A 450-Pound Giant Wild Boar Shot Close-Range by Hunters, Revealing its Teeth, and with a Strong Build
Recently, hunters in Texas captured a wild boar weighing nearly 500 pounds (about 450 kilograms). They also hunted six wild boars to curb the ‘wild boar blitz’ in the area.
‘Hateful Wildlife Removal Agency’ boss Joel Darder and Mike Heckabarger shot a 488-pound wild boar at the Cypress Lake Conservation Area, and the other six dead boars weighed approximately 250 pounds each.
Joel Darder said in an interview, ‘We went there to eliminate wild boars because there are too many of them in the area, and they are destroying the entire region.’
It is reported that Darder and Heckabarger use thermal imaging and night vision devices to hunt. This method is different from using traps or dogs.
This method allows them to see the boars when they are active. ‘We saw a wild boar standing around a pond. Even from a distance, we could see that it was a big chunk. We walked towards it, but we couldn’t find it, so we took another road. Just less than 20 yards away, we shot it.’
It is reported that ‘I used a thermal imager to observe another wild boar, he was less than 10 meters away from me, I had to shoot it because it was charging towards me.’
Darder has been hunting in East Texas for 15 years, he said that the harvest on Saturday was the largest wild boar he had ever hunted.
Wild boars are becoming a more serious problem in East Texas. A 59-year-old woman in Liberty County, Christine Rollins, was killed by wild boars just a few steps from her home in November 2019.
A wildlife biologist who has been studying wild boars for 40 years, Jack Maye, said that global warming has increased the survival rate of newborn wild piglets and produced more acorns, tubers, and roots for them to eat. They can begin to reproduce when they are three months old, and they reproduce twice a year.
