Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Wild Hogs? Hogzilla? Jerry's Taxidermy?

Although Wild Hogs is still clinging to the 10th spot (can you believe that shit?!?)…that’s not what I’m talking about.
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.

"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."

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.

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.

The hog's head is being mounted by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy. Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said.

Just in time for the 4th of July....who doesn't love sausage?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

is that Karpuk?

Anonymous said...

is that Bob Hayes?

Anonymous said...

is that Rosie O'Donnell?

Anonymous said...

is that Jerry O'Connell?

Anonymous said...

is that Elizabeth Hasselbeck?

Anonymous said...

Ham sandwiches for all!!!!

Anonymous said...

some pig!

Anonymous said...

Dime Bag does not dig on swine

Anonymous said...

That would make some nice sausage.