I am not a big fan of hunting. I mean, if you are living off the land and your hungry and cold, then I get it. You will kill things for food and use the hides for clothing or shelter. But recreational hunting has always seemed weird to me. The whole idea of someone getting all fired up to stalk something which is minding its own damn business, chase it down and kill it seems barbaric when it isn’t necessary for survival.

Also, the way that hunters talk about it seems so cold and disrespectful. Almost like they are just going out for some soda at the local quickie mart. I always get the feeling that these folks are not that far away from taking this sport to the people, if you get my drift.

The other thing that I think is weird is the way that they indoctrinate their children (the boys mostly) into this “sport” at a really early age. Relying on the idea that you are a man when you make your first kill. And nothing about this story changes my mind.

That’s some pig: Boy, 11, shoots 1,051 pound hog

An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.[…]

“It feels really good,” Jamison said. “It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”

Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Monster Pig. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot.

Through it all, there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation for doing.

Well, wouldn’t you if someone had shot you eight times and you could still move? Oh, and the head is being stuffed and mounted for all to see. Well, of course it is. Wouldn’t you?

Just, ech.

Via CNN