This is an old pic I received last year from my dad. It is real and so are the other pics on their website. I have the website listed below. Look at everything else they have shot. There are several huge boars in their photo gallery. Be careful about reporting pics as fake before doing the research.

http://www.naturetours.com.tr/galery_eng.html

Look at the last pic.....the guy is behind the "1800 lb" boar, which is dead, and the head of the pig is off of the ground. You mean to tell me this guy is holding up the head of an 1800 lb pig?!?!? Yeah right! Fake!!

Go to the website and look how they take pics of all their boars. They are all like that, propped up on something and then covered with grass. This isn't BHO who is posting these pictures on their website.

The website is interesting in that they were not really careful in their translation into English...something I would look for if I was in search of an outfitter outside of the States.

Nearly all of the pig pictures have some kind of vegetation right in the throat area of the pig. Some of the pics look genuine, and those pigs do look pretty big.

Finally, I would not go that far to hunt pigs, even big ones...we already have too many here in Texas that need to be harvested.

I saw a pack of wild pigs Sunday up in Isle Du Bios on Ray Roberts. They can't see very well. When I got close I yelled at them a it was pretty funny watching them scatter.

Um, what the hell did you just say?

Well, if you found the pics on someones website in Turkey that you dont know, that's proof enough for me to believe...

Forget it. They are all fake. False avertisement at its best.

that is clearly a hybrid......, but I'm not touchin the tongue patch!
oops, wrong thread!

Pictures are real, story is not. But the hogs are not as big as they appear. Definately the fishing picture trick. They are using a fisheye lens, getting up close to the hog and the men behind in the background. They are pretty far back in the first picture, that is why the hog is in focus and they are not. Last picture, the hog is probably on a hill or rise in the terrain with the guy down lower way behind. I used a fisheye with this picture. Notice how small the back hip looks compared to the head. It was my second biggest hog and my biggest boar, but not as big as I made it look in the picture. I put myself as far back behind the hog as I could yet still be able to reach forward to put my hand on it. The edges then cropped from the original picture. I could have turned the hog more sidways, put my arm down, and moved back about three feet to make the hog look twice as big if I wanted, but it would have made the picture unrealistic just as the ones posted look.

Well I ran the exif information on the photo through a program I have.

There is no copyright, but the image was shot in 2005.

Here is the info....

Make = Hewlett-Packard
Model = HP PhotoSmart C945 (V01.60)
Software = ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Date Time = 2005-10-09 10:17:37

[Camera]
Exposure Time = 1/426"
F Number = F4.2
Exposure Program = Normal program
ISO Speed Ratings = 100
Exif Version = Version 2.2
Date Time Original = 2005-06-02 17:30:21
Date Time Digitized = 2005-06-02 17:30:21
Shutter Speed Value = 8.73 TV
Aperture Value = 3.94 AV
Brightness Value = 6.84 BV
Exposure Bias Value = -0.67EV
Max Aperture Value = F2.64
Metering Mode = CenterWeightedAverage
Light Source = D55
Flash = Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Focal Length = 20.29mm
Maker Note = 1 Byte
Subsec Time = 0.187"
Flashpix Version = 30, 30, 31, 30
Color Space = sRGB
Exif Image Width = 2608
Exif Image Height = 1952
Exposure Index = 100
Sensing Method = Not defined
File Source = DSC
Scene Type = A directly photographed image
Custom Rendered = Normal process
Exposure Mode = Auto exposure
White Balance = Auto white balance
Focal Length In 35mm Film = 99mm
Scene Capture Type = Normal
Gain Control = Low gain up
Contrast = Soft
Saturation = Normal
Sharpness = Normal
Device Setting Description =
Subject Distance Range = Distant view

Generally speaking, if an image is altered in post production, it will wipe out the exif information (not always) but more often than not. This picture was taken with a point and shoot camera, rather than an SLR so not sure about the fish-eye affect, but definitly not in louisiana.... I would say this is Mongolia or something. The BPS in grapevinehas a boar photo in the john that is about this size I think.

Looks to me like one of the gals I saw at the cove on Lake Fork to me!

They make one for that camera.
Photosmart C945 Titanium Digital Optics Superwide multi-coated .45X lens.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

Analyzing it with Photoshop CS3, you can see the poorly cut edges around the inside of the boars mouth.

However the hair just behind the ear is near perfect detail with the rest of the image behind it, that makes it difficult to tell.

How do you suppose they moved an 1800lb boar for 3 photos in different areas?