Age 11 - Open Carry

allesennogwat · 05-26-2007, 12:43 PM

Boy, 11, bags hog bigger than 'Hogzilla'

By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press

Sat May 26

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old 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 long.
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.

"It feels really good," Jamison 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 Monster Pig. 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 for doing.

"I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who lives in Pickensville on the Mississippi border. He 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 animal 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, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.

Kinder's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Mike Stone said it balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark.

"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 being mounted by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy. 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."

allesennogwat · 05-26-2007, 12:44 PM

n 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.

gunbug · 05-26-2007, 01:00 PM

That looks like a furry dinosaur.

Good job!

sjohnson · 05-26-2007, 01:06 PM

Huge beast, but that camera angle makes the hog nearly 20 feet long and probably closer to 3 ton. Big is big, no need for them to have exagerated the size.

Shot on a game farm, I'd bet that porker has been almost hand-fed. 500 pounds would be huge for a real wild boar.

pickleweedpete · 05-26-2007, 01:50 PM

Right, sjohnson. The kid must be a runt. Still, if (if) we can believe Mr. Pig measured 11 inches from his eyes to the end of his snout then nine feet 4 inches from end to end looks entirely possible to me.

mmckown · 05-26-2007, 02:47 PM

(Yawn) I've shot bigger squirrels in my back yard with a bent barrel BB gun.

Yeah....Riiggghhht.

I can't imagine looking down the barrel of a pistol at something that size! Now give me a .50BMG and a couple hundred yards to play with and I'm still not sure I'd pull the trigger. I'd be thinking "Geez, what if I just piss it off?"

pickleweedpete · 05-26-2007, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmckown

I can't imagine looking down the barrel of a pistol at something that size! Now give me a .50BMG and a couple hundred yards to play with and I'm still not sure I'd pull the trigger. I'd be thinking "Geez, what if I just piss it off?"

Yah, I would've been up the nearest tree real fast. That is an enormous pig, and it's almost as ugly as Rosie too.

partymember · 05-26-2007, 10:39 PM

i've seen black bears smaler than that...

i've always thought a 10-shot semi-auto 45-70 carbine would be a great gun...i now have justification for such a rifle looking at this beast.

crimsomecraze · 05-27-2007, 01:12 AM

Who makes a ten shot 45-70 carbine? I want one. Oh yeah thats a big pig!

partymember · 05-27-2007, 01:22 AM

oh, its a nonexistant gun. I guess the cogs in my cranium make it

6526 · 05-27-2007, 03:13 AM

1 of the guys made a .444 marlin AK based on a siaga .410,,,,,that would be the ticket

pickleweedpete · 05-27-2007, 12:29 PM

Yeah, I'd feel a lot bolder with a 45-70 AK in my hands. The old 45-70 is a very long cartridge, but I guess it's no longer than the .444 Marlin.

snakebyte · 05-30-2007, 01:55 PM

That big bastard came at me, I would have shit, then emptied whatever gun I had with me into it. Kid's got balls!

05-26-2007, 12:43 PM	#1
allesennogwat Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 3738 Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 32,201	Age 11 - Open Carry Boy, 11, bags hog bigger than 'Hogzilla' By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Sat May 26 MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old 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 long. 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. "It feels really good," Jamison 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 Monster Pig. 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 for doing. "I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who lives in Pickensville on the Mississippi border. He 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 animal 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, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog. Kinder's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Mike Stone said it balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark. "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 being mounted by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy. 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." __________________ Daraclor: A brand of anti-malaria pills which we had to drink every week while on the border. Legend had it that these would make you turn yellow and that you wouldn't be able to tan.

05-26-2007, 12:44 PM	#2
allesennogwat Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 3738 Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 32,201	n 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. __________________ Daraclor: A brand of anti-malaria pills which we had to drink every week while on the border. Legend had it that these would make you turn yellow and that you wouldn't be able to tan.

05-26-2007, 01:06 PM	#4
sjohnson Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 6585 Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,799	Huge beast, but that camera angle makes the hog nearly 20 feet long and probably closer to 3 ton. Big is big, no need for them to have exagerated the size. Shot on a game farm, I'd bet that porker has been almost hand-fed. 500 pounds would be huge for a real wild boar. __________________

05-26-2007, 10:39 PM	#8
partymember Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 5600 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: ass Posts: 9,180	i've seen black bears smaler than that... i've always thought a 10-shot semi-auto 45-70 carbine would be a great gun...i now have justification for such a rifle looking at this beast. __________________ Vinland Uber Alles

05-27-2007, 01:22 AM	#10
partymember Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 5600 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: ass Posts: 9,180	oh, its a nonexistant gun. I guess the cogs in my cranium make it __________________ Vinland Uber Alles

05-26-2007, 01:00 PM	#3
gunbug Member AKaholic #: 4444 Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 295	That looks like a furry dinosaur. Good job!

05-26-2007, 01:50 PM	#5
pickleweedpete Veteran Member AKaholic #: 2211 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Utah Posts: 1,010	Right, sjohnson. The kid must be a runt. Still, if (if) we can believe Mr. Pig measured 11 inches from his eyes to the end of his snout then nine feet 4 inches from end to end looks entirely possible to me.

05-26-2007, 02:47 PM	#6
mmckown Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor AKaholic #: 8219 Join Date: May 2007 Location: dead, buried Posts: 2,009	(Yawn) I've shot bigger squirrels in my back yard with a bent barrel BB gun. Yeah....Riiggghhht. I can't imagine looking down the barrel of a pistol at something that size! Now give me a .50BMG and a couple hundred yards to play with and I'm still not sure I'd pull the trigger. I'd be thinking "Geez, what if I just piss it off?"

05-27-2007, 01:12 AM	#9
crimsomecraze Member AKaholic #: 7552 Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 166	Who makes a ten shot 45-70 carbine? I want one. Oh yeah thats a big pig!

05-27-2007, 03:13 AM	#11
6526 Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 3433 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: southwest WI Posts: 4,874	1 of the guys made a .444 marlin AK based on a siaga .410,,,,,that would be the ticket

05-27-2007, 12:29 PM	#12
pickleweedpete Veteran Member AKaholic #: 2211 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Utah Posts: 1,010	Yeah, I'd feel a lot bolder with a 45-70 AK in my hands. The old 45-70 is a very long cartridge, but I guess it's no longer than the .444 Marlin.

05-30-2007, 01:55 PM	#13
snakebyte Veteran Member AKaholic #: 6845 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: MICHIGAN Posts: 1,317	That big bastard came at me, I would have shit, then emptied whatever gun I had with me into it. Kid's got balls! __________________ Work harder! Millions on welfare depend on you!

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