Seen were a 790# wild hog was caught around De Leon Tx.
Jan. 16 2015 Two hunters (not gonna mention names) caught a massive
wild hog the size of a grizzly bear. Using 2 bull dogs ta take it down
so they could tie the legs.
Biggest hog I've taken was roughly 300#'s. & that was a big one.
Looked like a pen raised down @ Old Sabine River WMA.
Have seen several down their that size.

Just find it hard ta believe a hog can get ta that size in wild.
As said the 300#'er looked as just got off farm.

Figured put it in discussion section.
Keep it friendly. Think it's been pen feed.

Pic of supposed 790 # hog

Don’t buy if for a sec

No way it’s the hog in the pic. I’m not going to comment on the weight but I’m guessing it was a domestic hog that got loose. The hog in the article is a big one but no telling how big. https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports...00-pound-hog-caught-in-Texas-6043871.php

krmitchell that's sane article I seen , except pic's of hogs.
A hog ta get that big, some one tissue a feeding it.
300lb hog in wild is big. Ones i've seen & got were set free or escaped.

Me either. The natural thing to do is shoot the biggest one, which helps prevent/reduce huge wild one. Could it be true, I suppose, but I don't believe it.

Not a lot in the picture for scale except for the road. AT 790 lbs, I would expect it to be 7-8 feet long or really fat. Based on the road, it is not 7-8 feet long. Based on the shape, it isn't really fat.

That looks like maybe a 250# boar.

That pig don't weigh no 250.

200lb hog in the pic!

Doesn't even look like a hog you'd see on U.S. soil.

Betting photo is from another country and hog is nowhere near the claimed weight.

Ding Ding Ding Ding! That is because the picture of the hog isn't from US soil. It isn't from North America. It isn't even from the northern hemisphere. It is just a pic stolen from online. It is a giant forest hog from a park in Kenya, not even the same species as our hogs. It is Hylochoerus meinertzhageni. They get up to 600 lbs or so, but that isn't particularly large one.

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/g...ational-park-kenya-gm925718008-254027386
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_forest_hog

The hog has been misidentified here and here, even being attributed to Indiana, LOL.
https://a-z-animals.com/reference/tusk/
https://www.indianola-ia.com/opinio...a2be938-d307-11ed-8899-bb9ff1deea52.html



Colt is up to his old tricks again.

The hog in the photo looks like a Giant Forest Hog sow, see the prominent wart on the cheek. Not found in the USA, found in the northern parts of Africa where the savannah and heavy rain forest meet.

I am going to bet that the majority of people on this forum have never seen a 300lb hog...

200lbs is alot bigger than one would think.

Ok I'm 270 so this hog is close to 300.

Nice Boar.

I'm thinking it has 20 lbs. of caked MUD on it.

He sure was the boss hog in our area till I shot him.
Lots of Mudd for protection when fighting.

The biggest one that we've weighed was close to 250...and that was a monster. Most pigs on our place never make it to 200, much less 750. I'm always skeptical of anybody claiming much over 300. It's super rare for pigs to get any bigger than that in Texas. Pigs have too many two legged predators here.

Here's a fat sow I shot back in 2010. The girth was amazing and looks to be comparable to Angus's boar, but the pic doesn't do her justice. She's likely full of piggies too. That's a bull-barreled M700 leaning against her.

I didn't get this one on a scale, how much you think he weighed?

I think big hog stories are exaggerated even more than big bass. Some certainly get big, but most never get close to an actual scale!!! Here's some big ones, weighed, and their pics.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/biggest-wild-hogs-ever/

This is the De Leon pig.

Looks like a fed feral hog, no mud on it?

Huge though, good golly.

Looks like a Duroc that had been fed and either was let out or got out. IIRC you couldn't see the pigs ears in all but one of the photos posted and in that one you could barely make out an ear notch.

People get pigs to feed out or their kid to show and do not have any clue what a PITA they are to keep. Back in the day we had a Duroc boar that was in the 850 range and a York that was pushing 750 - all these people claiming to shoot "600 pound 'wild' pigs" ain't - with few exceptions.

Did a whitetail hunt with Blaine back in 2018 on his grandfathers ranch near De Leon.
We talked about the hog, he showed me a few other photos of it. Also told me it was barely 600 pounds.
He’s a forum member, or at least he was years ago.

Google is your friend. I did a quick search, and was shocked to read this. That is a LOT of pork!!! Apparently, they were taking him to display at the World's Fair in Chicago when he fell and broke a leg and was put down.

"History’s Largest pig was Big Bill, a Poland-China breed who weighed in at a hefty 1,157 kg (2,552 lb) and was 2.74 m (9 ft) long. This huge hog stood 1.52 m (5 ft) to his shoulder, about the same as an average-height 12-year-old girl."