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Old 09-25-2012, 01:40 AM
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Hey, Buck...

The wild boar around Tellico wasn't your normal piggy gone wild!
I've seen black Russian boar at better than 400 pounds with tusk over 4" long.

"In 1908 the Whiting Manufacturing Company bought a large tract of land in the Snowbird Mountains in Graham County, North Carolina. Within this tract was a mountain known as Hooper's Bald. Mr. George Gordon Moore, an American advisor for the company, was allowed to establish a game reserve on company land on Hooper's Bald around 1909. In 1911, a 500 to 600-acre hog lot was constructed, with a split rail fence nine rails high. In April 1912, a young shipment of 14 European wild hogs, including 11 sows and 3 boars, arrived and was released in the lot. They each weighed approximately 60 to 75 pounds. They were purchased from an agent in Berlin, Germany, who claimed that they came from the Ural Mountains of Russia."

Here piggy!

http://www.boarhuntingtn.com/assets/IMG_0090.jpg

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