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Title: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: ChanceandAnita on March 19, 2014, 03:00:02 pm Recently I lost a dog to a hog while hunting, he was crushed.. This hog crosses our place from time to time, yesterday we took our Yella dogs
(http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/t532/ChanceandAnita/2B82EB54-6060-4FC5-9DE0-08F67FC0A494-5350-000004391CD61801_zps2328ad02.jpg) out to see if we could get on him. But Big Foot had already come though several days ahead of us, I took these pic of his prints , wish I would have put something in the pic for a better size reference .. How big u think it might be? (http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/t532/ChanceandAnita/13BE0CAD-FCFA-4FCF-B215-E9CAC744973C-6288-0000055F2EB00ADB_zps7b4d567a.jpg) (http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/t532/ChanceandAnita/5AE9C0B9-A333-433E-A30A-82C69BA18CA7-6288-0000055F3DCBECBB_zpsa1622c8d.jpg) Title: Re: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: BA-IV on March 19, 2014, 03:18:00 pm It's hard to tell without anything to reference to. I'd guess that hog to be 230-240.
Title: Re: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: Shotgun wg on March 19, 2014, 08:19:31 pm Put a coke can in his track. If the track sticks out slightly around can I say 270 on a boar. If it is like this one ur guess is as good as mine. Haven't caught him yet. (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/20/uha6evym.jpg)
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/20/qugedyve.jpg) (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/20/re2y8a5e.jpg) Shotgun Arkansas Title: Re: Post by: Purebreedcolt on March 19, 2014, 08:47:59 pm O have caught a couple 180 ish boars with some big feet and legs I have surmised they are like people some big footed some not I look more at the depth vs soil aspect
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I547 using Tapatalk Title: Re: Post by: KevinN on March 20, 2014, 08:10:31 am O have caught a couple 180 ish boars with some big feet and legs I have surmised they are like people some big footed some not I look more at the depth vs soil aspect Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I547 using Tapatalk Yessir.....that's a fact. In that one pic the dew claws seem to be real wide...could mean a thick legged (good blooded) hog. Which....COULD mean he carries some weight. Really hard to say. Title: Re: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: ChanceandAnita on March 20, 2014, 08:35:54 am Next time I go out there, I will use something in the pic for size... I believe this is a Barr hog (educated hog to dogs) from how it behaved or an really old boar that's been around. Why I say that is because it lets the dogs bay up till it hears us then busts the bay to run. We are gonna have to change up our hunting game to catch this one. Or does anyone have any ideas that might work.. I don't want to run a CD loose so it would be hung up on him being that this pig already killed a dog.
Title: Re: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: barlow on March 20, 2014, 11:27:56 am Bob Owens and I hunted a 2500 acre, high fence ranch about 5 or 6 years ago. It didn't always produce a lot of hogs but it was well roaded and a fun place to hunt . . and the caretaker would let us know when and where he was seeing the most hog sign. One particular time we came upon the trail of a hog so big that the tracks alone would have weighed 40 pounds apiece. So we put down the best dogs we had and . . . nothing. Apparently the tracks were old and the sorry dogs couldn't smell em. So we moved to another section and spotted the same tracks, only more recent! But again the dogs shied away. We kept trying and kept trying to put dogs down but each time they'd play dumb or just sull up and refuse working these giant hoofprints. It was disappointing to say the least. We were already coming up with nicknames for the record holder who belonged to these mud craters . . like Porkenstein, or maybe PIGoliath. I was about to start beating my dogs as I was becoming convinced they were just too chicken to run any animal who left a hole in the earth this large. Eventually we turned loose one last time but the dogs left out trailing our behemoth of bacon only to come up bayed on a much smaller specimen of 150 pounds or so. So we disgustedly packed it in and headed for the house.
When exiting the ranch's main gate Bob stopped to talk to the ranch manager. He told him of our small hog but apologetically offered that we were unable to catch the beast who could tip over windmills with his backscratching. And then the guy explains . . . "Oh, no. That's a bull elk from a neighboring property. He keeps jumping the fence and coming over here to graze." Maybe those looks of fear on the faces of our dogs were because they thought we were trying to entrap them in yet another e-collar round of trash breaking. Smart dogs. Dumb hunters. Title: Re: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 20, 2014, 12:32:32 pm I had the same experience on a red stag track once, but I put down a pup who's give a dang was broken.. Whoops. :o
Title: Re: Any idea's how big this hog could be Post by: ChanceandAnita on March 30, 2014, 11:22:07 am Got that size reference
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