Father, son bag charging 700-pound boar in North Carolina

A father-and-son hunting team killed a 707.5-pound wild hog earlier this month deep in the mountains of North Carolina with a single shot. The North Carolina Sportsman reported that Bruce Florence and his son, Jonathan, were on the side of a mountain on Jan. 16 in Transylvania County when the two split up. Bruce sat down while Jonathan investigated a rustling in the brush.His son managed to flush out three small hogs and just when he was just about to emerge from the thicket, he recalled, "the big boy blasted out." "He headed straight for my Dad," Jonathan told the magazine. Bruce, an experienced hog hunter who has killed some in the 150-pound range, likened the Russian boar to a charging buffalo. "He was bee-lining right at me," he said. Bruce estimated that the hog was about 30 yards away when it angled just slightly to expose its vitals. Bruce pulled the trigger of his .25-06 rifle and dropped the massive beast...more