is caused by the camera being located close to the animal and the person sitting ten feet behind. Notice how you can't see his hands touching the hog - he can't reach that far. Either that or Photoshop. Quite deceptive.

Truer scale can be somewhat trusted if the person and animal are at roughly the same distance from the camera.

DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE BUT I .44 SPECIAL'ED TWO THE SAME DAY THAT WEIGHED OVER 500# AND OVER 650#

Camera angle or the old trick of sitting 3-5 feet behind the animal, that's why I like to touch the animal when a photo is being taken, no question about camera bs.

This is the big one I took in 2007, estimate at over 600 lbs........

I am 6 ft 190 lbs.

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I went to visit some friends at their deer camp a few miles down the road from ours. One had killed a nice 8 point buck and we'd barely gotten it strung up in a tree before the fun broke loose.

It wasn't much after dark when this took place. We hadn't even got the lanterns lit and one of them heard some 'noise' and jumped up in the back of pickup. The other fellow followed quickly and instinct told me it might be wise to do the same. So there we stood, the 3 of us in the back of the pickup and me wondering why so I asked. "Something" is out there, don't know what it is...but it's big replied one of them.

The rifles were already in the tent so one hopped down from the pickup and grabbed 2 of them. He returned and they handed me the light. I finally heard where the noise was coming from and found a pair of eyes shining. It finally stepped from behind the bushes and all hell broke loose. It was a huge (and I do mean huge) wild hog. He was approximately 35-40 yards away and started to cross a small opening, he never finished it.

All in all, in the end it took all three of us to load him by hand. He had a wicked set of tusks on him for sure. My friends carried him back to Oklahoma City where they were from. He wound up 400 Lbs of wrapped meat. Yeah, they're out there.

Murphy

in 1976 I was stationed at FT Hunter-Liggett, CA and worked next door to the game check-in station. They had a frame made of 2-inch pipe with a cross bar I was told (and it appeared to be) 10 feet from ground level from which they suspended their scale. One day (i.e. ONCE) a fellow checked a hog hung as Gunner's is depicted from their scale (which had to be hoisted right up to the bar. They wanted but were having trouble getting an accurate weight on this hog as his nose was pushing dirt. Now, he was stretched out, like Gunner's, and hanging from a scale which must have taken up 1-2 feet but that was a BIG hog. He had a longer snout and that leaner, wild appearance, too. I heard later that he weighed 500 lbs but was thinking that was GI exaggeration based on what I'd seen. Most we killed there were 100-200 lbs. I don't think anyone I know had seen a hog that big while out hunting, I know I didn't.

I still like to see these photos. Lots of info still in one.

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Hobie

I have no doubt he shot a 500 lb hog and the pic is a pic of said hog. But he is 8 to 12 feet behind the hog and the camera is at a low angle so you can't see the distance. The lens can only see in two dimensions so the hog looks far larger than the man in the pic, than real life.