People who do photo processing...is this photograph original?

Interesting story for sure. You people that are into PP...does the photo look like it has been tampered with? Looks authentic to me.http://www.crappie.com​/gr8vb3/showthread.php​?t=41885


Below the article it has a link to yahoo who also present the same story.


Guess if the mods think it isn't photography related they will take the appropriate action.

An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

I'm no expert on arms. Maybe Rhys or someone will pop in and dispute this. But my BS meter is dingalinging. I don't see how that little pistol could take down this honking pig. Unless he emptied a clip into it. But it would have had to have been very close, and even full of metal it should have done some damage to the kid. Something stinks about this story, and it's not the pig.

I saw this a week or so ago. If I remember correctly it was customized S&W .50cal., he shot it eight times, then him and his Dad tracked it for three hours and put one more round in it at point blank range to finish it off.

Funnily enough, I ran into a thread discussing this very issue on another site.

http://boards.straight​dope.com/sdmb/showthre​ad.php?t=422502

In case this thread gets shut down, or nobody here cares to discuss it.

Here's a link to their site.
http://www.monsterpig.​com/

Well maybe its the real thing and the photograph hasn't been touched up.

That's a forced perspective shot.

Now that you mention it, if you look at the boy it appears that he has his left leg propped up and his right arm is resting on his knee. Thanks for the information Pekka.

Did anyone read the negative comments on their website?
Amazing.

^^ After I read your post, I did.

Amazing.

Pekka wrote in post #3276445
That's a forced perspective shot.

It would seem like that was the case, but this pig/wild bore mix is actually that big. Another of that size was killed a year or so ago and Discovery Channel ran an episode that investigated it.

Eagle wrote in post #3276230
I saw this a week or so ago. If I remember correctly it was customized S&W .50cal., he shot it eight times, then him and his Dad tracked it for three hours and put one more round in it at point blank range to finish it off.

We need to clarify something: "customized S&W .50cal"

I'm assuming you mean the newer S&W .500 revolver?

If so, then I call BS just on that alone. That round could probably kill something that large, I'll admit that. What I don't believe is that a little kid would be trusted to use such a weapon.

I've fired that round through one of Smith's new "X-frame" revolvers, and let me tell you...that thing is a beast! I'm 6'1" 190 and I know how to shoot firearms correctly (I am a cop afterall!). It still kicked like a friggin mule and I did not want to fire it again!

Little kid firing that weapon? No way in hell...

Just my $0.02

Off their website.
http://www.monsterpig.​com/

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It looks like every shot is photoshoped or forced perspective. But if it was real, maybe they raised it, made it really huge, then just shot it to death with a pistol...

Maybe I spoke too soon!

Not only was the revolver highly modified, they were firing "custom loads" through it. To me, that means less powder. Or maybe they were using a slower burning powder. (Pistol rounds usually have a faster burning powder)

Even after all that, I still call BS. Those photographs alone raise too many questions.

Time will tell