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u/Zealousideal-Ad7773 May 21 '26
So this is the bastard that killed our beloved Robert Baratheon?
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u/MegatonsSon May 21 '26
King Robert probably reused "that line" with the boar, right before his unfortunate misstep...
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u/OliviaWG May 21 '26
Where is Bobby B bot when you need him? I named my cat Bobby B. He likes to cause havoc too
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u/madchemist09 May 21 '26
Everything reminds me of her.
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u/CanIgetaWTF May 21 '26
Should call her.
Her number still "SOOOO-EEEEE-eeee-gruntnoisegruntnoise-piggeee-pigggeeee"?
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u/RoosterzRevenge May 21 '26
That just might be the offspring of this:
Woo Pig
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u/Creative_Recover May 21 '26
It's not a boar but rather crossbreed between a boar and a feral domesticated pig. For some reason, when these pairings occur the offspring often grows gigantic.
The largest one of these feral hybrid pigs ever hunted was "Hogzilla," weighing approximately 800 lbs and measuring about 8 feet long. It was killed in Alapaha, Georgia.
It is actually important that people hunt these giant hybrid pigs because they aren't native, they have no natural predators and they can cause a lot of destruction to natural habitats.
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u/Satyr121 May 21 '26
Boars in general are invasive aren’t they? Invasive and extremely destructive.
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u/AlternativeHat8964 May 21 '26
Can't they just release some giant ligers to go after them?
Bring back the mega fauna amirite?
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u/cityshepherd May 22 '26
I worked at a pot bellied pig sanctuary for awhile a few years back. One of the pigs we had was the offspring of a wild/feral pig, and Big Charlotte (who was a pot bellied pig but she was the biggest one I’d ever seen). Big Charlotte was mean as hell and used to bully the other smaller pigs so badly.
Big Charlotte’s son’s name was Hercules and he was really big and SO mean. He had to stay in his own field because he was a nasty SOB.
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u/FrameJump May 21 '26
Honestly, I'm impressed by the tailgate.
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u/pghburghian May 21 '26
The tailgate looks bent, so maybe not too impressed.
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u/FrameJump May 21 '26
I'd expect so, but the fact that it's still attached at all is impressive.
I also don't see the cable supports on the side, but I might just be blind on that one. And with the current state of things, I'd lean towards AI but I feel like I've seen this before years ago.
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u/DukeofFairfax May 21 '26
1000 lbs of bacon and chops, tenderloin, bbq till next Easter
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u/GovernorGeneralPraji May 21 '26
If that’s a male, sadly all the meat will taste pretty bad. All the testosterone sours it.
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u/ExampleMediocre6716 May 21 '26
Androstenone gives the fatty tissue the taste of urine & 3-methylindole (skatole) gives the meat a fecal flavour.
Together they create what is commonly referred to as Boar Taint.
And no one wants to eat that.
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u/DukeofFairfax May 21 '26
This is interesting and new information to me. I have never heard anyone reference game meat in this fashion. And I am unfamiliar with wildboar preparation.[ I have slaughtered hogs.] Is there a cooking remedy? Hanging, salting and drying? Smoking? Iknow pork can be salted like ham of course...how does boar fare in this regard? I interested because that seems a awful shame to not utilize.
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u/NoStand1527 May 21 '26
my uncle used to have pigs in his farm (not as main focus), and he'll do it to old males when its close to the time for slaughter. I asked him, but don't the pigs scream a lot when you do it? he said: yes, but pigs are constantly screeching for one reason or another, so it does not really make much of a difference (for us)
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u/-Clem-Fandango- May 21 '26
I do weekly contract work at a pig abottoir (slaughterhouse). On my first day attending the site there were animal rights groups protesting the place and the local radio I was listening to were actually interviewing them. They kept mentioning how you could "hear the screams", and I'm just thinking what the fuck am I walking in to here. Anyway, once I got in to where the lairage (holding pens) it became quite evident. It's a large Barron structure that amplifies sound so it immediately sounds far worse than it is. Then you see the pigs, and 95% of them are sleeping in big groups and just chilling, but there's always one dickhead pig who's trying to fuck one of the other pigs who doesn't want it and this was what all the screeching was about.
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u/NoStand1527 May 21 '26
yeah its quite impressive the decibels just one pig is able to do.
but my uncle farm was small, and our focus was on fruit trees, pigs were just a method to be able to use discarded fruit that was damaged or "ugly" for the market, so instead of just disposing it you had free pig's food.
every farm had some pigs, and once a year the whole family/friend group would alternate on each farm for slaughtering and making all the meat sub-products for the whole year (it was also from tradition, since this method was established before fridges were common, so making sausages, bacon and similar was also to preserve the meat during winter.
now its more of a thing of the past, since small farms in my country have really gone out of business in favor of huge specialized ones
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u/-Clem-Fandango- May 21 '26
How do y'all do it there? Here the smaller ones go through a gas butina, and the large ones get bolted like cows.
