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idahoskunk

idahoskunk

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this is an "Old Guard HOG"



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Come on. The kid looks like he's sitting 10 feet behind that hog. I may be wrong and it may be legit, but look at how in-focus everything is. That only happens when you stop down the camera - which allows something in the foreground and background to appear together.
 
Scott , that can't be a real picture....I mean come on that kid would have need a bigger gun!
 
The pic is legit. I feel sorry for the kid though. IIRC, the hog was basically a farm pet sold to a hunting outfit that did canned hunts. When the story broke, the father put up a web site and attracted all kinds of attention. When the truth came out, the poor kid was getting ridiculed at school. That's the version I read.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp
 
Pen raised or not, that thing is HUGE!

I was really surprised to find that pigs could grow to that size, even on a farm.
 
Big pig, but not nearly as large as it looks. Notice how far the boy is behind the body. Perspective is a tricky thing.

Rick
 
That pig was real but like GUYON said if was a domesticated hog that was turned out in the wild. When hogs are realesed in the wild they will change very rapidly in a matter of a couple months they will grow thicker hair and turn a darker color. I have hunted wild hogs and even the biggest I have seen never even come close to this thing. The short snout is a dead give away. And one more thing that pistol is a Smith and Wesson Performance Center 460 XVR I know this because the black frame, stainless clinder,stainless comp. and 7.5" barrel was a Elliot Bros. Exclusive because I got one.
 
The kid's dad took him to a hunting reserve and then stood out of the way with friends with high-powered rifles trained on the hog in case anything got out of control. Even with that hand-cannon of a pistol it still took the kid a bunch of shots before he managed to finally kill the pig. I just can't get the image out of my head of a father taking a son on his 18th birthday to a brothel and paying the girls to make his son a man. Perhaps I'm way off base, but that's just what it feels like to read the account of how "MonsterPig" was killed.
 
The trick of the lens may also be an accident, he wasn't leaning on the pig, he was leaning on a step ladder, or chair, it appears. He probably didn't want to get dirty so he with his fancy gun, so he propped his leg up on something behind the pig.


With the amount of money spent on a hunt like that the dad probably wasn't looking to become an internet legend with a spoofed pic.
 
WHOAH! Talk about you flash-backs!! It`s just like the first time I had Jerry answer the door in his bathrobe. EEEeeewwwwww!!!
 
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