Holy dooly! What a pig!

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Joel · #1 Post by **Joel** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:51 am

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/child- ... 36704.html

piggy · #2 Post by **piggy** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:23 am

Year not to bad but read about how many times he shot it WITH a HAND GUN and then followed it for 3 HOURS before finishing it off.
A bit like shooting an Aussie pig with a slug gun

Poppy · #3 Post by **Poppy** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:34 am

Reminds me of the Oz movie Razorback

Joel · #4 Post by **Joel** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:59 am

I did get a bit cranky when I heard there were adults there with high powered rifles. They shouldnt have let it suffer so long. That said, it is still huge!

#5 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:12 pm

Sure it was huge but I would have been much more impressed if I saw it before it was shot - in its PEN!!!

That isn't hunting it is just killing and a sick way to do it to IMO.

Jeff

Joel · #6 Post by **Joel** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:02 pm

You reckon it was bread mate? Interesting...

#7 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:10 pm

You reckon it was bread mate?

Yep, no doubt about that unless it could stand still in the one spot in the wild every day and get all the fattening food possible - again IMO.

Jeff

Joel · #8 Post by **Joel** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:41 pm

Haha, wouldnt surprise me. Didnt cross my mind. Did some googling and it said that some other huge boar 'hogzilla' was accused of being grown on a farm. Anybody heard anything bout this stuff?

bsrecurve · #9 Post by **bsrecurve** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:54 pm

not that impressive IMO for a few reasons - some already mentioned...

what gets up my nose (and i've ranted about this before) is the trick photography used to make the pig look bigger.
that kid is probably 5m behind the pig by the look of it.

its obviously quite a big pig, but these kinds of things really detract from a hunting story IMO...

Joel · #10 Post by **Joel** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:09 pm

Yeah he was a very long way back. Does anyone know of anything else dodgy like this used by people bragging?

aussiehunter · #11 Post by **aussiehunter** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:08 pm

look only going by the story,if as they said they had guides,so it sounds like he was on a paid hunt,and ud be pretty certain it would be closed range,well the guides wouldnt shoot it,unless the kid was in trouble,so i know it sounds rough he had a few shots but least he followed it up and finished it...

plenty of bowhunters have done the same

but hey who knows what the real facts are

pat

buzz · #12 Post by **buzz** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:04 pm

piggy wrote:Year not to bad but read about how many times he shot it WITH a HAND GUN and then followed it for 3 HOURS before finishing it off.
A bit like shooting an Aussie pig with a slug gun

And to think, Chris/Gnome almost landed in the big house because a cat made it 4m after being given a mortal through-shot.

Joel · #13 Post by **Joel** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:35 pm

And to think, Chris/Gnome almost landed in the big house because a cat made it 4m after being given a mortal through-shot.

What a joke

wayoutwest · #14 Post by **wayoutwest** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:05 pm

I read a few weeks ago when i got back from east that the big fella was a pet pig and was sold to the kids farther who then let it go on there 1500 acre farm the fellas name was fred!

#15 Post by **Stickbow Hunter** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:26 pm

Yeah BD it was a pet pig named Fred. No wonder hunting gets a bad rap when people do stupid disgusting things like this (not hunting by the way).

Jeff