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Post by ogeezer on May 29, 2007 15:35:16 GMT -6
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.
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Post by DirtyDon on May 29, 2007 16:12:05 GMT -6
Is this what he shot him wid.. S&W Mod 500 .50 Cal.
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Post by texas_gal on May 29, 2007 18:25:14 GMT -6
Now THAT'S alot of bacon!
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Post by Keyser Soze on May 29, 2007 18:32:54 GMT -6
OMG!!!!! THEY'VE SHOT ROSIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by ~WineMe~DineMe~69 on May 29, 2007 20:40:55 GMT -6
i think it's a FAKE! something that big out there would have been seen or heard long before this kid stumbled upon it.....i'm calling Bullsh1t on this
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Post by texas_gal on Jun 2, 2007 12:43:03 GMT -6
Hogzilla was a pet....
FRUITHURST, Alabama (AP) -- 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. (Watch the boy describe his 'monster' kill Video)
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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Post by ~WineMe~DineMe~69 on Jun 2, 2007 18:01:47 GMT -6
the truth come's out......finally
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Post by ogeezer on Jun 3, 2007 8:08:58 GMT -6
Wild or not, that's one big porker ... the one's we raise on our place go 300-425 pounds in about 9-10 months BUT what amazes me isn't the weight of the hog, its how long & tall it is at the shoulder. Our Durocs never get any longer than 6.5 feet by 2.5 ft, respectively. Hogzilla II was said to have been 9'-4" (snout ot rump) long and appears to be in retrospect to the boy shooter, 3-1/2 feet (back to belly). Standing it'd be close to 56" tall ...
In horse terminology, Hogzilla II would be roughly 11-hands high which makes in taller than the average Shetland pony.
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Post by DirtyDon on Jun 3, 2007 16:08:08 GMT -6
I remember moving up from the Valley to Colorado County in the early 80's. Used to take the back roads to one of my customers and saw what I thought was the biggest hog I'd ever seen. then I realised, hadn't really seen a real porker since I was a kid on grandpa's farm. Hawgs had just gotten huger..this was a big arse boar.. coulda put a saddle on him.. Porky sure got big since I was a kid.. Seemed like he was twice as big as the one's I remembered.. there must have been a giant leap in hogology from the 50's to the 80's..
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Post by ogeezer on Jun 3, 2007 16:43:11 GMT -6
Probably had him on steroids ..OR.. leastwise, the scraps he was fed were from steroidial engineered food products ... what name did they call this huge porker pet? Mark MacQuire? Barry Bonds? Curious...
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Post by ~WineMe~DineMe~69 on Jun 3, 2007 19:25:07 GMT -6
one thing's 4 sure.............if it is true he would have to have been castated long ago to grow that much...........................and could you imagine the feed bill?
nothing to really check-out tho, they said he's all sausage..................i'm still calling BS
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Post by ~WineMe~DineMe~69 on Jun 7, 2007 16:43:37 GMT -6
any update's on this breaking story? hehehehehehehe
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