Hunter bags 500-pound boar you have to see to believe

[30cal]

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/idlE76AZjjeN5.LE1IFmOA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/

http://news.yahoo.com/giant-hog-boar-hunter-caught-500-pounds-133815315.html


The beast had been seen on trail camera footage years ago, but hunters had failed to capture it until Webb, who says he fired a single shot from a .308-caliber AR-15 rifle from about 50 yards, took it down

[geek tragedy]

1. feral hogs are a major problem, hope they can feed some hungry people with that thing nt

[30cal]

2. I never knew they were that big in NC

That would scare me seeing that in the woods.

[BlueCaliDem]

103. Are feral hogs safe for human consumption?

I'm always afraid that they're not because of their diet and the disease out there. Goes to show you how much I know, eh?

[quaker bill]

118. cook them well

and with enough BBQ sauce they are fine.

[LynneSin]

137. I remember there were feral hogs up near our family home in NC Pennsylvania

They caused alot of damage in the area for farmers not just from the crops they destroyed but damage done to property.

I do hope the hunter finds a way to use the boar to provide food for people. Even if he doesn't want it perhaps a local shelter would be happy to have the meat to be used to feed the hungry folks there.

[Rex]

3. ...

[Hoyt]

9. Good one.

[uppityperson]

86. Excellent!

[Baclava]

88. You know I want to believe

[Rex]

89. Well that bunny as you can see, is not an ordinary rabbit...I'll let the expert explain it.

[BlueCaliDem]

101. ...

LUVS me some Giorgio! His hair is just . . . mesmerizing.

[2naSalit]

114. I checked on Snopes

and they didn't have this particular hog story up yet but they might by tomorrow. There was another that claimed an 1100lbs hog was shot last year..? Just have to check some of these. But then, domestic hogs can get that heavy so...?

[Bandit]

4. Only one shot, but but but he has a thirty round magazine..

Nice "hunting" rifle.

[shedevil69taz]

11. It is actually

.308 Caliber rifles are an excellent choice for hunting a wide variety of wild game. This one and many exactly like it are used (including by me) to hunt and kill game on a regular basis.

[Bandit]

36. I have a 308 caliber bolt action rifle I have had for forty years

I hunt in heavy bear country and have NEVER felt the need for a thirty round clip. My rifle holds four rounds, or five with one in the chamber. I have hunted for over sixty years and do not see the need for military style weaponry.

[shedevil69taz]

40. Good for you

Just because YOU don't FEEL you need need that doesn't mean someone else feels that they do. If the only magazines I have for my rifle are designed to hold 30 rounds, guess what I'm not going to buy ones specially to make anyone FEEL better (myself I do own 5 and 10 rounders, and the 10's are usually the only ones I use, and when hunting in NY I only put 6 rounds in each).

[LonePirate]

120. That 30 round clip kinda removes the sporting element from the hunt.

It's not as if humans were disadvantaged by smaller and less modern clips.

[FarCenter]

49. The bolt action rifle is a military style rifle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_action#History

It's just an old military style.

[Bandit]

55. Yes it is but you know why the military changed to large capacity magazines?

What do large capacity magazines have over small capacity magazines? I suspect it is because large capacity magazines are much more lethal. If in civilian life we are worried about gun deaths and mayham then wouldn't it stand to reason that limiting the capacity of magazines would have an effect? Seems elementary to me. The military sure figured it out anyway...

[Hoyt]

64. Makes gun fanciers feel good about themselves and their ability to clear a room, fight an army, etc.

In other words, they are irrational.

?7


White guys lined up to purchase hi-cap mags in NY.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1240892.1358303163!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/article-gunshop3-0115.jpg

[uppityperson]

87. I like the last photo. Scary indeed

[geomon666]

130. If only the barrel would bend all the way around back at the operator in that first pic.

You know, like the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

[FarCenter]

68. Repelling an infantry attack is a pretty simple math problem

How many soldiers per km do you have in the line of defense?
How many rounds / soldier are they carrying?
How fast can they fire?
How many rounds have to be fired to stop an advancing enemy soldier?

