450Bushmaster.net

Taken in mtns of N. C.

Is That a custom 450b or some other big bore brand??

..t

Not me in the photo, but I believe the rifle is a .308 It took a couple years to to get a successful crack at the hog. Caught him on camera multiple times. When he detected a hunter he would move to new territory. Finally 1 Shot brought the nearly 1000lb monster down. Packed his freezer for awhile.

matsu54 wrote:Not me in the photo, but I believe the rifle is a .308 It took a couple years to to get a successful crack at the hog. Caught him on camera multiple times. When he detected a hunter he would move to new territory. Finally 1 Shot brought the nearly 1000lb monster down. Packed his freezer for awhile.

Do you know the guy in the pic ?

Just wondering if it was found on the net or if it's first hand info.

Don't mean to nit pik, and I'm sure that somebody shot a hog this big, once, somewhere, sometime, but the photo looks like it has been 'shopped to stretch it horizontally by about 50%.

Some links.

News articles are dated about a year ago. Hog started at about 500 pounds; it has apparently gained weight.

http://kdvr.com/2014/03/13/north-carolina-mans-conquest-puts-him-in-hog-heaven/

http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/BIG-BOAR-STORY--Man-Shoots-500-Pound-Wild-Boar-In-Bertie-County-249603841.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/14/hunter-jett-webb-kills-500lb-wild-boar-pictures_n_4964327.html

http://article.wn.com/view/2014/03/14/Hunter_kills_500pound_wild_hog_Giant_hog_killed_with_one_sho/

https://news.yahoo.com/giant-hog-boar-hunter-caught-500-pounds-133815315.html?utm_source=inside&utm_medium=link

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/hunter-kills-500-pound-wild/2014/03/13/id/559434/


etc.

News articles are dated about a year ago. Hog started at about 500 pounds; it has apparently gained weight.

--Bob

I do not know the hunter. I took the photo out of the local newspaper in Ga. Mtns. Where I'm originally from. For all I know the the reporter could have been drunk. I did not intend to mislead anyone. I did not alter the pic. But there are huge hogs in the south. My apologies!

Even the news places have been taken in by a 180 lb hog and P-S me thinks.

I have seen it reported as a 440 lb hog, 500lb, 707lb, and 1000lb

There also used to be a “photo shop 101” thread somewhere that used that pic.

First they stretched the hog, then they stuck it to that background, then they shrunk the “hunter” and stuck him in the pic, then removed him and shrunk him even more before putting him back in the pic, then they stretched the whole “completed” pic.

Google "NC Hog" and then click on images and you can probably still find each step shown.

Every time I see it I ask if anyone knows the guy in the pic...... someday ...........

Things were just so much easier when I was a kid. You catch a decent 9lb bass, you hold it out straight arm in front of you, the guy with the camera takes 10 different pics trying to get everything lined up just right and at the right angle and distance and then in the one where everything had lined up just right you had a 23lb Largemouth in your hands !

pitted bore wrote:News articles are dated about a year ago. Hog started at about 500 pounds; it has apparently gained weight.

--Bob

I think every deer I have ever killed has doubled in weight by the time I got him drug to the truck.

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yeah and horns usually suffered from ground shrinkage too!!!!