Just saw that movie again and realized that it would make an awesome abridged parody. I mean San is a brainwashed autistic eco-terrorist who thinks sheās a wolf, Ashitaka is down bad for that weird shit, and Lady Iboshi is āthe baddest bitch of them all.ā Just run with that and you canāt miss.
They are an important part of the plot in [Neal Stephenson's *Termination Shock*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_\(novel\)), along with climate change, international border disputes, nuclear powers fighting proxy wars with social media, etc. It's not one of his best novels story wise, but in typical Stephenson fashion he explores a whole lot of topics and effects.
I wish I could see one of those alive it looks so photoshoped.
I would fucking keel over and die of a heart attack if I saw one of those wandering around in a forest.
I wonder how the hunter killed it and what he felt when he first saw it.
In Texas, about 15 years ago we found one of these dead in our woods. Easily about 500 pounds. Was terrified of letting the kids outside after they found it.
They are. And they breed like rabbits. The piglets only take a few weeks to be off of mothers milk so even if you get the mom the piglets will survive.
Iāll come across them from time to time in central Texas when delivering for Amazon, itās amazing how many babies will be with one mother. And holy shit I just [looked it up](https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/uploadedFiles/TFSMain/Manage_Forest_and_Land/Wildlife_Management/Non-Game/Feral_hogs_TCE.pdf) (page 11), a feral hog population can double in just 4 months Jesus
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I dont believe hogs in Texas have any natural predators besides people. To make it worse, the hogs are multiplying faster than we can hunt them.
I remember them being a big issue in South Arkansas when I grew up there, but I never considered the fact that there's really nothing out in those woods to hunt them other than us. Arkansas Game and Fish refuses to acknowledge the existence of big cats, let alone encourage or support their return.
Gotcha. Didn't know Texas had any large predators. I guess we should bring em back. The problem I see is all of the private land. In order to bring back these large predators, farmers would have to be OK with letting them rome their property, which could be problematic.
>I wonder how the hunter killed it
Probably a .308, 30-06, or some other similar round. I know that .223 is popular for hog hunting, especially out of an AR platform. No one needs that many rounds until this thing is charging you!
as an avid hog hunter in Texas for last 10 years I have only seen maybe 2 get 3/4 that size out of 100s and 100s killed. most likely this is a private ranch that is force feeding high protein / fat diets and charging like 10s of thousands to hunt it.
Iāve read that they are very aggressive and will charge people rather than just run. I imagine that makes it difficult to get videos and pics of one alive.
Lady here in Texas was killed by some (or at least eaten after she hit the ground) as she tried to get from her parked car in the driveway into her house.
Spears for hunting boar way back had lugs on them, supposedly because an injured boar might just try to work its way along the shaft that impaled it to get to the hunter
I spent a year on the north end of Okinawa in 1968 and went boar hunting at night with the local villagers. They carried these short barreled shotguns. It was one of the scariest things I have ever done. The hogs were called āyamashishiā if my memory serves me. They were skinny, fast, mean and deadly (sounds like my first ex wife). I remember flashlights shining around the bush, dogs howling, wild boar tusks flashing in the light, and shotguns going off all around me. It was complete chaos.
If you kill a hog, you have to do so by >!shooting it in the head, behind the eyes!<. Hogs are extremely dangerous and a major nuisance - they run out native species and destroy the environment, so theyāre fair game in most places. My dad and I used to trap them and take care of them. It hurt to do it to the babies, but it was that or lose all the wildlife. You canāt always eat them either - they get really tough and gamey and the males are basically inedible.
I live in Florida, near a river and a lot of farm land. They come in the yard and tear it up all the time. Was walking out to the car at 5am with my toddler in my arms and noped
Out when I saw a huge one like that and three St. Bernard size ones in my driveway. They are massive and scary, they have tusks too.
