As North Carolina Sportsman reports, Bruce Florence and his son Jonathan bagged a legendary 707.5-pound wild boar earlier this month in the mountains of Transylvania County, North Carolina.
On the afternoon of the hunt, the pair had already walked for a couple of hours when Bruce decided to stop and rest.
Jonathan continued up the mountain ahead of his father and soon drove three sows and the mammoth boar from the thicket. But the passel charged back toward Bruce, who carried with him only a single-shot .25-06 rifle.
The boar moved quickly as Bruce shouldered the rifle.
When the pig was within 30 yards, Bruce fired his sole round and struck the animal in the vitals; the hog stammered another ten to fifteen yards before collapsing.
“He was bee-lining right at me,” Bruce later told North Carolina Sportsman. He also noted: “We got some good bacon and sausage off the hog . . . We’ve already eaten the ribs.”
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Photo via North Carolina Sportsman.