Author Topic: 900 LB Boar, 340 Grain HP & DAQ 458 (Read 1571 times)

Nomadic Pirate · « **Reply #20 on:** February 04, 2012, 04:02:35 AM »

Not wild, can tell it's farm raised for sure

badredbird · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2012, 04:40:55 AM »

lol this lil piggy shoulda stayed home!!

oldpink · « **Reply #22 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:55:14 AM »

"He's not a very nice pig, but he's a BIG PIG!"
-Roger Waters, February 28, 1980, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY

echochap · « **Reply #23 on:** February 04, 2012, 10:02:29 AM »

Hi Robert,
Where did he shoot this Hogzilla? It does look like a domestic or at least a preserve animal, no way free range. But still, big is big and dead is dead. Nice photo and the bullets did their job!
Jim

Quote from: mrhollowpoint on February 03, 2012, 05:47:01 PM

You may have seen this one already but my customer sent me a photo of his trophys
Huge hog estimated at 900+ pounds. It makes my hogs look like the three little pigs.
He is using a Stock DAQ 458 and my 340 grain hp. One shot took out the heart.

grizzlyadams · « **Reply #24 on:** February 04, 2012, 11:37:02 AM »

they get that big. my brother breeds and raises pigs. he has that same breed. the nickname is" blue butt" not sure what the proper name is, but his boars are every b it of that size and he has one thats much bigger than that. (1100 lbs appr.) if that was actually hunted.... doubt it, either shot in the barnyard or released then "hunted". would take a looong time fore a pig to get that big in the bush. the bottom picture looks more wild boar, but the top pig is a domestic

Onebaddj · « **Reply #25 on:** February 04, 2012, 12:02:45 PM »

Hogs get loose all the time and around areas like fish farms where chow is plentiful they can grow really big really fast. Ive seen one at the kansas state fair that was about the size of a cow.

My questions is how does that guy walk with bowling balls down there? Cause to stare down a 900 lb anything and shoot it with a pellet rifle take some big ones!

I say great shooting and bbq!

DMikeM · « **Reply #26 on:** February 04, 2012, 01:18:14 PM »

I have seen this pic before and think it might have been modified. But even if it was not photo shopped that hog would only top out at around 600lb max.

shadow · « **Reply #27 on:** February 04, 2012, 05:34:52 PM »

Interesting for sure and I do know of several guys here that are bulking up some farm pork. They want to see how big they can get em before dropping em in the pen. Ed

parkerd · « **Reply #28 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:52:09 PM »

Look's to be a farm raised hog! Still neat that pellet guns which were just little toys years ago and now shooting 400grain pellets.. Another way to prove technology is always changing!

mustangmike · « **Reply #29 on:** February 05, 2012, 11:21:43 PM »

Saw a thing on the discovery channel about feral hogs, a farm raised hog can get loose and after 3months I think it was they start growing the thick course hair and looking like a feral..

Even tho I don't think the photo is real, the actual hog shot hadn't been feral or wild for to long. Id say 3 to 6 months in the wild...

Riffmeister · « **Reply #30 on:** February 06, 2012, 01:48:16 AM »

photochopped, my eyechrometer tells me the depth perseption on his hands and the gun stock are wonky, plus i would say 600 by that pic, not aurguing just blabbin

and looking too close to domestic, like he still came to the house to feed if real

melvin · « **Reply #31 on:** February 08, 2012, 12:58:09 AM »

Bet that thing used to make big poops. haha Nice kill

pjw · « **Reply #32 on:** February 08, 2012, 12:32:10 PM »

The notched ears give it away its farm raised for sure.

Bryan · « **Reply #33 on:** February 11, 2012, 06:30:27 PM »

I think it's real, but it's not wild. Still impressive to think that hog was taken with an air rifle. Anyway, might have got out of it's pen and found food elsewhere. I'm sure that somebody, somewhere is missing that big hog badly. I wonder how much a hog that big is worth to a farmer?

Shoot Straight · « **Reply #34 on:** February 11, 2012, 07:51:11 PM »

It's HOGZILLA!!!!!

Nomadic Pirate · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2012, 08:04:05 PM »

Not a problem at all for an Airgun to take down a Hog that big, remember Airguns have taken Buffalos.

......Now makes it alot easyer when the Hog is domestic,...execution rather than Hunting really

Paul68 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2012, 09:10:50 PM »

Saved the image and ran it through Adobe. There's no photoshop data embedded in the pic. Means either its real, or someone REALLY knew how to cover their tracks with PS, or the data was lost in posting to the forum.

oldpink · « **Reply #37 on:** February 12, 2012, 06:53:10 AM »

Quote from: Paul68 on February 11, 2012, 09:10:50 PM

Saved the image and ran it through Adobe. There's no photoshop data embedded in the pic. Means either its real, or someone REALLY knew how to cover their tracks with PS, or the data was lost in posting to the forum.

I believe the photo is genuine, of a Hampshire breed domestic hog, but PhotoShop is far from the only image editor that could do a decent job of doctoring up an originally legit photo, so the absence of PS data in the exif tags doesn't necessarily disprove the possibility of a faked image.

More on the Hampshire breed here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire_%28pig%29

I had a young barrow (neutered boar) of that breed back in the early 1980s, when I was in 4H.
If the airgun shown in the photo was genuinely used for the hog pictured, it was either used at extreme short range, as done in a slaughterhouse, or the hog escaped, necessitating him taking it down with a powerful airgun.
My Dad years ago had to do that on one occasion when he and his best friend each bought a mid-sized (approx. 200-250 lbs) hog for food.
The friend's hog was taken down in the barn, as planned, but Dad's escaped into the field the next morning, and trying to catch them on the run can be pretty tough.
Thanks to being able to get an up close idea of how a domestic hog's brain is arranged, Dad was able to drop the hog without so much as a twitch at about 75 yards with his Mossberg .22 magnum, with a shot directly behind the ear.
This hog could very well have been taken under similar circumstances, all the more likely, given its size.

Butcher45 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 17, 2012, 08:10:33 PM »

I don't think that picture is photoshopped, either. There are plenty of domestic pigs that size or bigger. Definitely not a wild one.....I would wager that his pig never saw a predator in it's whole lifetime and was directly fed by people it's whole life so it would not see any reason to fear them like a wild hog would.

More of a ballistic test, rather than a hunt (not that there is anything wrong with that.....I've done it shooting a corsican ram). Bet you could call that pig in by shaking a 5gallon bucket with some corn in the bottom of it (that really does work on a put-and-take ranch that uses domestic stock).

Paul68 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 17, 2012, 11:31:32 PM »

This particular guy is taking domestic animals and calling them 'trophys". The pig might be a feral and worthy of note if it were one instance, but his other "trophys" suggest otherwise.

http://www.mrhollowpoint.com/7022.html
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http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/ankolewatusi/index.htm

http://www.jsba.org/

Author Topic: 900 LB Boar, 340 Grain HP & DAQ 458 (Read 1571 times)

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