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Boy kills 1,000 pound hog

post #1 of 60
5/25/07 at 7:31pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070525/...st/monster_pig
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post #2 of 60
5/25/07 at 8:19pm
"The boy was later seen riding off into the forest on a giant red elk, muttering nonsensically about 'getting this black shit off my arm'"
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post #3 of 60
5/25/07 at 8:22pm
And thus the state's bacon supply was secured for the next decade.
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post #4 of 60
5/25/07 at 8:42pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
And thus the state's bacon supply was secured for the next decade.
Decade? This is America you're talking about. More like a month... two at the most.
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post #5 of 60
5/25/07 at 9:13pm
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"It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Yes, killing something with a gun is quite an accomplishment. It takes work, perseverance and dedication.

If he'd taken it down with a rope, I'd be impressed.
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post #6 of 60
5/25/07 at 9:31pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
If he'd taken it down with a rope, I'd be impressed.
The pig weighed over half a ton, he killed it with a pistol. Now unless it was with a long caliber .44 Caliber ala Lt. Hunter from Hill Street Blues that was still pretty impressive.
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post #7 of 60
5/25/07 at 9:35pm
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Originally Posted by Crow
"The boy was later seen riding off into the forest on a giant red elk, muttering nonsensically about 'getting this black shit off my arm'"
"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Crow again."
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post #8 of 60
5/25/07 at 9:47pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
The pig weighed over half a ton, he killed it with a pistol. Now unless it was with a long caliber .44 Caliber ala Lt. Hunter from Hill Street Blues that was still pretty impressive.
If killing something that's running away with a pistol is an impressive feat, then I guess I'm just hard to impress. I think if something's going to be called an accomplishment, it should involve some kind of special skill, dedication, hard work, or feat of willpower. Shooting an animal in the ass until it slows down and then plugging it in the head isn't much of a feat. Turn the kid loose in the woods with a garrote. If he comes out with a dead animal, then he'll have something to feel proud of.
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post #9 of 60
5/26/07 at 12:23am
That's not a pig, that's a freaking HEFFALUMP!
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post #10 of 60
5/26/07 at 1:24am
I've slept with a lot worse than that!!
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post #11 of 60
5/26/07 at 2:28am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
If killing something that's running away with a pistol is an impressive feat,
Did he shoot it first "in the ass" as you said? Typical hog hunts involve dogs driving the boars (at that point, angry) toward you. The only men I've known who went pistol hunting for hogs have a > 1/3 rate of injury from the boars succeeding in attacking the hunters. More than 3 shots is, in my opinion, in appropriate; they should have had one of the guides or an experienced shot finish the pig off. One or two shots should have gotten it; if the first didn't then the second should have and if the kid couldn't make it in two, the third should have come from someone who knew what the **** they were doing so that hog wouldn't suffer any longer.

Although, if you really want to be impressed, go to Louisiana and try boar hunting with knives. The boar has to charge you, and you stab him into his chest and sever the major blood vessels going to his heart in one quick stab as you dodge out of the way. Clearly only effective for boars small enough for your knife to penetrate their chest (<400 pounds).
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post #12 of 60
5/26/07 at 4:35am
So he peaked at 11 by shooting something that was exceptional in the head. God bless America.
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post #13 of 60
5/26/07 at 4:59am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Crow again."
Yeah, count me in for that as well.
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post #14 of 60
5/26/07 at 5:10am
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Originally Posted by Crow
"The boy was later seen riding off into the forest on a giant red elk, muttering nonsensically about 'getting this black shit off my arm'"
I have tried to track down this reference. My only reward has been defeat. Help me Obi-Crow, you are my only hope.
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post #15 of 60
5/26/07 at 5:15am
Princess Mononoke.
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post #16 of 60
5/26/07 at 5:44am
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Did he shoot it first "in the ass" as you said? Typical hog hunts involve dogs driving the boars (at that point, angry) toward you.

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Through it all, there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation for doing.

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.
I'm thinking they were ass shots.
And gosh, it must feel awesome to lay waste to something so magnificent.
I just don't feel like that much of a man all of a sudden.
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post #17 of 60
5/26/07 at 9:55am
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
The pig weighed over half a ton, he killed it with a pistol. Now unless it was with a long caliber .44 Caliber ala Lt. Hunter from Hill Street Blues that was still pretty impressive.
He used a .50 caliber. Also, I'm no vegan but if I killed some freakishly huge beast like that I'd donate its body to science. This hick had the head stuffed and mounted, and the rest ground up into sausage, before the body was cold.
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post #18 of 60
5/26/07 at 9:56am
I totally thought of the anime too.
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post #19 of 60
5/26/07 at 1:48pm
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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.
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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.
Real classy. Shooting an animal 8 times with an underpowered weapon (for the job at hand; a .50 caliber pistol is usually anything but under-powered) and then letting it suffer for 3 hours just so he could shoot it point-blank and feel like a big man. Fucking hicks. Forget the thread about Detroit car-jackers: this kid should have been eviscerated by the boar.

