So do your math and tell me how many acres two miles of fence will contain???? Not Much...About 320 acres or so. So they chased this hog around in 320 acres for 3 hours...must have been tough to catch the old farm hog in there...

I am sorry but to me personally these types of people going on national TV with this type of BS and calling themselves hunters of wild game is a disgrace and a joke. Kicking a big farm hog out onto 320 acres, chasing it around for 3 hours having to shoot it multiple times (with many bad shots in the gut...check the pics) then plastering it all over the internet and national TV is terrible for the hunting community.

Just my opinion though...

Also, all of their publicity is trying to put the hunt on the 2,500 total acres of the plantation....it doesnt say anywhere that the hunt was actually in only 320 acres. Great advertising scheme!!!!

I have never said high fence hunting wasnt hunting...I hunt on high fence ranches all the time...But if I went to a high fence operation and shot a cow they just let out of the pen I wouldnt come up with a big story about how hard the hunt was and how good of a hunter I was to chase it around for 3 hours shooting it multiple times...some in the guts...and brag about it.

The claims of these 1,000+ lb "wild" hogs running around loose in SE is a joke. I sent them an email about the hog "preserve" well see if they respond with how many acres it is.

You dont need a high fence to contain hogs...all of the new hog hunting places are using the high tensile low net wire that will turn hogs but then advertise it as a low fence operation. I can advertise a low fence cattle hunt also!!!

LOL what does this have to do with cattle? it was a hog. it was wild even if it was once domestic. how come there have only been about 3 or 4 people ever kill a wild hog over 800lbs? wouldnt more people do it? i would think so. its because you can tell the difference between a just released domestic hog and a feral hog just by looking at it.

Well I wont argue about low fence, high fence, hunting or not...But no true wild hog born in the wild and not raised on feed and will reach 1,000lbs+ plus. Period.

If you want a hog over 800 lbs go down to your local pig farm...I know there are some in the DFW area...pick you one out and I have a 100 acre pasture we can throw it in and then have the spot and stalk hunt of a lifetime!!!!

My point is that they have city folks and a lot of hunters thinking there is really 1000+ lb hogs running around in the wild in free range conditions in those areas.

oh it sure will

i watched the video of the father and son on CNN. They sure acted like they knew the hog was there and went in after it.

JohnRussell you owe me a new monitor!!

well true, fabricated, fake or whatever...it still a "kid" & from the stuff i read & heard, ppl need to give him a break and cudos to him if its all exact & real...& regardless, "it is possible" we never know whats out there & where & what WE Might do in that situation

I do not reply much, but a chronic lurker. I just have to comment on these pics. Obviously, that is a big hog, but it is not as big as they are claiming! Come on people. I cannot wait until the motivation for this lye comes out. I am guessing publicity for the hogzilla movie. About four generations into getting loose, does a domestic hog become feral. This exagerated hog is maybe one generation out! And what dad lets his 11 year old son shoot a .50 caliber pistol?

It is a pretty good promotional for the place it was taken though...that "preserve" must have gotten so much email that I have not had a response from three I sent to them!!!

Read this:

http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/newshound/

txbowhunter...how do you feel now that the truth is out about the hog?????? Just wondering!!!!

i really dont feel any way about it. everyone kept sayin its fake its fake. well it wasnt fake. it was real. so someone released it the shot it....to each their own. not really different than hunting anything else in a high fence. most exotics are raised by someone then sold at auction and put in high fences to be hunted, rams too. whats the difference? there are places that raise whitetail. they have names and ear tags. someone shooting one of those doesnt "impress me", but i say if thats what you want then have at it. you cant bad mouth them for it. well i guess some can but....

Can anyone help me? I read this post from May 23rd--

"Got this in an email.Just outside ANNISTON, ALABAMA on Thursday, May 3, 2007:An 11 year old boy killed this 1,051 lb. wild Ferrell hog. The pig was over 9' 4" long and took 3 hours to kill using a Smith & Wesson customized .50 caliber revolver shooting 350 grain bullets. Approximately 16 shots hit this massive beast, some leaving fist size holes."

I am trying to trace and publish the truth about what happened with the monster pig. I am pro hunting and working on report for ESPN Outdoors.com.

I really could use more information about the email you-- or anyone else in the forum--received about the Monsterpig.com web site, if possible. What happened in AL is bad for hunting and bad for the 11 year old boy.Even if you don't have the email, any information about where the email came from?--if it were from monsterpig.com, Lost Creek Plantation or Southeastern trophy Hunters-- would be helpful.

I live in NYC and do research to help people against big companies and media --for free. See www.asrlab.org.

I may live in New York but even have deer mount from my son's first hunt at King Ranch in Texas hanging right in my library. He took out the deer with one clean shot. Boom and down. The animal was not twitching.You know what I mean.

Tricking people by telling them that the hunt is for a Wild, 1,000 pound feral hog (for $1500) "roaming the plantation" and then (BOTH HUNTERS AND LOST CREEK PLANTATION OWNER) going the next day to the Blissitt farm and paying $250 for a Duroc farm pig--4 days before the shoot--and then STANDING BY AND LETTING THE BOY TAKE BAD SHOTS FOR 3 HOURS UNTIL THE HOG BLED OUT--JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE TOLD BY THE PRESS THAT THE BOY HAD TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO SHOOT IN ORDER FOR THEM TO MAKE IT A NEWS--IS BAD BUSINESS! THESE ARE THE FACTS. I HAVE DOCUMENTS TO PROVE IT.

I am praying I hear from you. My intent is to do good in the world. Please help me if you are able.

I blame the media who did not check their facts before publishing this story that shot around the world--Poland, China, Viet Nam. Field and Stream readers/hunters who wrote in to that magazine early as May 16th, told the world this story was hogwash. You told them too. Yet the media did not listen. Why? The story of a fresh faced 11 year old boy in the deep woods of Alabama shooting a scary, hairy wild beast--was too good to check.

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Rhonda

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Hummmm..., not sure what to think here on this. You guys help me out, I don't like thinking too much on Sunday.

I think any more stories about this is probably not good for hunting.

The story continues around the world. ALABAMA Authorities are NOW looking into animal cruelty...hunting and hunters need to take stand or be judged as like the yahoos who abuse hunting ethics. Sorry folks but too late now for turning a blind eye on this. The pig is out of the barn and the whole world is watching how this debacle will be handled. Hunters were fIRST to say,"No way" and the ethics were bad here. You are either FOR, 3 hours of belly shots by an eleven year old (with no target practice to earn his stripes) OR against-it. Take no side and you are judged as for it because it was not worthy enough for your second thoughts or moral stand. Hunting is not a lisc. to do whatever you want to animals is it? Or am I wrong? Leadership is needed by experts to teach others (the public) right from wrong.

I am hearing from people from Australia and Germany who are using this case to judge all of American gun culture. Are new restrictive USA laws far behind?

Fun never ends around here.

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I am hearing from people from Australia and Germany who are using this case to judge all of American gun culture. Are new restrictive USA laws far behind?

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To broad brush people in general is always a bad idea, and is usually nothing more than an uneducated knee jerk reaction. I hope that those that are swinging that brush take the time to notice where the biggest uproar in opposition to this story is coming from.
It's the Hunting Community.