Month: October 2012

Waiau pig hunting competition
Competition results

Waiau competition

October 25, 2012 Bill Westwood 0

Labour weekend the 21 of October 2012 was the weigh in day for the annual Waiau pig hunting competition. One of the main organizers of this comp is Joanne Moriarty and this year she has […]

Big boar bailed
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Big boars

October 20, 2012 Bill Westwood 1

Lets face it when we go out pig hunting we want to catch good pigs not have our dogs out there mauling small pigs. For every small pig that your dogs kill is one less […]

Two dogs bailing a boar
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Richard Hands

October 18, 2012 Bill Westwood 0

Richard comes from Dunedin and has been hunting for a few years now with very good results. I had acquired my last dog ( Fog ) off Richard who is now ten months old. Richard […]

3 dogs bailing wild boar
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Dane Perkins and Tyrone Todd

October 15, 2012 Bill Westwood 0

Dane and Tyrone have only got into the sport of pig hunting in the past year but are already hooked and want to learn as much about the sport as they can. Dane works as […]

Fonterra milk tanker
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Milk tankers

October 13, 2012 Bill Westwood 0

I have been very busy over the last week driving a milk tanker for Fonterra out of Clandeboye in South Canterbury. This is my thirteenth season driving tankers and for the past two seasons I […]

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Shearing the sheep

October 3, 2012 Bill Westwood 0

A big part of having a pig dog training facility is having the other animals around for the dogs to get used to, so that other hunters can see how their dogs will react when […]