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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

One less devil swine among us: Hogzilla Jr. Shot in North Carolina



Beasts of the Southern Wild was a good movie with a catchy title.  But the subject matter should have been different. The title should have been used on the huge wild hogs of the deep south. They truly are beasts of epic, legendary proportions that defy description and need pictures.  They need epic nicknames.
 
Hogzilla Jr. done in by heavy artillery in Eastern Carolina
About ten years ago, there was an expose and intense controversy on Hogzilla, a 1000-poundhog shot in Georgia that was nine feet long. Let’s get out minds around that one. The thing was as big as a cow, and had tusks.  It was like a large shark on land, running untamed through the Georgia woods until someone shot it and the whole thing was put on TV. Some called BS. Some said that such a thing couldn’t happen. That it was made up.  Or perhaps, they just thought it had crossed the border from Florida where things like that are not only considered possible but probable.

Now, Hogzilla’s slightly smaller brother has been shot in Eastern Carolina.  (see full story here).  It was officially on the northern side of the bi-state line, but anyone who is from the Carolinas or has spent any time there will tell you that there are three Carolinas. North Carolina, which is mostly civilized, home to huge banks and the Research Triangle and some piney woods. North Carolina brings us technology and basketball. South Carolina brought us Stephen Colbert and Mark Sanford, the former governor who was hiking the South American trail with his mistress for days on end as a massive man-hunt went on.  South Carolina brings us comedy.  Then there’s East Carolina.  It has its own university. It is the eastern side of both Carolinas and is in the lowlands and has no cultural or other ties to the rest of the Carolinas. It is its own land that is closer to Northern Florida than to the Research Triangle.

It also has a massive, epic hog problem, and guys with what look like automatic rifles in hunting clubs to hunt them down.

There was a hogzilla running around Eastern Carolina that some said was almost as big as the epic Georgia hogzilla.  Years of stalking, hunting, and gearing up finally got it.  It was so big that the hunting club’s scale, which tops out at 500 pounds didn’t even hold its head or feet.  As you can see, it has a huge head.  It will make enough sausage to feed the hunter’s family for a year.  You can imagine the damage that thing did to the woods and other woodland creatures.  Can you imagine being a raccoon in the woods and seeing that thing coming?  A goat? 

Thankfully the well-armed folks of East Carolina got this hogzilla. There are more out there in the swamps. God help us if they get to the beer or the whiskey stills that still dot the lowland swamps.

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