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Dire HOG! Story from the news!
- Thread starter Hand of Evil
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diaglo said:mang,
now you've got me wondering about going in the woods again...
diaglo
Adventurer
i've seen feral hogs in the woods near ft myers, florida. but they were small. mostly black and more afraid of me than i was of them.
i have a friend who hunts them in Louisiana. they are nastier/more vicious. he uses dogs. sometimes the hogs win and the dogs die.
i didn't realize they were so big or so close to home. still a good 3 hour trip by car from me to the area in the pic. but still... too close for me... if they are like that one.
i have a friend who hunts them in Louisiana. they are nastier/more vicious. he uses dogs. sometimes the hogs win and the dogs die.
i didn't realize they were so big or so close to home. still a good 3 hour trip by car from me to the area in the pic. but still... too close for me... if they are like that one.
Uzumaki
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I dunno. The picture looks convincing, and I suppose there's a freakishly large specimen of every specie, but that the guy and his friend are the only ones who have seen it, and they don't have the physical remains anymore makes me wonder if it's just some skilled manipulation.
Uzumaki said:
Doesnt' require skilled manipulation. Simple forced perspective will do the trick. Notice how in the picture the things that provide a sense of scale (the man and the tool handle) are both well behind the hog? Notice how the man is in poor focus, while the hog is pretty clear? Unless we know how far back that man really is, we don't have a good idea of how long that hog is.
Plus, iirc, a half-ton isn't actually all that odd for domestic hogs. Most folk vastly underestimate how much the suckers weigh.
I have seen some damn big hogs on farms, I mean massive so I do think it is possible and hunting is not as common as it use to be. They are mean and nasty animals.
Krieg
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Well having a father who works for Bob Evans I can state with authority that the hogs raised on commercial farms probably average close to twelve feet in length & 1000lbs. They are not natural looking critters at all, heck they look more like mutant hippos than hogs.
That being said there is no way one of them would be able to survive in the wild for any length of time, their legs can barely support their own weight & have no survival skills whatsoever. Not to mention the fact that it would almost be impossible for a feral hog to maintain the diet necessary to stay so massive.
Could it have been a real hog? Yep...but it wasn't raised in the wild.
That being said there is no way one of them would be able to survive in the wild for any length of time, their legs can barely support their own weight & have no survival skills whatsoever. Not to mention the fact that it would almost be impossible for a feral hog to maintain the diet necessary to stay so massive.
Could it have been a real hog? Yep...but it wasn't raised in the wild.
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