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Doc Jones
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« on: February 06, 2012, 03:32:03 pm »

woke up on sunday morning around 8 and got the dogs and the gear loaded up and headed out, we started out at the back of our property and headed east, we walked for about an hour and a half and loaded up and went to a place we call horse shoe road, we started in and after about 20 minutes of hunting smoky let out a howl and we knew we had a hog, she was bedded down about 15 yards from the creek bank. she was bred and had 6 piglets still inside she was bedded down ready to have them.



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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2012, 03:55:12 pm »

Lot of pork there Wink
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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2012, 04:13:37 pm »

Very nice hunt and pics fellows.  She'll eat good on the table for sure.   Grin

I did want to let you know however, that she is not close to 300 pounds.  She's a great catch, but 300 #'s, she is not.  A 300 # hog fills the tailgate and then some.  Keep catching hogs of her quality, and you will have a very nice year.  Keep up the great work. 
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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2012, 04:22:20 pm »

unless my scale is way way off she weighed 298 pounds before we gutted her, she had six piglets in her. so if my scale is off that much please buy me a good one!
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2012, 04:39:12 pm »

Very nice hunt and pics fellows.  She'll eat good on the table for sure.   Grin

I did want to let you know however, that she is not close to 300 pounds.  She's a great catch, but 300 #'s, she is not.  A 300 # hog fills the tailgate and then some.  Keep catching hogs of her quality, and you will have a very nice year.  Keep up the great work. 

Ill second that. And it's hard to say something like that without coming off as rude. Think cutter did a good job of it.
Sorry doc but the sow looks more like 175. Just think if you wouldnt have killed her, there would be 6 more hogs you could have caught next year Grin
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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2012, 04:41:33 pm »

im not really worried about coming off rude, all im saying is i know what she weighed and you dont! not meaning to be rude, but i do appriciate yalls opinions.
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2012, 04:46:06 pm »

dam nice hog doc, i dont worry about the wieght. like them yeller dogs
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2012, 04:48:23 pm »

thanks bennet smokey is my buddies strike dog, we were real proud of him
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2012, 06:55:18 pm »

Doc,
There are a lot of people on this site that over estimate the weight of thier hogs. Most, like yourself have at some point utilized an uncalibrated scale.  To help your ability to judge future catches, play around with your scale.  If you have access to 45# Olympic weights, they will work great. A gallon of water is also a great way to see if it is accurate.

It is very similar to watching Bill Dance fish on TV. In truth, there is a very big difference in a true 10# bass versus a 6.5 # bass that Bill says is 10 #'s.  I simply was letting you know that a true 300 pound hog is much bigger. It is awefully embarrassing, and makes people come off as rookies when in the presence of a person that judges them accurately.  It can be perceived wrong, and credibility can be lost. I was simply trying to help.
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2012, 07:13:23 pm »

Hey Cutter Bay... how much do you think this little sow weighs? She's on the back of a Honda Rancher... the rack isn't very wide.

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« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2012, 07:15:04 pm »

im not really worried about coming off rude, all im saying is i know what she weighed and you dont! not meaning to be rude, but i do appriciate yalls opinions.


Look I was just giving you another experienced opinion. It takes one heckuva hog to make 300.
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2012, 07:17:06 pm »

Hey Cutter Bay... how much do you think this little sow weighs? She's on the back of a Honda Rancher... the rack isn't very wide.



Hey mike I would like to see a close up of how you ran that extension back off the ball and up to the rack on a solid axle rear end.
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« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2012, 07:21:38 pm »

Hey Cutter Bay... how much do you think this little sow weighs? She's on the back of a Honda Rancher... the rack isn't very wide.



Don't know Mike. It is hard to judge in that one pic especially on my IPhone.

Out of curiousity, do you feel the sow Doc posted is 300 #'s?
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« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2012, 07:26:58 pm »

Hard to tell from the pics ain't it? I've got pics of several big hogs that look a helluva lot smaller than they are... and some smaller hogs that look like monsters.
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« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2012, 07:37:04 pm »

Mike,

Any of the pics he posted would have made me question the title, but none more than this one.



Tailgate pics are about as telling as it gets.

Here's a boar I got this year. What do you think?

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« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2012, 07:49:18 pm »

Cutter, 175 or so on the sow in the original post, 185 on your boar and Mike your hog was about 220. 
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« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2012, 07:56:47 pm »

I think it's a good sow no doubt, I caught one last Friday night that I believe to be in the 300 pound neighborhood. This one was bigger than most of my recent boars.

This does bring to mind the issue of perspective.
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Same boar with me sitting in same basic spot


Camera angle and background make a world of difference.
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« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2012, 07:58:08 pm »

That's why i post usually what i sale them for because i know how to take pictures! Wink
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« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2012, 08:00:08 pm »

Don't get me wrong Doc good catch no matter what it weighed.  A caught hog is a caught hog and you know the story! 
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« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2012, 08:00:39 pm »

I understand wjere your coming from and I thank you for your opinion on her I do, but I used the same scale that we weigh our show steers and they are calibrated right, if you would like I can send somepictures of her on the scale and the weight? After we gutted her and got the piglets out she weighed 226, and if people don't want to believe that she is 300 then that's fine your intitled to your opinion and your more then welcome to come hunt with me and ill show you how we weigh
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