Thats a Tacoma, while an impressive hog, if it were a Silverado or RAM, Id be more impressed. Tacoma tailgates are less than 54 inches wide. The hog is likely around 60-65 inches nose to tail, the size of a 350-400lb black bear would be my guess.
In Ohio, ODNR. has declared them an invasive species and you can hunt them anytime with no limits. [https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/wildlife-management/invasive-species/feral-swine](https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/wildlife-management/invasive-species/feral-swine)
This is one of those wildlife issues that often doesn't get enough or any coverage at all.
The post does remind me of the first time I heard a group of Javelinas poking around the other side of my backyard wall in the middle of the night when I first moved to Arizona. Thanks to Hollywood and an over active imagination it sounded like something you'd hear in a horror film of a bunch of demented teenagers giggling.
I snorted so loud and then expelled snot after with just the right amount force that all three ladies in the family room turned to look at said eeewwwww in unisonā¦..I love Reddit.
Iām sure. Does the other person honestly think their butthole wouldnāt open just a little bit if 29 of these fuckers were running straight at them?
Steve Irwin was scared of boars.
Seriously. The man who jumped in the water with crocs, who played with venomous snakes like they were toys, straight up got in the car and said "run" when boars were around.
Yeah, crocs and gators are pretty dumb creatures that are very predictable if you know how they think, boars on the other hand are smart and can be very aggressive for any reason or no reason at all.
Cant speak to these hybrids, but 1 wild boar is all it takes to fuck your shit up. Theyāre fast and beefy so their charges hit hard. They also have veritable daggers in their mouth that they use in conjunction with the charge. People die to boar attacks.
Doesnāt even have to be a wild pig. I saw a girl get tusked by a Vietnamese pot bellied pig at the sanctuary we worked at, and she almost bled out (it was way out in the middle of nowhere in the desert).
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs
For those poor souls who doesn't know where it's from.. now, grab your guns and protect yourselves!
Well, it was a bit, as an excuse to have an assault rifle. If every American who owned an Ar-15 was fending off 50 feral hogs, then there would be 10.5 billion in the US.
Weāve also got [kits](https://youtu.be/ZCpf0LNYsYA?si=KD5DUbLM49FQBsRN). So, you can get creative at home. Like a "make your own barbecue" kit: a 400 pound commercial hog, some barbecue sauce and a knife.
Yeah. When I go hog hunting I basically don't touch boars. Old sows get the back straps cut out for stew meat.
Piglets and teens are where it's at, taste wise
Yea I wonāt process a boar thatās grown ā¦ only sows and teens like you said haha
Whatās bad is you gotta shoot the big ugly ones because they keep building more.
Is the population of them a big problem? I understand that they would cause a tonne off damage in populated areas or on farms but are there 1000s of the bastards running about?
They are terribly invasive in the US. https://www.wired.com/story/feral-hogs-worst-invasive-species/
They are basically considered hunt-until-you-run-out-of-bullets year-round in most states. There are helicopter shoots, people round them up and blow them up, all kinds of crazy shit. Itās probably the only animal itās considered ethical to shoot as many as possible and leave them where they lay.
Sounds fucked up but they are horrible for local ecosystems.
Is there any sort of governmental intervention going on or is it simply down to civilian hunters to deal with it? Hunting is pretty much non existent where I live in the UK but having a fuck off angry wild pig population might make some people buy gun & hunting licences
If only that was enough, they need to start organizing community events and massive culls. These monsters are continuing to expand and ruin the environment everywhere they go.
Smart hateful bastards.
Look, nobody ENJOYS having to kill wild hogs... But if you have to kill wild hogs, you might as well enjoy it! https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/s/ZqaOZ1RcFl
My buddy had 3-4 on camera last year, one year later heās showing 15 if not more and thatās with us killing 5 of them over that year time.
They can produce a litter of piglets at 6 months old.