How many soldiers per km does the enemy have in the line of attack?
How far away are they?
How fast can they advance over the terrain?

If you run out of ammunition before the enemy runs out of soldiers, you lose.

If you can't kill them fast enough to keep them from reaching your line, you lose.

A moderate rate of fire, long range, and high accuracy are actually a good combination for defense. Low rates of aimed fire are good, especially to prevent running out of ammunition. Bolt action rifles were in general use in WW I. However, they weren't good for clearing enemy trenches.

A high rate of fire is needed by the attacking force once they reach the enemy line. A fully automatic weapon with a light cartridge, such as the 5.56 mm NATO is better here. The AK-47 is similar. In WW II there were specific designs for trench clearing.

[Bandit]

69. Exactly

And none of those qualify as an excuse for civilians to have large capacity magazines.

[idendoit]

133. What's the mathematics for being outflanked or attacked from the rear?

How about the calculus for being bracketed by mortar fire? What percentage of fire power do you commit defending against a simultaneous airborne assault? "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." Helmuth von Moltke.

[pipoman]

107. Blasted kids with their rock'n roll muzic,

Whudda need them big tires fir? Get off my lawn! Freedom isn't free! Ta'hell with statistics, I heard it on the CNN..

Oh, forgot, 'the 2nd amendment is about hunting, everybody knows dat.'

[Paladin]

58. Do you have to actually fire your weapon?

Or do the game animals take one look at its badass tactical features and just keel over dead from sheer terror?





(Sarcasm alert added for the usual clueless types.)

[shedevil69taz]

61. Hasn't happened yet

But I keep hoping my scary scary pistol grip and muzzle break will one day work their magic! LMAO

[HubertHeaver]

33. If that thing were coming at me,

I would want a bazooka.

[HereSince1628]

60. How high capacity mag is used in boar hunting... (warning for sensitive)

[tularetom]

5. Remember hogzilla?

It was supposed to weigh 1000 lbs and everybody thought it was a hoax. As it turned out it was the real thing but IIRC they finally determined its actual weight was more like 750 lbs.

This guy looks bigger to me.

[Marrah_G]

52. I also believe that hog turned out the be farm raised for canned hunts

http://www.imediaethics.org/News/129/Alabamas_monster_pig_hoax__one_year_later.php

[flamin lib]

6. Yeah' 500 lbs is possible but not likely in the wild.

200-300 all the time, I've got game camera pics and have shot 200 pounders (was trying for a small one as the big ones taste gamey). A sow can throw two litters a year @ 10 piglets each.

I think the record is over a grand . . .

[dilby]

7. It probably weighs about 500 lbs but.

Every hunter knows the camera trick to actually kneel 10 feet behind the animal to make the animal look bigger than it truly is. It's the same for fish, when you get your photo taken always hold the fish with both hands in front of you as far away from your body as possible and it will look like you caught moby dick.

[Enrique]

8. a Beast of the Southern Wild

[FSogol]

97. That's what I was thinking. Last of the Aurochs. n/t

[LordGlenconner]

10. I would have been rooting for the hog

As I always do when it comes to trophy hunting.

[B2G]

12. It wasn't trophy hunting

Which you would have known if you'd read the article:

"We’re not going to waste anything,” Webb said. “That pig will provide food for me and my family for a good year."

[LordGlenconner]

14. Whatever gets you through the day.

[Lost_Count]

51. I think adequate animal protein gets him through the day...

[CVN-68]

56. Nice come back.

[upaloopa]

21. Why not leave it alone and go to the store like everyone else.

It sucks no matter what you call it. You don't need to kill you just like to!

[B2G]

24. Good thing those pigs in the store

weren't killed for their meat, huh?

[Marr]

25. How is buying meat from the store more noble? /nt

[hack89]

35. Because it doesn't involve evil gunz. nt

[csziggy]

44. Feral hogs are an invasive species and damage the woodlands

In addition, they are aggressive and dangerous.

