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An 11-year-old Alabama boy kills a giant hog weighing 1,000 pounds.

Alabama Boy Shoots Monster Pig

Wild Boar Said To Weigh More Than 1,000 Lbs.

POSTED: 12:58 pm MDT May 27, 2007

An Alabama boy has used his revolver on an enormous wild boar, killing the animal and sending the youngster on his way to 15 minutes of fame. Or more.

Jamison Stone, 11, used a .50 caliber revolver to kill the pig at a commercial hunting preserve in east Alabama about three weeks ago.

Stone, his father and two guides tracked the pig, but bagging the swine took about three hours of chasing through hilly woods before a final shot at point blank range brought it down for good.

Stone's father, Mike Stone, said the animal weighed more than 1,000 lbs. and was more than nine feet long.

"Wow, it looked like a rhinoceros," Stone said. "Man it was standing up. It didn't know we were there at first. (It) started popping its jaws and making a real loud noise with its mouth."

The tusks measured five inches. It took heavy equipment to transport the animal out of the woods. The head went to a taxidermist. The rest is headed for the sausage factory. The Stones could net 500 to 700 lbs. of sausage meat.

If the claims are accurate, the trophy boar eclipses Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions before it was killed in south Georgia in 2004.

The young hunter is headed for the network morning shows and the silver screen. Hogzilla is the subject of a movie and Stone has been offered a small part in the film, "The Legend of Hogzilla."

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