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Order2Chaos · May 25, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PBKB5G0&show_article=1&image=large

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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A pic of the beast:

Diacanu · May 25, 2007

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Quincunx · May 25, 2007

Are these giant hogs feral? Why do they get so big?

Wonder how many more are roaming the forests of Georgia and Alabama . . .

Archangel · May 25, 2007

HE ALLOWED THE CHILD TO HANDLE A GUN !!!!1111111ELEVEN

The kid will grow up to shoot up a school or be a serial killer !!

NeonMosfet · May 25, 2007

Sad

phantomofthenet · May 25, 2007

A kid with a handgun just pwned most hunters on Earth and probably all of the hunters here....

Forbin · May 25, 2007

Is that kid in the photo actually leaning on a giant pig, or is he standing 10 feet back from the slightly large pig? Forced perspective is an oooold photography trick.

Lethesoda · May 25, 2007

Forbin said: ↑

Is that kid in the photo actually leaning on a giant pig, or is he standing 10 feet back from the slightly large pig? Forced perspective is an oooold photography trick.
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His arms are on top.

I'd say he's leaning on that small hippo.

Techman · May 25, 2007

Great googly moogly!

Forbin · May 25, 2007

Lethesoda said: ↑

Forbin said: ↑

Is that kid in the photo actually leaning on a giant pig, or is he standing 10 feet back from the slightly large pig? Forced perspective is an oooold photography trick.
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His arms are on top.
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Nope. Look again. They APPEAR to be on top. But they're behind it.

enlisted person · May 25, 2007

Quas said: ↑

Are these giant hogs feral? Why do they get so big?
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They watch a lot of Jerry springer and hang out at walmart.

Goldeneye · May 26, 2007

Make that left elbow Forbin

Bailey · May 26, 2007

Forbin said: ↑

Is that kid in the photo actually leaning on a giant pig, or is he standing 10 feet back from the slightly large pig? Forced perspective is an oooold photography trick.
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He's either standing way behind it, or on a foot stool.

Look at the kids size, if he was actually leaning on the pig as this shot is intended to show his feet would be dangling in the air.

Summerteeth · May 26, 2007

If it's genuine, he should've sat on it's back for a better sense of perspective.

I think he's quite far in the background, the proportions don't look right

Techman · May 26, 2007

Perspective, folks...he's a bit behind it, kneeling. It's probably not intentional, but if that critter were as big as it looks, it would weight a couple of tons, not half a ton.

Fisherman's Worf · May 26, 2007

Poor Vandy.

Linda R. · May 26, 2007

That's a helluva lot of sausages...

Dan Leach · May 26, 2007

Fookin 'ell!

Forbin · May 26, 2007

Goldeneye said: ↑

Make that left elbow Forbin
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I think that's his knee. He's down on one knee, resting an elbow on the other knee.

Liet · May 26, 2007

Techman said: ↑

Perspective, folks...he's a bit behind it, kneeling. It's probably not intentional, but if that critter were as big as it looks, it would weight a couple of tons, not half a ton.
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Sounds about right. The basic story seems legit enough, but that photo makes the bacon-on-hoof look bigger than it really was.

Mmm, bacon!

Midnight Funeral · May 26, 2007

Order2Chaos said: ↑

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I was wondering where Rosie O'Donnel had disappeared to...

Diacanu · May 26, 2007

Too soon.

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