Posted on 03/13/2014 11:57:55 AM PDT by Kartographer
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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Too easy... ;)
Reminds me of Hogzilla, the fake boar picture.
I ain’t “catchin” that! Get yo mama to “catch” that!
He did assault that hog.
OMW! Enormous! Looks as big as an elephant.
Probably Lumbee Indian dialect.
About the photo; the trick is to kneel about 6 feet behind the animal you've just bagged. That way it appears MUCH larger than it really is.
You know, I realized that after I posted. D'oh! :)
Really? I'm not a linguist of course, but the Lumbee live in the southern part of NC, and it was originally the Tuscarora that lived in what is now Edgecombe County.
About the photo; the trick is to kneel about 6 feet behind the animal you've just bagged. That way it appears MUCH larger than it really is.
I hadn't thought of that! Very, very sneaky!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1A_rifle my preference in .308
It looks like forced perspective to me. Hog in front, hunter may be 10 or 15 feet behind the hog, making the hog look bigger in relation to the man.
The hog probably is around 500 lb, but the skewered perspective makes it look more like 800 which I’m sure it is not.
Hogzilla?
“The only purpose of that weapon is killing people.”
Obviously not.
Sweet piece.
My mistake: I was thinking this was down near Lumberton. Should have checked the map before pontificating.
Thanks for the correction.
yup
Hey CD! I saw this the other day and made me think of where I grew up...Pine Town, Farm Life, Diamond City area. Bonus points if you’ve ever heard of any of those. Makes Conetoe look like a booming metropolis. If you’ve ever been hunting in the former swamp areas of Martin County...the (former?) Weyerhaeuser land tracks blocked off by huge canals that were dug to drain the water off...my dad did that.
But you’ll be doing it the next buck you get.
I know exactly where you mean in Martin County. Wow! That must have been quite a project.
LOL no doubt.
Photoshop.
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