A farmer's new scourge: swarming, wild swine
Wild pigs, reproducing quickly, eat crops, threaten domestic herds

By Jay Price

[e-mail] 6, 2012

Much of the nation is now losing a brutal, few-holds-barred war with an exploding population of millions of feral hogs, and North Carolina is on the front line, with acres of field crops and delicate wildlife habitat being destroyed daily and the $1.5 billion pork industry at risk. Scientists say all the new laws popping up around the country aren’t likely to stop the expansion of the pig population that’s chomping and rooting up pretty much everything in its path.

<SNIP>

More education, she said, also needs to be done for the general population, which is mainly unaware of the feral hog onslaught. And hunters in particular should be made fully aware of the huge dangers posed by releasing feral swine and the damage they do to crops and wildlife habitat.

Wild pigs can carry some 30 diseases, many of them also harmful to humans. Researchers from N.C. State University have found several diseases in wild pigs here, including the discovery, announced two weeks ago, that many are harboring bacteria that cause brucellosis, a disease that can sicken people and cause spontaneous miscarriages in pigs.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/06/2047423/a-farmers.html#storylink=cpy

European hogs were introduced in the Western Hemisphere as early as Columbus' first voyage. De Soto brought hogs to Florida in his expedition, and enough escaped to establish feral populations there. They uproot native plants, displace native animals, and endanger domestic populations of pigs.

Hog hunting is not done just for fun or even for food. It is done to control a species that should not be wild on this continent.

[Gothmog]

47. Feral hogs are a major issue

There is a state park near me that you have to be careful when hiking due to the feral hogs

[csziggy]

50. Yep, they are dangerous - don't get caught on the ground with them around

Heck, watch videos of pigs attacking hunters and their dogs - it's a pretty fair fight.

[eShirl]

65. not to mention tasty

I'm assuming (since it's a member of the bacon family and all)

[csziggy]

74. They are just wild domesticated pigs

So, yeah, tasty though how they taste can be affected by what they've eaten. I've heard that many of the hog hunters like to get them during the fall when they've been eating acorns.

[RebelOne]

48. I agree because I hate hunting and those who kill for sport. n/t

[Glassunion]

67. Whut!?

That makes zero sense.

[NoOneMan]

73. Why can't store meat eaters hunt like carbon conscious consumers do?

(or become vegetarians)

Do you understand just how harmful it is to level forests and monocrop grain with ferts and send it to a factor farm for meat production?

Gug.....Insane.

[AnalystInParadise]

128. Don't care

I like animal flesh. I tried to go Vegetarian once, honestly tried with no pre-judgement, but after being very weak and having other health problems that started 10 days after I stopped eating meat and continuing for the two months I tried to go meatless, I went back to my normal diet of high protein, high fat, low to moderate carbs. Ironically I am now in better shape then when I was a young soldier doing PT every day.

[GoCubsGo]

105. I recommend a trip to the Southeast.

Come down and take a hike in the woods and swampland, and see the immense damage done by feral hogs to native wildlife habitat. This guy did the local wildlife a huge favor.

[Jackpine Radical]

111. So you prefer to hire your killing done for you.

[Yo_Mama]

124. Because you can go get meat at the store that didn't come from a killed animal?

Where are these no-kill meat emporiums?

[hack89]

15. This isn't trophy hunting

hogs are an invasive species that have a devastating impact on the environment. They are considered a nuisance species and can be hunted year round with no limits. And their population is still exploding.

[upaloopa]

23. Screw your gunner logic. It all leads back to more guns and more killing.

[hack89]

27. Give it a rest

it is not good for you.

[upaloopa]

29. No gunners are not good for us

[hack89]

30. Irrational fear is not good for you either. nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

37. You need to read about the feral hog problem.

They aren't good for the environment or anything.
I wouldn't hesitate shooting them.

