I end up with nasty pm's after everyone of these threads I post on. NOBODY get excited, I'm not referring to any of the photos on this thread(yet), but on past threads people proudly posing with their 300# pigs that are obviously no where near that and I am always suspicious when someone tells me an animal weighs EXACTLY 300#'s or any of the other even 100# increments. I have only seen two wild hogs that I would guarantee were over 300#'s and both of those were in Australia, the one boar I saw several times and he had tusks like a warthog, the closest I ever got to him was several hundred yards. Another time I had a rifle hunter shoot a big boar right at dark and then another pig I guarantee was twice as big, stood up and took off, I asked the hunter why he shot a small one until we walked over and saw the dead one was at LEAST 200#'s and I guarantee the one that got away was at least twice that big. I just remembered another one that was in the 300# range that we walked up on in Australia where it was feeding on a dead buffalo, we didn't have a hunter at the time and this boar had NO fear of us, we stopped at about six FEET when he wouldn't budge and Andrew said "shoot em", I said no, I would prefer to leave him for a paying hunter, which is at least partially true, but that was a BIG boar with no fear of us and I knew there was no way that I could drop him in six feet regardless of how good a shot it was and we didn't even have a rifle with us.
There are lots of places to go and shoot a big pig, if you don't care whether it is wild or pen raised, really truely monster WILD hogs are very rare. The other thing is that big WILD boars are one of the smartest and wariest animals in the woods, so often the only thing you see from them is the tracks. I just remembered one more I saw in Australia and it was definately over 300# and could have been over 400#, but it was getting fairly dark, I staked out a dead cow that had big pig tracks around it and right at dark this huge hog showed up, it was the only one I ever saw in that area and it grabbed a mouthful of that cow and DRAGGED it around in circles, but I never got a shot at that one!