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Father, son bag charging 700-pound boar in North Carolina

  

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Via:  nona62  •  9 years ago  •  18 comments

Father, son bag charging 700-pound boar in North Carolina

Father, son bag charging 700-pound boar in North Carolina

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Bruce Florence and his son, Jonathan Florence, bagged this enormous wild boar in North Carolina earlier this month.

You might have to go to Washington to find this much pork.

A father-and-son hunting team killed a 707.5-pound wild hog earlier this month deep in the mountains of North Carolina with a single shot. The North Carolina Sportsman reported that Bruce Florence and his son, Jonathan, were on the side of a mountain on Jan. 16 in Transylvania County when the two split up. Bruce sat down while Jonathan investigated a rustling in the brush.

His son managed to flush out three small hogs and just when he was just about to emerge from the thicket, he recalled, "the big boy blasted out."

"He headed straight for my Dad," Jonathan told the magazine.

Bruce, an experienced hog hunter who has killed some in the 150-pound range, likened the Russian boar to a charging buffalo.

"He was bee-lining right at me," he said.

Bruce estimated that the hog was about 30 yards away when it angled just slightly to expose its vitals. Bruce pulled the trigger of his .25-06 rifle and dropped the massive beast.

Bruce took time to compose himself, and his son told the magazine his Dad's hair was standing up like he had "a Mohawk." The father and son utilized the steep terrain to drag the 7-foot, 4-inch hog until others helped moving it.

"We got some good bacon and sausage off this hog," Bruce told the magazine. "We've already eaten the ribs. We got about 150 pounds of sausage, a lot of bacon, and we got one ham and the tenderloins out."

The hog's head will be stuffed and hung in their cabin.

Feral pigs are common in North America, but usually top out at 200 pounds or so. But the Florence's boar is not even close to a record. In 2007, an 11-year-old Alabama boy killed one that weighed in at more than half a ton .

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/29/father-son-bag-charging-700-pound-hog-in-north-carolina/


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Nona62
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link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

It looks like they'll be eating "high on the hog" for a while!!

 
 
 
Nona62
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link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

OMG! And you're alive to tell about it!! Smile.gif

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika     9 years ago

OMG, they shot Rush Limbaugh....Smile.gif

 
 
 
Nona62
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link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

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Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.    9 years ago

LMAO!!

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika     9 years ago

Yeah, I guess your right. Rush is jumbo sized.

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Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.    9 years ago

Priceless!

 
 
 
Nona62
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Kavika
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link   Kavika     9 years ago

But he is a lot of other things, none of them good.Smile.gif

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Dowser
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link   Dowser    9 years ago

My, they were brave! That boar could have done some real damage to them!

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser    9 years ago

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Nona62
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link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

Good one Kav!

 
 
 
Nona62
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link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

They are very lucky!!

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser    9 years ago

and good shots!

 
 
 
Nona62
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link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

Most definitely!!

 
 
 
Cerenkov
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link   Cerenkov    9 years ago
Amazing!
 
 
 
Cerenkov
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link   Cerenkov    9 years ago
I'm sure the libs would have started a dialogue with the boar...
 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser    9 years ago

Yeah, I'm thinking 50 caliber... kaBLAM! Smile.gif

 
 

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