Hunter bags 500-pound wild boar you have to see to believe

Yahoo News ^ | 3/13/14 | Dylan Stableford

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It doesn't even look real.

A hunter in North Carolina says he bagged a 500-pound wild pig last month.

Jett Webb, a 34-year-old from Conetoe, N.C., was hunting boar at the White Oak Ranch Hunting Club in Bertie County on Feb. 28 when he spotted the giant swine.

"It was very surreal,” Webb told WNCT-TV. “It was a shock. It was very humbling to say the least, when you walk up on a beast that big and you say, 'Oh my gosh. I had no idea that there could be something that big running around the woods of Eastern North Carolina.’"

The beast had been seen on trail camera footage years ago, but hunters had failed to capture it until Webb, who says he fired a single shot from a .308-caliber AR-15 rifle from about 50 yards, took it down.

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Move over bear Cavalry! Here comes the Boar Brigade!

[Kartographer]

PING!

[areukiddingme1]

BACON!!!

[dirtboy]

An AR-15? But gun-grabbers say those can’t be used for hunting.

[Linda Frances]

My husband and son go boar hunting every year in Texas. The ones they bring home look nothing like this. They usually don’t bring the big ones cuz not as tasty.

[Kenny Bunk]

A 500# Boarf?

That's liable to be sorta rank pork.

[jetson]

Seen them that big in Mendocino Calif.

[TexasCajun]

[Oldexpat]

Is that an assault type rifle that he used?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[TexasCajun]

The beast had been seen on trail camera footage years ago, but hunters had failed to capture it until Webb, who says he fired a single shot from a .308-caliber AR-15 rifle from about 50 yards, took it dow

[ansel12]

GOP presidential nominees agree—“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

[ansel12]

Not the kind of thing you want to run into when you are a 10 year old boy hunting squirrel with your single shot, bolt action, 22 rifle.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Wow. 12 posts and no Roseanne pictures!

[MNnice]

The caption says "Jett Webb with the 500-pound boar he caught last month."

Caught?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Wow. 12 posts and no Roseanne pictures!”

I thought that was a Roseanne picture.

[DannyTN]

The way that thing is posed with it’s head up, makes me wonder how long they took to approach it, to confirm it was dead.

[LumberJack53213]

Thats an AR 10 which shoots a .308 vs the .223 on the AR 15 platform

[fwdude]

Or Rosie.

[Kartographer]

They waited so long that the hog actually died of boredom and not the gun shot wound!