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Monster Pig no match for boy
Hog shot by kid may be 1,051 pounds
May 27, 2007
BY KATE BRUMBACK
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 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
Jamison Stone, 11, stands next to a wild pig he killed May 3 near Delta, Ala. Stone's father says the hog weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4 inches from the tip of it's snout to the base of its tail.
(AP)
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 think 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 phone interview. ''It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big.''
Jamison, who killed his first deer at 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,'' Jamison said.
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.
monster pig's predecessor, hogzilla:
check out www.monsterpig.com
Hog shot by kid may be 1,051 pounds
May 27, 2007
BY KATE BRUMBACK
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 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
Jamison Stone, 11, stands next to a wild pig he killed May 3 near Delta, Ala. Stone's father says the hog weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4 inches from the tip of it's snout to the base of its tail.
(AP)
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 think 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 phone interview. ''It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big.''
Jamison, who killed his first deer at 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,'' Jamison said.
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.
monster pig's predecessor, hogzilla:
check out www.monsterpig.com
