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Now that's a hog -- not a Rosie thread

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by John, May 25, 2007.

  1. John

    John Well-Known Member

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    Boy bags hog said bigger than 'Hogzilla'

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. - 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.
     
  2. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Color me skeptical. What parent would want their 11-year-old chasing that thing with a pistol?
     
  3. Perry White

    Perry White Active Member

    D_B: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/42015/
     
  4. spup1122

    spup1122 Guest

    Dammit.. Perry beat me to it!
     
  5. John

    John Well-Known Member

    Well shit.

    But my thread that a picture!
     
  6. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    nice D_B, D.A...
     
  7. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    What are they gonna put in the hog's mouth? An apple is too small.
     
  8. John

    John Well-Known Member

    Oh, go munch on a brat.
     
  9. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    A watermelon?
     
  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Nope... gumbo and chicken alfredo...
     
  11. PhilaYank36

    PhilaYank36 Guest

    That picture HAS to be doctored. The head looks a little too fuzzy, IMO. Plus, there's no way any kind of pig can get that big!
     
  12. Willie-Butch

    Willie-Butch Member

    It HAS to be doctored? Does it?

    Looks like an AP picture to me. And why would the AP doctor a photo of a giant pig, for recognition?
     
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