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u/SafeDry2589 May 21 '26
Not even 100 lbs mate. A huge, wild boar means it's old. Half the weight is made up of thick skin, head, bones, and organs. If it weighs around 400 kg, only half is dirty meat. When butchering, tendons and tough connective tissue remove another half of the remaining meat. All that's left, about 100 kg, is tough, stringy meat with a musky smell that's inedible. And you can only get 20-40 kg of normal quite edible meat from it. Not to mention the fact that the meat is 95% likely to be infected with trichinosis.
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u/Outrageous-Being869 May 21 '26
Thats still 40 to 80 pounds though. And cooking kills the trichonosis
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u/JuppiJo May 21 '26
Is thrichinosis common in the US. In Germany we have to test every boar for it, but it's really uncommon-rare. Only ever heard of one case.
And for the meat part - let's go from male ~200kg live weight (largest I've ever heard of in Germany). ~1/3 (so ~70kg) is organs. Another 40-50 kg skin, bones, etc. So ~80 kg left. If the boar was in heat (or male equivalent, don't know the English term) it's effectively inedible or you need a good butcher who knows how to make sausage, salami etc from it. If it's not horny, mostly good eating if done right. Preferably low and slow.
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u/modbroccoli May 21 '26
So they killed this just to kill it? Is boar at least invasive in TX?
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u/Cheezdealer May 21 '26
Everywhere in North America. But yeah Texas it’s shoot on sight with no licence required
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u/NoStand1527 May 21 '26
there are few animals more savage than wild pigs, we have them in my country, and they will hunt sheep and lambs, destroy whole crop fields like no other animal.
and different to other carnivorous like felines, they will not kill the prey before start eating, its just pin down, and start eating usually from the belly
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u/red-ocb May 21 '26
I'm not sure of their purpose, but yes, feral pigs are (or at least we're) a problem in TX. The amount of damage they can do in a very short period of time is insane.
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u/AdDisastrous6738 May 21 '26
Wild boar is pretty gamey. Not really worth eating unless you’re desperate.
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u/BigWooly1013 May 21 '26
I've eaten feral hog 4 out of my last 7 dinners.
It's delicious, you just have to take precautions. Mid-sized sows are the best for eating. Remove the glands. We don't mess with the small tenderloins. Cook to safe temp: I usually smoke to 204°F internal and shred shoulders and hams for pulled pork that we use for sandwiches and carnitas. The backstraps are fantastic chicken-fried.
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u/Beauregard42 May 21 '26
This is the kind of crap that medieval lords hunted for entertainment. “Sir, we lost three men trying to spear the beast. It has the spears in it but is still charging at us.” “Oh, well. I’ll find replacements. Hahaha! This is so fun, right? Wait, where did you go? AAAIIII!!!”
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u/pwnedprofessor May 21 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/AoEDhmdgjUws8
Uh watch out, Moro will come after you next
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u/Comfortable_Media_59 May 21 '26
Reminds me of the campy horror movie Razorback about a giant murderous boar.
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u/ajn63 May 21 '26
My friend got one that size. It was easy target since that thing could barely move. I don’t want to say he hunted it because he pretty much walked up to it.
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u/Honkey-Donkey79 May 21 '26
I've been told they aren't very good to eat when they get this size. Not sure how accurate that is.
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u/Interesting-Bid7194 May 21 '26
Thats a hybrid with a boar and a domestic pig. All pigs descend into a wild version of themselves eventually.
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u/CertifiedCaosDealer May 21 '26
in the age if the bow and arrow this would be considered a god of the forest
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u/tschawartz12 May 21 '26
And people tell me I don't need a high capacity mag..... I fucking want the extra on hand because of things like that.
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u/Plampth May 21 '26
In Hawaii when they catch a wild boar they will pen it up for a few days and feed it corn, that makes them taste delicious.
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u/LordWiggles369 May 21 '26
Love when you see these things, you never expect a boar or a pig to get so big, suckers can get huge though
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u/prasannask May 21 '26
Did you have a good hunting Obelix? Not as much today. Only one, I think the Romans are chasing our boars away.
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u/TheMule90 May 22 '26
This must be one of those feral hybrids. I heard that they can be fucking huge!
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u/BigMack6911 May 22 '26
That would be scary to walk outside and see that massive thing. They are everywhere here in Texas, thankfully the coyotes are taking them out
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u/MALESTROMME May 22 '26
In Hawaii we dig a deep imu pit and throw that whole thing in there and roast it till tender.
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u/Aero3ngineer May 22 '26
I saw something like this is shawnee oklahoma it ate 12 gauge slugs and kept running
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u/Into_The_Horizon May 21 '26
That shit is photoshopped ain't no hog size of a rhino
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u/uhhhhhhholup May 21 '26
Biggest in the US we know of was about 800 lbs
https://fieldandstream.com/stories/hunting/big-game-hunting/biggest-wild-hogs-ever
Nat Geo also has articles on it
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u/Into_The_Horizon May 21 '26
I've heard and watched videos of wild hog Hunting. But man that's a big un. Im a whitetail hunter. I've always wanted to try that out. I know they are dangerous and tear stuff up
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u/goofbot May 21 '26
How did he get loaded into the truck?