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Although, if you really want to be impressed, go to Louisiana and try boar hunting with knives. The boar has to charge you, and you stab him into his chest and sever the major blood vessels going to his heart in one quick stab as you dodge out of the way. Clearly only effective for boars small enough for your knife to penetrate their chest (<400 pounds).
Now that's hunting I can respect!
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post #20 of 60
5/26/07 at 2:10pm
Bitch must have needed a bucket.

Wait, what?
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post #21 of 60
5/26/07 at 2:16pm
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Originally Posted by Junior
So he peaked at 11 by shooting something that was exceptional in the head. God bless America.
"I've never seen anything like that before... kill it!"
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post #22 of 60
5/26/07 at 5:06pm
"It's coming straight for us!!"
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post #23 of 60
5/26/07 at 5:33pm
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Did he shoot it first "in the ass" as you said? Typical hog hunts involve dogs driving the boars (at that point, angry) toward you. The only men I've known who went pistol hunting for hogs have a > 1/3 rate of injury from the boars succeeding in attacking the hunters.
They said they were chasing it for three hours. That pretty much necessitates shooting it in the ass. The courage on display is stirring.
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post #24 of 60
5/26/07 at 7:05pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
They said they were chasing it for three hours. That pretty much necessitates shooting it in the ass. The courage on display is stirring.
Only if they were shooting it from behind while chasing it. I've shot a javenila, for example, heart-lung, and then followed it (all of less than 200 yards) to see if it needed a second, follow-up shot (it didn't). If you don't get the brain or high on the neck, the animal doesn't drop in place, so you end up "chasing" it or tracking it to find the body (if you wait a bit they usually circle back to close to the location where they were originally shot). You aren't necessarily shooting during the chase portion, especially as shooting the rear end of the animal is just going to piss it off and not be terribly effective. Pigs have a lot of epaxial muscle, so neck shots aren't really effective if they are larger than a few hundred pounds and head shots only work if you can get positioned to shoot into the right part of the head (the brain).

In any case, I stand by my prior two-shot statement. Shouldn't be shooting anything if one can't do it right.
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post #25 of 60
5/26/07 at 7:19pm
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Originally Posted by ChunkyLover53
"It's coming straight for us!!"
That's probably one of the only South Park lines I routinely find myself using.
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post #26 of 60
5/26/07 at 8:38pm


Nice bit of forced perspective going on in those first three pics. Now, look at that last pic.

It's a big ol' pig but it isn't that big.
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post #27 of 60
5/26/07 at 10:30pm
Gee, that really is something to be proud of. I swear, hunters are mentally ill. Get a real hobby you soon-to-be serial killer!

Fucking rednecks.
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post #28 of 60
5/26/07 at 10:41pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
The pig weighed over half a ton, he killed it with a pistol. Now unless it was with a long caliber .44 Caliber ala Lt. Hunter from Hill Street Blues that was still pretty impressive.
He most likely just grabbed it by it's tusks, knocked it over, turned to Link and Spin -attacked the hell out of it.
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post #29 of 60
5/27/07 at 2:16am
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Originally Posted by General Zod
Gee, that really is something to be proud of. I swear, hunters are mentally ill. Get a real hobby you soon-to-be serial killer!

Fucking rednecks.
Right, because once we've messed up the ecosystem by removing large predators, we should further mess it up by leaving all the other animal populations uncontrolled, regardless of the damage that does to the environment or ecosystem.
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post #30 of 60
5/27/07 at 4:51pm
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Right, because once we've messed up the ecosystem by removing large predators, we should further mess it up by leaving all the other animal populations uncontrolled, regardless of the damage that does to the environment or ecosystem.
I will never understand this concept. It just seems like a weak justification. How do hunters think the ecosystem survived before they came along? Animal populations must have been constantly flying out of control and self-destructing before these yokels came along with their shotguns. Hey, maybe if Fred Flintstone had a shotgun, the dinosaurs would have survived.
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post #31 of 60
5/27/07 at 5:07pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
I will never understand this concept. It just seems like a weak justification. How do hunters think the ecosystem survived before they came along? Animal populations must have been constantly flying out of control and self-destructing before these yokels came along with their shotguns. Hey, maybe if Fred Flintstone had a shotgun, the dinosaurs would have survived.
Well, to come to Bel's defense, most of those "wild boars" in the Southern US (GA & FLA) that get to that size are escaped domestic pigs that have gone feral. Domestic pigs are genetically predisposed to grow and grow from over-feeding. Hogzilla and the like are most likely originally domestic or cross-bred wild/domestic pigs. Pigs that get to that size are not only a danger, but they do a ton of damage to farms, etc.



