I’ve broke the 400 lb mark 4 times and 550 maxed out the scale so can’t give accurate weight and that was once in dang near 20 yrs, I promise you if you ever reach down to try and leg a true 500+ pounder you’ll gain a new out look on what you deem big, easiest way to explain it is to go try and throw a baby hippo or rhino, just the shear strength alone is enough to make you turn your hat backwards, granted one of the 400+ was 1/4 tame blood and had been cut for 6 years living in beef and dairy cow country with an unlimited supply of feed every where they rambled, between feed wagons, silage pits, and grain fields they didn’t have to travel much at all, I’ve never caught an intact boar that broke 4+, have come close to it at 385 on the scale but haven’t hit it yet, one of the 4+ team was a huge sow, there’s very few places left around here where a hog can be left alone long enough to grow and die of old age, there’s still a few slipping and lurking here by the house but they are SMART, barely travel roads, hardly eat at deer feeders, they get a whiff of human scent they will up and leave, get on on and they head straight to where a groups of sows and shoats are everytime, I feel accomplished in what I’ve been able to breed up and their abilities at making something’s look easy, but there’s still a few that make me wna pull my hair out...
And this is one of those piney wood ghosts that can disappear in thin air and leave dang nice dogs look like they’re standing on their tails...
Agreed they are there but very very rare, not like most claim. The 405 lb boar we legged took 2 hands to hold the ankle and we could not flip it
