New Hogzilla in GA

[YoungBlood]

Anybody see the latest on cnn's video? It's on their homepage, www.cnn.com the topic is, "Hogzilla Caught".

 

[SacFireJT]

Are you sure that wasen't video footage of LD and his date last night at the King's/Laker's game?

 

[Kentuck]

"Hogzilla" Caught, Shot In Fayette County

POSTED: 10:20 pm EST January 4, 2007


Fayette County -- An urban legend comes to life, and meets its death in northeast Georgia.


A boar weighing 1,100 pounds was shot and killed in a Fayette County neighborhood.

Residents say the wild hog had been tearing up their yards for years.

These so-called "hogzillas" have been spotted and killed in south Georgia in recent years, but the Department of Natural Resources is trying to determine if the pig shot in Fayette County this week is a state record.


People passing by the Coursey house are amazed by the boar hanging from a tree in the front yard. William Coursey, an avid hunter, shot the pig in a neighbor's yard.


Coursey says the boar is one of four that had been roaming the neighborhood, uprooting yards for seven years. He says the other three animals may have been killed previously.

He says he thought it was myth until now. Coursey and his son took the hog to a local weigh station, where it weighed in at 1,100 pounds. It's an estimated 9 feet long.

The Courseys believe the hefty hog may be the biggest ever, based on statistics they say they found in a local hunting magazine.


Experts say the large pigs are "feral," meaning they were once domesticated but now run wild. They can be dangerous, and the DNR urges that you call wildlife experts to remove the animals.

Copyright 2006 by WSBTV.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

[BelchFire]

Here's the video link at CNN

http://dynamic.cnn.com/apps/tp/video/us/20...sb/video.ws.asx

I'm surprised they aired it at all what with a Rebel flag flutterin in the back ground.

 

[BirdDawg]

one big porker.

 

[spectr17]

Kid in video looking at hog

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He smelled like a girl with a lot of hairspray on[/b]

Never heard it put that way, but yeah, it's a purty strong odor.

 

[Orygun]

How long had it been after he shot it???? I didn't catch that in the video clip. It didn't look like it was gutted yet.
Couldn't have been good for the meat.


Seriously, that was big enough to knock down a kid off his tricycle and eat it him for lunch.

 

[Zbearclaw]

My folks live In Woolsey, just a few miles from Brooks, plenty of creeks and rivers to hide them, my Office was in Brooks.

Big pig, must have been eating well, I bet a few golden retrievers are missing in his area.

 

[dw33]

I don't think that guy was worried about the meat, but making the record book.

 

[Uncle Ji]

That pig looks almost 100% domestic feral, long body , short snout, big floppy ears, no wonder he's so big. As a kid one of my friends lived at a pigs farm and his dad's domestic males woul;d get 1000 lbs no problem with larger males hitting 1200 lbs. I've never seen a true European boar get much over 400 pounds, the purer Hawaiian pua'a boars rarely getting over 300.

 

[spectr17]

I saw some hogs in Germany that would push 600 pounds easy. I was in my VW squareback one day when a hog charged us and I'm not sure what the V dub weighed, but that hog was just as big. Kind of gave me that same feeling like when a shark swims by your boat and he's longer than your boat.

Here's a 1000 pound Russian taken by Johnny Morris from Bass Pro. The pic is in some of the Bass Pro stores.

 

[DEERSLAM]

Holy %^*&! That thing looks part Grizzly.

 

[baboltin]

thats pretty crazy

 

[el_vaquero]

Wow! That thing could feed a small country. He must have used an elephant gun to take that monster down.

 

[Zbearclaw]

Here is the GON, Georgia Outdoor News, wirte up on the new Hogzilla.

http://gon.com/article.php?id=1017