Jamison Stone’s Hogzilla Boar (You Must See This Picture)
“IT feels really good,” says Jamison, of Pickensville, posing beside Hogzilla. “It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
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.
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May 27th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Where is the story that he drugged the animal first?
May 27th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Stop it!!! Why is everyone being so hard him? It isn’t like he was alone. He was with his father and they had other people with them. This is their way of life. That is the problem with our world today, if “others” don’t approve of “your” way of life then they make a big fuss. Obviously he was safe and he was in the hands of more than one adult. If your read the article I believe it was atleast three adults that were armed and watching him closely. It is to bad that all boys out there don’t have father’s that are teaching them how to provide for their family. Did you happen to see how much food that that provided? He helped a lot of people, including his family. So in my book and in anyone elses that aren’t judging him the wrong way “Rock on MAN” Cause that is what you are. Anyone that supports his family like that is a real man.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am
These discussions are interesting, pretty much like boss telling programmers how programs are straight forward to write and programmers telling the boss how business are straight forward to run. then follow with some yada yada racial magic powder comments to complete a modern east vs west argument. Finally, someone pull the poverty card to conclude that hunting is wrong.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Thankyou Mr Howard for your insightful words. The polls will be swinging in your favour in no time.
That piglet marsupial is nothing compared to our razorbacks. Here’s an average sized one, no tricks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/19052164@N00/194315084/
Australians do things better and faster than any other nation on earth. Nothing better than popping off a few pigs and the odd roo or hundred, go to pub, have a few beers and forget about it. Get your hand off it America!
May 27th, 2007 at 8:46 am
it’ s photoshopped. compared to the boy, is at least 15 feet and 3000 pounds; a car-sized boar, and he’ d had to put the bullet RIGHT through its brain to kill such a beast. More, a boar like that would die under its weigh just stumbling
May 27th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Quote: “This is why the world mocks, and the rest of this great nation hates red-necks. This child is starting life with a wonderful set of values, and has no morals to speak of. This was one of God’s proud children, the boar not the boy, somehow hunters have the ability to take pride in murdering another animal. Shame on you all.”
I am a proud hunter. I use the meat to feed my family and the families of those less fortunate. Get off your high horse and come down with the real people.
You people bitcing about three hour chase have never hunted. Often an animal is shot and runs off to die. The hunter or murder as you like to call me, has to track the animal. Maybe this is what happened. It’s life. It’s happened for eons. Get over it. Live you life and I’ll live mine.
May 27th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Big hero. Not. Maybe I could deal with it better if it was a clean kill, but chasing it for three hours before putting it out of its misery? Sadism. Toto got it right…mindless little redneck!
May 27th, 2007 at 5:58 am
I am by no means an activist for the preservation of wild pigs, and i doubt anyone making negative comments about this kill actually are. I am just dissapointed that it is in mans nature (a young boy in this instance, which is even more disturbing) to kill/conquer/dominate all other species of life. And then try to justify it in one way or another. I mean “how dare the pig live out its life when it poses a threat to us humans??”. Its an impressive size boar, but why do we feel the need to kill such animals? To boast? Anyone who finds pleasure in doing this is a mindless redneck. The really sad thing is though, that killing this creature will be this boys greatest accomplishment in life. Your a real hero kid…Pathetic.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:42 am
This is why the world mocks, and the rest of this great nation hates red-necks. This child is starting life with a wonderful set of values, and has no morals to speak of. This was one of God’s proud children, the boar not the boy, somehow hunters have the ability to take pride in murdering another animal. Shame on you all.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:41 am
I just can not believe the blatant stupidity of some of you posters.
You have no clue of this boy’s accomplishment.
Of course, ignorance is bliss. And in your world, it’s quite alright to berate and belittle that which you don’t understand, or for some inane reason(?), doesn’t fit your idealistic view of the world.
Sounds like Rosie O’Donnell has a flock of sheeple at the ready to push her ANTI-anything mentality. It DOES hurt to think for yourself, and perhaps, become enlightened, doesn’t it?
Narrow-minded individuals never accomplish anything. But hey, that’s alright! Rosie and the ANTI’S will TELL you what to think and say.
Now, get in formation, and march in lock-step like good little sheep.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:28 am
6 + 9 = 15… in case you were wanderiong, monster pig !
