East Texas man takes down 416-pound wild hog in backyard

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"preying on fawns" yeah, that's not going to work.
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East Texas man takes down 416-pound wild hog in backyard
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This massive wild hog was killed by Joe Clowers. (Gregg County Game Warden)

If you're a feral hog, don't mess with Texans.

That's the lesson learned by a 416-pound wild hog that was killed by an East Texas man after wreaking havoc on his property for the past five years.

A man, Joe Clowers in Union Grove, Texas, killed the hog with an AR-15.

"My property lays between some populated areas and I try to maintain an environment like a sanctuary or nursery for the deer to raise fawns," Clowers told the Houston Chronicle.

Texas is home to the largest feral hog population in the United States, with an estimated 4 million hogs statewide, according to local media, and the animals are increasingly finding their way to developed suburbs.

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Joe Clowers of Union Grove, Texas is seen with the massive wild hog that he killed in his backyard. (Gregg County Game Warden)

Along with things like mosquitoes, fire ants, snakes and rats, wild hogs are probably one of the more disliked animals in the Lone Star state.


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The hog had been preying on the fawns in the area and Clowers said he always stayed armed when visiting his deer feeders in case the beast charged him.

The departed hog will live on as a trophy mounted on the wall in his home, he added.

"He was the big daddy," Clowers said. "I called him the bush beast."
 
morning, good shooting. question what caliber is the AR? custom build, or factory??
was hog boar or sow? very bad hombre!!
 
They may disliked but everyone wants to charge you an arm and leg to help them out with their "problem"...

Be easier to sleep with the land owners daughters than to get pemission to hunt hogs on his land!

Cool story though...thanks!
 
A few weeks ago I took the wife and kids to a pumpkin patch. On the way there, I saw a dead hog on the side of the road. He could not have been there long as the buzzards had not started in on him yet. He look about about as big as the hog in this thread. I wonder what damage the vehicle that hit him suffered. Makes me wonder if how many other large hogs this size are out there running around.
 
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