Hogzilla
 

Boy purportedly tops 'Hogzilla' kill. Story here. :eek:

http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2...hogx-large.jpg

Another big one! Binging home the bacon.

No bacon, I'll bet he could get a good buck for that. You know, Arkansas Razorback tailgate parties and the like. Maybe Razorback opponents, tailgate parties.

Eight shots from that S&W pistol probably ruined a couple hundred pounds of meat.

btw, look at the brush and undergrowth behind them in the picture. Tough place to be messing with a grouchy hog.

:vomit:

We go boar hunting a few times each year. You need to shoot them in the ear to kill them with one shot. They are very difficult to kill with any chest shots unless you are shooting from about 45 deg behind them cephlad due to the armor plate on their shoulders. I imagine he shot him with a large calib (.50 cal) handgun to the head.

btw, boar sausage is some of the best. Same for the chili, very good.

My biggest was around 300. I've seen a 700. Thought that was a big hog.
This is certainly a recent gen from a farm release/escape.

WTF is a .50-caliber revolver?

Exactly what it says it is.

As in, maybe black powder? Not the 50cal military round?

No, a .50 cal revolver round.

Ok. I see I'm a few years behind on handguns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBmI9JPOPp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ouPShQYTK4
I had this semi for a month, I hated it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__JkOUheyVk

Excellent video! Thanks! :D

Jamison, the 11yo that shot the hog, used a gun like this. It has recoil compensation so that it doesn't jump like the guns in the video. He also used 350 grain bullets, but no other info available about the loads. He's one tough boy to control a hand cannon. I wonder if it would have taken 8 shots for a grown man familiar with that gun???

In the photograph of the kid with the boar, the pistol looks more like a 460XVR.
I wonder if they were mistaken about the caliber or if S&W makes a black 500?

Probably .50 Linebaugh. Like a slower, lower-pressure edition of the .454 Casull cartridge. There have been several really wide bore hunting-revolver cartridges invented recently, like the .460 and .475. They generally fall into the category of medium-velocity/very heavy bullet handgun round, for knocking down big heavy critters like this one, including big heavy critters with big sharp teeth.

The revolvers that chamber these cartridges are typically five-shooters, to maximize chamber wall thickness.

That is a LOT of hog there. No wonder they backed the kid up with two rifle-bearing pro hunters.

Buster, you were thinking of the .50 BMG (Browning Machine Gun). If you're not firing that out of an eighty-four-pound M2 .50-cal, plus its 44-lb tripod, it takes a twenty-some-pound Barrett rifle to shoot that. With a very efficient muzzle brake and a springloaded recoil absorber in the action. I'm told with the brake the report is extremely loud, but that the recoil sensation is more of a heavy shove than a punch.

Useful info. Got a link for it? -- I'll bet there's more, and I'm none too well versed on these out-there revolver cartridges.

You see the line under the first three words?

Actually, there isn't a line, not in the quote-box anyway. But now that I pass the cursor over, it indicates. Color contrast is really too darn low here.

There's a line on my screen. And they are dark blue instead of black.

Barnes bullets are VERRY interesting , solid copper , and lighter than lead , but more punch from what I have read ,

Maybe I have a different skin or something for the site. I've got the brown outlines and bars for the posts and all the buttons are brown -- different with you?

Barnes designs are for deep penetration and little expansion. Elephant gun tech.

http://www.barnesbullets.com/products/pistol/
Xpb bullets expand
http://www.barnesbullets.com/product...banded-solids/
These are their monolithic solids

Yes, I use the old style, blue shades, vBulletin 3 style. But I just changed to the brown/green style you're using and the line is under the first three words, which are a different color, in post #16.
Curiouser and curiouser.

Banded Solids would not be a good choice for indoors, methinks. They could go right through a child and ruin perfectly good furniture.

UG, you probably just have to update your browser settings. (This is all assuming you're using Internet Explorer...) Go to Tools --> Internet Options. Click on the Advanced tab, and about halfway down the list you'll see a line that says "Underline links" followed by three bullet choices: Always, Hover, Never.

Choose "Always," and Bruce's link should become underlined for you.

Banded Solids would not be a good choice for indoors, methinks.

Noppers , they are for Elephants , water buffalo , and the such , DEEp bone chrushing penatration , like they tought us in basic training " if your apponent is bigger than you go for his knees , get him down to your level !!"

