Monster Pig
Apprently, Monster Pig was a domesticated pig. Reportedly, he liked to be hand-fed sweet potatoes. The alleged hunt occured on a hunting preserve. Doesn’t sound much like a hunt to me. The kid who shot him and his father say they were both under the impression that it was a feral hog.
June 5th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Let me tell you something about “domesticated pigs”: If you ever fall down in a hog pen, you want to get up quickly, hear?
June 5th, 2007 at 8:43 am
If the accounts as written are true, then shame on the plantation owner for lying to the hunters in order to have a domestic hog removed from his land.
If the hunters were told it was a feral hog, then that’s all they’ve got to go on. Feral hogs aren’t exactly nice, and you aren’t going to approach one with a sweet potato in hand just to see if it’s nice or not. You’d probably end up stomped into the forest floor if you got that close.
FWIW I’ve never been hog hunting, but someone ought tell that boy to use something heavier than 350gr in his 500.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:53 am
It explains how the hog got that big – lots of chow and he didn’t burn it off running around looking for more food. A wild one can get that big in theory, but he has to find a lot of chow for a lot of years.
And Tam has the truth of it; domesticated doesn’t mean “safe”. An experienced pig hunter who scouted around before shooting might have noticed that the pig wasn’t trying to avoid humans like it ought to, but one’s first thought at spotting the prey much sooner in the hunt than expected is going to be “what good luck!”, not “is the hunt arranger pulling a fast one” – and then, if a 1,000 pound hog is trotting towards you, the rest of your thinking had better be about sight picture, trigger pull, and how to get back on target for the next round ASAP. Because while this tame hog might have stopped upon reaching the people and begged for sweet potatos, the average wild boar making the same move is planning on killing and eating you.
June 5th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Tam has given you some damn good advice.