Monster Pig may outdo Hogzilla

MONTGOMERY - 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.

"It feels really good," Jamison, of Pickensville, said in a telephone interview. "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. 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.

The hog's head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy in Oxford. Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds."

I wish you guys could see the picture of this thing. It is huge!! Shocked

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Don't you just love Google? Smile

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It looks big, but I bet that photo was setup by a fisherman. You know the whole "hold the fish at arms length" type of setups. But even with that, it looks mighty big!

But I also have to speak up from my own personal experiance. 1) I would absolutly HATE to see the bill for that taxidermy bill if my euopean elk mount was $300, and 2) all the big hogs I've shot (which were maybe 200-300 pounds at the most) have tasted horrible, while the smaller ones taste much better.

d'oh! I couldn't get googles photo to show up, so I hosted it. Embarassed

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i'd say that the picture is set up to make it look bigger, but still, that thing must have been pretty huge. crazy.

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Thats big pig Shocked

eric

Ok here are some of the facts that I have heard (though I don't know if all are true)

They were actually only on a 80 acre fenced section of a preserve

The Hog's name was Henry and he was kept by 2 big ranchers for a long time because the slaughterhouse wouldn't take him (according to what I read he was to big to slaughter)

They wanted rid of him because he was to big, and becoming a pest so they gave him to the reserve about a year ago

So the hog wasn't wild, and it was in a sealed area from what I read. They make it seem like they tracked him 10 miles which would have been impossible unless they were going in circles

Still a huge hog even for a hand raised one.

Oh and the ex-owner talked to the kid on the phone and told him not to worry, they he wasn't there pet and the hog needed killin.

But still "domestic" hogs will go feral faster than any other domestic animal; only a matter of weeks from most accounts. They will soon loose all of their domestic looks, and begin growing hair, and tusks. So with that in mind I think that would count as hunting a "wild hog" to me atleast, because it wasn't like he went out and shot Babe. I don't agree with these "canned hunts" but they do offer some nice hunting in areas where it wouldn't otherwise be possible. As for the ten miles, I've tracked bear and elk for miles, and have really only stayed about a mile and a half from all the backtracking, and loops so that isn't too far of a stretch IMO.

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thats one big arse pig, that should keep you stocked up nicley for the winter haha ... yeah bad joke

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I remember there was a show that I watched about hogzilla. they were debating on how the heck a wild pig could get so big. (part wild part domestic) the thing is, the real pic of hogzilla has him hanging from a crain and it seemed longer than it really was because the waght of the pig made it strech quite a few more inches. this pic is set up the boy is right next to the tree a few yards from the pig but dog that one big hog. here is a pic of hogzilla for yall.

It was alleged to be 12 feet (3.6 meters) long and to weigh 1,000 pounds (450 kg).Its remains were exhumed in early 2005 and studied by scientists from the National Geographic Society for a documentary. In March 2005, these scientists confirmed that Hogzilla actually weighed 800 pounds (360 kg) and was between 7.5 and 8 feet (2.25 and 2.4 meters) long, diminishing the previous claim.Hogzilla's tusks measured nearly 18 inches (46 cm), and nearly 16 inches (41 cm), which was a new record for North America. as said by wikipedia.

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I need to set something straight here. This was not a "canned hunt". A canned hunt is when a bunch of losers take a caged animal, render it defenseless, set it loose, sic a bunch of dogs on it, bring it to within an inch of it's life, then kill it and call it a hunt. This was not a canned hunt. This was a domestic pig let loose on a hunting preserve, and after a long time, killed by a lucky 11-year-old. That is all. Smile

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flashlightfreak9 wrote:

I need to set something straight here. This was not a "canned hunt". A canned hunt is when a bunch of losers take a caged animal, render it defenseless, set it loose, sic a bunch of dogs on it, bring it to within an inch of it's life, then kill it and call it a hunt. This was not a canned hunt. This was a domestic pig let loose on a hunting preserve, and after a long time, killed by a lucky 11-year-old. That is all. Smile

> Canned Hunt, never heard of that. But for the people that do this they are MEGA losers. Mad

Sounds like a bunch of fat beer drinking flunkys that would do this & call it a Hunt. Rolling Eyes

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	Drummer Dave wrote:
	> Canned Hunt, never heard of that. But for the people that do this they are MEGA losers. Sounds like a bunch of fat beer drinking flunkys that would do this & call it a Hunt.

You hit the nail on the head. Idea

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Different terms from different areas I guess. Out here a "canned hunt" is any hunt that takes place behind high fences, no dogs are used. Kind of strange to see how a term differs from different locations. Cool

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