Thread: Bloody Big Pig

You can get some huge pigs in the north island.

When I was a little lad in the 1960s my old man took one boar the local south Waikato district had been after for years. It was called the 'Blackberry Gulley' boar and was known to have killed 14 dogs. Was simply too big and powerful and would break the bail whenever he wanted - and we had bred exceptional bailers/holders. They finally got him bailed up in a deep wallow hole and he got a jungle carbine 303 through the scone. Men went back into the bush next day with the tractor and on the scales he went 360lbs - a huge brindle coloured boar with tusks just over 3" undrawn. It was quite an event - even a write up in the local paper. We still have the mounted head.

The boar in this article looks of similar size. I remember also a boar taken in the Coromandel bush in the 80s which weighed in at 600lbs - was also in the newspapers. The big sizes come from cross-breeding with domestic pigs which have gone bush over the last 100 years or so.