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.

National Geographic experts who unearthed Hogzilla's remains believe the animal weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.

Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with his father 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.

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.

It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange , where they used a scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.

The scale measures only to the nearest 10, but it balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark.

The hog's head is being mounted at Jerry's Taxidermy. He 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.

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.

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wild hogs are dangerous and bad for the enviroment...that's a big one!

OMG, is that real ?? How can a hog grow so big ?? Amazing.....

I just saw a picture of it on the news..it's gigantic!

man thats friggen crazy,,,one of the guys i work with hunts hogs to clear out deer hunting camp because they root up everything and eat all the corn,,,ive heard stories of them shooting a hog with a 12guage in the face and it just got mad an ran off.(they killed older hogs and seen the scars from other gunshots)...i know grown men that would have been scared to death to even shoot at that thing..brave kid

Along with a picture of the boy and the hog, the headline in my paper is reading "Jurassic Pork"

Evolution at work folks.

Here's some pictures:

Monster Pig

I'd like to know where the original owners got this pig from?!! Where do they grow like that!!?

I heard that the pig is fake and just a promotion for the new movie HogZilla. And that picture, well on MSN Video they had an interview with Jack Hannah and he stated that the picture is photoshopped.

it's fake.

http://66.226.75.96/pig/

the whole story disgusted me, although i'm not exactly sure how much of it is true, since the picture was obviously photoshopped.

i hope that "hogzilla" movie flops.

would be more interesting if the hog charged and sucessfully disarmed the sport killers.

What's even sadder is that the pig:

1. Was shot in a hunting reserve where it could be stalked at leisure
2. It was a domesticated hog that had just recently been sold or given to the reserve by a guy who didn't want it anymore.
3. Died an agonizing death that took over three hours as it was shot many times tracked and shot again, and again.

^yup.

as a mom, i also find it disturbing that this kid was 5 years old the first time he went hunting. in my humble opinion, a child that young- not only doesn't have a real grasp on the concept of life and death- but is also being allowed to wield a deadly weapon. i just find that very unsettling. not to mention the kid's getting all this media attention for this supposed "monster pig".

i don't know too much about hunting either, but i find it very strange that they were using handguns. seems to me like their whole intention was to kill something just for kicks.

Well judging by the pics the guys really didn't look like the most sporty, athletic hunters in the world. Apparently they had guides so it's possible they didn't know that much about hunting anyway...I mean, like roxie said, handguns for hunting? Don't think they usually use handguns...at least my grandpa didn't and he hunted for all his life. So, maybe those guys were just there for the thrill of the kill. I just hope the story about how the killing went, you know the 3 hour chase, isn't true. It might very well be a heavily glorified version, you know, for Hogzilla

There must be /way/ different hunting in Finland than there was where I grew up in the South.
I never once saw a "sporty, athletic hunter". Now, "drunk" I saw. "Obese" I saw.

--Jaylemurph

PS: And no, I'm not making gross cultural stereotypes; there were plenty of average guys who hunted. Just none at the peak of physical condition.