going to have the diet and nutrition to get that big. Sorry, I don't buy it.
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http://texashuntfish.scout.com/story/1506608-father-and-son-take-down-707-pound-wild-hog

With the aid of other hunters, the Florences loaded their truck with the 7' 4" hog and took it back to their camp.

Unable to find a scale large enough to weigh the buffalo-sized beast, they took out the intestines and weighed them separately.

They measured a whopping 127 pounds. The following day the hunters were able to measure the carcass, which came in at 580 ½ pounds.
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Here's one from last year:
http://myfox8.com/2014/03/17/another-giant-boar-killed-in-eastern-north-carolina/

While the 500-pound wild boar killed in North Carolina may be gigantic, it’s not the largest one ever bagged by a hunter.

In 2005, a Georgia hunter killed an 800-pound wild boar known as “Hogzilla.” The animal measured close to 8 feet long.
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Another one last year:
http://wtkr.com/2014/03/17/another-giant-hog-killed-in-eastern-north-carolina/
Mar 17, 2014 · WAGRAM, N.C. – Another giant boar has been killed in eastern North Carolina. Terrell Harris killed the massive wild hog in Scotland County
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700 lbs is still 300 lbs short of the largest wild hog killed in the US
http://www.imediaethics.org/links/fox.htm
An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found. Jamison Stone's father says the hog his son killed weighed 1051 lbs
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thallub

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It is not a 707 pound wild hog. Probably around 350-400 pounds. The hog slayers are well behind the hog to make it look larger.

There are hogs that grew up in the wild and mature domestic hogs that were released into the wild, usually for propaganda purposes.
 
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Art Eatman

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Seems to me that there are so many arguments about "monster" hogs that it's not worth paying much attention to the stories. :) About like fishing stories.
 
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Old Stony

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burrhead....that is an interesting article, hard to argue with a live catch vs. a potential doctored photo. I don't know where the reporter got that bit about a month without limits on them though....never heard anything about limits before??
 
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Ibmikey

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My texas boar of last Sept was over twice my size (150 # 6'2") and it was all we could do to drag him to a rope To be dragged by the PU. He went down with a single 125 gr 300 Blackout.....whatever the actual weight of this hog it is certainly a nice trophy but why are they hauling that stinky thing around?
 
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Art Eatman

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Old Stony, that's a newsie's lack of knowledge.

In Texas, you can hunt feral hogs day or night, year around, on land or from the air. Whatever floats your boat. A basic hunting license is all that's needed, and not even that if you're on your own land.
 
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