Posted on 05/28/2007 8:44:04 AM PDT by Renfield
An Alabama boy has used his revolver on an enormous wild boar, killing the animal and sending the youngster on his way to 15 minutes of fame. Or more.Advertisement
Jamison Stone, 11, used a .50 caliber revolver to kill the pig at a commercial hunting preserve in east Alabama about three weeks ago. Stone, his father and two guides tracked the pig, but bagging the swine took about three hours of chasing through hilly woods before a final shot at point blank range brought it down for good.
Stone's father, Mike Stone, says the animal weighed more than a thousand pounds and was more than nine feet long. The tusks measured five inches. It took heavy equipment to transport the animal out of the woods. The head went to a taxidermist. The rest is headed for the sausage factory. The Stones could net 500 to 700 pounds of sausage meat.
If the claims are accurate, the trophy boar eclipses Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions before it was killed in south Georgia in 2004.
The young hunter is headed for the network morning shows and the silver screen. Hogzilla is the subject of a movie and Stone has been offered a small part in the film, "The Legend of Hogzilla."
We're traditionalists.
1,ooo lb HOGZILLA ! ! !
I thought Arkansas got a new linebacker........
Thanks for the information on the revolver.
I saw the picture in the Huntsville Times. Massive hog.....
That photo is deceiving. It looks like the boy is leaning on the creature, but he is actually kneeling down about six to ten feet behind it. The use of a wide-angle lens coupled with the perspective of him being much behind it makes him look a lot smaller, and the boar a lot larger, than in real life.
That ain’t nuthin’
I once killed a mouse in a deer stand with only four rounds from my .40 cal Glock.
Got a witness too.
I was going to get the head mounted and the rest turned into sausage but my witness peed on the body.
that photo is so damned funny!
Which one’s the hog?
For you who hunt, here’s a labor-saving variation on deer-cleaning:
http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/hunting/photogallery/article/0,13355,1254741,00.html
The .348 was the premier brush-busting NA big game gun for a quarter-century. My dad took bear and boar with it, and it'll do for whitetail as well. The recoil is not unmanageable if you practice with it. .308 is a bit underpowered for dangerous game. And any boar hog is dangerous game . . . I am quite familiar with them because they infest my parents' island in coastal GA. They usually run, but the occasional big boar will stand his ground. A number of folks on the island have had dogs killed - big dogs, not yappers. I do not walk out on the island in the dusk without my .41 Mag . . . just in case. (I don't have a .44 Mag because that's my definition of a "useless cannon". I put a couple of cylinders full through a friend's S&W, the cylinder release came loose and cut a nasty gash in my thumb.)
And I'd like a .375 just because . . . mom and dad were planning to hunt Kodiak bear in Alaska - dad bought the .348 for mom, and he was shopping for a .375 when mom turned up pregnant with me. Every so often he looks at me with a wistful sigh and asks, "Why couldn't you wait until I'd bought the .375?" Neither the .348 nor a 7mm Rem Mag with full house loads bothers me particularly, and I can always download the .375 . . . (can't own a firearm without owning the dies, right?)
It was a lame joke. You called the boar a bo and it rhymes with ho. which comes from a word that rhymes with boar. That’s all.
"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."
Not true....I bagged a 500+ wild boar...he was tasty!
I was afraid I had committed a social indiscretion, all unknowing!
I'm very relieved!
( . .. is a ho hog like a ho dog? inquiring minds want to know!)
I saw this on the news and the news people were actually talked about it and reporting the story as if it were real. I just shook my head.
Someone shot the 1000 pound bore. Does this mean he’s not running for President?
She. But Cankles Clinton has come back from the dead before.
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