[aikoaiko]

42. Spot on caricature of an anti-gunner

[NutmegYankee]

100. Well then, go back to the grocery store and just make believe...

that this isn't what you whole heartily endorse:

[Beaverhausen]

31. Humans are the most invasive species

[hack89]

34. Nice non-sequitur. nt

[Lost_Count]

53. How's your natural cave with its natural wi-fi working out?

[yawnmaster]

54. hmmmmm...what is a human's native environment? eom

[NickB79]

80. So all other invasive species get a free pass?

Humans introduced the pigs to the region, so the LEAST we can do is remove them as well.

And unless you have a suggestion as to where we can humanely store a few million angry, hungry feral hogs after being life-captured.....

[Logical]

108. So why pose for a picture? n-t

[hack89]

123. In the digital era what isn't photographed?

Not only is every mundane thing and event photographed but they are shared with the entire world.

[CBGLuthier]

17. Not Trophy

"We’re not going to waste anything,” Webb said. “That pig will provide food for me and my family for a good year."


Guess you picked the wrong side based upon your assumption.

[840high]

62. He said it was to

feed his family.

[NickB79]

78. Feral hogs are a scourge on nature in the US

Rooting for the hog is tantamount to rooting for habitat destruction for the native flora and fauna of the region.

From an environmental point of view, it doesn't matter if the pig is eaten or left to rot, so long as they're all killed off. They're an invasive, destructive species that needs to be exterminated.

[Yo_Mama]

125. Feral hogs are not natural in this ecosystem

They are extremely harmful to it. They can also be very dangerous, and aside from damaging the ecosystem, they can do extensive damage to farms.

This is not trophy hunting - everywhere these hogs were introduced they are hunted to keep the populations down.

[Xyzse]

13. That has to be more than 500 lbs.

That looks insane.

[Zorra]

16. Good for him and his family. That's a whole lot of food right there. nt

[functioning_cog]

18. Tha is wild! Amazing pic

Tou seem tuned in to the hunting scene. What is the best rifle for going after bears?

P.S. I'm guessing your username references your favorite caliber?

[B2G]

19. Jury results

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This is not what DU is about.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Mar 13, 2014, 09:37 AM, and the Jury voted 1-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This is 2 minutes of my life I won't be getting back.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: "We’re not going to waste anything,” Webb said. “That pig will provide food for me and my family for a good year." We don't know anything about this man's circumstances, but the fact that he will be consuming it for a year tells me that he doesn't hunt just for the fun innit.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Perhaps the thread would be a better fit in the Outdoor Life Group, but discussions of hunting, feral/invasive species, firearms, and related issues are appropriate for and acceptable on DU. Many of us have an interest in these topics.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Considering the username of the OP, I would have to agree. Maybe the novelty of a 500 lb boar, perhaps, but this person posted it because gun.

[pintobean]

28. Juror #6 is a mind reader

because gun

[11 Bravo]

39. Yeah, DU is chock full of mind readers as well as Nostradumbasses these days.

[30cal]

41. huh

[upaloopa]

20. That sucks. Hunters have seen this animal for years

and all they can think is who will get to kill it!
Another reason I have no admiration for gunners.

[Travis_0004]

90. Its an invasive species that is destorying the environment.

If it could be arranged, I would like to see every last one in North America eliminated.

They compete for resources with deer populations, and don't really have any natural predators.

Just about every state allows hunting swine with no daily limit, and very little restrictions, unless they are for safety. If it were possible, I would like to see every last wild swine eliminated from the wild in North America, which would help the native animals compete for resources and better balance the ecosystem.

So you should thank hunters. Without them the swine problem would be a lot worse.

[upaloopa]

91. So I don't go shooting pigs

Most people don't
You always have a ready reason to kill
I don't admire that

[REP]

93. Tell you what. You can befriend all the wild boars you want to.

I live in an area where they are a problem and a danger. I see one on my property, I'll send it your way. If it doesn't cooperate, well, it may end badly for the boar.

[upaloopa]

96. I lived with them too

Caliente creek in the lower Sierra Nevada
Bear mountain was full of them. We still didn't kill them
I don't buy all that gunner shit

[REP]

98. Sure.

Maybe you didn't. Not everyone peacefully coexists with them, though. They are dangerous and invasive.

