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Big pig gig in Georgia: hunter boasts 1,100-pound wild hog kill
A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical Hogzilla caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood.The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Courseys front yard, not far from where the avid hunter said he shot the beast. He said he hauled it to a truck weight station, which recorded the hairy hog at 1,100 pounds. The Department of Natural Resources did not know whether the hog was a record for the state. We dont keep records on hogs, said Melissa Cummings of the DNRs public affairs department. But Coursey believes his behemoth surpasses the famed super swine shot and killed in 2004 that weighed in at half a ton on the farms scales. A team of National Geographic experts later confirmed Hogzilla didnt quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype, saying the beast was probably 7 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds. Posted by: Mike 2007-01-06 |
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