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发帖数: 12995 | 6 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.
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 — 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
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."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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