This is one huge dead pig!

[Nebu]

Meat tastes good.

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.

[Jimbo]

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.

[Zonk]

Alabama monster hog a Photoshop fake?

So the Alabama big pig is most certainly a scam. Since they’ve ground up the “evidence” into sausage they’ve got no way providing verification of the actual size of the hog. Which is another thing that struck me–and many of the hunters who emailed and commented: if you had a world record pig wouldn’t you want some scientific verification of such? Since they registered their “monsterpig.com” domain name two days after the pig was purportedly shot, they obviously knew they were on to something and expecting enough media attention and interest to justify a website. So why destroy the evidence, which–if their claims are true–would have immediately validated their claims and rendered all criticism such as this moot? Simply stated, they’re selling the proverbial “pig in a poke”, albeit a real *big* “pig in a poke”.

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

[schild]

Crappy drama.

[Nebu]

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

[schild]

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

[Samwise]

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?

[Chimpy]

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.

[angry.bob]

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.

[Lantyssa]

Claim the pig was real, but not born feral.  Alabama's Fish and Wildlife seems to agree with the claim.

[angry.bob]

Claim the pig was real, but not born feral.  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.

[HaemishM]

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

[Lantyssa]

I'd have to agree.

[Signe]

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. 

[Chimpy]

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.

[Jimbo]

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.

[Signe]

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

[HaemishM]

He just wanted your Slim Jims.

[Jimbo]

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

[Lantyssa]

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.

[Murgos]

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.

[Cyndre]

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.

[Chimpy]

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.

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

[Murgos]

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.

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

[Paelos]

It's how Schild gets free games, right?

[Strazos]

Schild is pseudo-Goth, not emo.

[Cyndre]

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

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?

[Murgos]

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.