Thread: Check out this Pig

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

addition: (From my book)

4) overpopulation --- may fit under mercy (inevitable starvation)

.....Agreed

Lou is right about 8 shots. That's operator error. Unless you're using a totally wrong load, one shot should do it. I've never needed more than that on big game, but I practice a lot. This whole pig story smells.

Wayne

like I said..

if he shot the pig 8 times there would be more bloody holes

we have penetrated like 20 inches of oak with hot 45 Long Colt loads and a 500 stomps the guts out of the 45LC.

With a gun like that I would expect no less than 40 inches of penetration in flesh.

That equals shoot throughs. That equals bloody holes.

There is only one bloody hole. I'm not buying 8 shots. No way.

Originally Posted by bbqncigars

Lou is right about 8 shots. That's operator error. Unless you're using a totally wrong load, one shot should do it. I've never needed more than that on big game, but I practice a lot. This whole pig story smells.

Wayne

THERE IS NO WRONG LOAD FOR A 500 SMITH !!!!!

GLASER DOESN'T LOAD 500 AMMO !!!!!

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

THERE IS NO WRONG LOAD FOR A 500 SMITH !!!!!

GLASER DOESN'T LOAD 500 AMMO !!!!!

...you don't need to yell....

-whatever

-Lou

I'll be the first to admit that I have only a basic knowledge of guns (though I know that the side with the hole should point away from you) but if even someone as experienced and -probably- strong as GW has problems shooting a 50, then why on earth do they make these things?

Is this some sort of 'mine is bigger than yours' contest to prove your manliness?
Hey dude I shoot a 50...
Because then you might as well buy a 308 sniper rifle, remove the stock, saw off most of the barrel and mount it on a revolver grip.

Whether you are pro or anti guns, the first premise of handguns is that they are meant to shoot with in a controlled fashion.
If that is not possible, why bother?

hrm... the pic looks a bit suspect but then again I've seen one or two rather large oinkers (one from the back of the ute and once from the tree the bugger chased us up)

Largest personal pig was 108Kg dressed... (the missus was pissed when she found 1/2 the chest freezer full with wild pig :P )

Here's a story just posted on the FoxNews website:

Photo of Monster Hog Called Into Question; Web Site Claims It Was Doctored


-whatever

-Lou

EDIT: Here's a copy of the article:

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S.

Photo of Monster Hog Called Into Question; Web Site Claims It Was Doctored
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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Is it a humongous hog, a monster mistake, or a huge hoax?

That's the question being asked Tuesday about a stunning photo distributed last Friday by the Associated Press that purports to show an 11-year-old Alabama boy standing behind a half-ton wild hog his father said he bagged with a pistol.

The boy, Jamison Stone, looks tiny in the photo as he stands behind his prize pig, which his father claims measures 9 feet 4 inches, and weighs 1,051 pounds.

"It feels really good," Jamison said last week in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."

Jamison's father, Mike Stone, said the prize porker was hauled off on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog, according to the Associated Press and a story published in the Anniston, Ala. Star newspaper.

Kinder's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Stone said it balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark.

"It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said.

But the photo — published on hundreds of Web sites, including FOXNews.com, and emailed millions of times — now is under attack from blogs and Web sites that claim to be able to prove that the boy and his father hammed it up for the photo, and that truth sometimes isn't in the eye of the beholder.

Jamison's father, Mike Stone, claims that the positioning in all six photographs displayed on their Web site MonsterPig.com, was unplanned, accidental, coincidental.

"These are authentic pictures," Stone told the Web site StinkyJournalism.com, which claims it can prove the colossol claim isn't kosher. "They have not been altered," Stone said.

Still, StinkyJournalism.com enlisted the help of a retired New York University physicist, Richard Brandt, who offers what he says is a "technical analysis" of the Stone family's claim.

The site also claims to have evidence that other photos on the family Web site were doctored to make the feral hog look bigger than life.

Jerry Cunningham, of Jerry’s Taxidermy in Oxford, Ala., who says he's mounting the head and skull, thinks otherwise.

“It’s probably the end of June before we’re through with it,” he said. "They’re about as twice as big as the normal pig. Five-hundred pounds is big, giant. Most of them that come in to be mounted are between 150 and 250."

Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout.

"It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've ever seen."

Mike Stone, meanwhile, is having sausage made from the rest of the animal.

"We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he told the Associated Press.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Lou,

So glad to see you back with your old avatar again, I couldn't figure if you were going through some sort of identity crisis or something.........welcome back.

As to the pig story, well that's kind of good also, nothing like letting a bit of fiction getting in the way of the real facts, and also hoping that eight shots were not really needed to bring this animal down.

Cheers
John

Originally Posted by johnmw1

Lou,

So glad to see you back with your old avatar again, I couldn't figure if you were going through some sort of identity crisis or something.........welcome back.

As to the pig story, well that's kind of good also, nothing like letting a bit of fiction getting in the way of the real facts, and also hoping that eight shots were not really needed to bring this animal down.

Cheers
John

Yeah --I've seen 50 cal . muzzle loaders take down a bull moose with one shot -- at a fair distance (not in person but on TV) ---- but anyway I guess you have fish stories so why not hog stories --- you know there's plenty enough legitimate excitement and thrill if you just learn your skills, and get the full brunt out of the sport without worrying about getting the biggest animule ---- but if you take some pride in taking 8 shots to down the critter then I guess the concept of sport ain't exactly on the membrane.

Anyway hope the beast was cleaned well and used efficiently.

Justin