Return of the Booth Babes: The 2007 SHOT Show
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HOG HEROICS TAKE TRAGIC TURN
For a few heady weeks, it seemed as though 11-year-old Jamison Stone might replace Lindsay Lohan as a media sensation when he slew a 1,000-pound-plus hog (with a 50 S&W revolver, no less) in his home state of Alabama on May 3. However, he may be as over as Don Imus. It turns out that the behemoth boar he blasted was formerly a pet pig named Fred.
According to Fox News, poor, dead Fred had been sold to the Lost Creek Plantation, a hunting preserve by his owners, Rhonda and Phil Blissett, on April 29th and had been trying out his new-found freedom when young Jamison put the power to him. The Blissetts described him as a gentle, good-natured animal who was fond of sweet potatoes.
According to Alabama fish and game officials, no laws were broken when Fred made the sudden transition from on the hoof to on the hook, seeing that he was not born feral.
Yep..read about this on another web site.
Posted by: Ralph the Rifleman | June 05, 2007 at 01:25 PM
What's next? Hunting dairy cows? Probably the best place for your stand would be near the milking machine. If there's a loft in the barn, it should offer superior fields of fire.
Posted by: JA Demko | June 05, 2007 at 01:58 PM
Well - It isn't like it was the kid's fault. I'm not even sure that fault is the right word to use.
Posted by: Tom Stanton | June 05, 2007 at 02:00 PM
Most kinds of animals exhibit "limited growth" in that they don't get any taller, longer or heavier.
These stories that hog the news suggest that pigs are big and could continue to get bigger and piggier.
Just how big a pig could we grow? If the porker was jacked up on anabolic steroids, might we see 2,000lbs? Weighty issue.
Posted by: Brian | June 05, 2007 at 02:24 PM
Ok the guy shot a pig so what.
Many hunters these days are shooting "home grown" bucks that are sold to farms and you have to pay per point.........
We as hunters have to choose what is fair chase is in our minds. Also many people are teasing him about using 9 bullets.... how many people in this blog have lost a wounded animal. I would much rather have shot and killed an animal with 9 shots than wound an animal and have it run off and die.
Posted by: tom | June 05, 2007 at 02:26 PM
What a way to ruin a boy.
Posted by: PbHead | June 05, 2007 at 04:28 PM
We're pretty damned Gay, all things considered. Damned bloody well Gay, actually! Pip-pip! Are you really that much of a racist, antisemitic, murderous nazi?
All's quiet on the Western Front as the Zen Nazis go into deep meditation. Not a sound is to be heard anywhere up or down the line save for the mellow hum of their monosyllabic mantra.
A three-quarter moon shines a lambent benediction in a cloudless sky that is going from a vibrant purple to a rich, deep black this early June evening.
A more soul-stirringly beautiful scene of peace and serenity could scarcly be imagined than that presented by this torn and bloody battlefield as this late spring evening slips into night.
Whatever tomorrow may bring, at this moment, in this bloodied place, one cannot but feel that God is near.
What kind of fantasy world does Barrack live in? He clearly is not playing with a full deck of cards.
Posted by: | June 05, 2007 at 07:42 PM
I feel bad for one person in this whole thing and that is the boy. Its clearly not his fault, he only did what what everyone else told him to do. For dad and everyone else to play the whole thing up like they did was wrong and I'm pretty sure they all know it now. This ought to be a good lesson for all of us who have children. Hopefully the media will let this story die ASAP for the boy's sake. Enough damage done people.
Posted by: WaltSmith | June 05, 2007 at 08:58 PM
REPOST
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.
Some HUNTER?
16 shots with a “BIG CALIBER SLOW HEAVY BULLET”?
Give me a break!
One shot with a 30-06 180 grainer, is all it would have needed!
If the gun kicks like a 338, then use a 338!
Reminds me when I was in Alaska
The guys that I hunted with after they wounded their bear would ask me,
Clay can I use your 338 Win Mag?
NO!
I’ll back you up!
If you cannot hit with your rifle, what makes you think your going to do any better with my rifle.
I got the right tool, FOOL!
STUPID! STUPID STUPID!
AAAACCCKKKK!
Posted by: Clay Cooper | June 05, 2007 at 09:19 PM
I think they should put Don Imus on the VIEW! To replace Rossie
Posted by: Clay Cooper | June 05, 2007 at 09:54 PM
I think they should put Rosie downrange holding the target for Sarge's M-72 LAW he keeps talking about! We could weigh her on the hoof and hanging weight just to see how much was "stuffing" and how much is hot air.
Speaking of ignorant windbags, where is Imus these days? I gave up on his BS when he spent more time hawking his coffee and Lying Weasel T-shirts. His Clinton and General Patton skits were pretty funny. I kept waiting for some abuse scandal to come out of his kids ranch deal.
