Alabama's 'Hogzilla' A real SuperDuty

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Boy Shoots Pig Said to Dwarf 'Hogzilla'
By KATE BRUMBACK
AP
MONTGOMERY,Alabama (May 25) - Think hams as big as car tires.


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.

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. 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.

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.

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, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.

Mike Stone said the scale 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.
 

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I saw the article on foxnews.com and thedrudgereport.com. As they said in "Charlotte's Web", that is SOME PIG!!!! That's what some would call a big ole "Piney Woods Rooter".
 

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Wow... I won't be showing these pictures to the wife again anytime soon..:(
Is she mad....:cussing:

She says what did that pig do to that boy, and he should be very proud of himself, killing a living creature, just to kill!!!:guns:

She is not a hunter...:doh:
All this before she has fixed breakfast:eek:
No more bacon for awhile I am afraid.:(
 

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That sounds like my friends wife when he shot "Bambi" on his Igo ranch. She kept asking why did you shoot Bambi?!!

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That sounds like my friends wife when he shot "Bambi" on his Igo ranch. She kept asking why did you shoot Bambi?!!

Dave

Yep, many years ago, I took her pheasant hunting with me, and she spotted a pheasant, and while my back was turned, she was trying to get the pheasants attention and was saying shoo, shoo, to get it to fly away. I never took her on another hunting trip. At a rodeo, she cheers for the bulls. Just last night, who ate tri-tip steak first??? Luke did...
Here is Luke in his chair.
 

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They didn't kill it just to kill it. They are having sausage and ham made out of it. I am sure they will have enough sausage for there friends in town.
How many people has that thing killed in the past ten or fifteen years, that we may not know of. My wife was glad it was killed. She sent the story to me.
LOL
 

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a boar that big is going to taste just plain nasty. I tried to make sausage out of a 200 pound boar I killed and ended up ditching all of it.
 

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