{"id":78386,"date":"2017-07-21T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78386"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:14:35","slug":"820-pound-hog-killed-in-front-yard-in-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78386","title":{"rendered":"820-Pound Hog Killed In Front Yard In AL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20031884_1600999283254330_8151729905807330990_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78387\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20031884_1600999283254330_8151729905807330990_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20031884_1600999283254330_8151729905807330990_n.jpg 532w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20031884_1600999283254330_8151729905807330990_n-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marian Love Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Wade Seago, a deer hunter, and taxidermist in Samson,\u00a0AL, said he knew something was up outside his house on July 11 when his family\u00a0dog started barking and wouldn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter began screaming as he got up to check on his dog, Cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>He looked out the back window and saw nothing, so he ran to the front of the house and couldn\u2019t believe what he was seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Cruiser was barking at a massive wild hog, which was about five yards from the family\u2019s front porch.<\/p>\n<p>Wade said it was not a good situation and went and grabbed his .38-caliber revolver and went back onto the front porch.<\/p>\n<p>It took three shots to take the hog down before it hit the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, he took the hog to a nearby peanut company to use its scales to weigh the wild beast.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to display the hog\u2019s stuffed head and shoulders at his taxidermy shop. \u00a0Rest of meat was thrown away because of the heat and humidity.<\/p>\n<p>He had no regrets\u00a0in killing the hog which had tusk-like teeth that were 6 inches long, and would do it again,\u00a0 Feral hogs cause millions of dollars in damage annually, and hunters on private land can kill as many of them as they want under the AL and MS law.<\/p>\n<p>A mother, stepmother, grandmother and great grandmother who was taught deer hunting by my second husband, Bob, in my mid-forties. I\u2019m still hunting today and loving it!<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mariandeer.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/820-pound-hog-killed-in-front-yard-in-al.html\">http:\/\/mariandeer.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/820-pound-hog-killed-in-front-yard-in-al.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}