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By Stone Martindale May 31, 2007, 14:38 GMT
UPDATE: 'Hogzilla 2' killer is 11 year-old Alabama boy
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To Disgusted - maybe there aren't many deer where you live, but don't judge that by other places where there are large herds of them roaming and most definitely in people's yards stripping vegitation, besides causing countless accidents on the roads.
stone and dakota yall r some losers that dont know what u r talkin bout ur jus jealous that he bagged an awesome game and u were prolly drinkin beer sittin on the couch gosh dang hes 11 years old
hey disgusted just cuz u dont agree wit hunting dont mean u have to be a baby and whine to every1 else...............u make no sence at all with ur comments.....now u write back and tell me this r u a vegetarian?if u aint then u were downing urself u big idiot!!!!!
hey shawn that was a goos point way to go........shake and bake......
Now the truth comes out, and it is even more disgusting than first thought!!
The poor pig almost sounds like a pet instead of a feral pig roaming the woods.
Also, I agree that no kid needs to go around shooting with a revolver - what's next - assault weapons for 6 year olds!!
It's still just a pig; a REALLY BIG pig. Visit a pig farm, a cattle ranch,
or better yet a rendering plant if you want to see what really happens to these
cute little animals before they get processed, packaged and sold to the public as various food items. Then, maybe this crap won't upset some of you so much.
It's just that the story was all wrong in the first place!! Of course we all know that animals are buthered for food - this was not the case!!!
I think that you all need to stop dwelling on a little kid that shot a fricken pig and just get over it and move on with your life. You obviously have nothing else to do better with your time that you have to sit here and argue over it.
END OF STORY!!!!
To Way to go 11 year old: You obviously did not understand my comment. Let me dumb it down for you. Yes I do eat meat, and I am aware of what goes on in a meat factory, and no I don't agree with it but humans were made to eat meat. If we could be healthy without the protein in it than I would be a vegetarian, but no matter how many protein substitutes you take, it is not healthy to not eat meat. With that said, my comment was simply implying that it is not neccesary to hunt animals anymore. Call it what you will but I would much rather pick out a nice steak at a grocery store than go into the woods and shoot a living creature. And anyone who thinks differently is a little touched in the head. Also, I threw in the McDonalds part because it is a place that is sadly frequented by many americans. No big surprise since this is the fattest country in the world. I, however, do not eat there because it isn't healthy. Only intelligent people who understand that this world will only survive and flourish with all it's inhabitants living in harmony would understand my comment. Unfortunately that is not alot of people, and humans will continue to take from this planet and not give back. Sad that the most 'intelligent' species on this earth will be the one to destroy it.
come the heck on. there is nothing ridiculous about this. other than the size of the pig. i am not a hunter. i could not hunt. i do not have the heart for it. i couldn't kill an animal for the life of me. but it is fully a respectable sport. even more so when it's father and son. an 11 yr old boy is more than capable of handling a fire arm. hell back in the day (way back) sons were taught how to handle firearms and hunt at 6 years old. though out of necessity then, it still proves they can do it now.
soooo now you have been widdled down to 'well why would parents allows kids in big 1000lb pig land?'
do you even read what you report? it clearly states - A.) this was a HUNTING trip and B.) A hog of this size is incredibly rare and TWICE as large as the usual LARGER hogs.
B is key. how the hell was this boy's father to know that there would be a massive pig out there?
please stop with this, 'i'm better than him cause i wouldn't do that' crap. if you have ever been hiking with your kids you HAVE done that. any where their are wild animals there is inherent danger. ALWAYS. the only difference, these people were armed and trained to use their arms. in the event of an animal attack they could defend themselves. you on the other hand would have to play dead or run. i will take the trip into animal country with the gunslingers any day.
i apologize for focusing on you because you are not alone. this applies to a lot of people. but this is your story and you chose to take the cheap shot at the end. so the focus is on you.
please stop it.. i advocate every environmentally friendly thing ever created. and i believe this planet will be gone in under 70 years. and i can tell you one thing. it's not from hunting. you do realize that the steak you would rather get from the grocery store is responsible for loads of deforestation. which kills and displaces over 700% more animals than hunting ever will? i am not a fan of hunting couldn't kill a flea. but don't try and say it environmentally unfriendly. in fact most hunters do more to conserve this planet than anyone else. and they do it right. not by terrorizing industries. but by actively helping to preserve. sure you have the weekend warrior types who have no respect and just want to kill. but 90% of hunters enjoy the hunt. not the kill. i'd like to see you track an animal for 15 miles and say it requires no skill. you couldn't find an elephant in a cabbage patch. ok well why kill it you ask? because then comes the second part, skill shooting. and once it's over with you have continued the circle of life. respect for nature is key to the sport. any only those with true respect for the planet will ever fully understand it. i don't even hunt but i am sure many hunters will agree. everything dies. everything MUST die. for every animal a game hunter kills, 500 more die at the hands of other animals. all of our times are numbered. deal with it.
