Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'

This has got to be fake... There is no way that picture is real.


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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—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."

Whoops, seems this story is older than I thought.. Probably not new to most of you. My bad

That is ridiculously huge

theres a thread about this. apparently its just alot of trick photography, its a big pig... but nowhere near as big as they claim.

Hogzilla wasn't as big as they claimed...

What are your sources saying this new pig isn't as big as they claimed?

There are 2 giant pigs...Hogzilla and this new one.

I'm guessing forced perspective was used. The picture given makes it look so massive...

I think I dated his sister once

[edit on 25-5-2007 by mizzu]

maybe it really was just that massive...anomalies of nature such as this occur all the time. i'm just amazed no one ever noticed it before

Another year goes by, and another MASSIVE hog is killed.

The biggest hog i ever saw was about 400 lbs, when i lived in florida, we used to have wild hogs come and eat our lawn at night, every night about 4-5 of them, one night after hanging out with my frineds i returned to the house at abou 4 am and as a was awlking home i was surounded by one hog, and it ran about 2-3 circles around me then left.

These animals are HUGE.

To all non-believers, I am no way a source for your truth, but I assure you if you research your credible news sites you will see that this Pig is for real! It is amazing!

AAC

I just visited sky news and its on the front page with the story.


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Yes, it is definately real, the news is on and it mentioned this hog and showed that picture. The head is being bought by someone.

Originally posted by hikix
theres a thread about this. apparently its just alot of trick photography, its a big pig... but nowhere near as big as they claim.

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