May 27th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Why is everyone picking on this poor kid? If that pig wanted to, it could eat any human being it wanted to. If he chased it for three hours it couldn’t have been that old and out of shape ; otherwise wouldn’t he have gven up sooner? And what do you people think these animals are doing there to begin with? Didn’t they say it was a “commercial hunting reserve”, which means they are for hunting. And last I dont think the 500-700 pounds of hogzilla sausage the family is getting, is wating this animal, just for the fun of the game. These people are going to actually eat what this brave 11 year old killed. Wise up people and give the kid a break.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:17 am
I am from Sydney Australia and whilst I am not opposed at all to hunting of introduced species (feral animals) I do not agree with aggravated cruelty. The boar had taken eight .50 caliber bullets and was then followed for 3 hours when there were 2 (so called) professional guides there with high powered rifles that could have finished the job almost immediately. This is not a good advertisement for the noble hunter.
BTW Handguns are quite rare amongst the public in Australia and the idea of a n 11 year year old child with one is alarming to me.
Glad to hear that the meat will get eaten; not that it would be much good after 3 hour of torture but it’s better than leaving the carcass to rot.
Interested to see if the story is over exaggerated!
May 27th, 2007 at 3:52 am
On behalf of the citizens of Australia, may I extend my congratulations to Jamison Stone on his fantastic achievment in contributing to keep America and its allies safe from malignant sleeper cells lurking within the borders of our own sacred nations.
At a time when our common political opposition is attempting to draw attention to our apparent failures in Iraq, this successful slaying acts as a beacon of light for all of us who stand united for the cause of freedom, democracy, and the right to eat bacon on the Sabbath. However, as far as this being the largest wild boar to be killed on record, allow me to point out that firstly the Australian record for a similar creature was 3.2m from snout to tail-base, weighing in at 530kg (that’s 480 small-medium unstrung pinewood acoustic guitars). Additionally, the Australian Lord High Taxonimist, representing the national interest, has identified from the photograph that this is not actually a member of the Hog genus, but is indeed a giant wombat, as can be easily determined by measuring the proportions of the upper snout against the diameter of the near-side ear.
I am pleased to know that more American child soldiers are taking up arms of their own volition in the fight against Giant Wombat guerrilla cells. With sustained resistance it may one day be possible to completely wipe out foreign presences on the shores of our great nations, and indeed to avoid a repeat of the incredible injustice done to the good reputations of our citizens by such criminals as David Hicks, Mel Gibson, and indeed this nefarious character, Hogzilla.
Best wishes on behalf of Australia, may you and your countrymen continue taking the fight to the enemy. Remember, he is everywhere and nowhere.
Sincerely,
Hon. John Howard MP
May 27th, 2007 at 3:50 am
The pigs are probably having a similar discussion about humans, possibly about spoiled little american brats.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:24 am
**** Eric Says:
May 26th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
I’m moving to Canada. This is not a proud moment for an American!******
Great idea. There’s hardly any hunting in Canada.
****neil Says:
May 26th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Yes i am French
Thats why i had made love to more beautiful women than defenseless animals the average American male has killed.******
Time to run away squealing, Neal - I think I saw a German in the neighborhood.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Many people were raised hunting. Many in my family do- and we EAT what we hunt. It is much better than the crap in grocery stores and we know where our dead animals come from. Grossed out, vegheads? Oh well. This kid was rasied hunting- it is really no big deal. People are putting down this kid’s culture because they don’t understand it. Think about the bigotry of that. It’s part of a culture, just like ANY culture. I’ll bet many of the people who are appalled by this kid killing an animal would cringe if they heard someone putting down, say, African American culture or Vietnamese culture, etc. Hmmmm.
May 27th, 2007 at 1:32 am
LOL…………..I was just going along with the game. To all of you, I live in Alabama and I hunt, fish and play softball 12 months a year. Most of all……….I HUNT!! I think that was an awesome kill. Jamison lives about 2 hours from me. Couple of guys I work with belong to the same hunting club as the dad, his brother and Jamison. I just thought it would be funny to stir the pot. If you hunt and you live in BAMA and get the chance to bag a beast like this and you pass it up………you’re an idiot!!!
It was fun guys. Good day
Bryne
May 27th, 2007 at 1:26 am
People are so dumb, bitching about the .50 caliber???????!!!!!!!!!
