Posted on 05/25/2007 1:53:29 PM PDT by zeugma
Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla' |
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 fatherhttp://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 scalean old, manual style with sliding weightsonly 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." |
He may be only 11, but I reckon he’s earned the right to be called a good ol’ boy.
Right. The boy is a few feet behind the hog. You can barely see his left knee holding up his arm.
Got to give the kid credit. Comming up against a hog that big in the wild would give me weak knees. They are nothing to fool with even with backup.
I see you got to the website!
Looks like a “depth of field” optical illusion to me...
Mark
Pretty sizeable 11 yr old as well.
He had to be. A 50 cal pistol would prolly whoop my ass
Go to your room!
Ahhhhhh, S&W 500. I feel the need to fondle it every time I make a trip to the gun shop.
That’s a true beast of a gun for a real true beast. The thing was made precisely for big game like this. A real wrist breaker from what I’m told. That and a little over $3 a round.
One of these days I’m going to have to take up one of my friends offer to go boar hunting here in NW Florida.
You've got it wrong. Rosie's still alive. The kid shot Rosie's replcement.
They tried to find a replacement Rosie's size, but had to settle for one as ugly!
Yarghh wrist breaker is right!
I made the mistake of discharging a 12 ga with pistol grip loaded with 00 buck 3 in mags. Yeeowch!
Thanks for the link. That picture is considerably more beleivable. The one above looks like he shot an elephant. Still, its one mighty big hog!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sausage!
It’ll take a couple of days to roast that whole hog!
That’s alot of meat!
Doh!
Smith & Wesson makes one. It’s called the model 500 and comes in several barrell lengths. Mine is 4”.
Me either.
A hog this big will come near killing you, if it catches up to you, a small one will run you down, been there and had them do that. Emptying 6 rounds of 44 mag at point blank would slow them but not a sure stop ... depending where you hit. But how accurate can you be when running at top speed? My only experience has been with hogs of about 350 pounds.
Hogs are really tough beasts.
That’s one big hog, if it’s a real photo. Sure wouldn’t go after it with any revolver, but that’s just me. 12 ga 30 inch full choke with 00 magnum would be my minimum.
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