Hunting Hogzilla II

Manic Moran

Showed up on AP.

11-year-old in Alabama took eight shots with a .50 cal revolver and over three hours to take this bugger down.

Over a half a ton, and over 9 foot long.

NTM

KTRIC

What the f*ck is it ?

Clare gunner

One HELL of a BIG Pig!!!!:eek: :eek: .
Do you have a link to the story Manic?

And they say kids at 11 cant handle guns???

Manic Moran

Well, they're officially terming it 'Monster Pig', though Hogzilla II is more catchy. Hogzilla was about a foot shorter, maybe 200 lbs lighter. There was a report of a Hogzilla v1.1 almost Hogzilla II sized shot shortly after Hogzilla, but I've not seen a piccie of it.

This is the original Hogzilla.



Although Hogzilla II/Monster Pig (The one shot by the kid) is definitely larger, don't forget that you're scaling it against an 11-year-old, who's a bit shorter than most adults and will make Monster Pig look bigger than it really is.

Anyway, links.
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6569909
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html

There are large bears here too... This is why you never go into the back woods of Alaska without large calibre firearms.



The kicker is that they grow bigger than this.

NTM

Traumadoc

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

monsterpig.com is the website.

however a quick look at the photos seems to indicate a bit of jiggery-pokery (old fashioned kind though, not photoshop!)

That kid is huge though, no way he was fit enough to run for three hours!

Still, pretty impressive haul!

Traumadoc

Theres nothing in front of the pig to give it scale!

monsterpig.com - use the tractor as scale, then you see the real (diminshed) size.

Also, on the pic with the bucket in the top right, you can see from the shadows that the people are a long way back!!

Quillo

8 shots from a handgun over three hours when they appear to have had at least three "high powered rifles" available......

It's behaviour like this that gets hunting a bad name.

stevoman

you see the picture iwth the pig hanging upside down. i watched a documenrty on the discovery channel a couple of months ago about that very picuture and the legends of massive pigs that where in the wild in america. sorry to dissapoint but its a fake, accoroding to the good people at the discovery channel

maglite

how does the energy of a 50cal revolver compair to the rifles they were using??

might have been the better option

Quillo

maglite wrote:

how does the energy of a 50cal revolver compair to the rifles they were using??

might have been the better option

.50 S&W Magnum delivers about 2500ft/lbs at the muzzle

Don't know what the rifles were.... "high powered" could mean anything. I'm guessing though that high powered over there probably means something like .338 WinMag which delivers 3800 ft/lbs or so.

Manic Moran

stevoman wrote:

sorry to dissapoint but its a fake, accoroding to the good people at the discovery channel

Enough 700+lb hogs have been killed by now that the megahog population is pretty much solidified as extant now. There's no dispute that the pig in the original picture really could be 1,050lbs or over 9 foot long, the only question is if the photos make it look even bigger than it really is. (Which they often do). Regardless, even without the picture, if you were to imagine a half-ton, 9-foot wild boar, it's a really large and potentially dangerous pig.

NTM

Clare gunner

A simple matter of going and posting this question to the good folks who shot this pig,and then getting a lawyer,sherrif, or other person of good standing to measure said swine and swear an oath that this is a genuine large pig.
Or somone from the Safari club,Boon&Crockett club,NRA,or such to go and measure and report,methinks.:)
Plus handgun hunting in some of that terrain isnt too half bad an idea,thick brush,short range,short barrelled rifles or handguns come into their own there.

doctor evil

I wonder how many that would feed?