John Reid, his son Rick Reid, and Brent Woodford went shooting with Frank Sole, from Waimate, in the Hunter Hills between Waimate and Kurow.
They shot 35 wallabies, 20 rabbits and one pig, but it was the pig that was the catch of the day.
They were driving around a track when they saw the pig on a bank beside them.
John Reid (73), who had a fairly low-powered .22 magnum gun, put a shot into it.
Then Mr Sole, who had a more powerful rifle, shot it and it came down the hill into a creek.
Mr Reid then put a bullet in its head to kill it.
"Simple as simple," he said yesterday.
They were lucky they had a Toyota Landcruiser with a winch on it to lift the pig.
"Four of us could hardly lift it and we're not weak people."
While some people might doubt the weight of the pig, Mr Reid said it was weighed on cattle scales, and the hunters had photographic evidence.
He had a call from a hunter to say the largest pig caught in the annual North Otago pig-hunting competition was just over 90kg (200lb).
The men have also searched the Internet and could not find mention of any other pig as large that had been shot in New Zealand.
It was a pity the men had not been competing in a competition, Mr Reid said with a laugh.
He described himself as a "lucky" hunter who had got a dozen or so pigs in his time.
"I'm not a mad pig-hunter, but I've been in the hills a few times."
The boar was too big and rank to be eaten so it was skinned and the head removed.
The meat would be boiled off so the tusks, skull and lower jaw could be kept as a souvenir.
"It'll be on my duchess beside my bed for many months," he joked.
Mr Reid had thought his hunting days were over but, after last weekend, he could have a new lease of life, he said.
