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Decent Boar
The pigs have been making a bit of a nuisance of themselves after the recent rain & one of the sows appears to be on heat so a few of the local boys have been showing up for a party :ORLY:
We went & gate crashed their party earlier tonight, it was a bit awkward, I wanted to make sure I shot one of the suitors
Picked on this one as he was bigger than the others & a different colour, he didn't make it easy though, they never seem to stop unless they are digging & even then not for long....:oh noes:
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As he was moving when I shot him the 6mm Hammer 75 HHT hit him a little low, but at 4100 fps they really upset things
I knew he was a big bugger as we really struggled to drag him let alone get him on the back of the ute once gutted, the tray is 1800 across :o
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Fat as mud is such an understatement in this case & doesn't even begin to describe his condition, didn't have very long hooks & appears to be fairly young
Got quite a shock when the scales were reading more than I thought he weighed & he was no where near off the floor, even put him back down to make sure they were zeroed :)
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He is nearly 100lbs heavier than any others I have shot over the years, still hasn't really sunk in yet :cool:
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Built like a front row forward!
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Huge! What’s the meat like on those big boars? Worth eating?
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yes can be very good make great bacon to and saveloys ( smoked of course )
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Met him this morning and can confirm he was bloody massive!
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Awesome pig....one you unlikely to better.
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Good hog. Neat colour too. And man that Hammer is honking.
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yeah interesting breeding- distinctive saddle back markings -- one wonders how long ago his genes got away into wild - to still be distinctively a saddleback breed one would think may be not that long ago - interesting - not a breed used nowadays for pork - but are still kept by breeders into the old breeds like Duroc large black - Tamworth - one sees photos of the big old pigs and they are strongly Tamworth or one of the old breeds- but go right back into Motu and they are razorbacks - very different looking pig - long nose all shoulders and no arse - but what one has here is a damn good lump of eating pork
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Monster….. safe to say in shooting terminology he’s “over bore”
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gimp
Big pig. Range?
Around 100
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That's a few bacon butties there!
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Waidmann’s Heil! Congrats! A lot of bacon piled up there!
I had to load that one into the boot of my car on my own. was a bit of a mission :)
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Iv seen the od 180-200 pounder around Otematata yrs ago but not a 244,well done Gregg.
He will be tasty with all that fat on board.
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Nice. Dad and I got one (that Tommy Bryant was chasing haha - you must know him) on our farm just below Pelorus Bridge that went 270 lbs - about 1971. That was a bit of a record for that area that stood for quite a few years. Much more of a Captain Cooker that your fellow though!
PS - Tommy now owns that farm - funny how life goes
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