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Offline GH1

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Is this for real?
« on: September 08, 2011, 02:36:23 PM »
I can't tell if this photo is doctored or not, any ideas anyone?
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2011, 02:59:29 PM »
well since the varmint is about 3/4 as big as the 4 door truck id have to say yes its doctored.orrrr a extremely flattering camera angle?
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2011, 03:11:27 PM »
No chance....camera angle....
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 03:20:17 PM »
Yep, funny how in all those giant hog/bear photos the hunter is always sitting behind them.  I watched one hunting show where a guy shot a bear of approximately 200 lbs, but when the took the "keeper" photo, he was sitting behind the bear and it looked like 600 lbs.
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2011, 03:22:37 PM »
This appears to be forced perspective.  Take a look at Darby Ogill and the Little People,(disney movie).  Pig is in fore ground with head of man back nearer but not next to truck.  Al three items are forced into focus.  That is the way you get a hog bigger than a double cab truck.  Don't need photo shop, folks been doing this since potography was invented.
 
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2011, 05:41:24 PM »
The photo is  real and undoctored, but the hog is only about 100 - 125lbs.  It's all about the angle and set up of the shot.  The hog was set up real close to the camera, and the vehicle and hunter were posted in the background at a distance.  You can make a squirrel look the size of a bear, when you do this correctly.
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2011, 12:23:17 AM »
Yes we shot some squirrels like that once.  Big as a house.  Smokers too. When you set them up against GI Joe they are true "giants".
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2011, 12:34:49 AM »
I kinda thought it might be B.S, but I don't know enough about photography to understand how such an illusion can be created. Something just seemed off to me when I viewed it.
BTW, I like the GI Joe/squirell shot, funnier n hell!
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2011, 08:04:06 PM »
Quote from: Land_Owner on September 09, 2011, 12:23:17 AM
Yes we shot some squirrels like that once.  Big as a house.  Smokers too. When you set them up against GI Joe they are true "giants".
Aw shoot! Land_Owner, here I was thinking of trying to find out where you lived, so that I could shoot a couple of those Triple XL sized squirrels.  You mean to tell me they don't exist?  :o
Next you'll tell me the tooth fairy is really Pres. Xxxxx. :P
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2011, 05:06:43 AM »
Heck no!  The Tooth Fairy (aka "The Molinator" in Santa Clause 2) hehe...is Art LaFleur [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480869/]
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2011, 01:22:59 AM »
fake,no doubt
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2011, 04:04:59 PM »
That is what is know as forced prospective. It is how they shoot movies like Lord of the Rings. It is is also what is known as dishonest in advertising circles. I believe that crap like this is one of the reasons for all the hype about wild hogs lately. I blame all the rumors about them being bullet proof is bad and misinformed hunters.
 
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Is this for real?
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2011, 04:15:22 PM »
The "bulletproof" tale comes from actual Eurasian Wild Boars and early attempts to shoot them with soft lead round balls. While feral hogs in the US are tough, having tripped onto a momma feral hog while carrying a 30-30 Ranger with 160 grain hard cast lead flat points she went down. All three shots went in head on and penetrated no problem. I will say I was impressed with how she kept coming, she ended up nose down in the dirt still pointed at me.

She was not, however, too big to fit in the bed of my truck. Or even a good sized wheel barrow.
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2011, 05:34:58 PM »
Funny story 2 yrs ago I took an old friend hunting and he was useing a hawken 50 caliber. Well I told him to use one of my hp heavy bullets but he insisted on useing his little soft roundball. Long story short we snuck up on a three hundred pounder bedded down and he put that little ball right in the kill zone at 30 feet. We never did find that hog and I looked of and on for 2  days. I think my friend learned his lesson. The only animal ever shot and not recovered on my place.
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2011, 09:07:57 AM »
He's not "lost".  He's still out there.  Meaner than ever.
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« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2011, 03:46:54 AM »
That is actually why I usually carry the 45-70 with 400 grain or heavier loads if I know I'm out after feral hogs. It's not that I think their bulletproof, it's that I don't want to take any chance of leaving a wounded one laying around. Bang-flop takes some doing with the ones that have truly grown up wild.
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2011, 01:53:55 AM »
The biggest feral hog I have ever seen killed was by a State trapper. 475 pound Duroc cross was shot with a 22-250. When asked why he shot him with a varmit rifle he replied because my .338 was in the truck. He shot him right in the ear at 20 yards. They are not near bullet proof but you sure want to use something that will get the job done.  That picture is not doctored. They got the 6 pound bass at the end of the arm thing going. Hog is on the berm across the ditch from wildlife willy setting by the truck. That is still a decent sized hog. He sure is wooly for the time of year it looks to be.  Probably one of the high fence 2 acre penned hunts where they turn them loose for the nimrods to get a trophy.
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2012, 10:18:39 PM »
i looked at that dead squirrel picture several times didn't read it i thought it was a cougar :o
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2012, 10:44:17 PM »
 
 
  Hey Land_Owner:
 
  I had never looked at that GI Joe before, I just thought it was a wolf or yote. I seldom wear my reading glasses while on the web so I was fooled also.  LOL
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Re: Is this for real?
« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2012, 10:58:18 PM »
 
 
  Hey deernhog:
 
  I may be wrong but I agree with you, I have a hog head that a friend killed about 1978 up at Tellico Plains and it weighed about 450#. He told me that he shot it serveral times with a 44mag pistol, IIRC,240gr.HP and they had to follow up for a very long way and finally a 30-06 took it down for the count. Robert was a better than average shooter and the shots were in the shoulder.
  A Russian boar, it has tusk/cutters about 4" long, looks like the ones in the pic.
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