Eat Your Heart Out Coonskinner!!!
 

Now this is REAL varmint hunting!!!! At the bottom of the article I will paste a link to the article on a newsite that has a pic you have to see.


Alabama Boy Kills 1,051-Pound Monster Pig, Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'
Saturday , May 26, 2007

An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.

Jamison Stone's father says the hog his son killed weighed a 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'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.

After seeing the pig in person, taxidermist Jerry Cunningham told The Anniston Star it was "the biggest thing I'd ever seen ... it's huge."

The Anniston Star reported that the feral hog was weighed at the Clay County Farmer's Exchange in Lineville. Workers at the co-op verified that the basic truck scales used were recently certified by the state. But no workers from the co-op were present when the hog was weighed.

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 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.

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.

The Anniston Star reported that congratulatory calls have come all the way from California, where Jamison appeared on a radio talk show. Jamison apparently has gotten words of congratulation from Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, country music star Kenny Chesney, Tom Knapp of Benelli firearms and Jerry Miculek of Smith & Wesson.

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."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

As verified as we're going to get tonight

Another phone call, and this was the best one I had all day.

Jerry Cunningham, of Jerry's Taxidermy, called to say he does in fact have the hog and it's really, really big.

He was there to see it soon after it's kill. He also "caped out" the hog, removing the hide for the process of mounting it, in which is planned to be a shoulder mount.

To help make the form on which the animal will be mounted, Cunningham had to take accurate measurements of the beast. Here they are:

Around the head (across the ears): 54 inches.
Around the shoulders: 74 inches.
Length of snout (from eyes to nose): 11 inches.

Just for a gauge, a basketball is 30.7 inches around.

As it's currently 8:11 and I just got off the phone with Cunningham, I'll planning to go see it for myself on Wednesday afternoon. I would do it sooner, but Wednesday morning I'll be at the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament in Hoover to watch Alabama play (drumroll, please) the Arkansas Razorbacks.

By Thursday I'm sure I'll be pigged out.

That is one ugly pig. :bubble

I wonder if they ate him? That would be a lot of bacon!

They did process it for food...

http://www.monsterpig.com/

My biggest issue with this story is believing any 11 year old could shoot a .50 caliber revolver accurately, especially as many times as he was supposed to have shot it.

I have spent my fair share of time shooting big bore handguns. It has at times been a hobby I have spent more time on than might have been strictly healthy.:)

And handguns of that caliber have a LOT of recoil and muzzle blast, far more than any 11 year old I have ever known of could handle effectively, especially and hit anything.

Coonskinner,

Are you saying that something reported on the internet might not be true? I am shocked!!! Next you will be saying that Thad's scoops aren't true.

If this story is a scam it made it to the mainstream media as I pulled that story off of the Fox News website. They will be embarressed if taken in.

My son showed me this last night, and I was amazed. I didn't even know there were wild boar in Alabama, but he told me we had them in Tennessee too. I'm glad I've never run into one of these!!:club

If pigs & catfish have any culinary aspects in common I would imagine that a pig that big wouldn't be much worth eating.

Sausage would be about all you would dare make out of it and I would do a test batch with that before I sunk much money into it.

Sherri, they hunt wild boar at Big Hill Pond in Middleton. That's not far from us. DW from church (think financial peace) hunts them and told Jon that he would take him if he wants to go.

I know what you mean. My son, when he was on leave in December, got a Colt .45. We shot it a lot and it packs quite a whallop! This gun is similar to a Desert Eagle, which is also .50.

On the other hand, all the kid would have had to do was hit the pig once with a pistol like that and he was going down. From there, it wouldn't have been too hard to finish him off.

Until a couple of years ago my wifes family had an annual family reunion in rural North Central Louisiana and the main course was always wild boar that the folks hosting the reunion hunted and killed.

They were very picky about what meat they kept and used. It was always very, very good. Some of those wild boars could kill a man with their horns (tusks?)and sometimes do kill or hurt the dogs hunting them.

Did it have a wild taste to it? That was always my thought.

I went to Bible School with a guy who married Alan Oggs' daughter and he used to hunt wild boars in Florida. He had some tall tales to tell 'bout hog huntin'!