HE TOOK 8 SHOTS AND STILL WASN’T DOWN!!
Gareth said:
“My main point, why is an 11 year old running around with a .50 cal. handgun. I’ve heard of hunting for sport, but with that? Come on.”
Now if this thing charged and gored the kid or some liberal granola muncher to death, all the pansy whiners would be calling for its head on a stick, and its chops on a plate… AND they would want the government to do it!!!!
city folk….
May 27th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Well…. im not from the US….
I cannot understand how an organization like the NRA can get so big…
If every idiot on this planet would do as everyone else there would be no more idiots… But as for the US… Everyone else seem to do like every idiot…
Kill the largest boar in the world… KING OF THE HILL!!!!!!!
get real!!!!
Kill the youngest hunter in the world?
Now THAT would be something!!!!!
So, the F B I, is this statement a crime?
T
he citizens of US believe they have done nothing wrong…
Of course they have not… (Most of them)
Not personally…
But their appointed leaders have…
In a democracy… Is it not the leaders “job” to do the work of the people who appointed them?
If you kill a person should you not go to jail?
No I say… You should be killed…
My 11 month son was killed by a drunk driver last week…
Do I think the drunk driver should go to jail?
You guess…
I’ve fed up with all “humane” laws… it’s time to “squeeze some balls”…
Killing a “record” boar is not a feat. It’s sad…
Jamison Stone, I hope you get killed in a car crash…
/The Idiot… or whatever….
Btw… The drunk driver will probably get about 6 months jail time here…
That’s standard practice in cases such as this…
Fair?
May 26th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Once again the coven of trolls circles around at the bidding of its PETA masters. Hunting is wildlife conservation in its purest form. I am not, nor have I ever been nor will I ever be a hunter but the good that hunters do outweighs the whines and cries of whiny, whimpering PETAphiles who scream that it is “cruel and unusual punishment” and “the poor thing must have suffered”. It is a 1000 lb hog, it does not know what suffering is(contrary to what your PETA puppet masters tell you) and it does not know when to quit eating.
As someone previously stated, an eleven year old with a .500 cal. handgun chasing down a hawg is much more logical and acceptable then an eight year old carrying an AK-47 chasing down a group of innocent villagers.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Bryne,
Do you have a problem with people killing rats? How about bugs? It is pretty much on the same level. These animals are considered pests in texas. They do not have limits or special hunting seasons on these animals. I bet if someone in the UK killed an 1100 lb rat, you probably wouldn’t be to upset about it.
Oh. . .by the way. Many wild hogs killed by land owners are donated to the “Hunters for the Hungry” program. Last year nearly 1 million pounds of meat was donated and distributed to feed the hungry by Hunters.
So. . . you go on complaining.
Maybe your negative attitude is a result of a protein deficiancy from not eating enough meat.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Way to go kid! You’ve done something governments around the world can’t do: Produce enough food to feed a hungry village.
Carve that bad boy up, glaze it with some honey and enjoy!
Also, for the naysayers, if you don’t like it, disconnect from the website and move on with your pitiful little lives.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
You’re all a bunch of gullible morons. Just like the original “hogzilla” story, this picture is photoshopped too. Take a look at the fake on the left (the one that’s being published) and the real one on the right. The size of the boy’s head in comparision to the tree behind him is proof the one on the left is a fake.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1131755/pig3.jpg
Grow up people. Once again the media makes up lies to you so they can earn more ad revenue.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Here is a local story from springfield, mo. newspaper:
Published Saturday, March 24, 2007
On his way to feed cattle on his ranch near Miller last spring, Jim McCann saw two critters with a wary reputation emerge from the brush.
“These two idiots ran out of the brush and just looked at me,” he said. “These two guys just stood there.”
He didn’t hesitate. He fired his .357 Magnum and bagged two feral hogs.
To any cattleman wanting to protect his herd, that’s the only way to react, McCann said.
“I highly encourage anyone out there, if they see one, kill it,” he said. “Don’t shoot at it; kill it.”
That’s what state law allows and what the Missouri Department of Conservation has encouraged to decrease the spread of feral hogs, now estimated to number up to 10,000 in the state. A 2003 News-Leader story put the number at 5,000.
