A 500 lb “wild boar” is pretty unusual. Very easy to get a farm raised pig over 500 lbs. They are penned and fed as much as they can eat several times a day.
It only takes a short time for a hog to go feral. Long hair, tusks, elongated head etc. A true Russian Boar, 300 lbs would be huge. This one looks to me to be not far from domesticated. Maybe 1st generation? Maybe domesticated and ran wild.
A boar hog that big and presumably old is going to STINK (on the outside). Think of a nasty billy goat. The meat is edible, but mostly only as sausage or the crock pot. But that is a lot of pork.
On the camera angle, that’s an old hunter/angler trick. I have killed smaller pigs (100 lbs - yummy) put them on the hood of the four wheeler, stood just so far back behind the pig, and, ahem, embellished my trophy maybe once or twice.
And some fish just need to be stepped on a little bit so they will keep still for being measured.
So you think this is on the up and up??? Have a hard time with depth perception, do ya?
So you think this is on the up and up??? Have a hard time with depth perception, do ya?