Hunting one's own meat is far more honest than having someone else do your killing for you. That meat at the store was most likely raised in horrid circumstances and lived a life of suffering. Unless you seek out pastured meat, you are contributing to unspeakable animal cruelty by buying meat from a grocery. If you don't own that, you have nothing to say about those who hunt for meat.

[upaloopa]

104. Humans are dangerous and evasive

We lived in open range country
Most of the bears and mountain lions were extinct
Only bobcats and other small animals left
When we saw a sow with piglets we took a picture

[Travis_0004]

94. I never said you had to go

I just said that some way we need to keep the population in check, and letting hunters pay for a permit seems like a good solution to me?

Just wondering, do you eat meat?

[Gman]

22. Photoshoped

And not a very good one Using the guy and trees as perspective, that thing would be 3000 lbs.

[csziggy]

46. See post #7

"Every hunter knows the camera trick to actually kneel 10 feet behind the animal to make the animal look bigger than it truly is."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4657044

Camera tricks but not photoshopped.

[gulliver]

119. Yup. Looks fake to me.

And it probably wasn't even weighed. Exactly 500 lbs?

[Orrex]

26. Man overboared!

[rdharma]

32. Believe me..... it's NOT photoshopped!

[DirkGently]

38. Pretty obvious forced perspective shot.

The hunter is squatting several feet or more behind the boar. There is no way the animal is 2-3 times as long as the rifle he is holding as it appears. It could be 500 lbs, but the shot makes it looks big as a horse or a grizzly bear, which is not the case.

Hunters and fisherman have been pulling this prank for decades. Used to be you'd hang the fish from a branch with fishing line and stand behind it pretending to hold it up.

The "giant feral hog" thing is just the new version.

Here's a famous one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Pig

Images[edit]
Several days after the story broke, suspicion mounted over the authenticity of the photographic evidence. Retired New York University physicist, Dr. Richard Brandt, used perspective geometry to demonstrate that either the pig was 15 feet long (far bigger than claimed) or the boy in the photo was standing several meters behind the pig, using forced perspective to create the optical illusion that the animal was larger than its actual size.[8] Others claim the photographs were digitally altered.[9]
It has been shown that most of the pictures that were distributed to the media were altered through the use of digital enhancement[10] and perspective[11] to make the pig look much larger than it really was. There were also claims that there were other photographs from the Stone family owned Monsterpig.com website (since removed) that showed a more normal size/scale for the pig.[12] Others claim the photographs were digitally altered.[13]

[WilliamPitt]

43. A creature of such unique magnificence is totally better dead than alive.

[MicaelS]

66. Yes, it is. This isn't some endangered species.

As others have pointed out, feral hogs are a serious problem in the US. A Plague of Pigs in Texas.

Wild hogs are among the most destructive invasive species in the United States today. Two million to six million of the animals are wreaking havoc in at least 39 states and four Canadian provinces; half are in Texas, where they do some $400 million in damages annually. They tear up recreational areas, occasionally even terrorizing tourists in state and national parks, and squeeze out other wildlife.

Texas allows hunters to kill wild hogs year-round without limits or capture them alive to take to slaughterhouses to be processed and sold to restaurants as exotic meat. Thousands more are shot from helicopters. The goal is not eradication, which few believe possible, but control.

“Most of the hogs that are killed here are killed by hunters, people who will eat them,” Stewart says. He’ll fly over the ranch to try to count the hogs, but unlike some landowners who are overrun, he has yet to shoot them from the air. “We’re not that mad at ‘em yet,” Oakes chuckles. “I hate to kill something and not use it.”

We have plenty of feral hogs in this country, and as far as I am concerned we should kill as many of them as we can and feed them to the poor.

[X_Digger]

71. "unique magnificence" that's displacing native wildlife, eating native flora

How do you feel about lionfish in the Keys? Or asian carp in MD/VA? Zebra mussels?