Much of the feral hog population is concentrated in southwest Missouri, the Missouri Department of Conservation has found. The number of animals —they are intelligent, long-lived and prolific breeders —is growing faster than landowners and hunters can handle, so Conservation and Department of Agriculture officials are creating an arsenal of hog-fighting techniques, including enlisting hunters using a helicopter to detect and hunt feral hog herds.
Feral hogs — whether domestic hogs that have gone wild, Russian boars released for hunting or hybrids — are blamed for causing environmental damage and competing for food with deer and turkey.
But the main reason for wanting to cut the wild hog population in Missouri is to reduce health threats to livestock, conservation and agriculture officials say.
Wild hogs pose a threat to domestic swine and cattle herds because they carry a variety of diseases that can infect livestock, state veterinarian Taylor Woods said.
“What really, really makes the feral hog dangerous is it can carry pseudorabies and brucellosis,” he said.
A brucellosis outbreak caused by feral hogs would endanger Missouri’s brucellosis-free status and would have economic consequences, he said.
Caused by the brucella bacteria, brucellosis in cattle, swine and other animals can cause loss of milk production, reproductive problems and lameness. It can also infect humans exposed to infected milk or meat, causing flulike symptoms. It is known as undulant fever when it infects humans.
“It only takes one infected hog getting next to one of our commercial units, and we’ve got a problem,” he said.
Lawrence County rancher McCann agrees feral hogs pose a serious threat to livestock health.
Wild hogs can infect cows with swine brucellosis, and that could result in a 90-day quarantine for an infected herd, said McCann, a board member of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association. He added he’s learned wild hogs also can carry other diseases.
“If it got to be a point of their passing on some other things, you might lose a whole herd,” he said. “Financially, that would put me out of business.”
And while he was tempted to harvest meat from the hogs he shot, he decided not to after learning the chances of infection from raw meat are serious enough that hunters are advised to wear rubber gloves while dressing out a wild hog.
Curtailing the spread of wild hogs has prompted Missouri to adopt eradication methods used by other states, particularly Kansas.
That includes recruiting a U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service team that uses a helicopter to hunt hogs.
While the Missouri Conservation Commission heard about the plan last Friday, the APHIS crew took to the air last weekend, Conservation Private Lands Section chief Steve Wilson said. The hunters flew over Schell Osage Conservation Area near Nevada and and the Settles Ford Wildlife Area in Bates County.
“The only hogs they located were on private property,” Wilson said. “We have not made arrangements to harvest those hogs from property we do not have permission to be on.”
One flight that didn’t net any hogs shouldn’t be discouraging, an official with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Park said.
On Monday, airborne sharpshooters armed with 12-gauge shotguns firing with deer slug shells shot 33 wild hogs on public land around Clinton Lake, KDWP regional law enforcement supervisor Rob Ladner said.
“We thought that was pretty good,” he said.
The technique calls for precise flying and shooting, said Ladner, who watched helicopter hunts.
“Just right on treetop level,” he said of how far the helicopter hovers above the ground. “It’s amazing, They just sit up there, and get going.”
Statewide, the team has killed 240 animals, he said.
But shooting wild hogs using a helicopter has meant an end to public hunting of wild hogs in Kansas, other than to allow landowners to protect their property.
“What we found out about the hogs is when you hunt them, it disburses them and they adapt to hunting pressure by becoming nocturnal,” Ladner said. “They learn real quick.”
Since the hunting ban was enacted in 2006, herds that scattered onto private land have tended to return to public land, making it easier for the hunting team to go after them, he said.
There are no plans to change the current shoot-on-site hunting rule for hunters in Missouri, Wilson said.
“I would say we’re on the very front end of looking at the regulation side of the issue,” he said.
With trees leafing out quickly, helicopter hunting will end soon, Wilson said. The effort will resume later this year. Instead of using a helicopter, the department will start trapping wild hogs to use as “Judas pigs” and could start using tracking dogs, Wilson said.
Judas pigs are animals that are trapped, fitted with a radio transmitter, then released to return to their herds, Wilson said.
That makes tracking herds easier, he said.
And Conservation and Agriculture will do more than hunt wild pigs, Wilson said.
The fight will include pursuing people who release pigs for hunting.
That’s currently a misdemeanor, but it is difficult to prosecute because it involves holding an administrative hearing, Wilson said.
