ORIGINAL: fishm@n
If that is a muzzleloader, I'll eat my shorts. That sucker has at least a 3x9 scope, a bolt action etc... but I guess that's how traditional archers feel about compound shooters eh?
I don't have one but it looks like a Savage to me. Somebody on here must have one, they can confirm it.
ORIGINAL: dmurphy317
Setting the camera up so close does give it a fisheye type effect but a wide angle lense will give the same effect and is probably what they used. I've seen severalpictures of a deerthat a friend of mine shot that had this type of effect. One of them looked about half the size of this deer but only had about 14" of spread, in the picture it looked wider than his shoulders, it was taken with a regular digital camera.
However, as I'm a photographer I can confirm that this is correct. Not a fisheye. Probably taken at around 10mm but the exif data has been erased so I can't see it to confirm.