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Bearlee -> Giant Pig? (5/29/2007 3:35:04 PM)
Sooooo... I listen to NPR and heard this story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10518737 All Things Considered, May 29, 2007 · A wild hog thought to be more than 1,000 pounds was killed by an 11-year-old boy May 3 at Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve. Jerry Cunningham, owner of Jerry's Taxidermy in Oxford, Ala., was hired to mount its head, and he watched preserve employees use a backhoe to move it. Cunningham, who says the average hog in those parts weighs 400 pounds at most, measured the hog's head at 54 inches around and 74 inches around the shoulders. Robert Siegel talks with Cunningham about the biggest wild hog he's ever seen. Okay...most weight 400# and this one weighs 1000+ ??? check out the pics: http://www.monsterpig.com/ I dunno...I'm waiting to hear it's a hoax! CAN ya kill such a beast with a handgun? Dang! Shocked and amazed... b

soultoshare -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/29/2007 6:43:47 PM)
I saw the pics too on my yahoo news page.......I have friends that have brought down a 16 pt buck w/a 357 handgun, but they are shooting w/amped up ammo.....that thing looked like it would take a 50 mm round to drop it! I guess i'd have to see close ups of the hog and the spent bullet to believe it.....

DomKen -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/29/2007 7:06:16 PM)
Just did some checking. The boy was using a S&W .50 revolver intended for hunting. Also hogzilla, a previous very large wil boar, turned out to be a hybrid between a wild boar and a domestic hog which likely explains the large sizes of this boar as well.

mistoferin -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 6:20:12 AM)
Hog hunting has been growing leaps and bounds in popularity. They are hella-mean animals and personally, I think I'd rather run across a bear in the woods then a wild boar. Anyway, believe it or not one of the ways that people are hunting these things is not with guns but with knives!

Archer -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 7:01:07 AM)
there are currently three commercial loadings. They include a 275-grain Barnes X (1,665 fps for 1,688 ft-lbs), a 400-grain Hawk SP (1,675 fps for 2,500 ft-lbs) and a 440-grain Hard Cast (1,625 fps for 2,580 ft-lbs). For reference this means the energy of the bullet when it leaves the barel of this Revolver is along the same level as the British 303 rifle. 2418 ft lbs. So the pistol shows the energy profile that is believeable for killing this masive pig.

DomKen -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 8:10:40 AM)
The kids website indicates it was a 350 grain bullet. It also asserts that it was a customized S&W revolver. The photo does seem to indicate a much shorter barrel than the one supplied with the weapon but beyond that no info is given.

CrimsonMoan -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 8:28:17 AM)
Damn if that had been me i would have been alright pig roast time, toss a massive luau(sp) and been charging 10 buks a head to come and eat

mistoferin -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 8:32:23 AM)
You can get additional details on the gun at http://www.monsterpig.com./ Interesting note is that it is advertised to be the the most powerful production revolver in the world.

HeavansKeeper -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 8:45:39 AM)
I was once talked into bow hunting a wild hog. When push came to shove, I decided it wasn't bright to merely piss it off.

mistoferin -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 8:56:48 AM)
While I might....really big "might"....be able to be convinced to one day try hog hunting, I certainly will not be attempting such an endeavor with a bow or a knife. [sm=ugh.gif]

HeavansKeeper -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 10:11:19 AM)
Well what about a bow AND a knife. Because we had both. Personally, I preferred the hike to the thought of killing a creature from ranged combat... The odds never seem sporting enough. I like my hunting 50/50.

Vendaval -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 11:51:20 AM)
What an amazing story! Bravo to Jamison! And yes, there are some animals you might want to try hunting with bow and/or blade. I would not consider wild boar to be in that category.

Sicarius -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 12:17:50 PM)
That's a pretty impressive story. Based on everything on the website, it seems pretty likely that it happened, and the photos look pretty believable. As a few other posters have pointed out, yeah, you can bring down big animals with the right kind of handgun ... the modded-out S&W that the kid apparently killed it with looks like it's pretty realistically customized for hunting big game. Interesting story. Thanks for sharing it. -Sicarius

velvetears -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 12:55:28 PM)
Now i know why i prefer to be a city person [:D]

Sinergy -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 5:25:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: HeavansKeeper Personally, I preferred the hike to the thought of killing a creature from ranged combat... The odds never seem sporting enough. I agree with this. In the middle ages, wild boars were hunted from horseback with lances. The lance head was about 18 inches long, pointy, and had a 6 inch iron bar placed 90 degrees to the shaft of the lance at the base of the lance head. The reason for this is because a wild boar, lanced from a charging horse, was known to charge up the lance and kill the person (or his horse) lancing it. Tough freaking animal. I once came face to face with one (Razorback Boar) at a summer camp on Catalina Island. It looked at me, I looked at it. The ones on the island when I was a kid were too familiar with humans and knew I was not a threat. They also probably interbred with the feral domestic pigs for the previous 100 years, which tamed the viciousness out of them. Sinergy p.s. While I have hunted for food (lived off the land for a month after high school) I dont hunt as an adult. It is not messing with me, why the hell am I peeing in it's cheerios?

Aileen68 -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 5:32:25 PM)
Mmmm...pig.

iwannapullurhair -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 5:47:12 PM)
A gun will kill anything, unless maybe it is a wimpy .22 pistol, but that'll do the trick if shot at the right place. They kill huge elephants with AK-47s all the time in Africa.

igor2003 -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 6:03:00 PM)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp Snopes.com sounds skeptical about the story, and in looking at the pictures, so am i. A "normal" riding horse will normally range from 800 to 1200 lbs. A Clydesdale will often go well over a ton (2000 lbs). Some of the pictures shown look like the porker would dwarf even a Clydesdale. So...for my money, unless it is shown to be true i'll have to be a non-believer.

Sinergy -> RE: Giant Pig? (5/30/2007 6:37:10 PM)
Here is one for you... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla Sinergy

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