Alabama Boy Bags 'Hogzilla II'

Ever since the near-mythical "Hogzilla" was killed in Georgia in 2004, the legend of the huge hog piqued interest across the nation, even leading to the announcement of a horror movie in its honor. Hogzilla was originally claimed to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure around 12 feet long, but National Geographic researchers proved these claims false by unearthing the beast's remains. According to their estimates, the monster hog actually weight near 800 pounds, over 8 feet long.

On May 3, 11-year-old Jamison Stone of Alabama could not have imagined the animal with which he would soon come face-to-face. According to The Associated Press, on a hunting trip with his father and two guides in eastern Alabama, Stone spotted a beastly hog and shot it eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for over three hours until finishing the job with a shot at point-blank range. Using the pistol, Stone killed a hog allegedly weighing nearly 1,051 pounds - 9-feet-4-inches from snout to tail. If these measurements are accurate, the wild hog would easily bypass the original Hogzilla to become the Granddaddy of Hogs. Even so, Stone's father created a website - www.monsterpig.com - to celebrate and detail his son's feat.

The Associated Press conducted a telephone interview with the boy, who responded, "It feels really good... It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."

To retrieve Stone's prized hog, trees had to be removed and a backhoe had to be brought in to carry the hog out of the woods. From there, the hog was placed onto a truck and taken into the town of Lineville for weighing.