An 11 year old boy killed a giant will hog estimated to weigh over 1,000 pounds. It measured over 9 feet in length.
“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.
I think it’s a shame that something like this had to be killed. What makes this especially bad is that it was killed for some kid’s amusement. For the perverse pleasure in killing something. Couldn’t he just play video games? Instead he has to pump eight 50 cal bullets into a truly rare animal and then chase it for three hours to finish it off.
It’s both sadistic and cruel.
Steve
/ May 29, 2007I’m disgusted by this too, and it really reminds me of a trip my best friend and I took with my Dad and my brother to a hunting resort in Tennessee about three years ago. It was the kind of place where they guide you right up to the animals (various species of deer, buffalo, rams, hogs, etc.), most of which are so tame they barely know enough to run from the camo-clad redneck with the rifle in his hand.
I didn’t bring a gun, and I found the place offensive and totally contrary to what I always understood about hunting, not to mention the principles of fairness. Jimmy (my best friend) and I took a walk our second or third day there and passed one of the other guys in our group who was with his ten year-old son in a fenced-in pen with several rams. The kid had a gun and was creeping up on one particular ram, while the father whispered him encouragement. Here was a small boy with a firearm, cornering a wild animal in a pen, being encouraged by his father to execute it at point-blank range. The thought of it still turns my stomach.
I haven’t hunted in years and have no desire to ever again, but I’ve known and admired people in my life who are hunters and who do it in a humane and conscientious way, who don’t riddle their game full of bullets, and who don’t pay thousands of dollars to bypass the hassle of actually having to employ skill and HUNT something, so they can just walk up and shoot the animal of their choice. It’s barbaric and bloodthirsty, and anyone who would take any amount of pride in something like that should be ashamed of themselves, and I must unfortunately include my brother and father in that category, since they’ve both gone to that place for the last several years and come back with some trophy or another.
Little Jamison’s father ought to be teaching him better than this.
Renez
/ December 7, 2007whats wrong with people from Alabama?
Derek
/ March 5, 2008“Instead he has to pump eight 50 cal bullets into a truly rare animal and then chase it for three hours to finish it off.”
Its not a rare animal. Its a ferrell pig. Basically you let an ordinary farm pig roam around and forage for its own food and it gets huge. They are actually a huge problem if they are let loose like this one was, as they are known to destroy several species of plants and charge/kill other mammals. They also completely ravage crops for you vegetarians. Wild boars and ferrell hogs have no hunt limit, as they are basically listed as a kos animal by the DNR. Also that kid is lucky to have a Dad that takes him out hunting like this, instead of planting him in front of a tv to play videogames.
Rick
/ March 5, 2008Derek wrote:
That is when he’s not taking him to his banjo lessons or teaching him how to make moonshine in the bathtub.
It turns out this ferrell pig was really a farm raised family pet named Fred.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Pig
The boy killed someone’s pet giant pig! So yeah, it would have been much better if he was at home parked in front of the TV playing Halo 3. GIT-R-DONE!!!!
Ryan O'Hara
/ March 6, 2008“They are actually a huge problem if they are let loose like this one was, as they are known to destroy several species of plants and charge/kill other mammals.”
Sounds like a human to me. And yet it would be illegal for me to pop 8 bullets into Alabama’s answer to Dennis the Menace.
Ben Skinner
/ November 2, 2008An ancient rite of passage, father-son hunting was usually one of the markers of manhood, and progress through life, as well as our relitivley recent dominance of the rest of the animal kingdom.
However, this is when we are talking about ancient peoples, who found meaning in their lives in very different ways than we do, and, let’s not forget, HAD to hunt if they wated to eat. This continuing sub-culture based in blood has nothing to do with our ancestors, and there is no skill or bravery involved… the only element left from those wild times, the only thing in our racial memory that drives these throwbacks on to kill another “ferrell pig” (There are dictionaries online now and everything), is dominance. They must dominate. And since their minds are far too weak to dominate their fellow humans, they use force to dominate less defended animals.
If society ended tomorrow, do you really doubt that the hardcore hunters would shoot you? That their reguard for human life would extend beyond their legal and social obligations? (Which have just been wiped awaqy by that cloud of fallout). They are dangerous animals, and should be removed from our genepool as genetically redundant and potentially hazardous.
ambika shukla
/ December 1, 2008What a disgusting father-son duo. That is not a monster pig , it is a monster child grinning over a corpse and claiming killing as an accomplishment. Hunting is cruel and cowardly and deserves to be completely banned, the way it is in India.
Alex
/ March 10, 2009Oh, give me a break with all these tears for a feral hog that apparently lived a long and happy life – it must have taken close to a decade to get that big, and that’s many times the life expectancy of a domesticated hog.
If you really want something to be outraged about follow the life cycle of a domesticated animal from birth to the slaughterhouse. Death comes to us all, and if I were an animal I’d rather live wild and take 8 shots at the end of the road, than end up in a slaughterhouse after a short, miserable life.
I’m an omnivore, so I’m not just bashing meat eaters, and don’t get me started on the vegans. Mice, moles, insects, birds, etc… are killed by the hundreds of thousands each planting season by the machinery or poisoned by the during the season in order to provide us with grains & vegetables, yet they maintain that a vegetarian diet is cruelty free. Unfortunately, in order for one creature to live, another must die. Sucks, but it’s true.
