How Big

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:08 am

Is this hog.

11-3-07 hog pic

Just curious what you think.

Bill

longshot · Post by **longshot** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:07 pm

He has a big barrel chest and large hoofs on him. Without seeing him in person I will guess 255lb field dressed He is a brute! Did you weigh him? If so lets get some more guesses before you reveil the answer.

What is the story on him Billy?
Longshot

bluedogs · Post by **bluedogs** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:55 pm

i dont know anything about hogs but thats a nice one i would guess 200 pounds he looks big

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:32 pm

Not much of a story on him longshot. I was guiding a deer hunter and I put him up on the point of a rimrock while I walked the canyon below to try to jump up a good sized buck that I knew was in there. I jumped up the buck, a bull elk, and this hog. He saw the buck but didn't get a shot, heard the elk but didn't see it, and shot this hog when it ran up to about 10 feet from him. Since he is paying for both a hog hunt and a deer hunt I couldn't complain, but I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to run this one with dogs. On the other hand I didn't have a vet bill, so I guess it all comes out in the wash.

I will let you know what he weighed in a few days.

Bill

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:57 pm

I guess thats all the guesses we're going to get. He weighed 218 field dressed.

Bill

longshot · Post by **longshot** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:34 pm

That is a GOOD HOG billy!

Longshot

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:38 pm

Thanks Longshot.

I agree that its a pretty good hog, although it is about the smallest that I have got since about the first of may. Thats about when the farmers east of here start planting corn and most of the hogs leave for the corn fields about then. Last week, for the first time all summer, I found the tracks of some 125 to 150 lb hogs and I am going to try to get my pups on them tomarrow. I've been looking for something to get these pups on for about a month now, but haven't wanted to turn a 7 month old pup loose on a 250 to 285 lb hog that was just ripping up my big dogs. Now that the corn is mostly harvested, I hope to get these pups a lot of work for the next 60 to 90 days. Hopefully I will find out if they are worth feeding or not.

later

Bill

DWD58 · Post by **DWD58** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:57 am

Nice hog billy!

Hipshooter · Post by **Hipshooter** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:10 pm

Nice pig Bill
I just got back from Tex. on the Red river near Memphis.
We caught 6 head , 250 # the bigest, no mean ones
All boars but one. Lots of hogs there.
We run down river on 4 wheelers, no water in river. Few water holes.
Had a couple of runners that we didn,t catch.
Milton

longshot · Post by **longshot** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:40 pm

Hipshooter,
Who did you hunt with up there in N.Texas? Sounds like you had a good trip. Did you run any dogs?
Longshot

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:18 am

Thanks DWD58

Hey Milton, good to hear from you again, seems like its been awhile. Congrats on a good trip to TX. Maybe I can meet you down there some time. I need to go somewhere that I can get some young dogs on several hogs in a fairly short time. I have enough hogs here to keep experienced dogs fairly well tuned up, but its getting harder to make a young dog. Where you went sounds like a good place. I am also looking at a couple of places in CO that are said to have pretty good densities.

I tried to get the young dogs on some medium sized hogs saturday, but ended up on a lion that won't tree, so all I got was some sore footed dogs. I've run this lion about 4 times before, but my dogs either aren't good enough, or I don't have enough of them out at a time to tree him. He just bays for a few minutes, then runs a quarter to half mile, then bays again, then runs again, ect. all day long. He seems to know about how fast I can move, and always breaks bay and runs just before I get there. I've been within 60 yards of a bay, but have never seen him. I've seen a lot of his tracks though. Someday he will make a mistake though, and then I will get him. I've never been able to get on him when I'm looking for a lion, every time I've run him I was looking for hogs and happened to be running a hog dog that will also run lion, and some of my hog dogs are strictly hog dogs, so I've never had more than three dogs on him at once. Maybe next time.

Later

Bill

longshot · Post by **longshot** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:42 pm

He just bays for a few minutes, then runs a quarter to half mile, then bays again, then runs again, ect. all day long. He seems to know about how fast I can move, and always breaks bay and runs just before I get there. I've been within 60 yards of a bay, but have never seen him.

Sounds like some of the bad hogs around here. That is what they will do also.
Longshot

broncobilly · Post by **broncobilly** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:05 am

longshot wrote:Sounds like some of the bad hogs around here. That is what they will do also.
Longshot

Yeah, some of the bad hogs around here do that to, but I can usually find a way to get them. This is the only lion that I have ever had do this to me. At first I didn't believe that it was a lion, but I found enough tracks that there was no doubt.

Bill

Hipshooter · Post by **Hipshooter** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:08 pm

Bill & Longshot

Check your PM,s
Milt

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