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Story
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One big pig taken in Australia
#138362 - 03/07/09 02:11 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,523821,00.html?test=latestnews?test=latestnews

Anyone ever hunt near this "Pilbara cattle station near Newman, 744 miles northeast of Perth"?

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Re: One big pig taken in Australia [Re: Story]
#138371 - 03/07/09 05:15 AM

Try link it should work
Big pig

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Re: One big pig taken in Australia [Re: DoubleD]
#138377 - 03/07/09 06:50 AM

I remember reading the origional write-up in the Sporting Shooter. What a monster.

Von Gruff.

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xausa
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Re: One big pig taken in Australia [Re: VonGruff]
#138393 - 03/07/09 03:24 PM

There is absolutely no way of determining how big this animal is, given the fact that it is clearly in the foreground and the man is some undetermined distance behind it. However, look at the shadow cast by the animal on the truck bed. It is obviously shorter than the man, and the shadow cast by the chain links appear to be the same size as the links themselves, so there is no reason to think that the shadow of the pig is any different from the actual size of the animal.

Granted, this is one large animal, but just because it was found dining on a dead cow doesn't mean that it killed the cow or is as large as the cow.

The only way you can trust an animal picture to show relative size accurately is if the human figure is as close or closer to the camera than the animal is.

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500Nitro
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Re: One big pig taken in Australia [Re: xausa]
#138395 - 03/07/09 03:41 PM

xausa

It's a bit hard to fake a pig size when it's up agaisnt a known vehicle with the owner leaning against the door.

we all know how high the cabin roof is, the pig is right up against the tray of the ute so it's pretty easy
to work out the size of the boar.

Shadows are not a good way of estimating the size
as it is not flat behind the pig so the shadow is distorted.

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Re: One big pig taken in Australia [Re: 500Nitro]
#138482 - 05/07/09 09:56 AM

Story
Ive shot on Bulloo Downs a couple of times just south of Capricorn roadhouse about 60 ks out of Newman. 1.7 million acres.Ive shot Camel donkey wild horses scrub bulls kangaroo emu dingoes ducks but no pigs.I didn't know they were there,but then I didn't know there were Cape buffalo in the south of WA
good shooting
sbs470

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Story
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Re: One big pig taken in Australia [Re: sbs470]
#138525 - 06/07/09 02:30 AM

Bigger photo, plus discussion on the potential fakery of it.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25560781-2761,00.html

This reminds of of one of Rick Moranis' lines from GHOSTBUSTERS -

This reader comment was left on the PerthNow report this week: ``Information I have on this photo is that it was shot by John Anick ... During muster a helicopter spotted it and when told John drove out and shot it! Many sausages were made and eaten, so I'm told!''

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