Wanda Murline
/ August 23, 2009I would like to kill every ferrell hog in the state of Texas. We have a ranch with hay pastures and a grass strip for an airplane. The hogs are tearing up everything. We catch them and send them to a hunting ranch, and 100 more replace them. They are a real nuisance and cause a lot of damage. The cost of repairing a good hay pasture is astronomical, not to mention the air strip. We have so many that I would gladly invite this young man, his father and as many hunters and dogs that would like to come here and irridicate these hogs.
I Hate Liberals
/ November 1, 2009I love the “-Tard” who wrote this article about the kid. The guy/girl (I could care less) is the same kind of $#!T head that complains about damn near everything just to complain. Probably the same type of dumb $#!T liberal that is pro-abortion, but is against the death penalty. The same type of dumb $#!T metro-sexual who drives his/her “electric” car around spouting off about how wonderful it is to not use fossil fuel – because that electricity is made from the acres of jelly bean fields in the land of Narnia!
The kid is outdoors learning to hunt – a valuable skill when you actually live off of the land. “For his amusement…should be watching T.V.”? Kinda like the overweight, starved for attention, California-leftist butterfly humping @$$#0les that write up stupid blogs like this one. Come time for “Armageddon”, and electricity is no where to be found. Your stupid @$$ is going to starve, while kids like this are killing food and surviving! God I can’t wait for that day!
Bentcorner
/ November 1, 2009Which is it? Do you love me or hate me?
Most of what you said is so incredibly stupid, I’ll just let it go, but I would ask you in the future that if you feel the need to use profanity, to go ahead and just use profanity. Your use of the dollar signs and the pound signs to replace letters seemed overly pathetic.
If you lack the courage to use words like “shit” or “assholes”, then by all means, do not use these words.
Oh, and I appreciate being referred to as “metro-sexual”. It’s the first time it’s ever been said about me and most likely, it will be the last. The fact that you are an idiot doesn’t detract from the compliment.
On second thought, I guess it does.
Bobby
/ November 2, 2009There will always be differences between the hunters and non hunters..Ancient..not really, it was only a few (50) years or so that it was still a way of life and survival for less fortunate people living in poverty areas…It has become a sport to many now…And I an avid hunter and sportsman, still stick to the “only what I need”…Some people over kill go out and kill as many as possible and end up wasting alot of it..
But it is a special feeling to set down and eat something you hunted and brought home..Free meat on the table if you will..But to those of you who dont like hunting, dont do it…its that simple..but leave those of us that do like it alone..mind your business..for every animal you DONT kill, leaves one more for me to eat….I dont run around trying to stop the Vegans from eating tofu.
Rick Rottman
/ November 2, 2009This was all a well documented hoax on the part of the boy’s father. It was a farm raised, overfed pig named Fred:
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/story?id=3378412
Greengiant
/ November 8, 2009As someone who has grown up in rural America, farmed, raised livestock, hunted and fished over the past sixty six years, I feel I have a fairly good layman’s knowledge of life. For the bleeding hearts who want to do away with hunting: Just where do you feel the porkchop you bought in the grocery store came from? From a pig raised in captivity, living his whole life in a very small, concrete floored pen. He was forced fed high fat, high protein diet laced with growth hormones and upon reaching a pre-determined weight, he was herded into a slaughter house, hit in the center of his forehead with a steel pin driven by compressed air with sufficent force to kill him, he was then stabbed in the neck in order to bleed out, then run through a steam bath to soften and strip his hair, then he is gutted, followed by being disected into pre-determined portions, INCLUDING YOUR PORKCHOP!!!
Rick Rottman
/ November 8, 2009@Greengiant: Porkchop? That’s disgusting. I don’t eat pig.
parker
/ November 9, 2009yall needa shut the fuck up. this is an amazing kill and i am very proud for the boy. he shows signs of a great hunter and to be compleatly honest i wouldn’t want an animal of this size walking around in my back yard.
Rick Rottman
/ November 9, 2009@parker: I wouldn’t want a 11-year old boy walking around in my backyard shooting a .50 cal handgun, but that’s just me. So what makes you think he’s a great hunter, the fact that it took him three hours to kill an animal raised as someone’s pet?
ryan
/ December 13, 2009they are over popullateing our woods and destroying our crops you citty boys need to stay in the city and stop talking about stuff you dont know!
Rick
/ December 13, 2009@ryan:
citty boys will survive.
citty boys will survive.
Rob
/ December 24, 2009What many people don’t realize is that this isn’t just an ordinary hog. The typical hog found in many parts of the southern United States have begun to be typically larger and more aggressive. Typically a hog stands 2 feet high and when approached will be cautious and/or flee, lately they have been spotted standing more than 3 feet high and extremely aggressive. When approached these new breeds of hog have been recorded to attack. Many scientists suggest that the North American hog has been exposed to and matted with the Eurasian hog which has caused a “mutation” so to say in the breeding of these hogs which allow them to breed and grow exponentially.
Theses animals are no joke and by no means should be looked at like “Babe” because these animals are in fact wild and dangerous. In many accounts wild hogs have been recorded to have attacked humans randomly and out of nowhere. Now don’t try to rebuttal saying that a human went up to one of these animals and typically did something stupid to get attacked which wouldn’t be surprising because if a human does in fact go treat these animals like stuffed animals they should be attacked. But, humans have been attacked out of nowhere by these things.
These animals are more the menace than Dennis. Destroying farmers crops, property, and much more. So why ask why couldn’t he just be playing video games? Simply because you are ignorant and have not done sufficient research into your topic. How this piece was published surprises me.
And Kudos to you Dennis for doing a favor to all your neighbor by eliminating this beast.