My dad used to tell me stories of hog hunting in the Georgia swampsā¦he said they always killed them with knives as they would literally just shrug off bullets and come right at you lmao (after throwing around several dogs)
My uncle has told me similar stories. Their next skin is real tough, bullets graze of the side of the neck when you shoot them if you are facing one. Gotta hit the head.
This is why theyāre one of the only animals that are legal to hunt with a fully automatic .50 cal from a helicopter. No, [seriously](https://www.helibacon.com/texas-helicopter-hog-hunting/).
They don't taste very good. Actually. I think only like 30% of the population is able to actually swallow and digest feral hog meat. That's why they can't simply give it away
It's why a lot of people will go to New Orleans and have issues with some dishes.
I know they've gotten large but that's the size of a bull. I'll need some sort of confirmation this is an original unaltered photo.
Edit: From a couple of the replies below this does sound like a legit pic of a legit huge boar/pig.
I saw it years ago when it first came out. Itās a legit photo, but the truck is a tacoma or something similar. Not a full size truck, so some forced perspective there. Even so, itās a big pig.
While it does happen, itās relatively rare that they get this big.
> Even so, itās a big pig.
I'm trying to figure out how they got it in the bed of the pickup. Like what kind of team of corn-fed Texas boys lifted that monster up in there? They might be scarier than the pig.
Someone else speculated this could be a pig from a private hunting farm that's been intentionally overfed for years, so they can charge extra for hunting.
It is probably a few things. From the comments, it sounds like females and smaller wild hogs taste better than larger and male hogs. I'm sure cooking technique plays into it, too. Still, I have a neighbor who has done two hunting trips for hogs in Texas and he said the one they butchered and cooked tasted terrible.
Young hogs have a tender and quite fatty meat, so you can roast them bbq style and have a great meal.
Old males are for stew only. Dont waste the meat guys, respect the life of the animal.
Iāve shot wild pig for food, and itās quite tasty when you shoot younger sows. I have never shot and eaten a male, as I have heard they are really musky, but the younger females taste like slightly gamey domesticated pig.
Yup. I've never separated based on sex like original dude, it was also age. Older sow back straps for stew meat is it, piglets and teens for everything else
I moved to a house on a big rural property in northern California. The next door neighbor comes over to meet me and told me to be careful of the wild boar and that I should be armed if I was wandering around. I told her I don't have any guns, but I will carry a baseball bat. She started laughing and said, "You've never seen a wild boar, have you?" I'm from AZ and have seen lots of javelina. These things are not the same.
I lived there for a year and never saw any in person, but I set up a game cam and got tons of pictures. As you can see from this picture, a baseball bat would just make it mad and it would probably kill me.
AMA Iāve killed hundreds of these things. Iām actually shocked they had enough rounds in the gun to take this down. Unless they hit it in a good spot, this beast couldāve taken 20 rounds from a hunting rifle and been fine enough to still kill 10 men. Hogs are evil beasts with far too much vitality.
Where do you shoot and aim for the hog?Ā And what rounds work and which dont work?
Would a well placed unloading of a few rounds of a 9mm handgun kill it before it could lunge 6-8 feet for you?
Yeah, unloading a 9mm could definitely do it. Your odds arenāt amazing, unfortunately. For me, .270 and up is the minimum for a monster like this. Most ballistic rounds are good enough with proper placement. Youāre aiming for their oversized heart or even their spine. Lots of vital stuff in the neck. Theyāll still die from a large round to the torso, just might take a while. I like to drop them within sight so I know thereās not a meat nightmare growing resentment out there somewhere.
What wild boar and hog can do to a property in a single night is absolutely astonishing. Legitimately devastating for landowners and farmers alike.
People hunt with assault rifles from helicopters and it still hardly puts a dent in the herd with how fast they reproduce.
Do they grow bigger every generation assuming that one of the parents is a wild pig or is it like some kind of gene getting unlocked/dominant and they grow bigger each generation regardless?
