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quackconsumer
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 One Big Couchon
May 26, 2007
An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed 476 kilograms and measured 2.74 metres, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
Think hams as big as car tyres.
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 453.6 kilograms and measure 3.6 metres long. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 362.8 kilograms and was 2.4 metres long.
Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is revelling in the attention over his pig.
"It feels really good," Jamison said. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Jamison, who killed his first deer at age five, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-calibre 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.
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 12-centimetre tusks, decided to charge.
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, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.
Mike Stone said the scale balanced one notch past the 476 kilogram mark.
"It probably weighed 1060 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 137.16 centimetres around the head, 187.9 centimetres around the shoulders and 27.9 centimetres 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 (317.5 kilograms)," 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.
- AP
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:57 pm |
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earl33
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Lots of stories behind that one... Same hog just a different person in the pic...
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:13 pm |
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squirrel
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:28 pm |
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squirrel
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Theres many more articals that prove the pic is altered.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:31 pm |
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Robn1020
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It also said in a previous article, he shot it with a 50 cal pistol. That little kid would have been knocked on his a$$. Very doubtful story.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:46 pm |
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EasTexDux88
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callin BS on this one...
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:58 pm |
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earl33
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_________________ If the Steel aint Flying the Birds aint Dying.... Uncle J 1948 holding a LT Uncle J 1848 w/?
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:51 pm |
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J_Ho
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Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:56 am |
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quackconsumer
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I should have known it wasn't real.
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Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:53 am |
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