Big Pig
Idahohunter
5/26/07 1:39pm
Does anyone know if this is real? If so that's a lot of bacon!
http://www.monsterpig.com
I saw the story on foxnews.com
I saw the story on foxnews.com
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NONYA, where'd ya hear that it was released? It doesn't say anything about that in the article. It states that it's a feral hog...which is pretty much what most wild hogs are in America. Either that or feral/russian boar crossbreads. We hunted these same types of pigs in California when I was stationed there. Since pigs are not native to North America all wild pig populations are either decendents of feral stock or russian boars that were imported and introducted YEARS ago for sport. It sure doesn't look like a farm raised pig either...not like any on the farms I grew up on anyway.
Not sayin' you're wrong...I was just wondering where you got the info (It does say that it was in a commercial hunting preserve but that's all).
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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.
Click here to see a big pic of the big pig.
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 —
"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."
"2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta"
But#1 The pictures are staged to make it look much bigger without a doubt.
But#2 Why is it whenever one of these mutant pigs show up they have not been weighed on certified scales or shown next to a story pole or something you can get a real idea of it's size?
There is always a lot of smoke and mirrors.
If I took a pig that size you would have no doubt of it's actual size and weight by documentation. It would not be that hard to do and it would clear up any doubt.
This is phony, Feral hogs don't get fat and big living in the brush eating roots and grass. They get that big and fat on a high energy high protein diet like
Corn and Soy Beans.
Giant Alabama Pig Killed In Pen
BIRMINGHAM, AL—The mystery of the now-famous gigantic Alabama pig appears to have been solved. The 1,051-pound hog killed by 11-year-old Jamison Stone and the subject of a world-wide Internet firestorm really is ... Fred.
According to owners Rhonda and Phil Blissitt, she and her husband “didn’t want to stir up anything” and “just wanted the truth to be told.” Their claims of ownership over the pig were confirmed by Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (DWFF) Game Warden Andy Howell.
“That wasn’t a wild pig,” Rhonda Blissitt told The Associated Press.
The pig gained worldwide acclaim after it was killed by Stone with a .50-caliber handgun on May 3 at the Lost Creek Plantation, a hunting preserve in Delta, Alabama. It was killed inside a large fenced enclosure.
Phil Blissitt says he purchased the pig for his wife as a Christmas gift in December of 2004, and that from the time it was 6 weeks old, they raised the pig as a pet as it grew to its enormous size. They had recently decided to sell all of their pigs, and Eddy Borden, owner of Lost Creek Plantation, purchased “Fred.”
This information was released on the same day that DWFF officials concluded their investigation of the hunt and concluded that “nothing illegal happened under the guidelines of Alabama law.”
The DWFF says it learned the hog’s origin as its investigation unfolded and that the agency was able to determine that the pig came from a domesticated environment and therefore was not considered feral.
Jamison Stone’s father, Mike Stone, says he and his son were under the impression that the pig was feral and that he and his son hunted it under that assumption.
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