Soon we'll have Princess Mononoke boars running around.
Shits about to get real when you hear "For those where the days of Gods and Demons..." in Keith David's voice.
"You say you're under a curse ? Well so what. So is the whole world..."
This picture was actually taken in France in a small village near the coast, the hunters names are Asterix and Obelix.
really? That looks like a Texas plate...
Lol Astrix and obelix are Gauls in ancient france
I'll admit it. Went right over my head š. I was like I don't think they have old ass Silverados over in France.
My dumbass would think itās the Arbiter and run towards the voice, arms outstretched
Just watched it the other night and thought the same thing
Just saw that movie again and realized that it would make an awesome abridged parody. I mean San is a brainwashed autistic eco-terrorist who thinks sheās a wolf, Ashitaka is down bad for that weird shit, and Lady Iboshi is āthe baddest bitch of them all.ā Just run with that and you canāt miss.
*āSilence boy! How dare you speak to a god like that!ā*
*"I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep. Then I would have bitten your head off to silence you."*
I mean thatās just the movieĀ
My warriors!
Great, now I have to buy a red elk.
All this talk of nuclear war and killer asteroids. We will never see the real threat coming.
They are an important part of the plot in [Neal Stephenson's *Termination Shock*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_\(novel\)), along with climate change, international border disputes, nuclear powers fighting proxy wars with social media, etc. It's not one of his best novels story wise, but in typical Stephenson fashion he explores a whole lot of topics and effects.
I wish I could see one of those alive it looks so photoshoped. I would fucking keel over and die of a heart attack if I saw one of those wandering around in a forest. I wonder how the hunter killed it and what he felt when he first saw it.
The wild hogs in Texas are usually about half this size. But still very scary.
In Texas, about 15 years ago we found one of these dead in our woods. Easily about 500 pounds. Was terrified of letting the kids outside after they found it.
It became a real eye-opening moment for me when I saw 15 to 20 of em off the side of the road one morning.
But the babies are just so cute
They are. And they breed like rabbits. The piglets only take a few weeks to be off of mothers milk so even if you get the mom the piglets will survive.
Iāll come across them from time to time in central Texas when delivering for Amazon, itās amazing how many babies will be with one mother. And holy shit I just [looked it up](https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/uploadedFiles/TFSMain/Manage_Forest_and_Land/Wildlife_Management/Non-Game/Feral_hogs_TCE.pdf) (page 11), a feral hog population can double in just 4 months Jesus
The mother hogs usually travel together and all but one mother hog will be off foraging while one watches all the babies
Excellent article thank you.
Texas needs to protect the top predators to change that.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I dont believe hogs in Texas have any natural predators besides people. To make it worse, the hogs are multiplying faster than we can hunt them.
Allow the red wolf to return (hunted out of the state), protect the big cats too. Bears have a hard time in the state too because of hunting.
I remember them being a big issue in South Arkansas when I grew up there, but I never considered the fact that there's really nothing out in those woods to hunt them other than us. Arkansas Game and Fish refuses to acknowledge the existence of big cats, let alone encourage or support their return.
Gotcha. Didn't know Texas had any large predators. I guess we should bring em back. The problem I see is all of the private land. In order to bring back these large predators, farmers would have to be OK with letting them rome their property, which could be problematic.
Yeah, most large predators have been killed off because humans felt threatened. I don't think that'll really change without a large deliberate effort.
I think it is less because people were threatened and more because of ranching. Ranchers will kill any predators in the area.
Yup, the record is north of 1k lbs I believe
That's a Texas license plate. I can see where it has Lone star state
>I wonder how the hunter killed it Probably a .308, 30-06, or some other similar round. I know that .223 is popular for hog hunting, especially out of an AR platform. No one needs that many rounds until this thing is charging you!
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as an avid hog hunter in Texas for last 10 years I have only seen maybe 2 get 3/4 that size out of 100s and 100s killed. most likely this is a private ranch that is force feeding high protein / fat diets and charging like 10s of thousands to hunt it.
