Another consideration is how they tracked and chased the boar for 3 hours??? Any wild pig I've ever run into would most likely have been much more aggressive and started charging and fighting. If pen raised I guess it would have most likely ran ....... my 2 cents after dealing with Javelina in the West.
That's some pig
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The country boys used to tell the city boys that a pig cannot bite you as long as you're standing up because their necks won't allow their heads to turn enough. They can only bite something that's horizontal. What they didn't tell the city boys was that no one could keep a 50# pig from knocking him down.
And of course, those with tusks can really do a lot of damage whether you're standing upright or not.
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It IS a huge animal. I just don't like the way the picture was taken. The kid looks like he's sitting far back from the hog, which makes it look larger, compared to him. I do the same thing with fish... I hold it out towards the camera and it looks much bigger than it really is. See attached. This fish is 18" tops. Looks much bigger.
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Yep, there's something wrong with that picture. If the perspective is correct that pig would weigh as much as a full grown cow, a ton at least.
It is either Photoshop'ed or taken with a wide angle lens. The image quality is too poor for me to say if it is Photoshop'ed. With a wide angle lens, you get real close to the subject. The subject will look huge and anything behind the subject looks very small.
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It is either Photoshop'ed or taken with a wide angle lens. The image quality is too poor for me to say if it is Photoshop'ed. With a wide angle lens, you get real close to the subject. The subject will look huge and anything behind the subject looks very small.
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texasjohn said:Eddie, like you I noticed it was taken off of a game ranch, guided hunt, rifle backup, kid with pistol
I agree. Also if you look at the picture the kids elbow is resting on his knee, not the hog. The kid is actually several feet behind the hog. This makes the hog appear much larger in the photo.
You know, it adds a little dramatic effect
.Edit: looks like N80 beat me to the post!
And MossRoad too.
Latest news on this one......the pig was farm raised and sold to the outfitter 4 days before the hunt! Turns out his name was Fred...........
‘Monster Pig’ was huge — just not wild - Animal Peculiarity - MSNBC.com
‘Monster Pig’ was huge — just not wild - Animal Peculiarity - MSNBC.com
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Champy said:
And if what I read a few days ago was right, they chased it for a couple of hours with the kid shooting it with that pistol. The story said he shot it 9 times before he killed it.
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I'm really torn on this now. The part about it being a pet and named Fred makes me sad for the animal. It's one thing to hunt wild animals, but it's another to hunt down a pet that doesn't have any fear or knowledge to avoid humans.
They have a website called BIGGER than Hogzilla that really put me on the fence. In the site, they have comments from people in two catagories, The Negative and The Positive. I read the negative first and was realy disgusted with what those people wrote. The level of hatred directed towards that kid is just disgusting. I then read the positive and the rest of the website and it seems to me that they father and son were just out to have some quality time together and didn't have any idea that "Fred" was anything other then what they were told he was.
Hunting ranches do this all the time. There are allot of hog trappers around here in my area that will come trap hogs on your land for free so that they can sell them to a ranch for others to come hunt them. They are wild hogs and very dangerous, but they are also transplanted to high fenced ranches that can be several thousands of acres for the purpose of somebody else paying to shoot it. Some escape and some live for years and years on those ranches, but some are also shot the day after they are released.
Overall, I support this type of hunting, but in some situations, like the case with "Fred" I feel it's a black mark on hunting and high fenced ranches.
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They have a website called BIGGER than Hogzilla that really put me on the fence. In the site, they have comments from people in two catagories, The Negative and The Positive. I read the negative first and was realy disgusted with what those people wrote. The level of hatred directed towards that kid is just disgusting. I then read the positive and the rest of the website and it seems to me that they father and son were just out to have some quality time together and didn't have any idea that "Fred" was anything other then what they were told he was.
Hunting ranches do this all the time. There are allot of hog trappers around here in my area that will come trap hogs on your land for free so that they can sell them to a ranch for others to come hunt them. They are wild hogs and very dangerous, but they are also transplanted to high fenced ranches that can be several thousands of acres for the purpose of somebody else paying to shoot it. Some escape and some live for years and years on those ranches, but some are also shot the day after they are released.
Overall, I support this type of hunting, but in some situations, like the case with "Fred" I feel it's a black mark on hunting and high fenced ranches.
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From the NBC report and the website that the father of the kid that shot it... there seems to be a small conflict as to the size of the area that the pig was in. It was reported as 150 acres and 200 acres, a small part of the 2500 acre hunting preserve. Personally, I find fenced hunts to be pretty lame. Same thing with hunting over bait. Hunting preserves have staff that are paid to raise the animals to the biggest highest quality trophies they can. They know every inch of the preserve and every habit of every animal. It amounts to nothing more than someone paying thier fee, being driven out to a site, put in a blind and told that in 5.27 minutes, there's a pretty good chance that a huge trophy animal will probably walk in front of them. That ain't hunting, in my opinion. Hunting is taking your own time to learn the area, the habits of the animals in it, how to use your preferred hunting tool, etc...
And one more thing... killing a huge hog with a handgun ethically would take someone with skill. A kid using a large caliber handgun to attempt to kill a hog, then taking 9 shots and three hours to kill it just stinks. The animal sufferred, the kid should come away feeling some remorse for it, ethical hunting suffered for it. Someone should have put that hog down with a rifle as soon as it was apparent that the first or second shot wasn't going to do the job. Making that animal suffer for three hours when they had the tools to dispatch it quickly just smacks of good old boys running wild in the woods enjoying watching an animal suffer. Again, that's my opinion. I'm not anti-hunting. I let people hunt on my land. I fish as often as I get the chance. But making an animal suffer like they did is completely unexcusable and no one can defend what they did as ethical.
And one more thing... killing a huge hog with a handgun ethically would take someone with skill. A kid using a large caliber handgun to attempt to kill a hog, then taking 9 shots and three hours to kill it just stinks. The animal sufferred, the kid should come away feeling some remorse for it, ethical hunting suffered for it. Someone should have put that hog down with a rifle as soon as it was apparent that the first or second shot wasn't going to do the job. Making that animal suffer for three hours when they had the tools to dispatch it quickly just smacks of good old boys running wild in the woods enjoying watching an animal suffer. Again, that's my opinion. I'm not anti-hunting. I let people hunt on my land. I fish as often as I get the chance. But making an animal suffer like they did is completely unexcusable and no one can defend what they did as ethical.