He expects a proposal to toughen the penalty will be ready to go to the state legislature by next session, he said.
Rancher McCann said that would be a good move in the minds of many livestock farmers.
“What we’d like to have is a class four felony for dumping those things,” he said. “Those things are just walking virus factories.”
May 26th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Here is a story in the local Springfield Newspaper, Published Saturday, March 24, 2007
On his way to feed cattle on his ranch near Miller last spring, Jim McCann saw two critters with a wary reputation emerge from the brush.
“These two idiots ran out of the brush and just looked at me,” he said. “These two guys just stood there.”
He didn’t hesitate. He fired his .357 Magnum and bagged two feral hogs.
To any cattleman wanting to protect his herd, that’s the only way to react, McCann said.
“I highly encourage anyone out there, if they see one, kill it,” he said. “Don’t shoot at it; kill it.”
That’s what state law allows and what the Missouri Department of Conservation has encouraged to decrease the spread of feral hogs, now estimated to number up to 10,000 in the state. A 2003 News-Leader story put the number at 5,000.
Much of the feral hog population is concentrated in southwest Missouri, the Missouri Department of Conservation has found. The number of animals —they are intelligent, long-lived and prolific breeders —is growing faster than landowners and hunters can handle, so Conservation and Department of Agriculture officials are creating an arsenal of hog-fighting techniques, including enlisting hunters using a helicopter to detect and hunt feral hog herds.
Feral hogs — whether domestic hogs that have gone wild, Russian boars released for hunting or hybrids — are blamed for causing environmental damage and competing for food with deer and turkey.
But the main reason for wanting to cut the wild hog population in Missouri is to reduce health threats to livestock, conservation and agriculture officials say.
Wild hogs pose a threat to domestic swine and cattle herds because they carry a variety of diseases that can infect livestock, state veterinarian Taylor Woods said.
“What really, really makes the feral hog dangerous is it can carry pseudorabies and brucellosis,” he said.
A brucellosis outbreak caused by feral hogs would endanger Missouri’s brucellosis-free status and would have economic consequences, he said.
Caused by the brucella bacteria, brucellosis in cattle, swine and other animals can cause loss of milk production, reproductive problems and lameness. It can also infect humans exposed to infected milk or meat, causing flulike symptoms. It is known as undulant fever when it infects humans.
“It only takes one infected hog getting next to one of our commercial units, and we’ve got a problem,” he said.
Lawrence County rancher McCann agrees feral hogs pose a serious threat to livestock health.
Wild hogs can infect cows with swine brucellosis, and that could result in a 90-day quarantine for an infected herd, said McCann, a board member of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association. He added he’s learned wild hogs also can carry other diseases.
“If it got to be a point of their passing on some other things, you might lose a whole herd,” he said. “Financially, that would put me out of business.”
And while he was tempted to harvest meat from the hogs he shot, he decided not to after learning the chances of infection from raw meat are serious enough that hunters are advised to wear rubber gloves while dressing out a wild hog.
Curtailing the spread of wild hogs has prompted Missouri to adopt eradication methods used by other states, particularly Kansas.
That includes recruiting a U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service team that uses a helicopter to hunt hogs.
While the Missouri Conservation Commission heard about the plan last Friday, the APHIS crew took to the air last weekend, Conservation Private Lands Section chief Steve Wilson said. The hunters flew over Schell Osage Conservation Area near Nevada and and the Settles Ford Wildlife Area in Bates County.
“The only hogs they located were on private property,” Wilson said. “We have not made arrangements to harvest those hogs from property we do not have permission to be on.”
One flight that didn’t net any hogs shouldn’t be discouraging, an official with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Park said.
On Monday, airborne sharpshooters armed with 12-gauge shotguns firing with deer slug shells shot 33 wild hogs on public land around Clinton Lake, KDWP regional law enforcement supervisor Rob Ladner said.
“We thought that was pretty good,” he said.
The technique calls for precise flying and shooting, said Ladner, who watched helicopter hunts.
“Just right on treetop level,” he said of how far the helicopter hovers above the ground. “It’s amazing, They just sit up there, and get going.”
Statewide, the team has killed 240 animals, he said.
But shooting wild hogs using a helicopter has meant an end to public hunting of wild hogs in Kansas, other than to allow landowners to protect their property.
