- Joe Clowers brought down the enormous pig with an AR-15 assault rifle last week
- Hog – also known as ‘The Ghost’, ‘Bush Beast’ and ‘Leroy’ – surprised him at 1am
- But after defeating his foe, Clowers plans to mount the animal’s skull as a trophy
A Texas landowner has shot and killed a gigantic wild hog he called ‘The Big Daddy’ after a battle of wits that lasted five years.
Joe Clowers brought down the enormous pig – which he and his daughters also called ‘The Bush Beast’, ‘The Ghost’ and ‘Leroy’ – with an AR-15 assault rifle last weekend.
It weighed 417 lbs, making the elusive beast twice as big as the average hog found on Clowers’ Union Grove property.
Whole hog: Clowers won’t be enjoying pork chops, however, because the meat had been left out too long by the time he brought it in. Pictured: The dead giant
He told CBSDFW he saw the animal during an evening of hunting.
‘At about 1 am this guy walks in and it was that moment of, “I can’t believe I’m actually seeing this pig”.
‘You’ve always heard you can’t kill a large wild hog with an AR-15… and I did.’
He won’t be enjoying pork chops, however, because the meat had been left out too long by the time he brought it in.
Instead, he will be fulfilling the wish of his daughters – who want to keep the head as a trophy.
The beast weighed 417 lbs, making the elusive beast twice as big as the average hog found on Clowers’ Union Grove property. Pictured: Clowers and his prize
Clowers said he will mount the hog European-style.
The meat will be fed to homeless animals.
Over the last five years, food laid out for deer and other game has been routinely snatched from his land by the portly pig.
He told the Houston Chronicle the hog had preyed on fawns in the past and explained that he always went to his deer feeders with a weapon in case the giant animal attacked him.
‘He was the big daddy,’ Clowers said.
‘He is finished. He has made his final appearance. It is a relief more than anything else.’