Largest wild boar you've seen in person?

[Pork Popper]

Sure wish I would've had a good camera with me, more than a decade ago, while away on a fishing trip. This was in Navarro County. I decided to quit fishing early and go drive around the lake. By the time I made it past the dam, the sun was getting close to setting. So I just focused on making it back to the highway and headed home.

My windshield was heavily splattered with bug guts, but visibility was still ok through it. Up ahead I spotted something solid black and pretty good sized. I thought perhaps it was a stumpy cow or steer. But as I got closer it was obvious it was not in the bovine family. My brain had difficulty accepting what my eyes were seeing. This thing was absolutely humongous. To this date I've never seen another wild boar in person as big as that one.

It calmly strutted across the road and stepped over the old barbed wire fence and disappeared into the brush. There was an obvious well traveled trail there. I later told several friends about it and didn't want to sound as though my description was an exaggeration. I have no clue what that beast weighed. I've been around domestic hogs, but none equaled the porker seen that day. It had some pretty nice tusks on it. Made me glad to not be on foot right then. Would hate to meet up with one that big, unarmed and in the dark.. Never heard if anyone killed one in the area that big. One guy dispatched a smaller boar that got hung up in his brush guard while driving down the road at night.

 

[Brian Shaffer]

My windshield was heavily splattered with bug guts, but visibility was still ok through it. Up ahead I spotted something solid black and pretty good sized. I thought perhaps it was a stumpy cow or steer. But as I got closer it was obvious it was not in the bovine family. My brain had difficulty accepting what my eyes were seeing. This thing was absolutely humongous. To this date I've never seen another wild boar in person as big as that one.

It seems like whenever these giants turn up, they are released/escaped domestics. I can't think of a single cattle-sized hog that wasn't.

 

[FrankT]

Back in the 70's after coming home from Vietnam and getting out of the Service I helped some friends with a hog trapping and killing on their property and folks around them. The out skirts of San Antonio, Devine and Hondo, We killed a bunch of 400-600lb pigs. Looking back now I can easily say most were maybe a year out of the pen but some were 2-3 years wild. All were coming form hogs gotten loose, got too big or some free roaming stock lost to the owner. No doubt these were some of the breeder stock for our feral population today but not as feral as todays hogs.

Our lease 4-5 years ago took 2 400-500 pounders(they said 600 but no way), today there are no 300 lb hog feral I have seen on our property. The popularity of hog hunting has prevented the really big ones from getting that large anymore for the most part.

 

[Ratdog68]

There was this gal in a bar a few years back... but, she didn't have tusks. Heck, may've been toothless for all I know. I wasn't man enough to hang around.

 

[Afalex1]

Largest I've laid hands on was 305 pounds by tape. It was Lawman's pig number 1000 a couple years back. I have yet to kill one over 300 myself. I might of seen one bigger alive at about 100 yards, but it was through night vision and he was trotting, so size is very hard to determine.

 

[rgilbert]

The largest I have seen was at my place in Hallettsville. He only suck his head out of the brush at about 15 yards. Judging from the size of this monsters head he was well over 300. Never have seen him
again.

 

[rrv333]

My buddy and I were hunting in Seymour a few years back. We were driving the roads just looking around when we both saw him. He was standing in the trees looking in our direction. We were both in shock at the size of this hog. We couldn't believe it. When we stopped the truck, the hog swapped ends and made for the heavy brush. They don't get that big by being stupid. That hog was the "white whale of my nightmares" absolutely huge.

 

[RattlesnakeDan]

Biggest I ever saw was this one. Almost 300 lbs I think. 290 or something like that. This was my 3rd encounter with him. The first time, he waited for the shooting to be over and I caught him cutting across a meadow with no shot. Second time was almost the same thing, I shot 2 small ones and saw him running for cover across a different meadow with no shot. 3rd time is a charm because he screwed up. I had a hog down already and I came back to it a little later, the wind was swirling and he thought I was at the creek but I was in the meadow and he came out of the brush running straight at me. Just got lucky that time. Ranch owner said she had seen him for a few years but nobody had been able to get him. They get smart like an old buck.

 

[Brian Shaffer]

322 lbs

 

[RattlesnakeDan]

That hog is a hoss!

 

[ZenArchery]

High School #77 Ran right over me. Don't think I ever recovered.

 

[gshock]

I've shot a few that were 300 and over ... Last one I shot was well over 300 lbs, he was eating out of the cow feeder and we thought he was a cow. My friend and I watched him for 10 minutes trying to figure out if he was a hog or not ... we started yelling from a distance to see if he would spook but he kept eating and walking slowly like a cow. So we assumed cow ... then he started walking away from the feeder and turned broadside. Right then I could tell he was a big pig.

Shot him with an AR-10 and you could hear the THUMP and he started running but I saw him go down. We tried lifting him onto my friends small s-10 but no go ... so we tied him to the truck and hauled him back to the barn. He was a healthy boar, nice cutters and wasn't cut ... must of been munching on cow feed a lot.