An avid hunter from Samson, Alabama who owns and operates a local taxidermy business in town bagged the hog of a lifetime, and he did it right in his front yard. An 820-pound Hogzilla came walking onto his family’s 100-acre property just south of town.
If you’re not familiar with the town of Samson, Alabama it’s a town just north of the Florida-Alabama border, and it’s almost straight North from where Panama City Beach is on the panhandle. Wild hogs aren’t a rarity in this part of the world. It’s not uncommon to see them trouncing through the bushes and tearing up the earth as they move along, but an 820-pound hogzilla showing up right in the front yard of a hunter, that’s the hog of a lifetime.
When I say ‘front yard’ I mean it was literally just a few feet off the front porch. Joe Songer of AL.com got the story straight from Wade Seago, the hunter who bagged this 820-pound monster hog:
As he was about to get up and check on his dog, his daughter began screaming. “I jumped up to see what was going on,” Wade explained. “I looked out the back window and saw nothing, so I ran to the front of the house where my daughter was looking out the window. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
The dog had a huge wild hog bayed in his front yard, about 5 yards off of the front porch. “Cruiser had this huge hog confused with all of the barking and movement,” Wade continued. “It was not a good situation.”
Wade was afraid the huge hog would injure or kill the family pet so he grabbed a .38 caliber revolver that he keeps for home defense and went out on the front porch.
“By the time I got in a position to shoot, the hog was about 12 yards away,” Wade said. “Cruiser was out of my line to the hog so I fired.”
It took three shots to take him down. The giant hog hit the ground near the carport. The next day, Wade took the wild hog to Brooks Peanut Company and weighed it on the drive-thru scales. The hog tipped the scales at 820 pounds and had six inch tushes. (via AL.com)
Let’s take a glance at just how massive this hog was that showed up on Wade Seago’s front door step:
Wade Seago
Wade Seago
According to Alabama wildlife officials, feral hogs are a major threat to the local ecology. They tear up everything in their paths and disrupt every ecosystem they come in contact with. Feral hogs are considered a ‘game animal’ and there are no bag limits in the hunting of these hogs because they breed so fast the efforts to curb population numbers can’t even keep up.
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