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In case some of you don't want to see the largest dead pig I will just post the link.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PBKB5G0&show_article=1&image=large

Damn you! I was JUST coming here to post this! No one posts on Friday afternoons- I thought I was a shoe-in.

That thing is freakin' HUGE. I can't imagine shooting it with a pistol. That borders on suicidal.

Beyond shooting it, I can't imagine chasing the fucker because it didn't die.

"Oh hey, a pig that's as tall as me, angry and wounded.. let's chase it through the woods!"

That kid had guts to shoot that pig, I know his dad and others were there too, but damm that thing is freaking huge. I did not know boars got that big.

I fought a boar like that with my bare hands once. It killed me four times in fifteen minutes. I've learned my lesson.

Classy.  Real Classy. 

The story seems a bit far fetched, just like the whole Hogzilla one. There was a Explorer episode on the National Geograpic channel a couple months ago, the pig was huge but not as big as the story said it was. It was also photoshopped to make it look bigger.

The idea of an 11 year old kid walking around with a .50 caliber revolver seems suspect to me.

If it is true, most likely they will find that the "wild" pig is actually either an escaped domestic hog or offspring of a domestic pig. There are domestic breeds that have been bred to be nearly the size of cattle.

Sad that their only impulse is to kill such a creature. "Hey look at that! amazing! lets kill it!"

:-P

Yeah, imagine that.  On a hunting trip.

I thought of Princess Mononoke.  Anyone else?

There are millions of feral pigs across the nation.  They are, by definition, the offspring of escaped pigs.  They've been around since the 1800's (and any new escapees).  The only native pig-like animal in North America is the javelina.

Farmers and ranchers hate them because they eat just about anything, tear up crops and grass, destroy fences, and breed like rabbits.  Once they're larger than piglets they have no natural enemies and old boars are as mean as they are large.  And tough.  I've always disliked it when a pack comes out near me.

In Alabama from a hunting family?  It doesn't surprise me at all.  A family friend let his kids walk around with an AR-15 and Mini-14 in their early teens.  I was left on my own with a .243 when I was around twelve or so because I had proven to be mature enough to handle it, and he was with a guide and two other hunters.

It's a .50 caliber.  If that cannot take it down I don't know what can.  In comparison my old rifle is a .270.  Granted rifles have more powder.

Regardless, shooting that thing at ALL is suicidal.  A tiny three foot tall boar scares the Bejezus out of me.

Eight rounds from a 500H to down it. Pretty piss poor shooting.

He says he prefers hunting pheasants. I can't imagine that there's much left after you've hit one with a .50 cal. Magnum round.

You guys are allowed to hunt with handguns?

Varies by state and region but if you can use rifles you can probally use pistols. I am in Ohio now and deer hunting is a shotgun with slug round only. i recently lived in Tennessee where gun season was any leagal gun including handguns. It just varies but the south (old Confederacy) is likely more liberal in this regard.

Edit: You can buy a rifled (slug only ) shotgun. Why is this not a rifle? Because the caliper is 12 gauge so it is a shotgun. Ya, go figure.

'Shotgun' is a classification for the type of amunition casing used. I believe in all shotgun ammunition, the projectile is entirely enclosed inside of the shell casing (I am not totally up on the entire gamut of ammunition these days, but I am relatively certain of that detail).

Just like how muskets made from the Civil War era on had rifled barrels, but they are considered muskets or muzzle-loaders by terminology.

Fuck, we're still allowed to hunt with Bow & Arrow if we want to.   The theory seems to be, "you want to wound an animal and then have deal with it, it's your own funeral."


Well, I'd agree if it weren't a handgun.  Short barrel and such I can't imagine he was in optimal range for something so damn big.

Yup, my second thought was too bad a giant wolf didn't jump out of the tree line, grab the kid in it's jaws, and then run off. My third thought was too bad the thing didn't charge the kid after the first shot and trample him a bit. Maybe not kill him, but make it so he couldn't use his arms again.

All hunting should be done with punch daggers lashed to your forearms.

That kid is an awful shot. Boars are tough animals though.

My first thought was of Mononoke. My second was, "I am never, ever, ever, going into the woods again." I bet I look like Good Eats to a boar that large.
Plus, as they (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/09/24) say, "there are bears outside".

fixed link - Samwise

Not anymore, that boar ate them.