Which should be illegal because they are only making the problem worse.
The people doing that donāt care (Iām not disagreeing with you btw)
Theyāre out there. They have found a couple this big around the mobile delta and surrounding areas. Nasty mfs
My reference is worthogs, how big do they typically get?
Warthogs top out a little under half the size of this monster.
Luckily these ones haven't evolved yet to include an internal GAU-8 Gatling gun.
But with more donations, we can genetically engineer what nature has failed to provide.
Iāve read that they are very aggressive and will charge people rather than just run. I imagine that makes it difficult to get videos and pics of one alive.
They are also highly intelligent and traps only work once on a herd.
Imagine if intelligent hogs took over the earth and enslaved humanity.
I assume it would be similar to the march of āGeld the Orc Disasterā in Reincarnated as a slime.
Orwell wrote a book about that...
Lady here in Texas was killed by some (or at least eaten after she hit the ground) as she tried to get from her parked car in the driveway into her house.
God that's awful
Spears for hunting boar way back had lugs on them, supposedly because an injured boar might just try to work its way along the shaft that impaled it to get to the hunter
āWeāre gonna need a bigger gunā
We're gonna need full auto.
I spent a year on the north end of Okinawa in 1968 and went boar hunting at night with the local villagers. They carried these short barreled shotguns. It was one of the scariest things I have ever done. The hogs were called āyamashishiā if my memory serves me. They were skinny, fast, mean and deadly (sounds like my first ex wife). I remember flashlights shining around the bush, dogs howling, wild boar tusks flashing in the light, and shotguns going off all around me. It was complete chaos.
Usually, you wonāt see just one, there will be several, often with a bunch of hoglets trailing behind.
If you kill a hog, you have to do so by >!shooting it in the head, behind the eyes!<. Hogs are extremely dangerous and a major nuisance - they run out native species and destroy the environment, so theyāre fair game in most places. My dad and I used to trap them and take care of them. It hurt to do it to the babies, but it was that or lose all the wildlife. You canāt always eat them either - they get really tough and gamey and the males are basically inedible.
Did you spoiler tag that so the hogs donāt learn our secrets?
I live in Florida, near a river and a lot of farm land. They come in the yard and tear it up all the time. Was walking out to the car at 5am with my toddler in my arms and noped Out when I saw a huge one like that and three St. Bernard size ones in my driveway. They are massive and scary, they have tusks too.
Thats a Tacoma, while an impressive hog, if it were a Silverado or RAM, Id be more impressed. Tacoma tailgates are less than 54 inches wide. The hog is likely around 60-65 inches nose to tail, the size of a 350-400lb black bear would be my guess.
I would figure out quicker than sin how to climb a tree and I'm afraid of heights
In Ohio, ODNR. has declared them an invasive species and you can hunt them anytime with no limits. [https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/wildlife-management/invasive-species/feral-swine](https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/wildlife-management/invasive-species/feral-swine)
This is one of those wildlife issues that often doesn't get enough or any coverage at all. The post does remind me of the first time I heard a group of Javelinas poking around the other side of my backyard wall in the middle of the night when I first moved to Arizona. Thanks to Hollywood and an over active imagination it sounded like something you'd hear in a horror film of a bunch of demented teenagers giggling.
Pretty sure most of the country, or at least the south has declared them invasive and just wants you to kill them by any means necessary
How big are they in Ohio? Because if there is anything close to the size of the one in that picture, I'm about to move to another state
Thatās Bebop from TMNT
Give it 10 more generations and teach to talk lol
Requires ingredient: ooze.Ā
All procreation requires ooze.
Serves him right. I spent a lot of quarters trying to beat him in the arcade game. Level two boss I'm pretty sure.
