No way. There is no ****ing way.

[XCRmonger]

Tell me this is fake, or I don't think I'll ever be able to sleep again.

[BigBamBoo]

............

[apbrian112]

holy crap.... that's either one tiny kid with a tiny S&W 500 replica OR one ginormous hog...

[Spiggy]

it was faked



the animal was raised by people before it was released for hunting

[Gunaria]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 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 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 in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe 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, 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 Jerry 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.

"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," 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.

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."

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On the Net:

http://www.monsterpig.com

http://www.thelegendofhogzillathemovie.com

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Associated Press writer Jay Reeves in Birmingham contributed to this report

[gose]

it was faked
the animal was raised by people before it was released for hunting

The hunt was "faked" in that the hog was farm raised and then released for taking, but there's nothing really "fake" about the picture, except that if you look closely you can also see that the guy isn't really leaning against the hog. He's sitting slightly behind it, to make the hog look bigger.

[PatriotnMore]

Heres another farm raised fake wild boar.

[XCRmonger]

ew ew ew ew ew!!!

[Rob454]

it was a totally canned BS hunt. That pig was raised and sold/given to a farm and the people decided to charge for some a hole kid to shoot it and kill it. I hunt and this is a complete BS hunt IMO. What a bunch of sorry azz loosers. Wow I got to lill a pig that was basically farm raised. Thats about as exciting as taking a s**t

[Sam1]

looks photoshopped

[Knight]

Wow I got to lill a pig that was basically farm raised. Thats about as exciting as taking a ****

LOL, couldn't have put it better!

[nagorb]

+1 gose. I've seen a lot of hunting photos where people do that to make it look bigger

[CSACANNONEER]

Arnold was such a good little piglet. It's a shame that he grew into the biggest hams and slabs of bacon that have ever been seen. I just couldn't keep him in the house anymore so, I sold him to a pig refuge. At least, that's what I was told it was.

[bohoki]

yea its called forced perspecitve disney uses it to make things look bigger

if that pig was as big as it appears it would weigh 2 tonnes

real hunters take a photo of the animal with the gun resting on the animal to give a scale and to link it to that gun

[M. Sage]

yea its called forced perspecitve disney uses it to make things look bigger

Hmmm...