A couple of Piggies
 

Hereis ahog from our place in Zavalla County, TX.

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Didn't realize that I could only post one pic at a time. Here is the other one.

I'm new here. Wonder why the second pic didn't show like the first??

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Dunno why, but I found the 1st one pretty impressive.. ;)

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how come the hogs in indiana don't have tusks like that. does it have to do with a genetic thing

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Pretty big chompers!!!!!

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OH Man, Zavalla County! Good hunting grounds, I have friends in San Antone that have invited me many times and Ihave never made it!:)

Wow! Awesome Poker, Congrats

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Lots of piggy there... good going!

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takes age to get the big teeth.

that is one fine porker.

as for the 2nd. pic. make sure you space bar one time and then do the same as the 1st. something didn't comeup as the other.
sometimes the [ ]'s aren't right.
if you hit preview and check it,then you can sometimes see whta's wrong.
Just a though.sometimes it takes me several tries to get it to work.

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Man those guys will make some good euro mounts.
Congrats

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Ausie-guy, thanks you. I'll try another pic and see if I can get it to work properly.

Rebel Hog, you need to take them up on a trip down here. Plenty of hogs that we see as vermin on most ranches.

forest 40, all of our boars don't have tusks that size. That particular hog was not out of the ordinary heavy so I guess he just had the genes..!

I really don't know much about the age of feral hogs, I'll try to do a bitof research.

Here is one from last year on our place.

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Ausie-guy, when I try to "review" my post, it only shows the text and says that attachments will not show up. If you click on the "attachment" it will show the pic. I must not yet have the magic required.:)

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good gravy that last one is huge.

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Wonder what I did wrong??

I did a little research re feral hog ages and found out that the average length of life is 4 to 5 years andsome are known to have lived as long as 8 years.

Here is a closeup.





Ah-ha, I think I had not clicked the box "imbed" in the pics that didn't work.

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Here is another pig from last year.






Yep, it works when I check the "embed" block.

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DAMN!!! YOULL got some nice pigs. Well you can get alot of pigs here but yu have to know someone with land in Brazos and Navasota river bottom. Thats where everything is.

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some day we will have them in MN, till then I am just dreaming:(

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Nice pig, now you just have to shed that LSU shirt... I can get you a Texas Tech shirt.:D:D:D

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Rev, that guy is from south of Baton Rouge andI suspect that "shirt" might be a tatoo.[8D]

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rankbull, don't wish for something you might actually get. We see them as varmints to be killed on sight day or night and as long as our rancher declares them to be a "depracating" animal, no hunting license is even required. There areover 1million of them in TX and no end in sight.

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those are some awesome hogs, thanks for sharin'.........those teeth are to die for, lol...............

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I tink dees guy " Venado loco" he es a out feeter... Das not heem on dee pichures.:D:D

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You thinky Venada Loca is wearing a maska likea Zorro?

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Si, I tink so.

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Rev, so you don't think right, but who's counting.[:-]

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Quien Sabe?

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"Who knows?" Rev, what a strange reply. As I said before, you are wrong in any assumption that I am an outfitter.

I assumed that posters here had common reading skills whenI posted my signature link, was I wrong in your case?

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Don't get your panties in an up roar.. We was just having fun... Cause your pics posted were all different people.. I went to your site.. it's cool. And you know we ME and REB and going to mess with you with a name like Venado.. Kus we and Hem are espanglish espeakers. :D.. We're certainly not insulting your intelligence. You did ask who's counting.. I answered.. Quien Sabe!

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Don't make me get ugly..:D :D:D:D

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Gosh Rev, the whole clan of Venado's is on here!:D:D:D:D

venado

Venado Grande

venado viejo

venado10

venado99

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Good call!

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The Buck stops here,,, but which one.

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It appears that none of my "relatives" have ever posted. Would that mean that they are figments?? Maybe they are not the only figments..!:eek:

Here is a pic of a hog that apparently had been shot but survived with its guts hanging out. They can be tough animals for those that are not hit in the right place.

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Nice piggies!

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I looked forever to find a place in North America where I could kill a 100 percent, pureblood Russian boar. I ended up going to Ontario, Canada and shooting one on a reserve (Ontario has since ended canned hunting ... my hunt there was fun, but the results were guaranteed behind a high-fence). This hog you killed in Texas is every bitas impressive as the one I killedon the reserve. Very nice trophy. Exceptional Texas boar!

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Thank you Dr. Swat. I have no idea what these Tx hogs are since we see them in all forms and colors. I've seen a few that looked like "Russians" but the majority look more like domestic hogs but with larger more elongated heads.

The place that these hogs came from has had a huge population in years past. We killed about 200 in 2003, 150 in 2004,60 in 2005 and only 15 in 2006. Not only is the pressure apparently getting to them but the drought certainly has to be effecting the surviveability of offspring.

Here is a typical size and grouping. Nothing like those big boars that are fairly rare.