Posted on 05/28/2007 8:44:04 AM PDT by Renfield
In this photo released by Melynne Stone, Jamison Stone, 11, poses with a wild pig he killed near Delta, Ala., May 3, 2007. Stone's father says the hog weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. If claims of the animal's size are true, it would be larger than ``Hogzilla,'' the huge hog killed in Georgia in 2004. (AP Photo/Melynne Stone)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/A/a380d390-7060-4b3a-99b8-346b8522a57c.html?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Ping!
(Photo at post #21!)
As I mentioned above, the kid's dad and his hunting buddy were backing him up with big bore rifles. Even a 500 pounder would be in my opinion marginal for handgun hunting. Myself, I would set aside my trusty .308 Ruger deer rifle, handy as it is, and borrow my dad's Model 71 lever action in .348 Winchester. It's an old rifle but if you shoot something with it, it stays shot. You can still get Silvertips for it, with a 200 gr bullet, and Barnes makes a couple of solids in 220 and 250.
I'd like to get a .375 H&H someday though . . . .
If it's faked, it will soon shake out.
That looks about twice the size of our local moose, but the moose also weigh 1000-1200 pounds.
Earlier threads (not easy to find for some reason)
Alabama Boy Kills 1,051-Pound Monster Pig, Bigger Than ‘Hogzilla’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1839860/posts
CAPTION THIS! [Hogzilla]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1839909/posts
“bo’ hog.”
Careful now. You’re getting close to forbidden language.
Here ya go, it was a Smith and Wesson witha few mods to it.
It is easy to see from this picture where all of that sausage will go. I do believe the boy killed a relative.
Comparing the two photos the first one appears the boy is kneeling and a little further away from the boar thus making the boar seem larger. When you compare it to the photo with son and dad they appear to be much closer to the boar thus making the boar not so outlandishly huge.
His dad is 6'-1, any way you look at it that is one BIG pig.
2 comments:
1- This story made it to local Chicago news today. 4 days after I first read it on FR.
2- I was shocked, SHOCKED I say, that the local Chicago news face did not have a single snide comment about an 11 year old kid using a handgun . . .
bwahahahahahaaaaa!
doesn’t this pig have an older sister who just quit on “The View” ?
Wow! He is enornmous, and the hog is big too!
Soak the meat in a baking soda solution to remove the boar taint. Works on venison, too.
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