Fred draws out the canned hunting aspect

[Multidigits]

Not a big surprise......http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/wildlife_news/monster_pig_canned_hunt.html

[KYCatBirdHunter]

I guess I didn't realize that was a canned hunt. Not even a wild pig? Kinda took the cool factor outta that one.

[C.L.Button]

I guess I didn't realize that was a canned hunt. Not even a wild pig? Kinda took the cool factor outta that one.

Yep and turned it bad for sure. I haven't read all the details ? Did the kid know it was a domestic/pet hog ? Atleast somebody blew the horn on it.

[Multidigits]

Yep and turned it bad for sure. I haven't read all the details ? Did the kid know it was a domestic/pet hog ? Atleast somebody blew the horn on it.

His story is that he did not know.....putting the blame all on the high fenced operator. The papers in Mobile, Al covered this story two days on the front page and once on the front of the B section. They did not cover it as sports.

[daking]

Guys, this is the path down which high fence hunters/breeders will take us. That old happy horse hockey that we shouldn't judge the other guy's hunting style doesn't wash. Society does impose limits. Most civilized places make prostitution illegal. There are some societal constraints that are always applied. Better we apply them in a manner that will affect us least than to let the bunny huggers have their way with us. With rights come responsibilities.

[C.L.Button]

Thanks Multi. I could see this going several different ways;

Dad knew ? maybe
Operator knew and was greedy ? YES
Taxidermy guy knew ? Probably if he was any good. Domestics don't have tusk's right ?
Pig's original owner was missled ? maybe
Sausage any good ? NO,, pig to big
Will we every know the REST of the story ? probably not :rolleyes:

[trust me]

I admittedly don't know beans about fenced operations, but if you walk into one, you'll surely know it. The gate and the hog-proof fencing running off in both directions would have to be a dead giveaway.

I would suspect the kid and his dad knew, but didn't want to know. You know?

[C.L.Button]

Unless he took him in there before daylight and the kid was asleep ? You know ? :D

[Multidigits]

I admittedly don't know beans about fenced operations, but if you walk into one, you'll surely know it. The gate and the hog-proof fencing running off in both directions would have to be a dead giveaway.

I would suspect the kid and his dad knew, but didn't want to know. You know?

I would guess that it's possoble that the dad could have been miss lead into believing it was a feral hog. The story in the paper said that it was, simply because it was "loose" for over 24 hours. I'm 100% sure they knew they were in a preserve. That's what they paid to "hunt" in, so they had to know.

[JDMiller]

The hogs weight was enough to throw a red flag up. I'd say that most fenced operations average in the 250-300 # range on russians and razorback. While many places are lucky to average in the 200 # class of boar. The true wild ferral hogs(no fence) are much smaller on average.

When I went to Wilderness this past spring...I saw several ferral/ domestic mix hogs. They were as wild as the Russians but for the life of me I could'nt understand why you would pay money to shoot a pig that looked like ...well a pig. At least the Russians & Razorbacks had desirable features that most everone can associate to a wild boar... tusk & high ridge on their backs.

It's hard for me to believe the hunters were oblivious to what kind of hogs this enclosure had. Some operations price on weight. To cut loose an a thousand pound hog that looked like Arnold..... they had to know what they were looking at.

[Landguy]

Here's the web page by the father on this subject.
Read some of the comments sent in. WOW!!

http://monsterpig.com/

[predator]

Here's the web page by the father on this subject.
Read some of the comments sent in. WOW!!

http://monsterpig.com/

Great post Landguy. Some of the negitive comments are from some real sickos.

[Landguy]

A lot of those e-mails were WAY out of line. Myself, I don't have any bad feelings or opinions of the kid. He did the very same thing that the rest of us did at that age. We sat in a certain tree because Dad said we should. We went to a certain farm or area because Dad took us there and we used a particular gun or fishing pole because Dad said so and Dad was usually just trying to give us a memorable and enjoyable experience. I think this kid got just that. A trophy he'll talk about for the rest of his life and a great time spent with Dad. So for someone regardless of how they feel about hunting on a fenced farm to send a kid those sort of letters calling him names etc. is just sad.

[Haves]

Now they found that the photos were photo shopped.

http://66.226.75.96/pig/ (http://66.226.75.96/pig/)

[aceoky]

Just another black eye for all of us IMHO

And I'm NOT one bit surprised; these "canned hunts" serve to do all of us more harm than any of the issues we have been "bashing around" for several years, again IMHO

Raised in a pen and "released into the wild" for *24 hours* doesn't make it "wild" IMO, and I seriously doubt most people in this country (hunters and non hunters alike) wouldn't think that it does either....THAT is what WE need to "think about" not the anti-hunters so much as the 80% or so that don't hunt but don't have any real problem with it, HOW does such things help US in that area?? I don't think for one second it does, I think it is harming OUR image to the vast majority of voters, and I suspect that is a very dangerous thing...

Photoshopped?? Well, maybe that will show most what they are "really like" at least???