My experience is that a "guessed" weight is what sounds good on the internet. We actually weigh virtually every hog that we kill and we kill up to 200 per year but usually averagea 100. The reason I said "virtually" is that those that are brought back to camp are weighed, however many are never brought back. To bring a large hog back I tie them to the back of the truck and tow them back and they are then gutted on the rack. BTW, we weigh ours with guts in because there are times when no one wants to mess with cleaning them and they are then pulled off to the dump.

In south TX there is a wild hog contest at Los Cazadores that awardsa jacket for the first 3 places. It takes abit over 300# dressed to win one in a normal year. This one came off our place and weighed 255# FDand was only good for a distant 3rd as the 1st and 2nd places were over 300# ina very bad drought year. My point is that real 250# hogs are rare down here in south Texas.