ucciso hogzilla... gli scienziati si interrogano..

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pardon per l'inglese, ma credo basti vedere la foto

4 metri ... 500 chili di cinghiale selvatico.. come dimensione secondo solo a un elefante.

Alabama Boy Kills 1,051-Pound Monster Pig, Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'

Friday, May 25, 2007

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Jamison Stone, 11, poses with a wild pig he killed near Delta, Ala.

An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.
Jamison Stone's father says the hog his son killed weighed a 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'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.
Click here to see a big pic of the big pig.
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.
After seeing the pig in person, taxidermist Jerry Cunningham told The Anniston Star it was "the biggest thing I'd ever seen ... it's huge."
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The Anniston Star reported that the feral hog was weighed at the Clay County Farmer's Exchange in Lineville. Workers at the co-op verified that the basic truck scales used were recently certified by the state. But no workers from the co-op were present when the hog was weighed.
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.
"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."
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.
Through it all there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation of doing.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"I didn't quite understand that," he said.
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.
"It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said.
The hog's head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by 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.
Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said.
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.
The Anniston Star reported that congratulatory calls have come all the way from California, where Jamison appeared on a radio talk show. Jamison apparently has gotten words of congratulation from Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, country music star Kenny Chesney, Tom Knapp of Benelli firearms and Jerry Miculek of Smith & Wesson.
Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs.
"They are a little less dangerous."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


ne avevano già ucciso uno del genere nel 1998 sebbene più "piccolo" la National Geographics ci fece pure un docmumentario che dimostrò che il DNA della bestia è a metà tra il cinghiale e il maiale domenisto.. un incrocio forse... o un ibrido che arriva dall'età dei dinosauri...

non mancano cmq segnalazione di cinghiali abnormi nelle marche e in altre parti d'europa

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questo il caso precedente cui facevo riferimento.. e di cui gira un documentario

Hogzilla

Fact or Fiction?

UPDATE:

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Hogzilla is real. And now, he's real dead!

A team of National Geographic experts has confirmed south Georgia's monster hog, known to locals as Hogzilla, was indeed real -- and really, really big.
They also noted the super swine didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype generated when Hogzilla was caught on a farm last summer and photographed hanging from a backhoe.
Donning biohazard suits to exhume the behemoth's smelly remains, the experts estimated Hogzilla was probably only 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds.
The confirmation came in a documentary aired on the National Geographic Channel; it will be rebroadcast.
"He was an impressive beast. He was definitely a freak of nature," said documentary producer Nancy Donnelly.
She said Hogzilla's tusks -- one measuring nearly 18 inches and the other nearly 16 inches -- set a new Safari Club International North American free-range record.
That wasn't good enough for Ken Holyoak, owner of the 1,500-acre fish farm and hunting preserve where Hogzilla was shot by guide Chris Griffin.
"I need to stress that they did not have that much to work with, seeing as how the poor beast had been underground for nearly six months," he said.
Holyoak said Hogzilla weighed in at half a ton on his farm scales, and that he personally measured the hog's length at 12 feet while the freshly killed beast was dangling by straps from a backhoe.
"As with any organic being after death, tissues will decompose and the body will atrophy, making actual measurements change over time," Holyoak said. "Have you ever seen a raisin after it was a grape?"
Donnelly said the experts allowed for some shrinkage in making their final estimate.
Despite the dispute, this town 180 miles south of Atlanta has already adopted Hogzilla as its own. It went with a Hogzilla theme for its fall festival, with a parade featuring a Hogzilla princess, children in pink pig outfits and a float carrying a Hogzilla replica.
"Our insides were just bubbling," said Darlene Turner, who hosted a party to watch the documentary. "At first, I was afraid it might be an embarrassment. But now I wish everybody could see the documentary. It would take the doubt out of people's minds."

[Ibonz]

Minchia che bestia....

[Feliks]

e che cacchio di pistola c'aveva il ragazzino? una desert eagle coi proiettili al mercurio?

[Ibonz]

Una 44 magnum o una Auto-mag suppongo....

[marmalade]

assomiglia al grigio

[Generale gothic]

Ma che è, una mutazione genetica ?

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il grigio si rivede o no nella figura?

eeheheh

stavo pensando.. ma con le cinghialine come faceva?? ... altre foto




stasera spezzatino di cinghiale... per tutti.... (il paese da 20.000 persone.. ehehe)




l'arma su cui vi interrogate...

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a quanto pare ne hanno fatto salsicce...

Video Coming Soon - Hog is being mounted - Many witnesses - Sausage is all Gone

[pomponio leto]

a quanto pare ne hanno fatto salsicce...

Video Coming Soon - Hog is being mounted - Many witnesses - Sausage is all Gone

Ma se invece del video ci posti, che so, venti metri di salsicce?