Hogs are hard to judge!

[RiverRat1]

Here's the story. I hunted about a week ago and saw what I thought was a 40-50 pounder. Then one 3x it's size came out but I shot the small one to clean to eat. Small one was 80-100 pounds. Made me wonder how big the other one was! I was guessing 230-240.

Tonight I tried hunting the easy #2 blind but 8 pigs were already out at 7:40 so after I rained fire on them wounding a couple I went back to where I saw this bigger pig a week or two ago.

Nothing but cows after dark until this guy comes out. Cows didn't bother him much at all.
I shoot and drop him. He was shaking and I was hoping he'd get up and run off. No such luck.


When I shot I guess 170-180. Then dragging him a few feet to hook up to drag off I though crap he's heavy and changed my guess to 220-230. Then I had to weight him so I drug him a mile back to scale.

[EliteDriver]

Nice pig! Congrats!

[slayr]

Might want to hit the gym a bit more to get a more accurate human scale reading 😁

[Big pig]

That’s a big old good one

I never could judge them on the hoof

Makes it interesting every time we weighed one.
But the work involved meant most were never weighed

[BTLowry]

Size Large for sure

[Bisch]

Big ole stink nasty!!!!!

And I always under-guess them too!

Bisch

[bigmike]

Everyone over guess’s pigs

idk how many times I’ve heard about 300 pounders. That were maybe 175lb pigs

[Bucknaked]

I don’t care- I just kill the sorry bastages!

[muzzlebrake]

I never had a problem guessing a pigs weight. I just look at the scales.

[RiverRat1]

Everyone over guess’s pigs

idk how many times I’ve heard about 300 pounders. That were maybe 175lb pigs

This is true and one reason I took the time to weight. Got to stay close on them guesses!

[rolylane6]

I don't care how much they weigh, I only care that it's all dead weight

[rolylane6]

Everyone over guess’s pigs

idk how many times I’ve heard about 300 pounders. That were maybe 175lb pigs

You're hanging around the wrong guys then....all the guys I know see 500 lbers! 🤪

[denimdeerslayer]

50-70 lbs is the best eating!! All them big ones leave laying.

[RiverRat1]

50-70 lbs is the best eating!! All them big ones leave laying.

I do have to admit (since I usually ask others to admit things) I was tempted to shoot this one in the hind quarters and let it drag itself away. With the grass, chiggers, and fleas and ticks on the hog I wasn't looking forward to dragging it off. So although I still think it's wrong I can see why people do it!

[slayr]

Here’s a big one….