--- description: An Alabama taxidermist will preserve an animal he shot and killed himself: a massive, 820-pound wild hog. title: An Alabama Man Shot an 820-Pound Wild Hog image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80f48d9cb0957a8b/6988d675fb4eaca14e892fdb/170720_wild-hog.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [animals](/tag/animals/) ## animals Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Alabama Man Shoots 820-Pound Wild Hog in His Front Yard  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 20, 2017 3:19 PM CUT  In this Tuesday, July, 11, 2017, photo provided by Wade Seago, the taxidermist stands next to a dead hog in Samson, Ala. Seago shot and killed the 820-pound animal with his .38-caliber handgun and plans to mount the head and shoulders. In this Tuesday, July, 11, 2017, photo provided by Wade Seago, the taxidermist stands next to a dead hog in Samson, Ala. Seago shot and killed the 820-pound animal with his .38-caliber handgun and plans to mount the head and shoulders.Courtesy of Wade Seago via AP  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 20, 2017 3:19 PM CUT An Alabama taxidermist [will preserve](http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/news/nationworld/weird/ct-wild-hog-alabama-20170720-story.html?i10c.referrer= "undefined") an animal he shot and killed himself: a massive, 820-pound wild hog. Wade Seago [told al.com](http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2017/07/man%5Fshoots%5F820%5Fpound%5Fwild%5Fhog.html "undefined") he saw the hog in the front yard of his home in Samson, Ala. last week after his schnauzer, Cruiser, began barking at it. Seago said that he had never seen a hog that large, and was worried it could harm his family pet. So he fatally shot the hog three times with his .38 caliber revolver. “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.” According to the [Associate Press](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/weird/ct-wild-hog-alabama-20170720-story.html "undefined"), Seago plans to mount the head and shoulders of the hog. He weighed the hog on large scales at a nearby peanut company. In Alabama, feral hogs are a game animal that are known to create hundreds of millions of dollars of agricultural damage in the U.S. per year, al.com reports. People in the state can legally hunt wild hogs on private land. “I didn’t think twice about taking down this hog,” Wade told al.com. “I’d do it again tomorrow.” \[[_al.com_](http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2017/07/man%5Fshoots%5F820%5Fpound%5Fwild%5Fhog.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4866213/alabama-man-shoots-giant-wild-hog/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4866213/alabama-man-shoots-giant-wild-hog/"},"headline":"Alabama Man Shoots 820-Pound Wild Hog in His Front Yard","datePublished":"2017-07-20T15:19:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:38:39.663Z","description":"An Alabama taxidermist will preserve an animal he shot and killed himself: a massive, 820-pound wild hog.","url":"https://time.com/4866213/alabama-man-shoots-giant-wild-hog/","keywords":["animals","hunting","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80f48d9cb0957a8b/6988d675fb4eaca14e892fdb/170720_wild-hog.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80f48d9cb0957a8b/6988d675fb4eaca14e892fdb/170720_wild-hog.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170720_big hog","caption":"Big Hog Killed","creditText":"Courtesy of Wade Seago via AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4866213/alabama-man-shoots-giant-wild-hog/","name":"Alabama Man Shoots 820-Pound Wild Hog in His Front Yard"}}]}] ```