Author Topic: Hogzilla punked! (Read 1881 times)

Odee · « **Reply #30 on:** May 27, 2007, 10:15:10 AM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Impressive, but sad the poor hog had to endure three hours of slow death from inadequate caliber and marksmanship. ...They got a nice trophy and lots of meat, so it was a genuine hunt, but not a very accomplished one.

Seems to me if you have a weapon or a situation where you know a decent kill is questionable, you shouldn't take the shot.

Yup... Pretty sad even for an eleven year old 'bama boy. Must be the new generation og 'gat shootas', with the horizontal aiming instead of proper sight picturing.

Hell, the kid had a scop one that .500 Lothar, for pete sake! You'd think dad woulda zeroed it in, or at least the kid been able to get an ear or spine shot.

Reschke · « **Reply #31 on:** May 27, 2007, 10:55:15 AM »

I am gonna have to check this one out. I have a few friends that live near that part of the state and I am only 1 hour and 40 minutes from where that sucker was killed. I haven't heard anything about it in the newspaper or television and usually any sort of large trophy animals that get taken near here are at least reported in the outdoors section of the Birmingham News. I also know the guy who is the outdoors editor for the paper and I will give him a call to see if he knew about this.

storch · « **Reply #32 on:** May 27, 2007, 02:16:35 PM »

I've seen big feral hogs in northern fl and southern ga the biggest I've seen I'll guess to be around 500lbs. they look like lowrider steer. a 500lb hog is impressive that hog might be 800lb. it's still a mighty nice trophy and should be mounted if I had bagged it, it would be.

Warspawn · « **Reply #33 on:** May 28, 2007, 01:30:36 AM »

That's one big pig...needs a saddle, lol!

By the way, that pig is hanging from the front bucket of a tractor. They're having the head mounted...huge thing.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #34 on:** May 28, 2007, 01:57:18 AM »

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Originally posted by storch
I've seen big feral hogs in northern fl and southern ga the biggest I've seen I'll guess to be around 500lbs. they look like lowrider steer. a 500lb hog is impressive that hog might be 800lb. it's still a mighty nice trophy and should be mounted if I had bagged it, it would be.

Ok, I'll ask.

Just where in the **** would your wife let you put such a thing???

storch · « **Reply #35 on:** May 28, 2007, 06:35:50 AM »

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Ok, I'll ask.

Just where in the **** would your wife let you put such a thing???

I have a big family room but I have no trophys mounted in this home. the home was built in the 1950's and has eight foot cielings so even a modest elk is too much. our previous home had twenty two foot cielings so mounting trophys was fine.

storch · « **Reply #36 on:** May 28, 2007, 06:41:48 AM »

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That's one big pig...needs a saddle, lol!

By the way, that pig is hanging from the front bucket of a tractor. They're having the head mounted...huge thing.

as an old trick photographer I can tell you they are standing back from the pig at least five feet. look at the snout and look at their feet. in the second photo look at the right hind leg and look at the left poser's knee on the ground.

those guys aren't even clever trick photographers.

if it were ten plus feet you would be seeing a tape measure nailed to it's snout and drawn to it's rump. that is a nice hog though.

Shuckins · « **Reply #37 on:** May 28, 2007, 07:25:50 AM »

Given the distance they're standing behind the hog, and the distortion of size that gives in the picture, I'd guess the actual weight at between 500 and 600 pounds.

Tops.

Ghosth · « **Reply #38 on:** May 28, 2007, 08:12:09 AM »

The hanging shot convinced me. I don't care what camera tricks you play with that one. Thats one BIG MOTHER PIG!

Would I have liked to see the tape measure nailed to snout and held to hoof, yes.

Do I need it to see that this is bigger than the normal 500 lb pig, sorry no.

Shuckins · « **Reply #39 on:** May 28, 2007, 08:29:52 AM »

The hanging shot didn't convince me. Father and son are still several feet behind the hog. It's big, but it isn't THAT big.

It definitely isn't ten feet long.

Pretend you are the cameraman. You're holding the camera at eye level while standing upright. The hog's snout appears to be nearly three feet off the ground. Follow you're eye level line-of-sight to the hog and estimate it's actual length. Best guess on my part is that it is nearer six or seven feet in length.

I grew up around outdoorsmen in my mom's family who were first class liars. I take all such "evidence" with a grain of salt.

Tango · « **Reply #40 on:** May 28, 2007, 11:47:34 AM »

IF it was really that big they would have had him sitting on top of it to prove it. Basicly, its different photo angles to give the impression its bigger than it really is.

I did the same thing in college in the first couple of photography classes I took, just to show how different angles could change the picture dramatically.

Reschke · « **Reply #41 on:** May 28, 2007, 11:54:59 AM »

You know what is amazing to me is the number of photographic analysts that this BBS/game has in it. I did not know that the NSA, CIA, DIA and almost any other worldwide intelligence agency had trained so many of you guys so you could do photo analysis of hog pictures and other crazy things.

For goodness sake if this thing is a hoax it will be brought out eventually. If it is real it will be proven eventually and so far I haven't heard anything back from my contacts who would know about this here in the Birmingham area. This animal was allegedly killed about an hour and forty minutes from here and so far nothing in any news paper in the region proves or disproves the story.

Tango · « **Reply #42 on:** May 28, 2007, 12:05:18 PM »

I have a Bachelor's degree inPhotography from Louisiana Tech Unviversity. We learned how to do trick photography in the first 2 classes we did. Not that hard to make a 16 floor building look smaller than a person, so it would be even easier with a kid and a pig.

Tango · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2007, 12:06:27 PM »

Besides if it was that big then why aren't we seeing it on the national news? That would put an end to the debate for sure wouldn't it?

Shuckins · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2007, 12:22:14 PM »

It's not on the national news because it's a hoax...and a pretty obvious one at that.

I've seen enough of these types of photos to fill up the bed of a pickup truck.

I'm also familiar with the sizes of various types of farm equipment. The tire on that front-loader is about the same distance from the camera as the hog. The front tire, visible in the lower right of the picture, is no more than three feet in height. You can see that the tire is several feet in front of the feet of the two liars in the background.

The hog can't be much over 6 feet in length, snout to rump.