Boy stops wild hog as big as buffalo
This is one scary animal. It weighs as much as some buffalo and appears to be longer than most. I am no expert on this this, but one sad thing about this boy shooting the wild hog is that possibly it could have been caputred and used bred to produce larger pigs for sale for food.
If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004. . . . .
posted by John Lott at 3:05 PM
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As a wild beast this would have been one mean animal. The big boar at the Iowa State Fair is usually larger than this animal, weight wise (though not by much), so we did not lose much in genetics.
Bigger is not always better for food production, an animal this size is well beyond the size that produces quality pork. Also, as an animal gets above a certain weight, its efficiency of conversion of feed to meat declines.
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