I wouldn't doubt that you have some left over ancient Wooly Mammoth's still hiding out in those forests breeding with those swine!!!

They do look fierce and by your listing of calibers used on them, I know they are tough to put down.

DC,

I'm a 308 kind of guy for hogs and coyotes with a Pulsar N750 atop my BAR Lightweight Stalker.
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In Michigan, a feral pig here would be a snack for one of these guys. At first I thought it was a buffalo with tusks until further examination. Excellent pictures.

I went to 2nd grade in Izmir Turkey where my Dad was stationed in 1969-70 with the Air Force. He hunted wild boar over there. He bought a nice Winchester Model 88 in .308 for his hunts over there and gave it to me on my sixteenth birthday.

Oh great story, Izmir is a nice place.....

We hunt alot around Izmir.

@randall729

Here is the tusk I got from one big wild boar I shot about 6 months ago.

Look at the size of his tusks compared to a 300 Win Mag .

We are dealing with the biggest boars of the world probably

Just saw your post, 308 sounds right but in Europe we use mainly

9.3x62
375 H&H
8x68
300WM

Generally for the hog hunting. But some also use 308 and 30-06 as well.

However AR15 and similar (semi auto) is strictly forbidden for hunting.

I wish they would allow AR15 one day

Which is the larger tusks, the lower or uppers?

The longer one are the lowers. The lower tusks (cutters)grow continuously and are sharpened against the uppers (whetters)

You can see the black gum line on the tusks. It is common on mounted heads or European skull mounts for them to "pull" the tusks to appear much larger than they were in life, since most of the tooth is below the gum line and inside the jawbones.



When the mouth is closed the lowers should be in front of the uppers. Neither of these hogs as mounted would have been able to close their mouths or eat.

If they have whited out the gum line, you can still tell. If it doesn't look like the mouth will close with cutters against the whetters then they have been pulled.

Here is another good example. You can tell where the lowers are sharped by the uppers, but not matched up in the mount.



To me, this is the equivalent of mounting a big buck, but slitting the skull cap to give it 6 more inches of spread.

The lowers are the longer and sharper tusks. The uppers actually sharpen the lowers as they rub together when the hog opens and closes his mouth.

Thank you for the replies,I always wondered but never pulled any to check them out.

After I shoot a wild boar on the head, they generally fall on the ground instantly but not die immediately. They die in a few minutes though.

So when we get there, we stab a knife to their hearts to end their misery. Sometimes, they would be aware of the fact that we are near them and to scare us off, they would simply make a very scaring jaw sound by strongly closing and opening his mouth and hitting uppers, lowers and all his teeth.....

Hey what's up ?

I haven't been around since the beginning of summer as I was attending night and driven hunts every weekend and I did not find the time to upload some new pictures.

I have hunted alot of monsters lately and will post pictures verybsoon.

In the mean time some teasers

Those are "NICE"!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we had a few of them to cross with our Hogs, it would sure make things "Interesting" for us Bow Hunters.

Welcome back!

Those do look like prehistoric monster swine!

These pigs are no JOKE. Id hate to meet one of them on my way back to the tree stand lol. If we had them around here I would be packing at least a 44mag on my side at all times.