a customer brought me a boar to be mounted and the measurements were 8" x 22 with 5 3/4" tusks. about how heavy would this boar be ? im guessing about 100-110 lbs. max. and do you think i could get it mounted on a 7 1/2" x 23" mannikin from Joe Coombs ? not much suppliers make boar forms this small !
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Something in the measurements do not add up. I believe you got in a boar with an 8" nose to eye. What I cannot believe is the size of the tusks. I have seen over 200 pigs come through the shop doors in the past 2 years and I have NEVER seen a boar over 4.25 inches as far as tusk length goes. Were the teeth pulled out or something? Even itf the teeth were that huge you would expect a 10.5 inch nose to eye. Something just doesn't add up there to me.
Anyhow, I HIGHLY recommend the Coombs hog forms. I use them exclusively on every boar that comes in. You should alays go with the nose to eye measurement first. Purchase the 8" if you have and 8" measurement. If the shoulders are too big on the form just sand them down to the size that fits.
Good luck!
A boar with an 8" n-e is usually around 150-160lbs if it is a boar. Females with that same n-e measurement run a little lighter. By the way, the boars here are Russian /ferral crosses. I don't know if the boar that you have will be the same as a California bred boar.
i thought it was a big boar when i saw the the size of the tusk until i measured the neck and was a bit confused, then i asked the customer about how heavy the boar was and he said it wasnt that big maybe 100 lbs. they thought the boar was foaming at the mouth, until they shot it and woww some tusk. on one side the tusk (5 3/4") grows close to the face. on the other side the boar has no tusk but the top sharpener is about 2 1/2". by the way the tusk were not pulled out.
Small 'bodied' boars with longish snouts and long tusks for thier overall size.
Its one reason i'm hesitant in ordering boar forms from the states.
I think different parts of the USA and the different strains of hog make this a real shot in the dark. In my area seems like almost every hog I've measured, regardless of neck size, usually has a 9" to 9.25 inch eye to nose. But that neck measurement sounds real small, where I come from anyway. And our hogs don't get that big. a 120lb hog here usually has a 25 to 26 inch neck. I don't think I ever measured one smaller (atleast not one that was being mounted for trophy). The tusks, well, sounds like you had one side that didn't connect with the sharpeners so it kept growing. A hogs sharpeners play a major role in the length his tusks will get because he keeps sharpening them thus he keeps them widdled down. I've seen 120lb hogs with broken sharpeners that had 7" tusk! Although this is rare because at that length, even if their sharpeners are broken, they will rub their tusks against trees and will often break them. I haven't used the form your are inquiring about, but I too am interested in trying it. It looks good. I've mostly used Research Mannikins boar. The one that has that more downhill look. It gives good shoulders.
Oh man, you have to try that coombs form. The shoulders are great and the fit is the best. I was using the WASCO boar forms and the nose was too straight. The coombs form actually looks like a hog. If you do get around to trying it, let me know how you like it. I would be money you wouldn't go back.