Posted on 05/25/2007 1:53:29 PM PDT by zeugma
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| May 25 04:21 PM US/Eastern By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press Writer |
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| MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama 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. Think hams as big as car tires. If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004. Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long. Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig, which has a Web site put up by his father—http://www.monsterpig.com —that is generating Internet buzz. "It feels really good," Jamison, of Pickensville, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big." Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Hogzilla II. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50- caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. Through it all there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation of doing. "I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school. His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast with 5- inch tusks decided to charge. With the pig finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods. It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, which was recently calibrated, to weigh the hog. Kinder, who didn't witness the weigh-in, said he was baffled to hear the reported weight of 1,051 pounds because his scale—an old, manual style with sliding weights—only measures to the nearest 10. "I didn't quite understand that," he said. Mike Stone said the scale balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark, and he thought it meant a weight of 1,051 pounds. "It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said. The hog's head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy in Oxford. Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout. "It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've ever seen." Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said. Jamison, meanwhile, has been offered a small part in "The Legend of Hogzilla," a small-time horror flick based on the tale of the Georgia boar. The movie is holding casting calls with plans to begin filming in Georgia. Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs. "They are a little less dangerous." |
What a let down! I thought this was going to be about Murtha! Dang! Dang! Dang!
.50 Cal revolver?
Wonder what make?
If your hypothesis about radiation from nuclear plants is spot on, then this country sure could use a lot more of ‘em if not for anything else but Monster Boars displacing 1/2 tons.
Don’t look real to me.
That kid has to be 5-10 feet behind the hog. I’ve seen plenty of 1000lb+ domestic boars and they’re big, but they aren’t 12 feet long and 5 feet high. A wild boar would be leaner and taller at a given weight, but this doesn’t look right.
Unless they can produce the skull and some other bones, I’m calling this a hoax.
Maybe so, but the kid looks awful small in proportion to the hog. They say it is over 9 feet. The kid is 11 and should be at least 5’6” you’d think ( especially toting a .50 cal pistol ) so I think it looks a little odd based on extrapolating from their relative sizes.
Either way, kudos to him the biggest I have shot was a tad over 300.
He’s got his foot up on something behind the hog, and has his arms resting on his knee. However, I don’t think he is all that far behind the animal.
I hereby resolve for the rest of my life to stay. out. of. the. woods.
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Don’t forget the cracklings! (otherwise known as pork rinds)
Bigger than Hogzilla? I think not.
I just read where Baba Wawa said O’Donnll would not be returning from the View..
Wild A guess?
Ruger in .50 Action Express?
Food for thought for they who would defend against Brown Bear with a handgun.
WOW! He must be pretty big himself for an 11 year old to be shooting a 50 cal pistol!
Rosie’s sibling, offspring, ancestor or the ORIGINAL Rosie???
Smith and Wesson make their 500Magnum and 460Magnum in that color scheme - black with a stainless cylinder.
I own several and I'll say it would be very difficult for an 11yo kid to fire the S&W 500 with factory loads.
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