Posted by: Mtnhunter | June 06, 2007 at 02:35 AM
This is a case of "Bubba" wanting to purchase "bragging rights" over his boy's hunting prowess. I suspected that the pig was a farm animal, as few grow that big in the wild. Also, the kid had a "guide," and it was on a "preserve," all of which told me that, at best, it was a "canned hunt." The whole episode is disgraceful, and as a native Alabamian, I decry this affront to sportsmanship. Worse, "Bubba" placed a powerful revolver in the hands of an 11-year-old, and the hog suffered horribly with the eight shots it took to kill him. The father should be banned from hunting for life.
Posted by: Jim | June 06, 2007 at 08:47 AM
Who cares???
Posted by: bwell | June 06, 2007 at 09:28 AM
I care because, as has been pointed out many times by our own side, the 2nd Ammendment has nothing to do with hunting. Hunting may be regulated or banned by The State® with much more ease than they will ever control guns. In the state where I live, the laws pertaining to hunting are issued as decrees by The State Game Commission®. Such as egregious acts of hoopie-ery as this so-called pig hunt give the animal rights whack-jobs, and other anti-hunters, a great big club with which to beat us. Under sufficient pressure from their political cronies, the bureacratic parasites from The State® can put legal, inexpensive hunting out of your reach with the stroke of a pen.
Posted by: JA Demko | June 06, 2007 at 09:39 AM
RE the Monster Pig That Wasn't--
Fred was a pet. The father and son--and at 11 years old, any kid is well aware of the difference between fact and fiction--told bald-faced lies to the media. Their actions were dishonest, dishonorable, and completely unsportsmanlike.
This was no hunt. There was nothing sporting about it. And the appalling lack of marksmanship--and immoral failure by the father to provide a quick, humane, killing shot--led to Fred suffering untold agony for hours, which I believe qualifies as cruelty to animals, a felony in many states in this country. Any hunter or sportsman who says "who cares" about what happened here is neither a hunter or sportsman at all, at least not in my book, and is not someone I or any other hunter or sportsman I know would ever associate with in the field or anywhere else.
What the father and son did here was wrong, both in terms of what happened to Fred, and also on a much larger scale as well. These two ignorant, selfish fools have provided appalling and grotesque ammuntition to the anti-hunting and anti-gun lobbies, thus injuring all true sportsman, hunters and shooters everywhere. Nice job, idiots.
TWD
Texas
Posted by: Thad Davidson | June 06, 2007 at 10:40 AM
TWD
Texas
Thad Davidson
You said it all Sir!
SICK _____________________________!
Posted by: Clay Cooper | June 06, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Mtnhunter
Did you know that Rosie hunts squirrels without a gun?
She uglys them to death!
She was told to stop because she was tearing them up to much
Posted by: Clay Cooper | June 06, 2007 at 11:17 AM
About Rosie
I have never in my life have seen a person so full of themselves and full of venom.
She interviewed Tom Seleck once. Nothing but hate! Tom kept his cool, which infuriated her, even more.
She works off people emotions rather than there intellectual side
Posted by: Clay Cooper | June 06, 2007 at 11:24 AM
TWD
I wonder if the edible portions of the hog were processed for consumption? In many states, "Wastage of a game animal" is a misdemeanor. But I suppose that would be up to the state's classification of the feral hog. In some states they are not game animals.
What a bunch of sorry losers, assuming all the factoids are accurate.
Posted by: Mtnhunter | June 06, 2007 at 11:39 AM
CC
I heard that Rosie was being investigated for animal cruelty. The National Wild Turkey Vulture Protection Society claims that she is harming the population of buzzards. Seems they are dying from exhaustion from following her around all over the country.
Efforts to decoy the buzzards with a wagon load of guts has failed to attract and hold the buzzard's attention.
Posted by: Mtnhunter | June 06, 2007 at 11:45 AM
I initially didn’t care about this story beyond the “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” factor. Now we have the dark side of a sport I love plastered all over the news – this generation’s Guns of Autumn..
With any luck, Lost Creek Plantation will deservedly go out of business, Mr. Stone will some day grasp the embarrassment and damage his ego has brought on his son, and this destructive quest for hunting trophies-only will pass to never be witnessed again.
Posted by: Steve C | June 06, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Well, here's another decent blog been hijacked.
Posted by: Mike Diehl | June 06, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Rosie is so ancient history. Could you guys stick to discussion of just the dead hog?
Posted by: JA Demko | June 06, 2007 at 01:01 PM
As opposed to the live one? My apologies, Messrs. Demko and Diehl
Posted by: Mtnhunter | June 06, 2007 at 01:08 PM
Hold up, lets get our story straight here. The pig was killed on a 200 acre peice of property that had no high fence just low strung barbwire fence that any pig could have gotten through with absolutely no problem. The boy and his father were invited on the hunt not even knowing that the pig had turned loose almost a year ago. They went just knowing there was a big hog and they were being allowed to hunt it.
Posted by: alabamahunter | June 06, 2007 at 01:37 PM