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.
SISTER IS A DOUBTING THOMAS.
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
5 comments:
One could feed a whole army with that thing! Do you think it's a real picture? Hard to believe there would be wild hog that big! Sheesh!!
This picture has been altered...is my thinking. Sis 3
My husband was telling me about this earlier today. He heard it on an Atlanta news station. Wouldn't they check it out? Anyway it's several hundred pounds heavier than the one calle "hogzilla" that was killed in south Ga.
And to think that wild hog was in Alabama instead of Arkansas. It's just not right!
I'm a Doubting Thomas, too. It's a real stretch to believe that if the boar is as big as they say, it could be killed with a hand gun. Seems to me it would take more fire power than that.
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