The REAL Hogzilla!...

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Like I said in the very beginning that hog doesn't look very "feral" to me.

The farm owner makes this quote,

"I have a hog preserve, but it's not a little old pen. It's 150 acres plus, all grown up and rough," he said.

My question is how exactly do you take 3 hours to kill a hog in a 150 acre pen?

This is a 100% canned put and release "hunt" all the way.

What still amazes me is the amount of attention one can get from shooting a semi tame domestic hog in a pen.
 
"My question is how exactly do you take 3 hours to kill a hog in a 150 acre pen?"

The 50 or so acres of woods on my grandfather's place near Austin was dense enough that you could hunt all day long and not find anything that didn't want to be found. Or, if you spotted an alert animal, you'd better shoot in 0.1 seconds. Same sort of deal for the river-bottom land around my wife's house in south Georgia. You'd play billy hell finding a danged elephant in 150 acres of that jungle.

:), Art
 
Feral hog...:scrutiny::scrutiny::eek:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/06/01/0601monsterpig.html

Monster Pig farm-raised, not wild

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."
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Art I am guessing the pet pig "fred" was pretty good at hide and seek then.;)

This whole thing smelled funny from the start. Now it just smells like a big ole load of hog manure, domestic pen raised hog manure at that.

I just repeat that I've got no problem with a guy who wants to go to a hunting farm and plug a piggy even if it is raised and put out.

The owner of the plantation damned sure knew where that pig came from. He put it out in that pen before the hunt.

I guess you can't entirely blame the dad for making the website if he truly thought the pig was wild. I'm guessing he should have known better. The darn hunt operator sure as heck should have known but I am guessing he had a happy client on his hands and didn't want burst their bubble.

It's a fine line when you are trying to make a thing like this look legit to an ignorant client I guess.
 
But for the Daddy to make a web site and not include that little pearl of information kind of twists me the wrong way. To each their own I guess.
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I don't think he knew though. He could have suspected, but the game preserve owner probably won't tell him.
 
Foob,

Sorry man I edited my post between the time you posted and my edit came up. I took that line you quoted out after reading the news article more carefully.

You are 100% correct in your post.
 
I have a question. So did the kid take 3 hours from first shot to death? Kind of sucks to be the pig. Was the handgun too weak for it?

Also the boy looks a little clean to be out chasing a pig for 3 hours.

Does the preserve have fixed feeding stations? Can't imagine a domesticated pig surviving on its own.

Damn just read through all the posts, H&Hhunter basically got the whole story right.

A couple of things strike me right off. First that hog has little or no "wild" or "euro" genes in him at all. The ears are the first dead give away. Wild hogs have small rounded ears they develop these within a couple of generations of being wild and mixing in with Euro genes. Farm hags have the large floppy ears like the one in the picture.

The story of 16 rounds with the .500 doesn't surprise me one little tiny bit. Because the .500 isn't all that powerful for one and two the kid probably can't shoot it that well. I've seen hogs walk away from less then perfect hits with a .500 Linebaugh. There are NO hand held wheel guns that produce enough power to be considered a "stopper" on large tough animals. PERIOD.

But in my opinion there is no way that hog was wild and free roaming given the scenario reported. I have to think that it was a raised hog that was released into a high fenced area.

It is a big hog. Maybe even a 1000 lbr but I doubt that it was killed in a free ranging area. I doubt that it was a wild pig.
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The monster hog was named Fred, and not really wild

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18869381/
Pig Was a Monster, Not Very Wild

FRUITHURST, Ala. - The huge hog that became known as "Monster Pig" after being hunted and killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred.

The not-so-wild pig had been raised on an Alabama farm and was sold to the Lost Creek Plantation just four days before it was shot there in a 150-acre fenced area, the animal's former owner said.

Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star in a story Friday that he bought the 6-week-old pig in December 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all the pigs at their farm.
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"I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn't a wild pig," Rhonda Blissitt said.

Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father described as a three-hour chase. They said it was more than 1,000 pounds and 9 feet long; if anything, it looked even bigger in a now-famous photo of the hunter and the hunted.

Mike Stone said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he had been under the impression that the hog was wild, not farm-raised.

Telephone messages left Friday with Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, were not immediately returned.

Stone said state wildlife officials told him that it is not unusual for hunting preserves to buy farm-raised hogs and that the hogs are considered feral once they are released.

Stone said he and his son met Blissitt on Friday morning to get more details about the hog. Blissitt said that he had about 15 hogs and decided to sell them for slaughter, but that no one would buy that particular animal because it was too big for slaughter or breeding, Stone said.

Blissitt said that the pig had become a nuisance and that visitors were often frightened by it, Stone said.

"He was nice enough to tell my son that the pig was too big and needed killing," Stone said. "He shook Jamison's hand and said he did not kill the family pet."

The Blissitts said they didn't know the hog that was hunted was Fred until they were contacted by a game warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. The agency determined that no laws were violated in the hunt.

Phil Blissitt said he became irritated when he learned that some thought the photo of Fred was doctored.

"That was a big hog," he said.
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where is the part that he hunted in a small 150 acre pen?
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It has been reported and quoted from the plantation owner numerous times. I can't find it right now though.

And frankly I am sick and tired of this whole hokey mess.
 
Is 150 acres small? Or was he sarcastic?
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1 acre = 43,560 ft^2
150 acres = 6,534,000 ft^2
square root of 6,534000 = 2,556.17 feet
1 mile = 5280 feet
2556.17 feet = .484 miles
.484 miles squared = .23 square miles
150 acres = .23 square miles or less than a mile in circumfrence.
For hunting that's very small. IMHO

<had to fix this now that I saw the HUGE mistake I made of going from linear to square without a conversion>
 
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A square mile is 640 acres. 150/640=.23 square mile. I hunt on unfenced tracts as small as 80 acres and as large as 400 acres in Alabama. A wild animal, like a deer or a truly feral hog, is hard to hunt regardless of the acreage, because it naturally avoids humans. Fred the Friendly Farm Pig associated humans with sweet potato handouts, at least until the first shot hit him. I just hope when somebody's husband decides to shoot me, they don't take 3 hours to finish the job.
 
Well I haven't made up my mind about hunting the hog that was farm raised.
But for those complaining about 150 acres, not all of us are lucky enough to live in the wide open spaces of the West. Here in the East, and I'm in KY, 150 acres is a big area to hunt. I have hunted on as little as 40 acres for deer, with the difference being they're not high fenced.
 
With somewhat-open vegetation, 150 acres can be small. But you get into some of the mesquite and prickly pear thickets in the south Texas brush country and the only way you'd see a deer would be if he stood on his hind legs and waved. You couldn't get a shot at a hog in 10 acres of that stuff, except if you're in a high stand and spot him moving through an opening in the brush.

There just ain't no "One size fits all," about land area...

Art
 
THIS HAS REALY TAKEN A TURN FOR THE WORST! I DONT KNOW IF THE DAD KNEW THAT THE PIG WAS NOT WILD OR NOT, BUT THIS WAS A DIRTY TRICK TO PULL ON THE KID , I JUST WONDER WHO DID AND DIDNT KNOW ?:rolleyes: SO SAD POOR OLE FRED!
 
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