A lot of people used to fill in the tips of their bullets with copper.

Isn't a copper slug what they use for shaped charges, to penetrate thick armor?

Different sorta thing all to gather , shape charges you the The monroe affect , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munroe_effect
not a copper slug persay , but the cavity is lined with copper to help it slid THRU the armor plate , from what I know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge

Well, first it gets blasted into white heat by the hollow-charge explosive -- it's all an improvement on the antitank hollow charge missile of Panzerfaust and bazooka fame, and PIAT too. WW2 tech. In that time, they found a thin copper cone lining the business end of the hollow charge increased its piercing ability; this just seems an advance upon that.

Once formed, it torches its way in. Once it gets in, it sets absolutely everything on fire inside as well as busting everything to fragments, and also burns up all the oxygen. So I suppose the first stage of the fire is brief, but the crew by then is toast.

A DU projectile does a lot the same as far as fire and smashing goes, just by a different launch mechanism: not only is the entire interior hosed, not just showered, with white-hot bits of metal, you've got this nice heavy penetrator ricocheting around inside slowly dispersing its MV, striking more sparks and pretty much cutting up crew, munitions, and machinery into mixed junk, while either burning or exploding the high explosive from the main gun's shells. No wonder burning tanks throw glowing lumps out the hatches, or blow their turrets off.

Returning, somewhat, to thread: Fobble, that's what I should do, thanks. The quote-boxes tend to swallow the contrasts otherwise, and I've got otherwise... hmm, that's for IE, and I'm on Firefox...

Oh the humanity!!! Turns out this hog wasn't so wild after all!

The huge hog that became known as "Monster Pig" after being hunted and killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred.
The not-so-wild pig had been raised on an Alabama farm and was sold to the Lost Creek Plantation just four days before it was shot there in a 150-acre fenced area, the animal's former owner said.

Story linked here.

Dude, I can't believe the dad would let a story go out like that knowing full well the story wasn't exactly true. Heck, anyone can eventually shoot a 1,050 lb hog trapped on a 150 acre fenced property. I grew up on 26 acres...150 aint very big.

Liars...I hate liars. Exposes a big whole in all of those news outlets, doesn't it???
:rant:

The only difference that I can see, is that the kid might have been able to get closer for the first shot with a farm raised boar. Once it's wounded, it's wild. Farm raised doesn't negate the fact that this animal is capable of killing a man in a heartbeat.

Look at the picture and figure out how you could get through that undergrowth in the background, without making enough noise to alert any critter on the whole preserve.

Yea, good point, but knowing that big fella is out there, I'd probably change tactics. I know that he can't look up, so if I climbed a tree and just waited for him, I can shoot down. kablam. or in his case: kablam, kablam, kablam, kablam, kablam, kablam, kablam, kablam

As long as you're up there, just clamp a knife in your teeth and tackle him.

ROTFLMBO :rotflol: The mental picture just won't go away. Good 'un!

Told you it could not have been too far from the farm.

This doesn't surprise me either. I'm not generally into hunting for sport, but wouldn't a pig raised on a farm be considerably more docile and approachable? I know that farm pigs can easily kill the unwary, and that some have nasty dispositions. I'm just having trouble accepting that these people and the 11 year old kid didn't know the pig was an easy mark.

I also understand that 'easy mark' is relative. Something this size would not come down easy.

One thing that has been bothering me since I first heard about this particular beast's felling by a pre-teen is how do we know Dad didn't take any shots? Yeah, it's huge, but would it be as big a deal if an adult felled it?

It's just a human interest story. As such, it strikes me as a bit of a tall tale. Now why would I think that? It's believable to me that a kid could hunt big game with skills comparable to an adult's. When it makes the news, it's probably adults pushing it forward. As far as what they would have to gain, most people love being in the newspaper.

I'm confused... they bought it, and released it into their own fenced farm, just so they could hunt it?

No, they hunted it at a hunting preserve that had bought and released it.

So someone bought it and released it into their own fenced area so that someone else could pay to hunt it? People are so weird.

There are lot's of hunting preserves in Texas.

And they are Fenced in at that, designed to keep the trophy bucks on the inside and closely control the herd. I may go hunt in one in the near future. I just want it to be big enough so it feels less like a pen and more like the natural landscape. Some awsome bucks are raised in these places.