[WilliamPitt]

82. Got a lot of 500lb asian carp, do ya?

[X_Digger]

84. In a day's worth of fishing, yes.

Or is it only mammals that attain 'unique magnificence'?

Fuck the native species who live there, eh?

[VScott]

140. One mans "Unique magnificence" is another ecosystems nightmare

Should have let the li'l bugger alone.

It wasn't harming or bothering anyone or anything...

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[JanMichael]

72. Vegetarian here- we live in NC-

Read up on the feral hog problem down here- this is not a native animal, and they are causing problems for our native wildlife, farmers, state parks- and they can be mean as hell. Their only natural predators are hunters.

This guy is going to eat what he killed- this wasn't a trophy hunt of an endangered species.

[fascisthunter]

76. Yeah, I Thought the Exact Same Thing

It's a wee bit strange...

[Glassunion]

85. No worries. They will eventually make it to your neck of the woods.

Southern NH has a growing population. Mass. is still considered a feral pig free state, but with the growing just on your northern border, it should no be long. A year or two most likely. They breed quite quickly.

[GoCubsGo]

115. What they do the native wildlife and their habitat is not magnificent.

I have seen thousands of acres of woods and swampland torn up by these fuckers. They destroy valuable croplands, as well. The photo below was taken in California, which has a huge feral hog problem. It's just the tip of the ice berg. Things are even worse down here in the Southeast.

Not only do they destroy habitat, they also complete with native wildlife for food, as well as eating some of them--snakes, and small mammals, such as mice. Quite frankly, I hope that hunter takes out lots more of them.

[Vashta Nerada]

45. I was wondering if this was Melissa Bachman.

Nope. Just as bad, though. That poor boar was probably old and some asshole hunter had to kill it.

[Catherine Vincent]

57. That's nothing

John Locke would have used his knives to kill that boar.

[MO_Moderate]

59. Beautiful

[B Calm]

63. Wow, that's a lot of pork steaks!

[Liberal_in_LA]

70. poor animal

[GoCubsGo]

117. I feel worse for the native fauna who were affected by this thing.

Google "feral hogs damage", and you'll see what I mean.

[MFM008]

75. bless the beasts and the children

[catbyte]

77. I'd be more impressed if The Mighty Hunter wasn't armed with an assault rifle.

Yeah, big whoop.

[Lizzie Poppet]

92. It didn't make any difference, really: he fired one shot.

As it turned out, he could have used a single-shot rifle, since he only needed one shot. Still, against dangerous game, a back up is a good idea, which is why most hunting rifles hold five rounds or so. That AR looks like it's got a 20-rounder, which is actually not allowed for hunting in some states (they make 5 and 10 round magazines for those rifles for hunting in those states). Seems a bit silly to me, as it's just making the rifle a lot heavier.

That rifle fires the same round as a lot of ordinary hunting rifles (.308).

I don't hunt, myself...no interest in it. But I do understand why feral hogs have to be hunted. They're invasive species where they've been established here in North America, and they do a lot of harm to localized ecosystems. Hunting is the most "surgical" way to get rid of them, since poison to traps are much too indiscriminate.

[Logical]

116. Then why take a damn picture with it if he was just helping the environment? n-t

[Hoyt]

141. Or join a hunting club with $6000 dues. Gotta wonder about these guys.

[Lizzie Poppet]

142. I certainly wouldn't be inclined to do that.

Wouldn't be anything I took joy in...necessary as removing those hogs may be.

[tridim]

79. Death RAWKS!!!!!!!!1111

[Jackpine Radical]

112. You're a vegan, I take it.

[Logical]

113. Yes, because when people kill cows or chickens they pose for a fucking picture. LOL. n-t

[Jackpine Radical]

134. I come from a family and a culture of hunters & fishermen.

Not one of them was a trophy hunter, not one of them had mounted game or fish, among the family photos there were none of dead game animals or fish. Hunting & fishing were economic activities, a way of feeding your family. I haven't hunted in several years now, but I never killed an animal without a sense of both regret and gratitude. That was a value I learned from those who taught me to hunt. They were, by the way, people who lived most of their lives in the outdoors and were very conservation-minded.