To DisgracetoNH: Why don't you try reading the comment, thinking about it, understanding it, and then putting together an intelligent response. Never did I say it was environmentally unfriendly to hunt. What I did say was that people need to get the idea that we are superior to every other living thing on this planet, and have the right to use it for our advantage without giving anything back, out of their heads. Hunters kill animals because they think it is their right to do so. That since they are human they are better, and animals were put here for our sake. The circle of life does not contiue when a deer is shot and eaten, or a bear shot and stuffed. The circle of life is a deer living out its life dying of natural causes, decaying into the ground, and grass groeing in that spot that a future deer will eat. Humans are not in the cirlce of life. Nothing benefits from us except other humans. Yes there are people out there who do wonderful work trying to save us from ourselves. Unfortunatly they are out numbered by the ignorant ones, and it's those ones who will be the cause of our demise. The only way we could truly fix this problem would be to impose limits on the number of children people are allowed to have, since obviously this planet can only hold so many people, animals, etc., enforce the use of electric cars, make recycling mandatory, limit the amount of land in areas to a certain unbuildable land/buildable land ratio, but of course that would be communism and god forbid we do that! Instead we can continue to milk this earth for everything it has, and hey, who cares what happens to our children, our children's children and generations to come because we won't be here!
To all who are ' Aghast ' at hunting. I have never looked at my teeth as straws. They are not hollowed out tubes that ingest fluids for my survival. Nope! Sorry.
They are well disigned Cutting tools for tearing flesh.
If you are so inclined to live by the ultimate credo of the ' Circle of Life '
I stongly suggest that you NEVER, EVER eat another piece of Fish, Poultry, Meat or anything else, from the super market, grocery store, farmer, etc. that was ' KILLED ' for YOUR consumption. Remember.....it was KILLED!!! not circled thru in the ' Circle of Life ' that you hide behind to protect that fragile concsciense that you have.
You are worse than anyone who ' Hunts ' for their own food. You actually pay others to KILL your food for you. You are not strong enough spirtiually to survive with the tools that GOD gave us for natural survival.
Look at Natural Disasters around the World. Hundreds of thousands of people....depending on others to feed them. Me and my Wife???? Nahhhh.
I will kill and eat in style. I can also make fire from flint and steel.
I will cook the neighborhood cats and dogs. I DO NOT rely on the ' Others ' in society to help me or feed me. Look at Hurricane Katrina....Remember the starving, homeless AMERICANS?
My Wife is very secure with the Animals that I put in the freezer by stalking, shooting and KILLING myself. And yer Damn right I am proud of what I do. I survive. I flourish. Just like the apex predators in the wild. Is a Cougar a sick demented animal for bringing down a Deer for survival just because it is the apex predator over the Deer? The neither am I.
Folks like you are so caught up in their heart strings and have lost touch with life as reality. Did you know, that it was the ' HUNTERS ' that brought back the Turkeys, Whitetail Deer, Elk and other species???? It sure as hell wasn't the rights groups.
We imposed a non-hunting season on ourselves in the 1930's for 5 years on the Whitetail Deer in Mo. Then, a wealthy business man brought in a railroad, with box cars full of these Deer, releasing a 100 every so many miles. He too was a hunter.
Our taxes that are applied to every piece of hunting clothing, ammo, arrows, bows, licenses, tags, scents, everything in the world pertaining to hunting, goes to wildlife restoration. If YOU ANTI'S don't buy this stuff....you make squat for a contribution..
So, the next time you see a hunter, give him a hug and thank him or her for helping to restore the wildlife populations back to where they we for your viewing pleasure. We know we are proud of ourselves.
Good for the little boy... But the memory he will have of his big hunt will be a messed up one... The Media (ha) what a joke... My 4 (FOUR) year old nephew Dalton shot a doe in Alabama this Wednesday.(deer for those of you that don't know what a doe is) We didn't dare call the news paper or the news channels. Just Because we didn't want all this negative around him... He did a good job and as far as we know could be the youngest to ever kill a deer with a riffle. But instead of his possibly being featured in a magazine, We will keep this memory to ourselves.
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