I don't quite believe this one but they are out there...

by Hobie , Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Friday, March 14, 2014, 10:00 (3850 days ago) @ FOWLER

in 1976 I was stationed at FT Hunter-Liggett, CA and worked next door to the game check-in station. They had a frame made of 2-inch pipe with a cross bar I was told (and it appeared to be) 10 feet from ground level from which they suspended their scale. One day (i.e. ONCE) a fellow checked a hog hung as Gunner's is depicted from their scale (which had to be hoisted right up to the bar. They wanted but were having trouble getting an accurate weight on this hog as his nose was pushing dirt. Now, he was stretched out, like Gunner's, and hanging from a scale which must have taken up 1-2 feet but that was a BIG hog. He had a longer snout and that leaner, wild appearance, too. I heard later that he weighed 500 lbs but was thinking that was GI exaggeration based on what I'd seen. Most we killed there were 100-200 lbs. I don't think anyone I know had seen a hog that big while out hunting, I know I didn't.

I still like to see these photos. Lots of info still in one.

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Sincerely,

Hobie