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November 2012

Digger work

  My dream is coming together, I think most pig hunters have that dream of having their own hunting grounds, not having to worry getting permission. Over the years my dreams have gone further and further. What started as having my own place for myself has graduated to allowing other hunters to come in with […]

An easy pig

Things have been getting busy lately as my wife and I are planning on building a house on our block of land before next winter.  Also we are moving up to live in the hut until we get a building up. So last night I was up until 1.30 am this morning clearing branches from […]

Shaun Robinson and dogs King and Elfie

Shaun is from Seddon where he has a vineyard.  He had came in for 48 hours training with his two 18 month old dogs, they are predominantly Lab / collie cross. They where both quite large dogs so I thought that they may have been reasonably hard but was surprised that they where not to […]

Spraying

One of those jobs that comes around every year as the grass starts to grow again. To keep the pigs in the fences have to be good. To build the fence took me a year of my spare time, it is 1.5 km long and fences off a 25 acre block of pines and native. […]

Wayne Paget and dog Chloe

Wayne is from Waiau and has been hunting for quite a few years now. His young dog Chloe has started to show a bit of interest in the pigs now so Wayne wanted to give her a session in the block to help her to develop a bit quicker. On her first run in the […]