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August 2012

Waiau competition

The month of August has been a busy one especially the first weekend. A works do on the Friday night was just getting me ready for a full on weekend. Saturday morning I was up early to travel to Christchurch for the Thar show. Graham Gurr from Halcyon press had a stand and was releasing […]

125 pound grey boar

Two weeks ago my son was out hunting for the Waimate competition and he got onto a good grey boar. He got to see this boar on the four wheel drive track but it gave them the slip on the day. Here I was two weeks later out on my own looking for this grey […]

Three tusk boar

My son Bryce and I had a recent hunting trip down south to co inside with the Taieri pig hunting comp that the Ridgeline team where helping to run. On the 17/8/2012 we where driving around one of the forestries with one of my main dogs Cloud and my young eight month old dog Fog […]

Anthony Godsal and Bluff

Anthony came in with his dog bluff for their first training session back in April 2 While it took a wee bite to get Bluff keen to join in on that first run she did start to get the idea of what she was there for. I find the dogs that are willing to stand […]

Transporting our dogs

When we drive down the road pig hunters wagons tend to stand out. The typical 4wd with a dog box on the back. These range from late model trucks with nice flash alloy dog boxes to rattly old trucks with the old plywood dog box on the back. When I started hunting I had an […]

Taieri pig hunting competition

Another competition for the Ridgeline judging team was held on the 19/8/2012. The minimum weight was 80 pounds and they had 74 entries. This competition was run by the Taieri pig hunting club which is good to see as I would rather see pig hunting clubs running their competitions rather than the local hotel that […]