Meet Monster Pig.
An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that 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 in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 foot long.
Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig, which is generating quite an Internet buzz.
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I don't know about this one. The pig could have been Photoshoped. I watched the CNN report and one of the animal experts said hogs this size are rare in the Americas. He also said they do not have good eye site and rely on smell and sound. So, the odds of this boy sneaking up on the hog is slim. The hog would have avoided him.
He also said they hunt at night.
It makes for some interesting discussion.
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