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Toa Hahli
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. 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. 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 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 when he bagged Monster Pig. 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, who lives in Pickensville on the Mississippi border. He 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 animal 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, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.
Kinder's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Mike Stone said it 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.
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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| 05/27/07 10:42 |
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Xellois55
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That's a Huuuuuuuge Ham.
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| 05/27/07 10:46 |
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jovlo
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That just has to be photoshopped.
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| 05/27/07 11:04 |
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Toa Hahli
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| QUOTE | | That just has to be photoshopped. |
Well if it is i didnt do it. this is straight off of Yahoo! News
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| 05/27/07 11:06 |
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Tae Lian
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Annnd what happens to all these unusual animals? People kill them >_>
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| 05/27/07 11:16 |
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Duke Wallux
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now thet a ''mini'' pet xDD
Studies show that 92% of teens listen to rap. If you are part of the 8% that listens to real music the add this to your signature.
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| 05/27/07 11:17 |
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D_Smag
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This is true, and that photo wasn't photoshopped.
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| 05/27/07 11:23 |
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Toa Hahli
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/bump for people who havent seen it
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| 05/27/07 12:42 |
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Chrisworld
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| QUOTE | | /bump for people who havent seen it |
THAT IS FREAKIN HUGE
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| 05/27/07 12:43 |
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meonlyred
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Surely to god that isn't the gun that kid took that pig out with, I'm thinking more like a canon, rocket launcher, BFG, nuke....
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| 05/27/07 12:45 |
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Deno
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I've heard about this but that picture is indeed photoshopped 1 that's not the original person who "killed" the boar and 2 they tested where it was buried and the story and picture and everything have to deal with it and they found that it was a fake.
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| 05/27/07 12:58 |
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words can heal 110
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its like that deep sea frill shark, lives deep under water, they killed it.
and the 32 ft grizzly bear, they killed it
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| 05/27/07 13:02 |
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Tae Lian
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yup like I said....killed it, all we seem to do >_>
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| 05/27/07 13:07 |
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Toa Hahli
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Nvm, i misread it. but i doubt that kid did it, i cant even shoot a .50 Pistol and im 18. almost knocks me down
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| 05/27/07 13:22 |
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kohnjo1
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it says his father is Mike Stone. Jamison, the 11 year old is the one who shot the hog 8 times and then once in the head
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| 05/27/07 13:25 |
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Xellois55
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| QUOTE | | I've heard about this but that picture is indeed photoshopped 1 that's not the original person who "killed" the boar and 2 they tested where it was buried and the story and picture and everything have to deal with it and they found that it was a fake. |
Wrong, i seen that too. That was ANOTHER Boar, not this one. (read the story better, they say this one ''beats'' the other one found in 2004 by size and more.
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| 05/27/07 13:41 |
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gerrad
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now im gonna have nightmares from princess monokoe again with the gaint pig demon and god thing XD. another week of nightmares thanks....
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| 05/27/07 14:06 |
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thaskippy
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i don't really like these sort of people...
i don't see the fun in killing animals... especially when they are as cool as this pig 0.o
plz clickzors, i need t3h viewz !
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| 05/27/07 14:06 |
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gerrad
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double post my bad...
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| 05/27/07 14:06 |
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B J W E R T
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| QUOTE | i don't really like these sort of people...
i don't see the fun in killing animals... especially when they are as cool as this pig 0.o |
I must agree to some extent. Fair enough, animals of that sheer size, left to their own accord, could cause some damage and even kill someone. But I don't think that simply shooting them to death should be the answer, there are other, much more humane options.
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| 05/27/07 14:19 |
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Tae Lian
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or here is a simpler suggestion to avoid them killing you, stay away from them :)
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| 05/27/07 14:27 |
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| QUOTE | | now im gonna have nightmares from princess monokoe again with the gaint pig demon and god thing XD. another week of nightmares thanks.... |
exactly what iu was thinking! haha...
that thing is one huge porker
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