Since I have extensive experience hog hunting, here's a copy of my post from over at GT:
I hog hunt alot, and there's no way it should have taken that many shots with that caliber. I use a 6.5" Ruger Super Single Six in .22lr/.22WMR and a Ruger Super Redhawk in .44 Magnum. I don't use the .44 unless the hog gets away from my dogs and charges me or it's a long range shot. A good number of his shots missed vitals which is why the hog kept running for so long. I've dropped many hogs well over 200lbs with the .22lr and a well placed shot. My biggest boar weighed in at 327lbs and 1 shot from the .44 dropped him where he stood.
Here's a pic of one of my bay dogs doing his thing:
My 2nd post:
Anyways, here's my take on the photo being real/fake:
The hog is real, however the size & weight I do not believe to be accurate. Photos can be deceiving especially outdoors where you can have people pose a few feet behind an animal (making them look smaller compared to the animal) and have any angle available to you to take the pic that pronounces the size of the animal the most. The weight could be correct, but the pics indeed look too over the top.
This boar was supposedly 1,051lbs but if you look at the snopes link, the boar pictured there weighed in at over 1100lbs and looks smaller than this one (which seems accurate from the hogs I've killed).
I've seen all different weights of hogs and from my experience, the hog in the snopes pictures are more accurate as far as size/weight is concerned. The pic of the 1100lb hog looks accurate to me, while the picture of the 1,051lb one looks exaggerated in the photo where the hog is lying horizontally. The boy is either
very small, actually posing a few feet behind the animal which sadly some hunters do to make the animal appear larger, or of course...edited.
I think the hog in the photo appears to be over the 1,051lbs the website claims it weighed in at. Judging solely on the photo, it looks like it would be more like 1,500+ lbs. Who knows.