Bad to the Bone

[Pat B.]

Ray, they never die !

Man, that's a lot of bone growth in a years time.
Amazing what a body does to heal itself..

[Ray Hammond]

I really don't know how long pigs live in our area..but I have seen a hog over several years and it just seemed to grow a little bigger every year..sure didnt get smaller though it got considerably older.

By the way, isn't that a Savora broadhead in that pigs face? Or a Rocky Mtn? doesnt look like a Muzzy but then again I'm no expert on those replaceable blade jobbers anyway.

[Kingwouldbe]

Ray, that's funny that you would say "your not familiar with our hogs out here" and I think your right, because YOUR hogs aren't anything like our hogs, LOL

It amazes me how different hogs can be by region.

I have only hunted hog on the main land and Islands over here in cali.

This is the oldest hog we have ever killed or even found a skull this old.

The Island hogs never got into a fight, they would growl, huff and puff at each other but never engage, also out of a few hundred kills we never had a broken tusk.

The mainlanders fight every day, with brutal, savage and vicious battles like I have never seen,  there scars have scars, it's rare that a boar has not broken a tusk.

As far as where are the skulls of the old boars, you got me? maybe aliens, like in the move Predator.    

[BUFF]

thats too cool

[Gehrke145]

King I don't no about everyone else but we need some more pics!!!

[amicus]

Thats awesome.

Thanks

[Bill Carlsen]

Is it possible that the hogs are cannibalistic and eat their dead? If you ever watched Deadwood you would understand my frame of reference.

[Ray Hammond]

of course, I have lost a shot hog to others eating it...but they don't eat those skulls...even a hyena or jaguar would have a hard time cracking a hog skull.

[James Wrenn]

I really like that alien theory about the skulls myself.        

I have never spent a whole lot of time where there were hogs except when hunting but have never found any remains other than a couple of pigglets a coyote might have got.Where we hunt on bad hurricane years it is major flooding so I always assumed the woods got washed clean every few years.    On the note of a hog being hard headed.I watched a 22 bounce off a hogs head and hit my dad in the arm one day when he missed the sweet spot at killing time.

[Kingwouldbe]

Originally posted by gehrke145:
King I don't no about everyone else but we need some more pics!!!

looks fine from here
 
All of this bone grew in one year
 
It looks like his throat was getting smaller from the growth
 
This, I think, confirms, a hog can take some punishment and not miss a beat
 

[Jerry Jeffer]

Totally Awesome!!

[Swamp Pygmy]

Wow.

King WB there is a page on boar aging on the front of the texas boars site I think. If you saw the stupid tv show "monster hogs" thing that "monster chasers" on the discovery channel or someone did. That was his ranch they were on. He does a lil trad bow hunting but not much. But he knows A LOT about boars. Once the teeth fall it it'll be hard to age but I think the amount of holes left should tell you something.

that poor pig though. This is a great picture of why you should only take lung or heart shots on pigs. Pigs of any size at least. If that was a fifteen lb pig and you got that muzzy thats fine. But thats WAY too big a pig to shoot in the head.

[Bonebuster]

Jeffer is right, that IS totally awesome.

Excellent example of the ability wild animals
have by surviving, and recovering from severe wounds.  

As tough as they are though, we all know what a sharp head to the lungs will do in mere seconds.

Thanks for posting the photo`s Kingwouldbe.
Always something cool coming from you.

[rg176bnc]

What set up was he shot w/ from the other guy.  I shot a 175 lbr a few years ago in the same place while he was napping.  Went thru his skull, severed the spine at the atlas joint and was bearly poking out of the skin.  It was w/ a 70lb whellie bow & carbon arrows though.  Sweet pig.... they are IMO the toughest critter in NA.

[Kingwouldbe]

It was killed with a 55lb Habu recurve and a 530grain arrow with a Delta 2 blade, double lungs

[frassettor]

                    Congrats on the trophy.

[frassettor]

[Widowbender]

Nice pics, Dave thanks for sharing. I used to have a deer leg bone with a broadhead in it. The bone had grown back around the head like yours. A friend killed a big buck several years ago that had an arrow imbedded between the antlers!!! Those hog skulls sure are awesome looking!!

David

[RC]

Nice hogs for sure.I once was in a club that was 3 miles or so from the Paridise trad club. I killed a hog that had a snuffer in his jaw bone all healed up.Hogs are tuff but the interesting thing is he traveled the three miles and stayed. I saw the pig several times before getting lucky and killing him.
  Ray I have never found a mature "old" dead hog either.I have found some that I thought were wounded and died but as far as old age goes I hav`nt.Interesting no doubt.R C

[RC]

I have found several like this one.RC