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illininagel
08-03-2004, 11:49
I had no idea that wild hogs could grow to this size. I wouldn't want to run into one of these while hiking the AT!

Wild Hog (http://home.comcast.net/~gnagel60/wildhog.jpg)

Rain Man
08-03-2004, 12:51
I believe they can reach several hundred pounds and have SHARP tusks. They are an actual danger, unlike snakes and bears, IMHO.

Goon
08-03-2004, 13:02
"Hogzilla" is quite the talk down here in Georgia right now.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/07/28/hogzilla.ap/

Streamweaver
08-03-2004, 13:16
Just judging from that picture Id say it is a hoax!! It says the pig looks twice as tall as the guy does with him standing next to it.But the guy isnt standing next to it hes standing behind it,the hog is closer to the camera than he is,like somebody holding a fish at arms length to make it look larger.Plus hes standing in a ditch.I saw a picture that I knew to be real of a hog that was almost 600 lbs and it looked bigger than this one(though it is hard to tell from a photo). On those hunting ranches they feed the game animals like royalty so its possible that a hog could get that big I suppose but Im suspicous!!LOL Streamweaver

SGT Rock
08-03-2004, 13:26
I've seen one or two that big back in Germany.

Ridge
11-21-2004, 01:14
I've seen some big ones, but this is the exception. I believe the photo, I also believe I wouldn't want to run up on one.

Flash Hand
11-22-2004, 19:39
My step-dad breed domestic hogs for auction markets. He usually want to sell once hogs reached 150 or 200 pounds. He showed me that some different farmers who kept hogs as a pet, can weight as 1,000 pounds. They can grow tht big. I do believe this story but I NEVER encountered a hogs with 9 inches tusks.... scary! I hope I won't see one during my thru hike.

Flash Hand :jump

illininagel
11-22-2004, 20:34
Have you noticed some of the wild hogs that appear on the island in the TV series "Lost"?

It wouldn't be much fun to run into one of those out there.

:eek:

smokymtnsteve
11-22-2004, 20:42
read about Horace Kephart and the pig Belial

belial was a big mean hog.

http://www.elephantrock.com/waysThatAreDark/song2.asp

Groucho
03-15-2005, 23:50
I had no idea that wild hogs could grow to this size. I wouldn't want to run into one of these while hiking the AT!


Sunday at 8 p.m. the truth about HOGZILLA (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp) is on the Nat'l Geog. Channel (here at least). Let me know how it comes out.