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tincan
06-01-2009, 12:23 AM
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6651997,00.jpg

"The source said the 220kg beast was eating a cow when it was first seen by workers mustering cattle in a helicopter. Mr Anick saw it again on a trip to check windmills on the property and shot it."

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25567409-5001021,00.html
GF.
06-01-2009, 10:07 AM
That'd be a big piggie even if the guy weren't standing 6 feet behind it!
Smokey
06-01-2009, 12:25 PM
That is big. I don't think it would be much fun to run into something like that unxpectedly in the woods with out a gun. And, if you had a gun you would probably still need a bigger gun.
Altjaeger
06-01-2009, 01:55 PM
Why thats just a little suckling!!! In Texas we have...:D
Bill Gunn
06-01-2009, 02:57 PM
Why thats just a little suckling!!! In Texas we have...:D

http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/characters/character0109.gif :D
pepaw
06-01-2009, 06:10 PM
Why thats just a little suckling!!! In Texas we have...:D


Now you did it. Next post will be about feeders. :)

Seriously huge animal. I alway suspect most of those monsters are cut.

Interesting how he was worried about being overrun with hunters. Sounds like East TX instead of the land down under.

pepaw
ncboman
06-01-2009, 11:04 PM
Gotta wonder how the meat tastes after a diet of carrion cow?

ncboman
pepaw
06-03-2009, 10:07 AM
Just beef jerky, right? :D

I love feral pig meat, but not big, old boars. My experience has all been bad.

pepaw
GF.
06-03-2009, 02:39 PM
Who's to say it was carrion?:eek:
ncboman
06-03-2009, 03:02 PM
Who's to say it was carrion?:eek:

One would assume ... butt you're right.

He could've just been preppin the ol girl. :o

ncboman
GF.
06-03-2009, 03:47 PM
You've been droppin' too much of that 'acid' or somethin'....

Anybody got a puke smiley?
ncboman
06-03-2009, 04:04 PM
:D

on the up side, I bet seed for a good bit of future huntin permission could be planted by giving away the excess pork. :rolleyes:

ncboman
GF.
06-03-2009, 04:31 PM
From the way the guys in TX tell it, the landowners have got all the pork they know what to do with, and just putting the brakes on all the destruction these critters cause should be incentive enough to get you onto a property...


I'd be very happy to take up hog hunting--both for the meat and for a chance to get outside. But honestly, I'm just as glad that we don't have them where I live.

Too bad there are no butchers on staff at the neighborhood Food Shelves. I'd bet a guy could make a lotta people happy, pulling up with a pick-up full of 100-pounders...
Marty
06-04-2009, 04:38 AM
This photo has been doing the rounds now for a long time. I even posted the photo on the old boards.

Pilbara is not known for having too many pigs. Im not convinced the photo is fake. Im just not convinced its real either.... I wouldnt bother eating the thing though, sausages or not...
GF.
06-04-2009, 11:48 AM
Personally, I wouldn't say the photo is a 'fake' - just one in which thw size of the pig is 'enhanced' by a wide-angle lens and a human standing as far back of the pig as possible....

Nothing unusual about that, though....When was the last time you saw a bent elbow in a 'trophy' photo?
nodakker
06-10-2009, 08:39 PM
220kg is only 485# in American. Big, but not unimaginable.

What is unimaginable IMO is somebody has these feral on their property and wants to keep them, or wants you to pay dearly for the priviledge of solving their problem.:rolleyes:
tincan
08-08-2009, 07:14 PM
You've been droppin' too much of that 'acid' or somethin'....

Anybody got a puke smiley?

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s56/oidad/barf.gif