This is no Hogzilla: meet Monster Pig
You are probably familiar with the internet phenomenon and ensuing controversy that was HOGZILLA, now being made into a movie, The Legend of Hogzilla. If not, never mind, cause Hogzilla is a pig of the past. Meet Monster Pig.
Feral pigs are a bit of an ever spreading problem in the US, especially in the southeastern states, where they root up all sorts of vegetation and serious cause ecological damage. Occasionally defying all odds, they even manage to reach these monstrous proportions. I’ll tell you, I would not wanna come accross this Monster Pig in the woods. I would cry for my Mama.
This feral hog, Monster Pig, weighing in at over 1050 pounds, measured 9 feet 4 inches from snout to the base of the tail. This hog was shot on a commercial hunting preserve by 11-year old Jamison Stone. Jamison apparently shot the hog 8 times with a .50 caliber revolver, chasing the hog for 3 hours through the woods, before finishing it off point blank. His best quote: “It feels really good. It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
Monster Pig’s enormous head is currently being mounted and the rest is being ground into 500-700 lbs of “Monster” Sausage. As a nice end to this story, Jamison has been offered a small role in the The Legend of Hogzilla. I look forward to it.
While we on the subject of enormous hogs, check out the bottom of the wikipedia article on Monster Pig where you can read about other huge pigs like Coursey Hog, Hog Kong, Big Bill and Ton Pig.
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Monster pig is indeed extraordinary. But as has been pointed out elsewhere (snopes? boingboing? can’t remember), this picture is a tad misleading: the guy is standing back away from the hog, and then posing to look like he’s leaning on the thing. He’s not. The other pictures of the kill show it in a more realistic (but still gi-normous) proportion.
I didn’t realize the clever photo manupulation. Good call on that. Definitely the beast is huge. I just read about snopes, and it appears that there is another controversy about the pig being raise as a “pet” by a breeder and sold to the hunting preserve to be hunted. Crazy!