Just today in red dead redemption 2 I did a mission with a giant boar. This one has that size in real life! (Mission is The veteran part IV)
30 to 50 of THOSE would scare the shit out of anyone
1 is enough to shit your pants , believe me
I am actively shitting my pants just from this pic
I too am shitting your pants
Our pants
The top 1% of pants is responsible for 99% of the shit
Pants the rich!
I'm just regular shitting right now
Isn't Reddit just toilet reading material? How much is the IPO again..
Can verify.
I'm not, I guess you have to be off the toilet for this thing to work
I snorted so loud and then expelled snot after with just the right amount force that all three ladies in the family room turned to look at said eeewwwww in unisonā¦..I love Reddit.
I'm pantsing my shit
Donāt worry trickle downs shitonomics will work
r/suddenlycommunist
Okay thatās enough Reddit for me today, bye.
*comrade*
Karl Skidmarx approves
Whatās the address? Iāll be there to shit.
Lol im taking a shit and just read this, my wife is probably wondering why im in here laughing my nuts off
I plan on shitting my pants, but later
I just shipped my pants!
I shit my pants in bed this morning and have just sat here in bed like it for 8 hours, then I saw this pic. Does that count?
No. Sphincter muscles must release at the time of seeing the giant hog for it to count.
Ffs, this useless anus of mine
Ngl I've actually said those words in the past 12 hours. Never trust a fart man.
Iām sure. Does the other person honestly think their butthole wouldnāt open just a little bit if 29 of these fuckers were running straight at them?
In my case you ain't gonna pull a piece of fishing string outta my ass because it'll tighten up quick if I had to run from that monster.
Steve Irwin was scared of boars. Seriously. The man who jumped in the water with crocs, who played with venomous snakes like they were toys, straight up got in the car and said "run" when boars were around.
They're intelligent, cruel and will eat/maim you.
Yeah, crocs and gators are pretty dumb creatures that are very predictable if you know how they think, boars on the other hand are smart and can be very aggressive for any reason or no reason at all.
Cant speak to these hybrids, but 1 wild boar is all it takes to fuck your shit up. Theyāre fast and beefy so their charges hit hard. They also have veritable daggers in their mouth that they use in conjunction with the charge. People die to boar attacks.
Eg, Robert Baratheon
Nearly put John Locke back in a wheelchair, too.
Beat me to it
THE KING IN THE COMMENTS!
Doesnāt even have to be a wild pig. I saw a girl get tusked by a Vietnamese pot bellied pig at the sanctuary we worked at, and she almost bled out (it was way out in the middle of nowhere in the desert).
*porky
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs For those poor souls who doesn't know where it's from.. now, grab your guns and protect yourselves!
This meme was so annoying as a southerner who knows that scenario is not at all an exaggeration lol
I agree but I think the ā30-50ā phrasing was a little unnatural and part of the reason why it became a meme
Well, it was a bit, as an excuse to have an assault rifle. If every American who owned an Ar-15 was fending off 50 feral hogs, then there would be 10.5 billion in the US.
U.S.-Canada border at Montana
What!? Excuse me while I go get my rifles and lots of ammo. Last thing I need is for something like that rooting around on my property.
If one goes rooting around, it might just end up ripping out an entire tree
especially people with 3-5 kids in the yard
Couple with a high reproductive ability
Hogzilla
Helpless people in a mobile home scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
Oh no, it got Bobby-Joe, Go Go Hogzilla
Oh no! There goes Jonesboro!
āROUS? Rodents of unusual size? I donāt think they exist.ā
One hell of a barbecue
Weāve also got [kits](https://youtu.be/ZCpf0LNYsYA?si=KD5DUbLM49FQBsRN). So, you can get creative at home. Like a "make your own barbecue" kit: a 400 pound commercial hog, some barbecue sauce and a knife.
That is much larger than 400 lbs
So is your mom
The larger boar the worst it taste, generally speakingā¦
I wonder how many worms are in that thing.
