Is this for real?

[Drizzt]

From an e-mail I received....


How would you like to run across this in the woods????? The hog was
> > > reportedly killed in Arkansas very recently close to where they
hunt...
> > > The man in the picture killed him, took 3 shots from a 7 mag. The
> > > afternoon before, he saw this hog eating on the side of the road. He
> > > pulled over, and when he slammed the door on his truck, the hog
spooked,
> > > and charged him. He rammed the side of his truck and put a huge dent
in
> > > it and popped 2 holes in the metal where his tusks hit. He went back
in
> > > camo the next morning and sat by a fence. The hog came out and he
shot
> > > once and the hog turned and looked at him. Shot him again and he
went
> > > to his knees and got back up. Shot him the third time and put him
down.
> > > The rest of the story is the picture. He weighed over 800 lbs.

 

[Derek Zeanah]

I sure hope not.

 

[clipse]

The pictures looks a little strange to me. I would put my money on the fact that its fake.


clipse

 

[Blackcloud6]

Looks like a cut and paste job to me too.

 

[Jim March]

Whoa!

That ain't just a pig, it's a genetic throwback to a genuine Russian boar.

A few were brought into the South somewhere for "hunting reserves" and another bunch brought to California. Not a huge amount, and once they inevitably escaped they mixed with runaway farm stock to produce what we normally call a "wild boar" which are often as small as 150lbs or so, sometimes they hit 300/400, but then again, sometimes some very old genes come out to play and you get a real monster like this.

 

[El Tejon]

Have seen feral pigs at 400ish. But 800?

Wouldn't that thing have to do nothing but eat to gain that size? How does it do that in the wild?

At least to me, the ground underneath the piggie looks undisturbed. Wouldn't you see bootprints and such by the head as the guys were hanging it up???

Where is the bear that was riding the giant pig?

 

[Gus Dddysgrl]

It does look fake, but I wouldn't really know.

It could happen.

 

[Jim March]

Oh, and the pic looks real to me.

Part of the issue is that there's a funny "border" along the left edge of both the guy and the pig. Compare the pig's rib area with the arm holding the camera. It's a camera artifact of some sort. Thing is, the SAME defect is seen on all edges where dark is over light, including both guy and pig (and the rope, and the pole behind the man's hat, and the hooks holding the piggie).

Oh no. It's 100% real all right.

Russian Boars were known to hit 1,000lbs sometimes. This IS possible.

 

[Brian Williams]

If it is a fake they did a great job putting in the flash shadows.
Some of you have never been to a farm show and seen some of those porkers there.

 

[jsalcedo]

I saw a boar that size or larger on the side of the road in Dilley Texas.

It looked like it had been hit by a car (hate to see the car) It was 30% bigger than a large chest freezer and I would estimate over 900Lbs.

 

[goalie]

Holy Hannah!!!! I had a friend that would wild boar hunt with a spear. I wonder what he woulda done if he ran into that bad-boy in the underbrush?!?!?! I am thinking that the 6" 44 magnum he carried as backup would have seemed a little anemic when faced with that beast.

 

[Cacique500]

That's a lotta pork...

 

[Balog]

I haven't seen that much pork since I looked at the new Medicare bill.

 

[BHPshooter]

The pic looks real to me. The lighting from the sun is uniform on the man, the pig, and the background. There is also a flash shadow that is uniform for the whole pic.

That's pretty scary. I feel bad for the guy that tries to take that on with his .32 pocket gun.

Wes

 

[George Hill]

I've seen a 600 pound hog. 800 Pounds? That's a monster... but not impossible.

 

[m.i.sanders]

I don't think I have a caliber BIG enough for that critter!

I need to go do some shopping for just in case one shows up in the yard.

 

[ENC]

It looks like H&H Hunter to me.

Though I've heard this story here in the hunting forum before

 

[RCL]

Seems that this picture was going around the net a year or so ago, with the pig being killed in Texas. I could be wrong.....

 

[woooooOOO]

looks fake

thanks for posting the story & pic, but it looks a little fishy...

1 - the light source seems to be low and on the right side of the frame (sunset/sunrise) and the man seems to be in the shadow of the pig but his arm gets hit by the sun pretty brightly. even if he was standing behind the pig (judging from the man's arm and pig's torso) and the light hit him (judging from the man's feet and the pig's torso) the pig's back-right foot is behind the man's hat, implying that some kind of shadow should be cast on the man's right side.

2 - this point is just conjecture but the depth doesn't seem right to me: the aforementioned pig's foot behind the hat and the man's arm behind the pig's underbelly, the man seems to be standing straight enough and the pig looks pretty straight until it touches the ground.

3 - one more thing that doesn't look right to me is the bar touching the wall...it looks fuzzy and I can't really tell how the bar actually touches the wall or what not...

4 - the flash makes a dark shadow but doesn't really seem to lighten up the shadows on the surfaces facing the camera lens.

I'm not an expert but the photo looks like a photoshop job...I'm not a photo expert at all so correct me if I'm wrong. Also, doesn't the claim remind you of the story of that bear that was a gazillion lbs.? I'm sure we've all seen that one.

where there's doubt there's no doubt...

 

[Smoke]

Real or fake that pig ain't 800 pounds.

He'd be even bigger than the hog in the picture. IF it is a real picture the weight has been embelsihed.

Smoke

 

[Mike Irwin]

God, I didn't realize that my exwife had picked up that much weight...

 

[Bob R]

I was thinking the same hing, but was wondering how she got to texas.

bob

 

[H&Hhunter]

It looks like H&H Hunter to me.

I can promise you it ain't.........

First clue is you'll NEVER see me wearing head to toe camo scrubs. A camo tee shirt is about all I ever wear........

Yeah the last time that hog was on the net it was killed in Texas...

I wonder how many of my photos get transported and the story changed...

I don't buy the story for a second. The picture may be real who knows.

 

[Jim March]

Regarding woooooOOO's claims of fakery:

I looked again at the sun hitting the guy's arm just above his watch and yes, at first glance it looks like a problem.

But look at two other things: the pig's head is out front of the guy, the pig's back feet are up against the trailer, and the guy is closer to the pig's head than the feet/trailer.

What's happening is, if you saw this from 90degrees right facing towards the guy's left arm (where his watch is), you'd see that the piggie is slumped at almost a 45degree angle back feet to snout. In other words, the pig is WAY too long for the available ground clearance.

That's why the arm with the watch is in sunlight, it's because of how the pig is NOT hanging vertically at all.

That also explains why it could actually be as big as they say - the angle of the shot is "shortening it" a lot.

 

[Shootcraps]

But if it is real, it would take at least 4 people to move the stupid thing. My back is hurting just thinking about it.