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."
I was thinking Al Bore.
The weight of the revolver (average 6lb) tames the recoil of the 500 pretty well. It's nothing compared to my 38oz modified Ruger Redhawk in .475 Linebaugh (405gr @ over 1400FPS). That one will put hair on Ann Coulter's chest.
Mouse offended me.
Mouse got dead and mouse got peed on.
Old school retribution.
Looks like some of the monster hogs are really domestic pigs that were fattened up - not sure about this one. I know some guys who hunt gators on private reserves and they get 12+ ft every hunt. Gators get fed regularly and are fattened up for the hunt every year.
It may have been posted already, but I truely believe this is a photoshopped picture...
It just doesn’t look right...
Hogs do get pretty big...But they don’t get “that” big...
Heavy??? Possibly...
The largest feral hog I’ve every shot was about a little over 300 lbs., and they are getting to be a bit troublesome in the numbers and range (they roam) they keep up in N.E. Texas...
There’s no season, or bag limit I know of for these things, so thats why maybe they are making a bit more news like this lately...
I stand to be corrected, but then again I’ve only shot the things on our property up there...
Look at the disparagin scale in how the boy and the father look in relation to the hog on the ground in pics in post #21 and post #28...
Both are to be assumed they are leaning or right up against the hog in the pictures...
The son is a pretty big boy...
In #21, he looks extremely smaller than he does when he’s sitting next to the pig in #28...
The pictures are fabricated...Its not hard to do...
Just look at the “Rosie” picture in an earlier post on this thread...You’ll see...Now thats realistic!!!
look at the gun, its stinking huge, and there’s a huge compensator on the end. it’s very possible the kid was using full house loads.
Yes, it is possible. Once. Seven more accurate shots after that the kid has got to be on steroids.
I own several of these from 8 inches to 2 inches. Just seems a stretch with full-house loads.
God love ya!
You know, with the .348 Win in my stable, I have absolutely no room to fuss at anybody who likes wildcats or orphans . . . .
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