Accomplishment?  You shot a big fucking pig.  How the hell is that an accomplishment?  Oh look Earl, it's a big pig... I think I'll kill it to feel more like a man!  No wonder Bush won these states. 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7rwUdL9qXjk

You'd let a nine year old vote too if he pointed that gun at you.

Screw the pig, WHAT ABOUT THE BACON?!

That pig was probably inedible.  I have talked to guys that hunt wild pigs down in the Everglades and they say that a lot of them are so infected and nasty that the pigs are practically putrescent while they are alive.  Vile animals.

Bacon is tasty though.

Boar meat is extremely tough and they smell horrible, too.  Like make you gag horrible.  My dad only takes the meat from sows or really young boars.  Ones over a few years old he leaves for the vultures.  (We're not normally into leaving anything, but he's hunting these primarily for population control.  I wasn't kidding about them breeding like rabbits.)

mmmm-hmmmmm!

http://www.monsterpig.com/

Anyone seen this yet? LOL the negative comments are hilarious

My friends that hunt here in Georgia mostly are duck/deer people, but they have seen a few pigs wandering around before and bagged a couple. Typically, the meat is ok if you give it over to a meat processor and then cook it fully. They also used to only keep about 50 pounds of whatever they would find, and then donate the rest of the meat to various homeless shelters in the metroplex. I think all hunters should do the same if you can't eat it all.

People that don't eat their kill should be shot in my book.

And then eaten, right?  Otherwise it's just a vicious circle.

I used to work my summers/falls as a guide in northern Minnesota/canada for hunters and fisherman.  Here is a summary of what I learned.

1) Hunting with a gun is not a sport.  Tracking is a sport.  There is nothing difficult about killing an animal with a high powered rifle.  Tracking and finding animals is the element that requires skill.  Hunting with a bow is marginally skillful, depending on the tech of the equipment. 

2) Hunters tend to take the genetically strong specimens preferentially.  This is ultimately bad for the herd.  Thinning the herd is important, but the way hunters do it isn't ideal.

3) Most hunters are too lazy to track wounded animals and should have their licenses revoked.  FOREVER. 

I am not against gun ownership and hunting as a general principle.  I just will never understand how anyone can get pleasure from taking the life of a beautiful creature.  When I came to this realization in my youth, I stopped facilitating people (and stopped guiding).  Tracking is a skill and I will always respect those that are able to do it well.  People with a vast knowledge of nature always amaze me and I've always wanted to learn from them. 

/Rant off

Oh certainly, the average fatass American hunter would have some great marbling.

EDIT: Oh and Nebu, we hunt because it's tasty. I don't go around putting heads on walls or that other trophy bullshit. I especially like ducks, and they aren't pretty at all.

Meat tastes good.

Venison makes some fine jerky.

I understand that and that's a reason I'm not against hunting.  It's the hoards of hunters that kill animals with no intent of ever eating them that make me insane.  It's like they're so low on self esteem that they can only feel better by blowing up a rabbit or a doe.  Don't worry... I'm not a PETA psycho or anything.

Even with the abundance of hunters (they are letting bow hunters hunt in Indianapolis), we still have a bumper crop of deer.  Hell I think swerved to miss a deer is going to out rank swerved to miss a tree that jumped out at me (no comment on how drunk they are), on accidents this year.  Of course being that it is Indiana, having only a few really big cities (and mostly mid sized after that), a buttload of corn and soybeans, and no natural predators, the deer are going nuts.

Alabama monster hog a Photoshop fake?


http://www.prophetsplace.com/blog/?p=410

Crappy drama.

If only I were the journalist that broke this conspiracy wide open.  What a career maker!

Hi, I'm Stephen Glass, reporting live from some forest or some shit, hey look at those pictures!

I thought they saved the skin?

(edit) My bad, just the head.  Still, isn't a giant pig head reasonably good proof that they shot a giant pig?

I don't think anyone is denying that they shot a very large pig. But they are trying to say this pig was probably 1.5-2x as large as it really was.

Holy fuck, that kid's dad is bigger than the fucking pig really was. What a family of fat, ugly, useless fucks. All that and "christian" too. But using a completely innappropriate tool to do some unnecessary meddling, then lying while you brag about it certainly does square firmly with the evangelical philosophy.

Claim the pig was real, but not born feral. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3236356&page=1)  Alabama's Fish and Wildlife seems to agree with the claim.