If you are actually a vegan, I have no quarrel with you; you are living according to admirable principles. However, if you're just poking fun at the rubes, then you really don't know much about the people you're deriding.

There are of course the Cheneys and Nugents of the world, who have made a macho game and sick sport of the whole thing, but those people are fucked in the head in a lot of ways besides their attitudes toward hunting.

[fascisthunter]

81. Amazingly Large...

...but one side of me also thinks it's strange. I think that's because I'm not a hunter, and too far removed from the culture surrounding the age old practice. I seriously think my reaction to this post is an interesting one... one side would rather see it alive, that the posing with the animal a bit macabre, but then again I am also aware that feral hogs are a problem in the wild(from what I have read), and that hunting has been around since the beginning of time and by extension the 'honor' of the kill/catch.(I used to fish quite a lot)

[Sunlei]

83. ewww, that's a lot of 'boar taint' for a canned 'hunt'

[Auntie Bush]

95. Well, bully for him! Aint he special?

[Maeve]

99. bigger one shot in 2004

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bighog.asp

[Strelnikov_]

102. What a man

He shot something . . . from a distance.

[Logical]

110. I know. Now if he did it with a knife alone that is something to brag about. n-t

[Strelnikov_]

126. . . .

Your post 106

I've never gotten it either.

Kinda like . . . hey we kicked their ass . . . after dropping bombs on a defenseless country.

[Logical]

106. I have never understood being proud of shooting an animal with a high powered rifle.......

And the posing with it like you fought it hand to hand.

Weird.

[mwrguy]

109. Is it legal for him to hunt with a high-cap magazine?

Game & Fish might need a phone call.

[badtoworse]

122. I believe the law usually limits the number of rounds you can have in the magazine

If I remember right, in NY, where used to to hunt, the limit is 5 rounds for a shotgun or a center-fire rifle. It's been a few years since I hunted with anything other than a side by side shotgun.

[Skeeter Barnes]

136. Yes

[CVN-68]

144. You can hunt with a hi cap mag as long as it's only loaded with what the

law says is legal.
I think there's an exemption with feral hogs, feral hogs can be hunted year round with no limit.

[dembotoz]

121. next of syfy--hognado

[Jaydog]

127. crap

Thought this was about Rush

[ileus]

129. My BIL killed one a several years back with his G23 service pistol.

It was at the bottom of his porch steps grunting at his dog at the top of the steps. Took 3 rounds to put it down...not bad for a S&W40. Turned out to be a 180lb wild boar.

[Peregrine Took]

131. He just wanted to live. I guess that's not allowable?

Hope the shooter comes back as a "beast" and can find out up close and personal what it's like to be hunted.

[Travis_0004]

132. Hogs are an invasive species destorying the environment.

They compete with resources with native species, and cause billions of dollars in damage annually.

[CVN-68]

145. You have any idea the damage feral hogs do to the ecosystem?

They're an invasive species that destroy the environment, compete for food with native species, and are generally dangerous animals.
They are so destructive that they can be hunted year round and there's no limit on how many one can kill.

They're also pretty damn tasty.

[flvegan]

135. One invasive species uses gun to eliminate another. Poses with assault rifle.

Did I get everything right in this post?

What's funny is that the wuss with the gun would be little more than scat had the two met on even ground. Be proud, little "man" be proud.

[Travis_0004]

138. so your solution is to allow hogs to destory farm land and native species?

Also, I'm wondering for all the people against hunting, do you eat meat? If so, you do know that somebody has to kill the animal, right?

[flvegan]

139. Hogs...humans...what's the diff?

Set your humor-meter (if you have one) to mockery. It's what I'm doing here to most folks applauding this.

And if you missed it, the name is flvegan. flVEGAN.

[underseasurveyor]

143. And OMG ROTFLMFAO

Do I LOVE you

[Jenoch]

146. I thought the .308 in the AR platform was an AR-10.