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Post by reflex264 on Jan 29, 2024 10:37:37 GMT -5
Sure, they exist, but It was more about what he thought vs what is. I see it a lot more with hogs than anything else. On the interweb, They are all 400# and go up from there!😂 I keep an electronic scale in my ranch truck and use the winch to raise and weigh them. Each time I ask others to guess weight before weighing the guesses are hilarious. I cannot recall anyone ever guessing under actual weight, and most are 50-100 pounds higher than actual weight. Having taken several really big pigs, and some that were taken prior to having the scale. I do not believe I’ve ever taken a 300#, several 225#-275#, sadly some of the bigger ones were never weighed. I still do not claim to have taken one 300#, but there is always someone who will “know” for a fact that they have. “It broke the scale” “we had to weigh it in pieces” bla bla bla. Trapr There just aren't that many 300 pounders running around. Matt killed a big sow at Wilderness (where they do the Reeder Handgun Hounting Challenge) that they actually weighed before they gutted it. It was 328 lbs but it dwarfed the rest of the hogs killed that weekend. |
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Post by hunter01 on Jan 29, 2024 11:07:35 GMT -5
I keep an electronic scale in my ranch truck and use the winch to raise and weigh them. Each time I ask others to guess weight before weighing the guesses are hilarious. I cannot recall anyone ever guessing under actual weight, and most are 50-100 pounds higher than actual weight. Having taken several really big pigs, and some that were taken prior to having the scale. I do not believe I’ve ever taken a 300#, several 225#-275#, sadly some of the bigger ones were never weighed. I still do not claim to have taken one 300#, but there is always someone who will “know” for a fact that they have. “It broke the scale” “we had to weigh it in pieces” bla bla bla. Trapr There just aren't that many 300 pounders running around. Matt killed a big sow at Wilderness (where they do the Reeder Handgun Hounting Challenge) that they actually weighed before they gutted it. It was 328 lbs but it dwarfed the rest of the hogs killed that weekend. Im speaking only of free range hogs that have to make a living and stay alive long enough to get these kinds of weights on them. Behind a high fence, making a living is guaranteed as thats what the game managers are for. Staying alive is also much easier as most wont pay the price for a trophy hog to shoot a smaller specimen. We had a duroc boar when i was a kid that was over 600# verified. I used to ride him around the pig pen like a horse until he had had enough and ripped my jeans from the ankle to the crotch in one swoop. One of the many times that God saved me for some reason. Free range hogs are also very athletic and lean. They may have a 400# frame and only be 200# because of circumference. |
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 29, 2024 11:10:59 GMT -5
LOL the thought of a trophy armidillo is awesome! Someone else will have to take them to get scored. I am going to wage war on them this year. It seems like evey time you kill one two come back in its place. A young hunter was riding on the back of my 4 wheeler with me after hunting until dark in a swamp stand. A huge armadillo crossed the trail in front of us in the headlights and the kid got real excited. When we got to camp he told his daddy we had seen a giant armadillo. Dad asked, “How big was he son?” Kid said, “He was as big as a beachball Dad!” That’s how he got his nickname, Beachball. |
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Post by reflex264 on Jan 29, 2024 11:37:00 GMT -5
There just aren't that many 300 pounders running around. Matt killed a big sow at Wilderness (where they do the Reeder Handgun Hounting Challenge) that they actually weighed before they gutted it. It was 328 lbs but it dwarfed the rest of the hogs killed that weekend. Im speaking only of free range hogs that have to make a living and stay alive long enough to get these kinds of weights on them. Behind a high fence, making a living is guaranteed as thats what the game managers are for. Staying alive is also much easier as most wont pay the price for a trophy hog to shoot a smaller specimen. We had a duroc boar when i was a kid that was over 600# verified. I used to ride him around the pig pen like a horse until he had had enough and ripped my jeans from the ankle to the crotch in one swoop. One of the many times that God saved me for some reason. Free range hogs are also very athletic and lean. They may have a 400# frame and only be 200# because of circumference. True out in the wild they have little chance of reaching 300 lbs. Very few even hit 200 lbs. The state trapped 29 of them on my sister's farm in Stella, Tn. Most were around 100 lbs. They have a trap that they move around with a remote gate on it. They started dumping corn out leading into the trap. The first few nights just a couple showed up. Then a few more each night until 29 were in the trap for a couple nights in a row then one night they shot the gate. Hogs gone wild TN style. |
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Post by contender on Jan 29, 2024 11:40:28 GMT -5
My question is how did the armadillo taste to you? I've found them to be quite tasty!
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Post by bigbore5 on Jan 29, 2024 11:47:11 GMT -5
My question is how did the armadillo taste to you? I've found them to be quite tasty! Nope. Not for me to try. |
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Post by contender on Jan 29, 2024 11:57:39 GMT -5
Don't knock it until you tried it!
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Post by hunter01 on Jan 29, 2024 12:56:00 GMT -5
Don't knock it until you tried it! Id certainly try it. We eat rattlesnakes, turtles, and iguanas, so why not armadillo? By "we", i mean americans. |
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Post by contender on Jan 29, 2024 13:01:07 GMT -5
I've had armadillo several times. Wash them off,,, cut them out of the shell & skin. Cut out the meat,, cube,, flour, butter & fry gently.
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Post by hunter01 on Jan 29, 2024 13:07:38 GMT -5
I've had armadillo several times. Wash them off,,, cut them out of the shell & skin. Cut out the meat,, cube,, flour, butter & fry gently. I always assumed the shell was the skin. I Learned something new today! |
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 29, 2024 13:36:20 GMT -5
HAHAHA Trapr. You are right. Most people guess 100 pounds over actual weight.
In my 46 years of hunting hogs, only two have ever weighed over 300. My Father shot one that was well over 400 and a Battle Buddy of mine from the Army got one well over 300. I have never killed one. That says a lot for a man who has personally killed thousands over my life.
Our hog traps weigh over 600 pounds. Takes a tractor to move them. Set one one night and went back to check it the next day. The trap was GONE! WTF, over?
The drag marks weren't hard to follow. The hoof prints looked like a 600 pound calf. The trap was moved 150 feet and down into a creek. The door was about to fall off and one panel that was welded to the angle iron frame was ripped off! I dont know what actually did it but it was something VERY angry. I would want a very big weapon if I came across whatever did that in the brush.
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Post by bigbore5 on Jan 29, 2024 16:35:14 GMT -5
I shot a huge almost 700 pounder on a farm that was being destroyed by rooters in central MS a few years back. 30-30 dropped it in it's tracks.
When I got to it, first thing I saw was an ear tag! Crap. Turned out okay though. It had escaped from a farm about 20 miles away. I really thought I had just p.o.'ed one of my hosts neighbors off!
Biggest real feral I have killed was about 360 if I remember, but most I get now days are 200 tops.
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Post by reflex264 on Jan 29, 2024 16:47:34 GMT -5
My question is how did the armadillo taste to you? I've found them to be quite tasty! The armadillos around here carry several diseases. They advise people not to eat them. |
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 29, 2024 18:44:14 GMT -5
I have eaten raccoon cooked by some old timers and it was D-E-Licious!! Same folks warned me off of armadillos unless there was just nothing else. I am sure, absolutely sure that some folks ate them and had no problems. I am just saying what I was told.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 29, 2024 18:56:13 GMT -5
My question is how did the armadillo taste to you? I've found them to be quite tasty! The armadillos around here carry several diseases. They advise people not to eat them. Feral hogs carry several diseases too,…doesn’t stop us from eating them. Trapr |
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