Guys.. a hog CAN get that size.. but if you really want to check it out.. try this:

Look at the first picture. The kid has his hand next to the head. His hand is almost the size of the pig's snout.. not quite.. but relative to THAT..

Look at the last picture.. The snout appears to have quadrupled in size.

This is a phone. I pulled them into photoshop and the scales are off on 3 of the pictures.

BUT.. in the kid's defense, personally.. I give him the benefit of the doubt. Do I beleive it? nope.. but in the lack of proof.. real proof.. I would have to say He has better proof.. heh...

And so good job..

but the pictures are a little suspect.. BUT.. I never tried to photograph a big hog.. well, I did once.. but after I divorced her she took the pictures back.

I think the 1st pic is the only one that doesn't show a skewed size on this thing. The other pics may not have been photoshopped but they're at least made to look bigger from standing way behind it. Does look like a huge hog anyway though, congrats to the kid if the story is true

well i know if i was that kid and i shot a hog the size of a cow.. id have a bigger smile on my face.... i grin from ear to ear when i kill a 200lb'er

My Texas CSI team, reviwed those pics, they are fake.

lol

Take a closer look at the pics. The first one you can see the kids knees. The second pic you can not. It looks fake to me.
Maybe the angle?

If it turns out it is real... well, good for him.. heh. I personally, would not know what the hell to do with a pig that large. I fish a lot and once caught a 70lb Grouper off the coast. In that same trip I got like 2 30ish lb snappers and a lot of others smaller than that.. a ton of v-liners, a few sharks and God knows what else.

Lesson learned that trip: give the crap away cause WAY too much fish.. laugh

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070525/ap_on_fe_st/monster_pig_3;_ylt=AgjqU5.YiQp1co5yi8lmIqJkM3wV if its on yahoo...it has to be real! except he only shot it 8 times...

No i dont need your calculator. the hogzilla i was refering to was shot in florida not georgia and said to weigh over 1100 lbs. not 800 lbs.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bighog.asp

and yahoo isnt saying wether its true or not

" If claims are accurate , Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004."

that link is not "hogzilla". the national geographic channel went and dug up hogzilla and did measurements and it only weighed an estimated 800lbs. they are making a horror movie based on a killer hog called hogzilla.

link to hogzilla

i did not say yahoo said it was real...i said it has to be real if its on yahoo....i was being sarsactic.

It must be a true story, I just saw it on channel 8 news.

Sig, I've shot a .50 caliber revolver once and only once. I doubt that an eleven year old could really stand up to that kind of punishment.

Look the first picture he is in front of the tree and the second picture he is beside it, makes you think. Still a nice hog.

Only problem I have with the whole "he is sitting four feet behind it" arguement is that he appears to be leaning on the pig. Look at how his arms are crossed and his sholders are upwards, you dont get that posture by standing....

Is anyone else not really impressed even if it is real???? There are 1,000 lb domestic hogs all over the country....Let one go a few months to a year and they revert back to looking like a wild pig then you shoot them and you have instant fame!!!! Didnt you read it was on a "preserve"????

Man.. if I had known a 1000+ pig would get you fame.. I'd have shot my ex wife a long dang time ago!

Oh my

I will find the article showing the before and after pics on the hogs released from feed pens...they grow long hair and tusks after being in the wild. The have before and after pics of hogs with tags in a high fence enclosure...You cant tell much if any difference in the truly born in the wild hogs and the domesticated and released...one problem they did have was some of the released pigs were dying looking for the feed trough...Let me find the link and I will post it.

their legs, head and snout grow longer? although i am not sayin a domestic hog cant survive in the wild or that that was once a domestic hog.

seein as how there are only a handful of 800lb+ wild hogs i know of killed...yeah i am impressed. i think there are a few people a little jealous of the kid. i think thats why people jump on the "its fake" bandwagon so fast. how many people on here have killed a 800lb+ hog in the wild? none that i know of.

I have never said that the hog was fake or that the pics were fake...I just said that I was not real impressed that a 1,000 lb hog was killed...there are 1,000 lb hogs all over the US.

On a second note...has anyone ever said how big (acres) this "preserve" is? I think if we would find out just how big this high fence enclosure is you may change your stance on it being a "wild" hog freely roaming about the countryside over there. I still say that there is no way that this was not a domestic hog released onto this "preserve" to be taken just like our exotics here in Texas. I do not see a true straight from birth true wild born hog freely roaming about and getting to 1,000 lbs or living long enough to get that big in the first place.

With the animal finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods.

Preserve Hog Hunts
Our European Boar and Feral Hog Hunts take place behind two miles of low fence. The terrain has everything that Lost Creek Plantation has to offer: From steep pine hillsides to hardwood creek bottoms, hogs have plenty of places to hide in the diverse cover.