Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'
May 25 04:21 PM US/Eastern
By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press Writer
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—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.
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."
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On the Net:
http://www.monsterpig.com
http://www.thelegendofhogzillathemovie.com
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Associated Press writer Jay Reeves in Birmingham contributed to this report
I don't care if someone else posted this already. Fuck you. Fuck you and your momma.
they have photoshop in alabama?!!?
Quote:
Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said.
but thats good barbecue!
and some of these negative responses are gold!
seriously, notwedge, whats that like??
uh yeah, i see no reason in killing the hog.
its not amusing when you block out the dirty words.
hunting on the whole is fine, if you eat the meat.
i had friends who enjoyed it, but being cheap, saw it as food he didn't have to buy. as long as they eat, or give the food to someone that will, there is no real harm.
that would explain where your at during rehearsals
ASHITAKA!
Princess Mononoke was a great film. I might watch it today.
I think it is sad that the kid killed THAT pig. It lived long and grew to be so big, why can't they just admire and respect the animal and leave it alone? Who the fuck is going to eat 600lbs of sausage*?! The pig was a huge marvel of nature. Better, I think, to kill a smaller pig and let something like that go on surviving.
Or at least kill it with some balls, not a pistol and three hours. Anyone can kill with a gun.
*(besides Rob)
your post makes no sense. i believe i claimed interest in barbecuing up to seven hundred pounds.
next time, maybe do a little research
I SAID besides Rob! Nobody reads anymore, that's what's wrong with today's youth.
So, in conclusion, rob wants sausage. Lots of it.
definitely.....thoase are some tough animals to kill.
I give this thread 11 stars!
it's because it's about a gigantic piece of pork?
It's because everyone here went nuts over a giant hog.
you go hog over giant nuts!
To everyone here it will be known as the day everyone went nuts over a giant hog......to Beardguy and Jim Jackson it will be known as Thursday.
Oi. Some of those idiots are trying to to say it was a "wonderous and rare animal that could have been studied and hand-jobbed." It was just a pig with an overactive pituitary gland for cryin' out loud.
And if they can't scarf down all the meat, they can just donate it.
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I take offense at this entire thread...
Oh, and Harley I'm actually Kosher...
Those negative responses are freakin hilarious...oh and princess mononoke kicks ass...
Pig Was a Monster, but He Wasn't Wild
By Associated Press
2 hours ago
FRUITHURST, Ala. - The huge hog that became known as "Monster Pig" after being killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred.
Far from feral, the pig had been raised on an Alabama farm and was sold to the Lost Creek Plantation just four days before it was shot there in a 150-acre fenced area, the animal's former owner said.
Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star in a story Friday that he bought the 6-week-old pig in December 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all the pigs at their farm.
"I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn't a wild pig," Rhonda Blissitt said.
Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father described as a three-hour chase. They said it was more than 1,000 pounds and 9 feet long; if anything, it looked even bigger in a now-famous photo of the hunter and the hunted.
"We were told that it was a feral hog," Mike Stone told the Star, "and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog."
Telephone messages left Friday with Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, were not immediately returned.
The Blissitts said they didn't know the hog was Fred until they were contacted by a game warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. The agency determined that no laws were violated in the hunt.
Phil Blissitt said he became irritated when he learned that some thought the photo of Fred was doctored.
"That was a big hog," he said.
Oh! Damn! They killed a pet!
Is that what he called it last time he shat?
well, it screamed on the way out.
yeah, we're talking about the same thing.
SAUSAGES! LLANCE's...Ass ... sausages?
True Story:
someone in my neighborhood asked me if I wanted a pig when I was 5.
I asked my mom if I could have the pig.
She said no.
I was gonna name him "Oinky", too....