And regardless of methods, if I was an 11 year old, I'd feel like a warrior taking a beast like that down (they are "filthy animals"). And I've never hunted in my life. Kid should have used a sword to finish that monster off.

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post #32 of 60
5/27/07 at 5:52pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
I will never understand this concept.
Am I supposed to make you understand or teach you how to think? I presume, since you post here, that you already know how to read.
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post #33 of 60
5/27/07 at 6:04pm
No, I understand. People shooting things is good for nature. It's very simple.
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post #34 of 60
5/27/07 at 10:36pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
No, I understand. People shooting things is good for nature. It's very simple.
Because if we don't kill them...they'll die.
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post #35 of 60
5/27/07 at 11:28pm
I volunteer all of them for the most dangerous game.
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post #36 of 60
5/28/07 at 4:47am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
No, I understand. People shooting things is good for nature. It's very simple.
As long as you prefer to be entirely ignorant of how the natural world works and how man has affected it, and continues to affect it, there is no point in attempting discussion. Please, continue with your trite remarks.
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post #37 of 60
5/28/07 at 9:08am
Okay, I'll be the informative, relative non-asshole vegetarian who defends the barbaric practice of hunting.

Relating to deer populations, at least, over-population leads inevitably to frequent (and I mean frequent) automobile accidents involving deer, and famine. I too am skeptical of high velocity compassion and camouflaged altruists, but in this case the concerns, if not the motives, are legitimate.
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post #38 of 60
5/28/07 at 5:16pm
The problem with that justification is that the deer wouldn't be overpopulating if the hunters hadn't killed the predators in the first place. So they're only solving a problem that they caused, and intend to continue causing.
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post #39 of 60
5/28/07 at 5:25pm
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Originally Posted by Master Chuin
I've slept with a lot worse than that!!
I'd recommend getting to a doctor immediately seeing how you may be diseased.
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post #40 of 60
5/28/07 at 5:44pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
The problem with that justification is that the deer wouldn't be overpopulating if the hunters hadn't killed the predators in the first place. So they're only solving a problem that they caused, and intend to continue causing.
What's the alternative? If you know where we can get a few thousand domesticated cougars, I'm with ya.
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post #41 of 60
5/28/07 at 6:00pm
Oh, I'm not saying there's another solution. Just that killing to restore the balance that was ruined by previous killing hardly qualifies anyone as a naturalist. And yes, I have heard hunters make that claim.
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post #42 of 60
5/28/07 at 6:10pm
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Originally Posted by Junior
What's the alternative? If you know where we can get a few thousand domesticated cougars, I'm with ya.
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post #43 of 60
5/28/07 at 8:14pm
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You win.
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post #44 of 60
5/28/07 at 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
I've shot a javenila, for example, heart-lung, and then followed it (all of less than 200 yards) to see if it needed a second, follow-up shot (it didn't). If you don't get the brain or high on the neck, the animal doesn't drop in place, so you end up "chasing" it or tracking it to find the body (if you wait a bit they usually circle back to close to the location where they were originally shot). You aren't necessarily shooting during the chase portion, especially as shooting the rear end of the animal is just going to piss it off and not be terribly effective. Pigs have a lot of epaxial muscle, so neck shots aren't really effective if they are larger than a few hundred pounds and head shots only work if you can get positioned to shoot into the right part of the head (the brain).
I love you.
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post #45 of 60
5/28/07 at 11:34pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
Yes, killing something with a gun is quite an accomplishment. It takes work, perseverance and dedication.

