Big Pig

[spike]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old 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 long. 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.

"It feels really good," Jamison 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 Monster Pig. 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 for doing.

"I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who lives in Pickensville on the Mississippi border. He 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 animal 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, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.

Kinder's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Mike Stone said it balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark.

"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 being mounted by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy. 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."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070525/ap_on_fe_st/monster_pig

 

[unclehobart]

I think I would hollow it out and turn it into a car or something. That is one hell of a big piece of SPAM. I wonder if the meat is any good on such an old animal.

11 years old firing a .50 cal pistol?! Jeez.

 

[catocom]

11 years old firing a .50 cal pistol?! Jeez.

for real!

That boy's a hunter now.
I want to be on his team....

 

[Luis G]

Dunno what to say.

 

[tonksy]

I'm gobsmacked over both issues.

 

[unclehobart]

they need to taxidermy that sucker and sell it to a museum. That sucker would fetch $50,000 easy. The yokels would come around and pay 2 bits a gander easy.

 

[Gonz]

Our 250lb hog was killed & processed for about $125. This one is gonna get expensive.

 

[Professur]

I was gonna say, what kind of moron give a .50 pistol to an 11 year old. 8 rounds fired and it stil ran three hours ... that's fucking disgraceful, and nothing any hunter should be proud of.

 

[catocom]

It's fairly common to 14 year olds, or there abouts, having pics in
hunting mags bring in record, and big irregular bucks.

 

[unclehobart]

Irregular bucks? That something like a three-eyed deer?

 

[catocom]

I've seen some pics of some pretty wild antler configurations.
Some wop-sidded, some turned downward....

 

[BlurOfSerenity]

i told my fiance about this, and he told me that on other boards, apparently people are calling BS on it.

 

[Aunty Em]

So when's da BBQ?

I take it hog roast is on the menu...

 

[catocom]

i told my fiance about this, and he told me that on other boards, apparently people are calling BS on it.

BS how? like it wasn't wild, or that boy didn't actually do it, or because an 11 year old has a .50?

 

[tonksy]

I think the sheer size of that creature is what is causing disbelief. Most folks are not accustomed to such large swine.

 

[Nixy]

I think the sheer size of that creature is what is causing disbelief. Most folks are not accustomed to such large swine.

Yeah, I agree...if people are calling BS on it it's likely because they think the photo is photoshopped.

 

[unclehobart]

I finally got through to their website. There are half a dozen angle shots and the thing suspended by a forklift. There is an email collection on the site full of rather nasty comments ranging from 'burn in hell, redneck fat ass' to some stuff that was way outta line.

 

[Nixy]

Where's the websitE?

 

[Nixy]

I found it, the hate emails seem to be from people who think that we shouldn't kill animals...I am wondering how many of those people are actually vegetarians (it is evident some are) and how many are just to stupid to realize that the meat you buy in a grocery store came from an animal that was killed by somebody.

Then there's the person babbling about how Jesus was a jew and ate fish but would never eat pork and if this kid is gonna eat the pig then he isn't Christian...last I checked Jews and christians disagreed on a lot of things...dumbass.

 

[Nixy]

I also love how the positive comments are written exceptionally better than the negatives