Boy Shoots Pig Said To Dwarf 'Hogzilla'

[Kor37 9]

Boy Shoots Pig Said to Dwarf 'Hogzilla'

By KATE BRUMBACK

AP

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (May 25) - Think hams as big as car tires.

 

 

Now That's a Pig

 

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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.

 

 

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"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.

 

 

This thing is a monster!

 

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[Theunicornhunter 2]

Doesn't do much for rural Georgia's image -

 

On another note - I remember being chased by a pig when I was little - this would be like being chased by a bus.

[Kor37 9]

I know! Can you imagine walking in the woods and coming face to face with something like this?..

[trekz 7]

Just read this story in the paper. That picture is frightening. What a monster! We raised Hampshire pigs on our farm and the sows could be cranky if you were trying to move them. This guy must have been terrifying!

 

As noted in the article,however, shooting a deer when you are five seems a bit young to me.

[Kor37 9]

and seriously....what is an 11 year old boy doing with a handgun on a hunting trip???...

[Odo 0]

Thats a lot of pork

Kor my daddy was from down south.

I could shoot a gun at like 7 years old.

Am not trying to say anything but

down there its a way of life.

You teach your kids to hunt.

Like teaching them to fish, play ball, ect.

[Theunicornhunter 2]

I'm not a hunter but I do know that most hunters use rifles not handguns. And I live in the South - not everyone has a gun rack in their car.

[Odo 0]

UH

as i tryed to say above

was not implieing anything.

But here in Michigan if you are regiestred you ( up north)

can hunt with a hand gun.

I have a 44 magum with a scope.

But as i no longer hunt.

Its part of my collection

with my black powder and rifles

and other pistiols.

No disrespect intened

[MrPsychic 1]

Well, the 50 calibre handgun was definitely no pea shooter. A 50 calibre is normally used for machine guns or the huge Barret M-82 sniper rifle.

[Wishfire 2]

and seriously....what is an 11 year old boy doing with a handgun on a hunting trip???...

 

Dick Cheney lost him.

[Gummy 0]

2.0's parents have a pig farm. I've seen how nasty these things can be.

And a 50 cal. pistol would be the only way to stop one of them dead in their tracks, no pun intended.

[Vulcan_lover 1]

That's a lot of bacon.....

[Gummy 0]

Swine is divine.

[Kor37 9]

UPDATE:

 

Some Skeptical of Giant Hog Story

ABC News

(May 29) - Jamison Stone, 11, says he spotted the wild hog cooling off in a swamp. He says it was as big as a cow.

 

"He was snarling, you know popping his jaws as a threat, and that's when I took my shot," Jamison said.

 

Jamison, hunting with his father, stalked the boar for three hours, he said. He finally brought the beast down with a .50-caliber revolver.

 

And how big was this beast? His father says the wild hog was more than nine feet long and tipped the scales at 1,051 pounds.

 

But after The Associated Press printed a story and Jamison posted a picture of him and his "monster pig" on his Web site, the blogosphere started buzzing: Was it a hog or a hoax?

 

One blogger suggested the photo was doctored, writing: "I'm thinking there's someone sitting behind a computer out there having a bit of a giggle at everyone's expense."

 

"A bunch of people could not believe it. Lots of my friends said, 'You didn't kill something like this,' until they saw the Web site," Jamison said.

 

Kirk Deeter, a contributor to Field & Stream magazine, says that for now he is siding with Jamison.

 

"There's always gonna be naysayers in situations like this," Deeter said. "My gut reaction is it's an enormous hog. An 11-year-old kid shot a 1,051-pound pig."

 

If true, Jamison's trophy kill would be bigger than even "Hogzilla," an almost mythical 800-pound wild boar killed in Georgia in 2004. It was eventually unearthed by a National Geographic forensics team.

 

"We knew ours was bigger so it was a big deal. It was a bigger pig," Mike Stone, Jamison's father, said.

 

So another legend gathers steam, and this wild boar may end up in the record books.

 

For now, it's on the dinner table and there are plenty of leftovers.

 

"We've got sausage, a lot of sausage," Jamison said.

 

 

[Kor37 9]

UPDATE:

 

Pig Was a Monster, but He Wasn't Wild

AP

FRUITHURST, Ala. (June 2) - The huge hog that became known as "Monster Pig" after being hunted and killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred. The not-so-wild 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.

 

Mike Stone said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he had been under the impression that the hog was wild, not farm-raised.

 

Telephone messages left Friday with Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, were not immediately returned.

 

Stone said state wildlife officials told him that it is not unusual for hunting preserves to buy farm-raised hogs and that the hogs are considered feral once they are released.

 

Stone said he and his son met Blissitt on Friday morning to get more details about the hog. Blissitt said that he had about 15 hogs and decided to sell them for slaughter, but that no one would buy that particular animal because it was too big for slaughter or breeding, Stone said.

 

Blissitt said that the pig had become a nuisance and that visitors were often frightened by it, Stone said.

 

"He was nice enough to tell my son that the pig was too big and needed killing," Stone said. "He shook Jamison's hand and said he did not kill the family pet."

 

The Blissitts said they didn't know the hog that was hunted 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.