Paolo is an Italian who lives and works in Taiwan. He follows all of my articles on my web site so he knows a lot more about me than I know about him. This was to be his third trip over to get out for a hunt with me and as an added advantage for Paolo I was going to put my young pup Snow onto the training pigs for the first time. Paolo has a thing for cameras as he has so many that he could use a different one each day of the week.
One thing that we did do was put a harness on Lightning with a go pro camera on his back and another one under his chest. The one under his chest did not come out as well as the footage from the one on his back.
For our first hunt Fog and Lightning bailed a 66 pound boar which Paolo got to shot and he carried it all the way out on his own. On our second hunt we spotted a white boar trying to sneak out over the top of the hill. Fog and Lightning followed him for a long way as we got to watch this boar run up and down the gullies opposite us with a good head start on the dogs. By the time the dogs finally caught up with this boar he had run over four KM and was two KM away from us. It took us a wee while to catch up to the action and this boar knew his stuff.
He knew that he could not out run the dogs but he also knew that we were the real danger. As we came over a rise we could see the boar out in the open tussock with the two dogs bailing, he was looking back at the place where we were about to come into view of him.
As soon as we walked out too where this boar could see us he moved around into the next face. Paolo at this stage was feeling the effects of a big hike to get to here. I could tell that this boar was going to keep on walking on the dogs so the first chance I got I shot him. I carried him 500 meters back to a track that I could get the bike to then I left Paolo with the boar and started on my 8 KM journey over the large range back to the bike. By the time I made it back to the bike I thought that I was going to be very saw the next day as I had pushed my body pretty hard.