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March 3, 2013, 08:16 PM | #1 |
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Question for experienced feral hog hunters
Can you all estimate how much the sounder's boar may weigh from my video? Thank you.
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March 3, 2013, 09:37 PM | #2 |
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Hard to tell. I'd say 250 tops. Bye the way, boars don't really have family groups. A breeding age boar is a solitary roamer that will range far and wide in search of a full belly and a ripe sow. It's dominant sows that lead sounders.
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March 3, 2013, 11:33 PM | #3 |
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Yes, I see the boar with them sometimes, but I think it's the brown and yellow sow that is in charge of this sounder. Is 250 the usual size for boars who are looking for sows, as opposed to the smaller, loner boars? You hear about 350, 400 pounds and up, and I'm pretty sure we've never had one that big. Though we did have a pretty gnarly one a couple of years ago -- had like a ridge down his back, and his hair was hanging off in places, and he was big!
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March 4, 2013, 12:52 AM | #4 |
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I'm no expert,But I shot 2 last weekend real close to the same size they were 185LB. & 202LB. like I said just a guess.
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March 4, 2013, 04:46 PM | #6 |
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300-400lb hogs are killed every year on our club and it is pine forests and swamps. They have about 10,000 acres of club lands they travel on eating food plots, corn and natural browse. Granted most are a product of breeding with escaped domestics but many have that "Eurasian" look to them. Average sizes are typically 150-250lbs but there are quite a few bruisers in there. I think it depends on where you hunt as to the sizes you may encounter.
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Do you get to Plant city much? With all the strawberry and veggie fields they get that big on a regular basis. |
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March 4, 2013, 10:53 PM | #8 |
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I couldn't tell, I got motion sickness trying to watch it!
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180 lbs +/- video shake and scale. It's bulk says 150 min, but don't think it's 220.
(And where did a "sounder" of pigs come from vs. calling it a herd?)
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Sorry about all the shake! It was so windy that even when I braced against a tree, I couldn't hold the camera steady. I got a lot of great footage that day, but it all came out jumpy.
TXAZ, I don't know where 'sounder' came from, that's just what it's called here in Texas. Maybe it's called something else in other parts? Here is one of my favorite videos, and it wasn't windy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3Evwl85_U |
March 5, 2013, 12:08 AM | #11 |
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Wow JPP
If that first litter of ferals didn't sum up the problem I don't know what does. Thanks.
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A group of cattle is a herd, a group of crows is a murder, a group of ducks is a flock, and a group of pigs is a sounder.
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And a group of monkeys is called a "congress"... How very fitting...
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Just watched the vid...
Pretty good size hog... 150-200 or a bit more... By the color variants in the sucklers and weaners it shows plenty of domestic blood in that group... Brent |
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a group of lions is called a pride
you forgot that one. a murder of crows sounds very POEtic |
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Monkeys-Congress. Lol. A lot of times around here and everywhere I'm sure along with ferals people bring in Russian boars and turn loose and they also breed with domestic pigs also. And all mixtures get real large. That's part of the fun, breed them big and chase with dogs. And before you know it , it gets way out of hand very quickly.
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