Return of the Booth Babes: The 2007 SHOT Show
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Photos: Huge Wild Boar
These come from Tom McIntyre, who writes for Field & Stream but is not related to Reba. The photo was taken in France or Turkey or one of those places. The swine appears to have fainted. In any event, it is a pile of pork and a heap of ham no matter how you slice it. -- DP
I nominate that porker to be the official mascot of the recently passed financial bailout plan!
Posted by: Emmanuel | October 09, 2008 at 10:34 AM
That sucker should be on History Channel's "Monster Quest." Just another reason for you to buy that nice .416 from Cabela's.
Posted by: Duck Creek Dick | October 09, 2008 at 10:36 AM
I'm not doubting anyone but those pics almost look fake
Posted by: Jim in Mo. | October 09, 2008 at 10:45 AM
I'm tired of seeing these creatively posed pictures of huge pigs , deer, fish and whatever.It may be a big pig but how far behind it are the people posed?How about some honest perspective in a shot.
Get real.
Posted by: Del Gue | October 09, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Del,
The pig does looks a lot bigger in the second two shots than on the top one. Would make an awesome string of sausage anyway. I wonder if he was brought down with a 7x57, an 8 x 68S, a 9.3 x 62, or tough, face-to-face diplomacy?
Posted by: eyeball | October 09, 2008 at 11:08 AM
We just found this report on the beast, which says the boar weighted 335 kilograms (a bit more than 738 pounds).
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&
trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chassons.com%2Fnews%2Fchassons%2Fmag%2Farchives%2F120
5%2Fchass_et.htm&lp=fr_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
Posted by: The Eds. | October 09, 2008 at 11:38 AM
I'd hate to be the one that has to gut and skin that pig.
Posted by: Texas Hunter | October 09, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I mean WOW, that thing is huge... HUGE.
Perhaps they showed it a photo of "Hillary for President" and simply frightened it to death. :-)
Posted by: John from AR | October 09, 2008 at 12:00 PM
That's a lot of bacon...
Posted by: Blue Ox | October 09, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Where's the lipstick?
Posted by: Bobby | October 09, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Is that the guy from M.A.S.H?
Posted by: | October 09, 2008 at 12:39 PM
It is said that bear and hogs are related - it would not take much imagination to reshape the head a bit on this beast and call it a brown bear.
Posted by: dickgun | October 09, 2008 at 12:53 PM
the photo does not look real to me. How come you never see any interaction between the people and the critter in these "monster
photos"? I would like to see they guy with his hand on it,grabbing a tusk,etc. Something to make me believe it is real, it looks like two badly 'photo shopped' images.
Posted by: RJ | October 09, 2008 at 12:58 PM
RJ,
notice in the third picture the guy second from the left does in fact have his hand on the boar.
Nate
Posted by: I'm in school right now | October 09, 2008 at 01:02 PM
How did all these supposedly "wild" hogs get hold of the growth hormones? If you look at the porcine's body and reshape the head you can almost see Barry Bonds...
Posted by: Dr. Ralph | October 09, 2008 at 01:18 PM
David -
You're not sure if it was taken in France or Turkey.
No guns, so...it must be France!
Posted by: jack | October 09, 2008 at 01:34 PM
I see that my ex-wife is no longer alive and well!!!
Posted by: George | October 09, 2008 at 01:39 PM
I see the hand in the photo, I am not convinced, but how about the copy on the truck? "Nature Tours" in English? not france for sure.
Posted by: RJ | October 09, 2008 at 01:44 PM
These photos are doctored to greatly distort it's size. The men are standing @ 10 ft behind the pig and the photographer shot it "flat". The hand it not touching the pig in pic 3- it's behind it. Great hog but it looks to be 7000 lbs easy, not 700. Reminds me of the way our media is packaging Obama.
Posted by: Andrew | October 09, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Nature Tours is a guiding service with locations in both Europe and Turkey. Here is their website with more pictures of this boar and a lot of other game. The boar can be found in the photo gallery under the "Stalking" section.
http://www.naturetours.com.tr/nature_eng.html
Posted by: Brian in California | October 09, 2008 at 01:59 PM
"The swine appears to have fainted."
hahahahaha
yrs-
Evan!
Posted by: Evan! | October 09, 2008 at 02:13 PM
According to the website is was taken in Turkey. Funny they call their hunts 'tours'. Didn't know those turks were so PC.
Posted by: Jim in Mo. | October 09, 2008 at 04:06 PM
The hand appears to be on the kneeling man's shoulder.
Posted by: atmiller | October 10, 2008 at 07:32 AM
how about on a spit at Obama's next outdoor rally? lots of pork there.
Posted by: high plains hunter | October 10, 2008 at 07:38 AM
In that middle picture the guy appeats to be 20 feet behind the hog. I'm calling BS on this one.
Why is the vegetation around the hog different than the grass around the "hunter"? In every picture.
And if it was that huge, why would they be lugging it around to different locations and positions to take these photos?
Posted by: atmiller | October 10, 2008 at 07:38 AM