“What we found out about the hogs is when you hunt them, it disburses them and they adapt to hunting pressure by becoming nocturnal,” Ladner said. “They learn real quick.”
Since the hunting ban was enacted in 2006, herds that scattered onto private land have tended to return to public land, making it easier for the hunting team to go after them, he said.
There are no plans to change the current shoot-on-site hunting rule for hunters in Missouri, Wilson said.
“I would say we’re on the very front end of looking at the regulation side of the issue,” he said.
With trees leafing out quickly, helicopter hunting will end soon, Wilson said. The effort will resume later this year. Instead of using a helicopter, the department will start trapping wild hogs to use as “Judas pigs” and could start using tracking dogs, Wilson said.
Judas pigs are animals that are trapped, fitted with a radio transmitter, then released to return to their herds, Wilson said.
That makes tracking herds easier, he said.
And Conservation and Agriculture will do more than hunt wild pigs, Wilson said.
The fight will include pursuing people who release pigs for hunting.
That’s currently a misdemeanor, but it is difficult to prosecute because it involves holding an administrative hearing, Wilson said.
He expects a proposal to toughen the penalty will be ready to go to the state legislature by next session, he said.
Rancher McCann said that would be a good move in the minds of many livestock farmers.
“What we’d like to have is a class four felony for dumping those things,” he said. “Those things are just walking virus factories.”
May 26th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
The intensity of negative responses to the kid who shot the boar is mystifying. If one is a sincere vegetarian who believes eating meat is morally wrong, I can see an objection. And if one is getting this upset about this boar, what more outrage do you have left for something really serious - like the hundreds of thousands of children being killed in wars in sub-Saharan Africa, or even greater numbers of genocide victims in Sudan, or the numbers of Arabs being killed by other Arabs?
But hunting for food, or to control the population of nuisance non-native animals, is something that mankind has done from the very beginning. This is no more wrong than for the Masai to kill lions who prey on their cattle, or for other hunter-gatherers to kill rabbits or deer for food. And it is more humane than killing cattle or chickens - or commercial fish. And why should it be wrong to kill a boar which is very destructive to the native environment, but not wrong to kill a rat?
Just because the meat you eat comes shrink wrapped and sliced, does not mean that some animal did not give its life for your nourishment.
As for the objection of an 11 year old hunting, that is common in rural areas where gun safety is emphasized from a very early age. And common in hunter-gatherer societies too: Native American children hunted with deadly bows and arrows. An adolescent raised in a hunting envirornment and taught gun safety is a safer individual than urban dwellers who listen to the hate-filled lyrics of rap music.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
I say way to go kid. Way to go Jamison. I can just imagine the rut that boar could make. Too bad it wasn’t that much weight in sows and babies that he killed. I say come on down to Texas and kill all the wild hogs you want.
To all the anti-gun, anti-hunting wussies, wild hogs aren’t really a part of our ecosytem. They are a product of a bunch of morons who thought it would be fun to hunt domestic hogs. Hence, this is why this hog got so big, it’s domestic gone wild.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Read the following
http://www.mdc.mo.gov/landown/wild/nuisance/hogs/
http://www.mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2006/12/vantage.htm
http://texnat.tamu.edu/symposia/feral/feral-23.htm
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070324/NEWS01/703240371/0/BREAKING01
Here is part of the last link:
On Monday, airborne sharpshooters armed with 12-gauge shotguns firing with deer slug shells shot 33 wild hogs on public land around Clinton Lake, KDWP regional law enforcement supervisor Rob Ladner said.
“We thought that was pretty good,” he said.
The technique calls for precise flying and shooting, said Ladner, who watched helicopter hunts.
“Just right on treetop level,” he said of how far the helicopter hovers above the ground. “It’s amazing, They just sit up there, and get going.”
Statewide, the team has killed 240 animals, he said.
But shooting wild hogs using a helicopter has meant an end to public hunting of wild hogs in Kansas, other than to allow landowners to protect their property.
“What we found out about the hogs is when you hunt them, it disburses them and they adapt to hunting pressure by becoming nocturnal,” Ladner said. “They learn real quick.”
It’s a little reading but NOT B.S.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Gotta go guys……….just saw some fat lady walking in my neighborhood minding her own business. No sense in letting her live…………she’s a biggun!!