That story is just sad. Honestly, since when is shooting a domestic pig from outside a "Large, low fenced enclosure" 16 times constitute any sort of sport, let alone hunting. I can't wait to see the spin they try to put on this. I hope the fat fuck piece of shit get the fuck beat out of him each and every day for being such a stupid lying bitch about such a stupid, pointless thing.

I'm going to have to agree with Bob on this one. The kid shot it from behind a fucking fence. Tool.

I'd have to agree.

It's really sad that he's getting encouragement and praise from his family and even strangers.  It made the news everywhere.  Poor kid is going to grow up to be creepy. 

Uhm...he is 11 and owns a .50 caliber pistol.

And don't forget where he is from.

The becoming creepy part was already a given methinks.

Sheesh, ya all need to get out of the computers cubicle's and go enjoy the outdoors, kill something, and cook it, and eat it.   :-D

Of course now that it has come to light that the pig was actually a farm raised pig, that was sold to the guy who owns the hunting preserve, and was pretty tame...kinda sounds silly (I'm still not shooting a pig with a handgun and hoping it doesn't charge me...big pigs can kill you).

My kid is 11 years old, he has 2 air rifles, a compound bow, a pocket knife, a fly fishing rod & reel, and a "zebco 33".  He has expressed intrest in using my paintball gun, and was interested in the other guns and some what into hunting, but since he won't eat what he shoots, he doesn't get to go.  When he will eat a squirrel, deer, rabbit, or quail, my dad and I will take him out and let him try.  And as expensive as firearms shooting can get, I'm beginning to think paintball plinking or BB gun plinking is a lot more fun and a lot cheaper.  I let him fish since we can throw the fish back since he won't eat them (he is getting the fly fishing down pretty good).

Oh as to a hog that big, I'm kinda leery of eating that...most of the hogs we would take to market would be at the very biggest 500 lbs, 300 to 400 lbs hogs would produce very good meat.  Heck some of the best pork I had was in the Philippines with the smaller hogs they grow there (damn good eating though).

And just recently, I caught a blue gill that must have been 18 inches long and almost 3lbs!  I was by myself at our pond, caught it on the fly rod using a white spider fly, and was a great fight.  Of course I didn't have anyone with me, and didn't have my camera.  Then a couple of days later I had just got a new catfish pole (zebco 808 combo), and had taken some slim jims with me, and was out hunting for a big catfish I had seen in the pond.  I caught him, dang thing must have been 3 and half feet long and freaking heavy!  Of course no damn camera again...but I did have a couple of people who saw me reel him in (awesome fight), land him, and then pick him up, and throw him back too.  Both those big fish are back in the pond, and heck I go and feed them every day (I buy 50lbs of farm fish food and feed them a couple of cups a day in the evening), so the beer will be good and the fish will still be there to be caught another day.

Those fish are just humouring you.  Stop feeding them and they'll ignore you.

He just wanted your Slim Jims.

Oh man...I forgot to say, but yes I did catch him on a piece of slim jim (I take them for catfish bait).  I break off about a 1 inch piece of slim jim, hook it up threw that casing it has (the fish can't nibble it away like most catfish baits), and use it till it stops getting bites on it, then re-bait it.  It is oily, meaty, and last a while, so great if you are fishing for bluegill or catfish (panfish are notorious bait stealers).  So yeah I did snap into a slim jim when I caught that catfish :D

What a waste of a jerky-like processed meat.  A really interesting idea though, and more pleasant to use than catfish dough.

I like using grass (glass) shrimp for perch.  A minute of bait catching provides enough for an entire afternoon.

I've caught fish on a piece of yellow paper towel sprayed with WD-40.  It really isn't about the bait as much as people seem to think.

I catch fish with my teeth and cook them with hot urine. 

Who gives a shit what you catch your fish with.  The whole point of fishing is to relax and have fun, unless you are one of those crazy fucking finsherman that are the worlds most reckless people alive....  in that case, everything you do is pure awesome, but you can only do it for like 3 weeks before you drown.

Well, WD-40 is a kinda suspect example as it's key ingredient is fish oil. :p

Oh, look, an angry emo internet poster dude.  Good luck with that, it's going to get you far on this site.

It's how Schild gets free games, right?

Schild is pseudo-Goth, not emo.

You seem extra sensative.  What was emo or angry about my post?   Oh and 'getting far' on this site is 1) a HUGE priority of mine and 2) why I post/ read posts here.

Does your post count make your cock seem bigger to you?

Well, yeah.  But that's only because I have all my replies tattooed on to it.