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." |
is that legal? you cant bait em here in california. we take a lot of hogs though. its the number one game animal in the state, ahead of deer even.
Well I guess its debatable. He does it on his own property
Something about this story just SOUNDS phoney.
You don’t CHASE wild hogs - they CHASE you, expecially if they are wounded. Even the photo looks doctored.
Rosie is fired and a report of a huge hog killed on the same day.
Oh the coincidence!
The post above yours has a couple of other pictures, it is still one heck of a big pig.
“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.”
11 year old kids are in 5th or 6th grade, he would be lucky to be 5 foot. Do you live with giants?
It'n should be stuffed and hunged up in the Jimmuh Cahter presidential liberry.
Leni
I hope he has a BIG, EMPTY freezer! :) (Where can ya get invites to the cook out? ;) )
"Systemic Shock," by Dean Ing
"Single Combat," by Dean Ing
"Wild Country," by Dean Ing
One of the stories
within this weird trilogy
is of a famous
TV newswoman
doing reports of a pig--
a giant, wild boar--
and the newswoman
decides she wants to have sex [!?]
with the giant pig.
(And people wonder
why science fiction always
attracts the weirdos . . .)
LOL!
The rumors are true. She won't be on "The View" Monday...
Ya need to marry one to see just how big they can get...
Maybe you shouldn’t have tried to shoot her butt...
I was ridin’ on a train to Austin, Texas,
When a very lovely lady sat next to me.
When she got up to eat,
She asked if I would hold her seat.
I was more than happy to,
And now there’s more I’d like to do.
I wanna kiss her but, she won’t let me.
I wanna whisper sweet nothin’s in herrear.
I wanna hold her behind...closed doors and more.
I wanna kiss her but, she won’t let me.
When she returned, she said she was an actress.
She showed me an album of pictures of her opening,
which she’d been sittin’ on.
She seemed as sweet as she could be,
But I could clearly see
She was the kinda girl who stole men’s hearts,
Then rectum.
I wanna kiss her but, she won’t let me.
I wanna whisper sweet nothin’s in herrear.
I wanna hold her behind...closed doors and more.
I wanna kiss her but, she won’t let me.
Well, I’ll never forget that train ride down to Austin.
We shared a seat, and we shared our tails.
But as my heart tries to leave her behind,
Regrets are all I find,
‘Cause I’d hoped I’d get that girl
In the end.
I wanna kiss her but, she won’t let me.
I wanna whisper sweet nothin’s in herrear.
I wanna hold her behind...closed doors and more.
I wanna kiss her but,
I wanna kiss her but,
I wanna kiss her but,
She won’t let me.
and funkle...
At minimum, I would want a 12 gauge loaded with 3 inch slugs, and with a bayonet on the end
There’s a species of smallish wild hog in south america that roams in packs of 50 or so. Someone that has hunted them told me that despite their size, they are the most deadly and most dangerous animal on the planet. The reason? They are smart and blood thirsty and they cooridnate their attacks.
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