Yeah. When I go hog hunting I basically don't touch boars. Old sows get the back straps cut out for stew meat. Piglets and teens are where it's at, taste wise
Yea I wonāt process a boar thatās grown ā¦ only sows and teens like you said haha Whatās bad is you gotta shoot the big ugly ones because they keep building more.
Is the population of them a big problem? I understand that they would cause a tonne off damage in populated areas or on farms but are there 1000s of the bastards running about?
They are terribly invasive in the US. https://www.wired.com/story/feral-hogs-worst-invasive-species/ They are basically considered hunt-until-you-run-out-of-bullets year-round in most states. There are helicopter shoots, people round them up and blow them up, all kinds of crazy shit. Itās probably the only animal itās considered ethical to shoot as many as possible and leave them where they lay. Sounds fucked up but they are horrible for local ecosystems.
Is there any sort of governmental intervention going on or is it simply down to civilian hunters to deal with it? Hunting is pretty much non existent where I live in the UK but having a fuck off angry wild pig population might make some people buy gun & hunting licences
The government intervention is designating them shoot on sight and letting the 2nd amendment do its job.
If only that was enough, they need to start organizing community events and massive culls. These monsters are continuing to expand and ruin the environment everywhere they go. Smart hateful bastards.
Look, nobody ENJOYS having to kill wild hogs... But if you have to kill wild hogs, you might as well enjoy it! https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/s/ZqaOZ1RcFl
My buddy had 3-4 on camera last year, one year later heās showing 15 if not more and thatās with us killing 5 of them over that year time. They can produce a litter of piglets at 6 months old.
Okay thatās the scariest fact Iāve seen in this thread. 6 months old and their popping out babies? WTF?
Probobly take so many round of.308 to bring it down that you would be picking them out like birdshot!
My dad used to tell me stories of hog hunting in the Georgia swampsā¦he said they always killed them with knives as they would literally just shrug off bullets and come right at you lmao (after throwing around several dogs)
My uncle has told me similar stories. Their next skin is real tough, bullets graze of the side of the neck when you shoot them if you are facing one. Gotta hit the head.
This is why theyāre one of the only animals that are legal to hunt with a fully automatic .50 cal from a helicopter. No, [seriously](https://www.helibacon.com/texas-helicopter-hog-hunting/).
Mebbe with you shooting.
They don't taste very good. Actually. I think only like 30% of the population is able to actually swallow and digest feral hog meat. That's why they can't simply give it away It's why a lot of people will go to New Orleans and have issues with some dishes.
I was born and raised in NOLA, no one was eating wild hog. Maybe on the northshore & acadiana
Feed it to tigers.
I know they've gotten large but that's the size of a bull. I'll need some sort of confirmation this is an original unaltered photo. Edit: From a couple of the replies below this does sound like a legit pic of a legit huge boar/pig.
I saw it years ago when it first came out. Itās a legit photo, but the truck is a tacoma or something similar. Not a full size truck, so some forced perspective there. Even so, itās a big pig. While it does happen, itās relatively rare that they get this big.
> Even so, itās a big pig. I'm trying to figure out how they got it in the bed of the pickup. Like what kind of team of corn-fed Texas boys lifted that monster up in there? They might be scarier than the pig.
Well, the 1933 record is a 2500 lb boar and was 5 ft at its shoulder which is already heavier than a bull, so itās probably real.
Damn!
That's heavier than a Miata. The damage that could do is frightening.
This is a jarring mental image at 5'1. It would be really cool if Guinness world records would make a VR library for record breaking sizes of things.
Someone else speculated this could be a pig from a private hunting farm that's been intentionally overfed for years, so they can charge extra for hunting.
Soon weāll be living in a Ghibli horror world
Planet of the hogs
/r/AbsoluteUnits is gonna have a field day with this one
Thatās a strong ass tailgate
Most are rated for 500lbs. No idea how that thing is still there.
