Do wild boars really get this big?

[What Rd]

dem pigs is cute, pink and cuddly, right?

 

[motorcityxj]

Has anyone else been tempted to read the "negative comments" the kid has received? I was appalled! These supposedly enlightened and caring people are spewing the most hateful and vitriolic rhetoric toward this kid. As if their views toward hunting, guns, and everything related weren't bad enough, these comments are clearly intended to injure this kid. It makes me question their sanity.
There is room in everything for differences of opinion, but the anger and lack of perspective evidenced by these comments actually makes me afraid of these people. Perhaps that is their intent. If so, the effort is misguided. Rather than back away from what frightens me, I get defensive . . . and I'm well armed whether the battle be intellectual or literal.

i have a feeling he is a good country boy through and through, he is a hero at his middle school or highschool, all the old timers even look up to him now and want to hear his story. I bet even though he is a kid, he didnt think to highly of hippie commie city folk from berkley, nyc, chicago etc. Different worlds. In his world he is a real big shot now. Local hero, hunting legend ... AND HES JUST A KID.

 

[IndyXJ]

Apparently it wasn't in the wild but a commercial hunting preserve. Lame.





http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1845385.ece




He said that he shot the animal eight times with a .50calibre revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. The animal died in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve near the city of Delta.

 

[Cox89XJ]

Has anyone else been tempted to read the "negative comments" the kid has received? I was appalled! These supposedly enlightened and caring people are spewing the most hateful and vitriolic rhetoric toward this kid. As if their views toward hunting, guns, and everything related weren't bad enough, these comments are clearly intended to injure this kid. It makes me question their sanity.
There is room in everything for differences of opinion, but the anger and lack of perspective evidenced by these comments actually makes me afraid of these people. Perhaps that is their intent. If so, the effort is misguided. Rather than back away from what frightens me, I get defensive . . . and I'm well armed whether the battle be intellectual or literal.

Those type of people will hug a tree, but kill you.

 

[motorcityxj]

Apparently it wasn't in the wild but a commercial hunting preserve. Lame.





http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1845385.ece




He said that he shot the animal eight times with a .50calibre revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. The animal died in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve near the city of Delta.

never been to a preserve only driven by one ... once. It had cyclone fence high about ten feet to keep in the exotics, but seriously what kinda fence can keep in a 1000 lb hog. I could dig under anything if it wanted to.

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

Must've been one of those "canned hunt" places where yuppies from places like suburban detroit can go and pretend to be real men...

Kid's prolly a guide there.

 

[GSequoia]

Must've been one of those "canned hunt" places where yuppies from places like suburban detroit can go and pretend to be real men...

I'd stay away from those places.

You might get shot by Dick Cheny!

 

[woody]

Must've been one of those "canned hunt" places where yuppies from places like suburban detroit can go and pretend to be real men...

Kid's prolly a guide there.

Come on down to Tellico in hog season... we'll camp out in the woods & see what we can blast.

 

[TrueBlueXJ]

I'm sure the kid got his jollies firing at that beast, whether it was on a preserve or not. I'd never go to any of those canned hunt joints, cuz wtf's the point? The "thrill of the hunt" is the anticipation and outsmarting the animal, not waiting for some jerkoff in khaki shorts to pull the chain and let it run! But I give the kid a break, cuz where else is a fifteen year old fat kid gonna get a chance to shoot a half-ton pig?

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

Come on down to Tellico in hog season... we'll camp out in the woods & see what we can blast.

I did do some black powder hunting for wild boar when I was at Campbell...

Never again.

not a fan of caseless ammo!

 

[8Mud]

I'd say judging by the scale of the surroundings that the kid's at least 6-8 feet behind the boar, making him look smaller and thus the boar look bigger. No doubt it's a big effin boar, but there's some exaggeration here.

And all the things about them being vicious are very true. My brother builds longbows (and writes songs about hunting, the outdoors etc. - myspace.com/thesingingbowyer ) and for his 30th birthday my family sent him on a boar hunt in southern Tennesee. He was the only guy there hunting with a long bow (or a bow of any kind), and everybody told him he was crazy. The rest of the group had already got their kills that day and the guide was about to order everyone to pack it in when they heard a big male foraging down below the rock face they were standing on. My brother went down around to the bottom and started walking toward this narrow crevice filled with laurel. The guide drove the hog out toward him and just as it broke through the laurel it started to put its head down (not a good sign). My brother drew his bow and got it right in the left shoulder and it let out a squeal, hit the ground, and slid to a stop in front of my brother's feet. All the guys who told him he was nuts were hootin' and hollerin' from the rocks above.

Your brother has a whole lot bigger Cajones than I do. I always thought I was brave stalking one with a .308 bolt action and a .44 mag backup. Most of the guys around here, when hunting them on the ground use auto loaders.
Pigs can be hard to kill, I often have to take my dog out and follow blood trails. A bullet through both lungs, won't stop one, they live for days. Same with a gut shot. I always try for a quartering shot, so the bullet has to travel most of the length of the body. For the big ones I use 200 grn. silver tips.
I don't think I've ever shot one that didn't run at least 30-40 yards before it fell. I've seen them run 60 yards with an exploded heart.

 

[8Mud]

Funny about ten years back a young Boar ran out of the woods and bit a young man on the calf. Opened up a rather large gash. Him and his girlfriend were ahhh just out walking in the woods. I think they were out there making the beast with two backs and the Boar got jealous.
Anyway the city council got in an uproar and argued for a week, some thought the Boar should be killed, others thought it was just his nature and he should be spared. Finally they gave the order to kill the pig.
I got the order and scratched my head a little and thought a pig can cover twenty miles in a night, in seven days he could be over a hundred miles from here. Oh well, went out and shot a pig and wrote a letter saying, mission accomplished.
People that sit in there offices all day, most times don't even have a clue. But they more often than not make the decisions. And much of there perspective is just wishful thinking or they try equate human values with animal behavior. I often think, what a bunch of screwballs.