Some 31 year old fella in Georgia shot himself a THOUSAND POUND PIG!

Saw it in the paper today.

What would the record be?

Uncle Matt (in IL)

my sister's sister in law caught a pig when it was just a few days old, it weighed over 1,000, but it was domesticated.....when he died they had to rent a backhoe(sp?).....

dont believe it

i dont believe it*

they didn't even let anyone see him.just dug a hole and burried him.didn't keep the head to mount or anything.

just can't believe it with out proof.[:'(]

i saw the news paper article...........so i'm kinda believing it.....

seen article hard to believe,but it could of some domestic of some type mixed in with bloodline

Don't believe it was truly a wild pig.

As an ex-hog farmer, my boars weighed from 800-900 lbs. My sows weighed 600-700 lbs. That is an auction scale not an estimate.

Yes this is a domestic breed probably a cross. If I had to guessed, I would say Duroc-York cross. I don't believe a feral hog can eat enough to get that size. There just isn't engough good nutrition available in the wild.

However we did have a black bear in NC that learned to raid a dead hog box. When they killed him he was 880 lbs. Even if the boar raided a corn crib, corn is only 8-9% protein. Maybe he raided a wheat or soysbeans storage bin.

I saw the photo and read about it last week on the CNN web sight. OK maybe not 1000LBs, but the biggest damn pig I ever saw. I guy who shot him was kinda standing in a hole so it does make the pig look bigger yet. I would have guessed 800/900 LBs and a good 8 feet long. Biggest one I have seen at my place was a 6/7 footer had to go 600LBs. It was in the rain after my cross hairs went away couldn't tell front from back. I crawled up on him and just placed one right in the middle. He just trotted off like nothing happened. My buddies look at me like I'm tellin a fishin story.

Oh well.