Author Topic: Just my luck (Read 1943 times)

Ditchdigger · « **on:** February 04, 2009, 01:51:22 PM »

Just my luck,someone else has shot the pig I was going to let GB shoot this summer after it put on a little more weight.

Graybeard · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2009, 06:27:53 AM »

Personally I'm not convinced it even is a hog. The image looks Photoshoped to me. I copied the middle image and took it to Photo Shop and blew it up to view the pixels and to me it appears to be a hog head grafted onto the body of something else which has been blown up to match.

The hog if that's what it is sits on a tall mound and the people are pushed way back from it to make it appear far larger than it really is. To me this is just one more hoaxed monster hog. The body, rear leg and tail just do not look like a hog at all to me but some other critter whose image is blown up to go with a hog head.

rem700-3 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2009, 10:25:25 AM »

I dont doubt that the pic is real but I agree that it was staged to make the hog look a lot bigger than it really is.

I have seen a few hogs put up in a small pen and fed heavy achieve 450- 475 pounds scale weight that appear to be 6-700 pounds to someone who has not seen many and that is what this hog looks like to me. No scars on the shoulders, perfect teeth and no mud not a wild hog

Ditchdigger · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2009, 11:21:51 AM »

One way to find out, The guy's name is Audrey R. Smith,booking agent for Huntmasters of Texas.He's the ranch manager for the Chiefs Ranch of Sabinal Tx. 210 685 9388.This hog supposedly weighed over 1800 pds. He's kind of small compared to the Guinness book of world records, its 2552 pds. Digger

drdougrx · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2009, 03:06:16 PM »

I also suspect the humters are standing well behind the hog to change the depth of field....darn...gave away my secret!

Land_Owner · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2009, 01:06:22 AM »

That's a Rio Grand hog. It's been feedin on stray Mexicans. They get real big that way. We shouldn't shoot hogs like that. They're too good for the economy.

Skunk · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2009, 03:21:31 AM »

Something just doesn't look right about those pictures.

Ditchdigger · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2009, 03:36:44 AM »

Here is another pict. of it. It was shot in northern La.

Graybeard · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2009, 05:06:19 AM »

That makes me even more skeptical Digger. That doesn't look like the same critter to me. Brown in this one and not in the other. Note the hair on the back like a razor back in this one not there in the other. Just looks totally different to me. Now this one I agree fully is a hog and a large one. Dunno how large but definitely a large hog.

The other tho? I dunno it jist don't look right to me.

pdrhtr · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2009, 04:25:11 AM »

any idea on the weight of this animal?

Graybeard · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2009, 04:45:37 AM »

When Digger and I were talking via phone about it he said it was reported at about 1800 pounds.

Ditchdigger · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2009, 06:34:20 AM »

Bill,if thats not the hog I had located for you,we've still got a chance to get one like it.The one I saw stood about as tall as a angus cow.It would be nice if we could catch it,and you could take it home with you and plow gardens with it.

Digger

Graybeard · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2009, 05:59:26 PM »

Maybe I could teach it to let me saddle it and ride it around to save gas for my four wheeler. He could eat the stray dogs and cats that like to pass thru here. Just so long as he left the blueberry orchard alone.

JeffG · « **Reply #13 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:21:39 AM »

Might that be a Photoshop hog??

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Skunk · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:38:22 AM »

Quote from: Graybeard on February 07, 2009, 05:59:26 PM

Maybe I could teach it to let me saddle it and ride it around to save gas for my four wheeler.

Now that would be a sight to behold.

You might get away with slipping a saddle on his back, but I'd sure hate to be the guy that tried to put his bridle on.

squirrellluck · « **Reply #15 on:** February 08, 2009, 02:55:27 PM »

Don't know about the other Louisiana boys on here. But it don't look like any hogs around here. Not a feral or a piney rooter but I'm not an expert.

Land_Owner · « **Reply #16 on:** February 08, 2009, 03:02:55 PM »

I don't know if a hog will ever come out of my woods that clean. Our hogs are mud caked to prevent ticks and sunburn. They wallow whenever they can. This hog is real clean. Almost shampooed.

Default · « **Reply #17 on:** February 08, 2009, 10:29:24 PM »

Yeah boys ,

I noticed it was unusually clean too ..

Default

Ditchdigger · « **Reply #18 on:** February 09, 2009, 05:41:10 AM »

It look's like he's been rubbing his right side on something.Judging by the grass and weeds,its spring time or early summer,and he's shedding some of the winter hair.It looks like a bloody spot behind the right shoulder. Blow up the picture of the truck,and the door say's Nature Tours on it. Its a big hog,though it may have been tame. If it were a true wild hog,I think I would have hunted another part of the woods. Digger

jmayton · « **Reply #19 on:** February 17, 2009, 09:48:49 AM »

If there isn't something laying on the hog to show the scale, then I usually think it to be manipulated in some way to look bigger. I think everyone should lay an arm or their rifle over their kill when they take a picture of it so that it doesn't look faked. BTW, that's why I carry a tiny, toy gun with me.

I think this one is a big (400lb+) hog, raised in a pen, then released to be hunted, then photographed with the hunter and guides far enough behind it so that it looks much bigger. Ferals are dirty, usually pretty skinny, and their tusks are usually worn down.

And GB, if Ted Nugent can ride a buffalo, I think you should be able to ride a Hog.

gstewart44 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 19, 2009, 08:42:59 AM »

I have ridden a hog one time, but it was emblazenned with Harley Davidson on the side....

squirrellluck · « **Reply #21 on:** February 19, 2009, 01:24:06 PM »

How long did it take you to get the decals on him?

cabledad · « **Reply #22 on:** January 11, 2011, 04:34:58 PM »

The biggest hog I ever saw was a 800 pound domestic hog here in Grayson County,Texas.He was so fat and his feet were in such bad shape he could barely get around.He was a familly pet and was confined to a small pen so I figure he was real old for a hog.Chuck

rdmallory · « **Reply #23 on:** January 12, 2011, 03:03:00 AM »

I don't think so Tim.

http://errorlevelanalysis.com/
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-snoop.html

Photo has been retouched.

I know of no place in the US that have enough food to support a hog that size in the wild. A 1000lb plus big would need 100-200 lbs of food a day to maintain that weight.

Doug