Alabama boy shoots 1000 lb, 9 ft. wild boar

WBIR.com ^ | 5-25-07 | Unknown

[Renfield]

An Alabama boy has used his revolver on an enormous wild boar, killing the animal and sending the youngster on his way to 15 minutes of fame. Or more.Advertisement

Jamison Stone, 11, used a .50 caliber revolver to kill the pig at a commercial hunting preserve in east Alabama about three weeks ago. Stone, his father and two guides tracked the pig, but bagging the swine took about three hours of chasing through hilly woods before a final shot at point blank range brought it down for good.

Stone's father, Mike Stone, says the animal weighed more than a thousand pounds and was more than nine feet long. The tusks measured five inches. It took heavy equipment to transport the animal out of the woods. The head went to a taxidermist. The rest is headed for the sausage factory. The Stones could net 500 to 700 pounds of sausage meat.

If the claims are accurate, the trophy boar eclipses Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions before it was killed in south Georgia in 2004.

The young hunter is headed for the network morning shows and the silver screen. Hogzilla is the subject of a movie and Stone has been offered a small part in the film, "The Legend of Hogzilla."

[Carling]

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)

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[pax_et_bonum]

Ping!

(Photo at post #21!)

[Beagle8U]

All the other stories were all over the news too. It may be true, who knows.

[AnAmericanMother]

The impression I got from the interview was that it was a complete surprise. Nobody knew this big old guy was out there.

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 . . . .

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, seems like a lot of trouble to go through for a fakery. And it would have to be a fraud, not just an internet rumor, since there are photos, witnesses, etc.

If it's faked, it will soon shake out.

[RightWhale]

That looks about twice the size of our local moose, but the moose also weigh 1000-1200 pounds.

[Boundless]

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

[Temüjin]

Here's one.

[billhilly]

“bo’ hog.”

Careful now. You’re getting close to forbidden language.

[Abathar]

Here ya go, it was a Smith and Wesson witha few mods to it.

[billhilly]

It is easy to see from this picture where all of that sausage will go. I do believe the boy killed a relative.

[zeaal]

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.

[Abathar]

His dad is 6'-1, any way you look at it that is one BIG pig.

[Petruchio]

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 . . .

[Melinator]

bwahahahahahaaaaa!

[mad_as_he$$]

It a lie. Go to monsterpig.com and look at the tractor photo on the lower right. Either that is a VERY big tractor with a VERY big driver or that is a normal sized feral pig.

[advertising guy]

doesn’t this pig have an older sister who just quit on “The View” ?

[School of Rational Thought]

Wow! He is enornmous, and the hog is big too!

[Neville72]

The real Hogzilla

[Mountain Troll]

Soak the meat in a baking soda solution to remove the boar taint. Works on venison, too.