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Old 05-18-2010, 07:36 AM
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lol..man i was thinkin the scale started at the bottom left side like a people scale lol...looked like it was tipped all the way around lol..thx fer actually havin the weight..i sure hate when people say.."guess the age of this deer" but no one ever really knows lol


Originally Posted by npaden
Okay, here’s a picture of the scale. (this is the picture that halfbaked saw for a few minutes when I first posted)


And a close up picture.


210lbs on the dot. I even made sure to adjust the scale to zero before we weighed him.

The guesses went pretty much as I expected. Most people tend to guess high on the weight of a hog. My friend was somewhat disappointed when we weighed him and he “only” weighed 210lbs. I told him that it was a nice pig and that most people who say they shot a 300 or 400lb pig didn’t actually put it on the scale, they just guessed.

Based on the guesses here, this was a 220lb pig. Based on the scale it was a 210lb pig. Pretty darn close, but that isn't the case on several more general hunting forums.



However, I posted this on several other forums, and overall there were 115 guesses and the average guess was 284lbs. The highest guess was 700lbs and the lowest guess was 145-150lbs (I entered it into the results as 147.5lbs). I’m not 100% sure that the 700lbs was a legitimate guess, but the next highest guess was 470 and that was a real guess based on the comments by the poster. There were 10 guesses that it was 400lbs or bigger and 43 folks had it at 300lbs or bigger.

The overall results were brought down by the 2 places I posted this where people are more experienced hog hunters. I posted it in the Hogs and Exotics forum on www.Huntingnet.com where the average guess was 220lbs and I posted it on www.Texasboars.com where the average guess was 224lbs. Next closest was www.predatormasters.com in their big game forum where the average guess was 240lbs followed by www.qdma.com where the average guess was 310lbs and the heaviest guesses were on www.trapperman.com where the average guess was 319lbs.

The standard deviation is also where you can tell a lot about how accurate the guesses were Basically that is the average of how far off each guess was, If there was a guess of 110lbs and a guess of 310lbs the average would have been 210lbs, but the standard deviation would be 100lbs. The standard deviation from the actual weight for each site is as follows. Huntingnet.com = 26lbs; Texasboars.com = 32lbs; Predatormasters = 51lbs, QDMA = 100lbs and Trappertalk = 110lbs.

Pretty interesting I thought. There were 3 folks that got it right on the button at 210lbs.

Probably a lot more than you guys wanted to know. Basically it looks like the guys who regularly hunt hogs have a better idea on what they weight than folks who don’t!
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Old 05-18-2010, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by podunk kennels
BTW did you zero the scale with the chain on it?
Yes, I zero'd it with the chain. It is only about a 3' section of chain so even without zeroing it with the chain it wouldn't make more than a couple pounds difference though.

I have shot 1 hog that weighed in at 245lbs and 2 others that were as big or even a little bigger than that one that I didn't end up weighing (1 because it broke the 1/4" rope I had, and another because I didn't have a truck to move it with).

Here's the biggest pig I've ever shot, I didn't weigh him but I'm guessing him right around the 250 - 260lb range.



Here's the one that weighed 245lbs.

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Old 05-18-2010, 09:37 AM
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Yeah! I was only 5 pounds off. LOL
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Old 05-18-2010, 02:57 PM
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I knew it had to be around 200 pounds. Most folks guess high because they focus on the mass of the animal and not taking into consideration things surrounding it.
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Old 05-19-2010, 08:25 AM
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That was a fun one!
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:31 PM
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I guess 235
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by d-dub66
I guess 235

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Old 05-21-2010, 07:32 PM
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275.35 lbs
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Old 05-29-2010, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by mcraddock
Ok, I'm guessing 210 Lbs. Awesome boar. Congrats to your friend.
HA! Got it right on the nose! What forum were the other two posters from that got it perfect?
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Old 05-29-2010, 03:14 PM
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A guy on www.Texasboars.com got it right on the nose and also a guy on www.trappertalk.com I think. There were a total of 115 guesses so that puts you in the top 3%.
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