Commercial hunting reservations

You know what these are, eh? Places where tamed animals are let loose so that hunters can go and shoot them, and then act like they'd actually done something? Or other animals with no natural enemies can grow to enormous size and feel no fear...until they feel a bullet entering their body....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/25/monster.pig.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
is the URL.

Here's the excerpt that struck me:

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.

"I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who lives in Pickensville on the Mississippi border. He just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school.

His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast, with 5-inch tusks, decided to charge.

In other words, the boy chases this suffering animal for 3 hours with a hand gun, meanwhile Dad and guides had high-powered rifles and could have [perhaps] finished it off immediately, but they didn't because they wanted the boy to get the honor of killing the pig all to himself.

To get that big...I wonder how old it was?

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

Other than that... well, at least they're making sausage out of it so they'll get food out of it, as opposed to just taking the head to mount and leaving the rest of it to rot...