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Boy, 11, Bags Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writer
Fri May 25, 9:43 PM

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."”

“I live 30 minutes from where that allegedly happened.”

“We were just discussing that at the station...note the distance behind the hog the boy is....(he is not directly on the hog). Additionally take the reference of size from the boy out of the photo and compare the grass stuck to the critter.

I am not arguing the size of the pig...but lets wait for neutral assessments”

“they should have a hog roast for the whole town, hell, the whole state”

“nm”

“so, hoggy hoax or piggy plausibility, anyone?”

“It is definitely a big hog, but the angles of the pics make it bigger.”

“its real”

“Whatever it's size, I would not want to meet that beast in the woods.




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“well you never can tell, just one day when you are expecting that all is well, out of the bush, and well just think about that little piggy going to the market, lol.”

“Arnold Ziffel comes to a bad end.

It does remind of the Giant Cat photos.”

“Yeah what is the term Tilt?..Depth of Field or something.

LOL, one of my firefighters couldn't understand that so we went out back and I showed him how I could make a PENCIL look gigantic with just a two dimensional photograph.”

“I heard about this. But I have yet to learn WHY he had to kill it? Three hours trying to kill it? Poor thing was fighting for its life. yet another senless murder all to gain national attenion.”

“According to an NPR interview, he's got a freezer FULL of sausage now. He didn't kill it just for the trophy, he's using the meat. Not wasteful and senseless.”

“Invasive species eradication, Maple. Feral pigs displace native species and should be given The Old Heave Ho, IMO. The method of achieving this is adjustable.... maybe we can dart them with birth control so they just die out.


I think it's 'foreshortening'.... closer objects appearing larger, etc. The photo bugs out there will have to tackle 'depth of field'.”

“Whoops I spoke too soon. Foreshortening is a method of making things on a flat surface appear to be 3 dimensional.

The technique of making an object appear to be a different size than what it really is is call forced perspective.

I think wherever you stand that is one dang big hog.

Shooting your dinner is a heck of a lot more "green" than buying it at the grocery store.
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“I'll bet the meat on something that big is nasty. I'm not sure if that's an in or out of context quote, but dang nasty regardless.

So the chalk artist use foreshortening then?

I said this on the other thread, but one Birmingham station had the taxidermist on last night. He had a plaster cast of the skull of that hog and of a typical boar. The difference was amazing.”

“I had the same thought, dh - about the meat not tasting very good at all. Too big, too old - that monster has to be ancient (for a boar) to have gotten that big.

The taxidermist, in the NPR interview said the shoulders meastured around 54 inches (I think he meant diameter, but he wasn't clear).”

“I bet that's why they made it into sausage rather than steaks.”

“Put a saddle on that mo-fo!”

“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277097,00.html

Looks like the boy shot the neighbor's pet pig named Fred.”

“I read that this morning on a local website.

Poor Fred
Fred's Dead
Fred's Dead baby

(motorcycle roars away)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yp2L6c2KM
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“Here's another story on it.

Pig Was a Monster, but He Wasn't Wild
By Associated Press
Fri Jun 1, 10:45 PM

FRUITHURST, Ala. - 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.”

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Ha, a pet pig. That's about as bad as nimblefoot's dog getting the neighbor's pet birds.

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“As SuperTroll has often said, "they needed killin'" is sometimes an acceptable defense down here.”

“Poor Fred.

Were his last thoughts, "Help Me Rhonda!" ?”

“Help!”

“Help Me Rhonda!”

“There are some dangerous cats and dogs around here that kid is welcome to hunt. All kidding aside, down South these scumbags release hogs in the wild on purpose to provide for more critters to hunt later. These animals have ruined my dads truck farm on more than one occasion. I have no beef with hunting, but these @ssholes really rile us up. These feral animals cost us money.”

“Yep -- those introduced hogs have caused lots of damage over the years.  I don't know why the Park Service and the Forest Service don't make a concerted effort to wipe them out.  

I think they need to work on that definition, though. If it's raised on a farm and then called 'feral' as soon as it's released... (?)

Weird.”

“Shows how ridiculous these hunting preserves are - where's the sport in going into a 150 acre 'hunting preserve' and shooting a farm-raised pig.

I've been told that for real hunters the kill is not the point.”

“pathetic, utterly pathetic

I have to agree with you on the definition Tilt. When one puts the cat or dog out in the yard is it now feral?

Here Sparky, feral time is over, time to come in.”

“Well, we've seen what happens with Some People when they get out in the woods... I don't know if 'feral' quite covers it.  Then again, sometimes actual wilderness isn't required  --->  I've read the Trail Days Trip Reports.”