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." |
That’s been my experience as well. I was out hunting dear, saw this hog, maybe 400 pounds. I shot it broad side with a 308 at about 50 feet, solid hit in the shoulder area, heard the round impact, saw the fur fly. It went down, bounced, got right back up and came at me. I hit it with several rounds from the 44, emptied it, hoped up the nearest tree, and it ran on by. Never saw it again. Hogs are tough critters, very few one shot stops for me.
Lots of excitement shooting hogs.
That’s why I wonder about the story with this hog, way too big to purposely hunt with a revolver for me. These things are mean, and once they see you they go right for you.
I think the mouth is too small to be Rosey.
This was bagged in the Iraq War Funding Bill, right?
I am sure that is why they are making sausage! It all tastes the same. We always mix pork sausage in with our ground venison for sausage since venison is so lean it needs the extra fat. Would need to shoot a whole bunch of deer to use up 700 lbs of that porker!
“Rosey is that you?”
Naw, that is Rosie’s better looking little brother!
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.
Man, that hog took some killin’! Wonder how that kid handles the recoil from a 50 caliber pistol?
OH MONK that so cuteeee but I got question is Looter guy contribute deliquency of minor LOL!
Both of my boys were around 5’6” and better at 12 they are both opver 6’3” now 5 and 8 years later.
Most people don’t get to be 6’3 though.
Hogs are considered varmints in many southern state. So pretty well anything goes as long as you have a legal hunting permit.
I'd call it photoshop. Look at the relative size of the hand holding the pistol compared to the rest of the kid.
PHOTOSHOP! And not even very sophisticated photoshop. Look at the hand size and notice that there is no reference hand on the 250 lb lig skull.
Local reporter/newspaper took the picture.
http://starhogblog.blogspot.com/
I thought it was dead
I really did. I thought it was dead — not the pig (I know it’s dead), but the story. That’s, I guess, why I haven’t been posting as heavily as I did at first.
Now I know, this story is far from dead. IT LIVES!!
Yesterday, out of nowhere, Stinky Journalism.com claimed to have debunked the story (they attacked it basically from the Photoshop end), and it rose from the dead.
I worked on that (what seemed like) all day Tuesday until I got a pleasant surprise. It was a phone call from the Stones saying they were in (of all places) Oxford. We went and took the pictures of the skull you might have saw in Wednesday’s Star.
Now, the story has taken a completely different angle. The good folks at Alabama Department of Conservation are looking into the story. They hope to find out a few different things. You can read my story in Thursday morning’s Star.
Bran
P.S. — Through the glory of Tivo (if you don’t have it, you should), it captured the documentary of Hogzilla, and I watched it Tuesday night. I ate a ham sandwich while enjoying the piece fine cinema.
Not looking too bright with that comment, eh? The hoax was the hog was farm-raised, but it was real and so is the photograph.
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