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To: Joe Boucher

I am west of Okeechobee in Highlands County. Last month my brother and I shot two big pigs, one about 300 pounds.

Twenty years ago we were hunting in Venus, west of Okeechobee about 70 miles. We had set traps for pigs which were tearing up the pasture and some nearby orange groves. We went to check the trap the next day and it had been ripped to shreds. We replaced the posts with telephone poles, placing them about 3-4 feet into the ground. We had a buddy that checked the trap the next day; he called us and said there was a huge pig in the pen which was the size of a big bear. He said that he had shot it and it was dead, but that he needed help to remove it from the pen. He had to leave the woods to call us(this was back when cell phones were no good out there). We met him at the gate, each of us with a 357 pistol, which we always carry. We did not bring rifles as we assumed the pig was dead and we were simply going to remove the pig and butcher it.

When we got to the pen, a monster of a pig was running around, squirting blood out of several holes where he had been shot. As the Good Lord is my witness, at near point blank range my brother emptied his revolver into the head of the pig, and it got back up. I pulled out my 357 and shot it a couple more times and our buddy jumped in the pen with a knife and began cutting its throat when it fell to the ground.

We had to use the truck to pull the pig out of the pen/trap. We had to use the truck to pull it up into the tree. The shield was so thick that as we skinned it, the shield stuck out about a foot, stiff as can be. The shield was so thick that the bullets had barely penetrated the pig. The shot that essentially made him fall was through the eye socket. Of course, had we known it was alive, we would have brought rifles. In any event, I have pictures of it hanging beside my brother who weighed more than 250 at the time, and the pig was about 3 times his side. We guessed it at more than 600 pounds, possibly 800.


25 posted on 06/01/2009 12:57:19 PM PDT by Beeman
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To: Beeman

Good to know you Beeman.
I use to service banks for Diebold and Sebring was in my area. Still fly in there for breakfast and drive route 70 on the way to the inlaws in St. Pete.
And have done the Peace River in our Canoe.
I figure any where from Everglades City up to about mid Georgia you can get hogs and all the way to Texas.
Only thing you did wrong was of course “ assume” which is a good lesson to learn if ya live.
Did the same thing with a 40 pound dolphin I had in the fish locker and it beat the tar out of me.
Does Beeman mean you are a bee keeper?


28 posted on 06/01/2009 1:16:41 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Beeman

Who shot your brother?


29 posted on 06/01/2009 2:04:42 PM PDT by elephantlips
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