If he'd taken it down with a rope, I'd be impressed.
You see, its comments like this that make people go and kill bucks with their bare hands ;-)
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post #46 of 60
5/28/07 at 11:41pm
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Originally Posted by I poke badgers with spoons
You see, its comments like this that make people go and kill bucks with their bare hands ;-)
THAT guy was a badass.
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post #47 of 60
6/1/07 at 7:41pm
Well, it turns out the hog was actually farm-raised, NOT wild, and was killed inside an enclosure. Fuck this fat little bastard, he deserved every single hate-mail he got:


Monster pig farm-raised, not wild

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The Associated Press

Published on: 06/01/07

FRUITHURST, Ala. — Before he became known as "Monster Pig," the 1,051-pound hog shot in Delta was known by another name.

Fred.

Rhonda and Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star on Thursday evening that, on April 29, four days before the hog was killed, Fred was one of many livestock on their farm.

Late Thursday evening, their claims were confirmed by Andy Howell, Game Warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.

"I didn't want to stir up anything," Rhonda Blissitt said. "I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn't a wild pig."

Added Phil Blissitt:

"If it went down in the record book, it would be deceiving, and we'd know that for the rest of our lives."

The monster hog gained worldwide acclaim after he was harvested by 11-year-old Jamison Stone, a Pickensville native, with a .50-caliber pistol on May 3 at the Lost Creek Plantation, LLC, a hunting preserve in Delta. The big boar was hunted inside a large, low-fence enclosure and fired upon 16 times by Stone, who struck the animal nearly a half-dozen times during the three-hour hunt.

The Blissitts said they were unaware that the hog generating all the media attention was once theirs. It wasn't until Howell spoke with Phil Blissitt that the pieces of the puzzle came together.

Phil Blissitt recalled Howell asking him about the now-famous hog.

"Did you see that pig on TV?" Phil Blissitt recalled Howell asking him. "I said, 'Yeah, I had one about that size.' He said, 'No, that one is yours.'

"That's when I knew."

Phil Blissitt purchased the pig for his wife as a Christmas gift in December of 2004. From 6 weeks old, they raised the pig as it grew to its enormous size.

Not long ago, they decided to sell off all of their pigs. Eddy Borden, owner of Lost Creek Plantation, purchased Fred.

Attempts by The Star to reach Borden were unsuccessful.

While Rhonda Blissitt was somewhat in the dark about the potential demise of her pet, Phil Blissitt said he was under the understanding that it would breed with other female pigs and then "probably be hunted."

Many other of their former pigs — like their other farm animals — had been raised for the purpose of agricultural harvest.

As the Blissitts recounted the events of the last two days, they told stories and made many references to the gentleness of their former "pet."

From his treats of canned sweet potatoes to how their grandchildren would play with him, their stories painted the picture of a gentle giant. They even talked about how their small Chihuahua would get in the pen with him and come out unscathed.

"But if they hadn't fed him in a while," Rhonda Blissitt said, "he could have gotten irate."

Phil Blissitt said he became irritated when they learned about all the doubters who said photos of Fred were doctored.

"That was a big hog," he said.

The information of the pig's previous owner came out on the same day that officials from the Fish and Wildlife concluded their investigation of the hunt. They concluded that nothing illegal happened under the guidelines of Alabama law.

Allan Andress, enforcement chief for the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, said they learned the hog's origin as the investigation unfolded.

"We were able to determine that he came from a domesticated environment," he said. "So, he was not feral to start with. Therefore, he would not violate our feral swine trapping and relocating rule."

Mike Stone, Jamison's father, contends that he was unaware of the origin of the pig. Before, during and after the hunt — and until late Thursday night, when contacted by The Star — Mike Stone was under the impression that the hog was feral.

"We were told that it was a feral hog," Mike Stone said, "and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog."
3+ hour "hunt", 16 shots fired, 6 hits, in an enclosed hunting area. And it was the KID that called the media to alert them of his heroics. Fuck that little bastard.
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post #48 of 60
6/1/07 at 7:46pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer

3+ hour "hunt", 16 shots fired, 6 hits, in an enclosed hunting area. And it was the KID that called the media to alert them of his heroics. Fuck that little bastard.
I do not understand the allure of hunting tame, hand-fed animals in a fenced-in enclosure (or herbivores from 500 yards with a high powered rifle, for that matter).

Please tell me that this little brat and his family at least ate the animal.
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post #49 of 60
6/1/07 at 7:50pm
I'd like to get some hunters in a pen like that.
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post #50 of 60
6/1/07 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by Overlord
I do not understand the allure of hunting tame, hand-fed animals in a fenced-in enclosure (or herbivores from 500 yards with a high powered rifle, for that matter).

Please tell me that this little brat and his family at least ate the animal.
It's quite simple, they're pussies. I have no interest in hunting at all, but if you do it, at least be a man about it.
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