From: "Geo." 

Yeah, "I ran to school and grabbed my 50 cal revolver from my locker
then shot the pig"..

Geo.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PBKB5G0&show_article=1&image=large
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> MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But
> the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regardless of the comparison, 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.
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> "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."
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> 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.
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> Through it all there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge
> them, as wild boars have a reputation of doing.
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "I didn't quite understand that," he said.
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> 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.
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> "It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once
> the story was out," he said.
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> The hog's head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Jerry
> 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.
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> "It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've
ever seen."
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> Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll
> probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said.
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> 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.
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> Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but
> he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs.
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> "They are a little less dangerous."
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