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AR15.COM
5/16/2007 4:33:31 AM EDT
1000 pound Pig takes 16 rounds to kill

www.monsterpig.com/
5/16/2007 10:27:37 AM EDT
[#1]
Looks like a job for my 45-70!
5/16/2007 11:08:33 AM EDT
[#2]
That's definately awesome if it's all they claim. I want to research this more when I get home tonight but do the photos look like an experiment in forced perspective? Please don't flame me as all I have here at work is a cruddy 15" low rez monitor.
5/16/2007 3:49:16 PM EDT
[#3]

Quoted:
That's definately awesome if it's all they claim. I want to research this more when I get home tonight but do the photos look like an experiment in forced perspective? Please don't flame me as all I have here at work is a cruddy 15" low rez monitor.


My vote is for forced perspective.  It looks to be a big pig, but in all the pics the people are behind the pig and it is difficult to judge size with no foreground reference.
5/17/2007 9:43:28 PM EDT
[#4]
Don't mean to be a downer, but im definately gonna suggest that is a fake. And to make it ARF official:

5/18/2007 4:40:12 AM EDT
[#5]
Something bout those pics bugs me, and it has nothing to do with forced prospective.
5/18/2007 9:05:53 AM EDT
[#6]

Quoted:
Please don't flame me as all I have here at work is a cruddy 15" low rez monitor.


I have a 21" monitor and those pics look fake.
5/18/2007 4:15:21 PM EDT
[#7]
Could be I checked Snopes and found this one
www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bighog.asp
5/19/2007 5:04:30 AM EDT
[#8]
If this is a legitimate 1100# (estimated) Hog:


(Photo stolen from the Snopes link above)

Then this is quite a bit bigger:




They added a few photos. This one seems a bit more realistic compared to the 1100# (estimated) Pig from the Snopes article:


5/20/2007 1:39:34 AM EDT
[#9]
I have raised quite a few pigs, and in my opinion the monsterpig.com pig would have weighed well over 1100#.  Maybe 1100# field dressed.  Pigs are quite dense creatures, and that one appears to have eaten fairly well.  A live steer about the size of that pig would weigh at least 1300-1400#.  The snopes pig seems a bit small for 1000#.  Maybe 900