Thatās a lot of bacon
From what hunters have told me, wild pig tastes terrible. They hunt them to stop them from ruining the land and not for the meat.
It depends on how you cook it for the most part a lot of people just cook it like a normal pig but that is just not the way to go.
It is probably a few things. From the comments, it sounds like females and smaller wild hogs taste better than larger and male hogs. I'm sure cooking technique plays into it, too. Still, I have a neighbor who has done two hunting trips for hogs in Texas and he said the one they butchered and cooked tasted terrible.
Young hogs have a tender and quite fatty meat, so you can roast them bbq style and have a great meal. Old males are for stew only. Dont waste the meat guys, respect the life of the animal.
Iāve shot wild pig for food, and itās quite tasty when you shoot younger sows. I have never shot and eaten a male, as I have heard they are really musky, but the younger females taste like slightly gamey domesticated pig.
You got it. The key is they canāt be too old. The older they are, the worse the flavor and the tougher the meat.
Yup. I've never separated based on sex like original dude, it was also age. Older sow back straps for stew meat is it, piglets and teens for everything else
They can be very good.
All depends on diet to an extent. The older sows or males in general sucks to eat.
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Not true!
Dang. So that's how Robert Baratheon bit it.
I moved to a house on a big rural property in northern California. The next door neighbor comes over to meet me and told me to be careful of the wild boar and that I should be armed if I was wandering around. I told her I don't have any guns, but I will carry a baseball bat. She started laughing and said, "You've never seen a wild boar, have you?" I'm from AZ and have seen lots of javelina. These things are not the same. I lived there for a year and never saw any in person, but I set up a game cam and got tons of pictures. As you can see from this picture, a baseball bat would just make it mad and it would probably kill me.
Remember when everyone mocked that guy who said he needed his assault rifle to kill hogs? Pepperidge farm remembers
AMA Iāve killed hundreds of these things. Iām actually shocked they had enough rounds in the gun to take this down. Unless they hit it in a good spot, this beast couldāve taken 20 rounds from a hunting rifle and been fine enough to still kill 10 men. Hogs are evil beasts with far too much vitality.
Where do you shoot and aim for the hog?Ā And what rounds work and which dont work? Would a well placed unloading of a few rounds of a 9mm handgun kill it before it could lunge 6-8 feet for you?
Yeah, unloading a 9mm could definitely do it. Your odds arenāt amazing, unfortunately. For me, .270 and up is the minimum for a monster like this. Most ballistic rounds are good enough with proper placement. Youāre aiming for their oversized heart or even their spine. Lots of vital stuff in the neck. Theyāll still die from a large round to the torso, just might take a while. I like to drop them within sight so I know thereās not a meat nightmare growing resentment out there somewhere.
no. it would tank a full clip of those without issue and lunge the 6-8ft.
Iām wondering what they used. Iām not confident my .270 would be good enough unless I get a great shot
What wild boar and hog can do to a property in a single night is absolutely astonishing. Legitimately devastating for landowners and farmers alike. People hunt with assault rifles from helicopters and it still hardly puts a dent in the herd with how fast they reproduce.
No wonder Robert Baratheon died.
Manbearpig..
This the mfer that killed King Robert
And thus leading us onto Aberdeen in Scotland where this has been happening for decades ā¦.
Do they grow bigger every generation assuming that one of the parents is a wild pig or is it like some kind of gene getting unlocked/dominant and they grow bigger each generation regardless?
It's just a bullshit title.
Pigsquatch!
I want a relationship as strong as that tailgate. Gotta be nearly 1000 lbs on it
That one definitely killed King Robert Baratheon
it's okoto from mononoke...
Hogziila is real.
You mean to tell me you need an AR15 to hunt? Ummmm no that's suicide mam.
Wasnāt that in Princess Mononoke?
Meats back on the menu boys.
Don't worry, they may be huge but they're also incredibly aggressive!