Rotherham comp

This was to be the first comp that I have been to that the animals outnumbered the entries. There were 65 adult entries and 66 animals weighed in 42 boars, 5 stags and 19 sows. The first ten animals weighed in went into a draw for a prize pack worth $750 which had a good majority of the animals coming in at the start of the weigh in which makes the judging job a bit easier.

There was no limit on how many animals a hunter could weigh in and some trucks had 8 – 9 pigs on them. One of the first boars weighed in was caught by a father and son, Stephen and Jaxon Davidson. This boar had taken a bit of a toll on their dogs so a couple of them maybe on compo for a while. Jaxon at only twelve years old was all smiles when they won the Mason memorial trophy for the heaviest boar.

This will not be a day that Jaxon will ever forget and he so well deserves the accolades as he gets out pig hunting with his father at every chance he gets and yes he did get this 150 pound boar up on his back. At the end of the weigh in we look over all of the boars to sort out which boar has the best tusks. At some competitions there is quite often a set of tusks that stand out from the others. At this comp we had four boars that all looked very similar so we had to measure the whole four of them. This was to be the closest that I encountered to date with two of the boars being exactly the same measurement, Tim Mcnight 18 4/8 also Jack Ramsy with a 18 4/8 the winning set only 1/8 of an inch bigger than the other two at 18 5/8 going to young Jaxon Davidson and the fourth set was not much smaller.
Heaviest boar
1^st Jaxon Davidson   150 pounds
2^nd Tim Deidrich       145 pounds
3^rd Richard Taylor     144 pounds
4^th Courtney Ridings  135 pounds
5^th Ash McCone           132 pounds
6^th Mark Raine             131 pounds
7^th Terry Ologhlin        130 pounds
8^th Andy Odonnell       130 pounds
9^th Jack Ramsey           130 pounds
10^th Kelvyn Jones         129 pounds
Heaviest sow
1^st Neil Forbs             118 pounds
2^nd Dan Pemberton 107 pounds
Heaviest stag
1^st Matt Bailey             266 pounds
2^nd Tim Deidrich          251 pounds
3^rd Corey Henderson  246 pounds
4^th Grant Duncan         244 pounds
5^th Paul Clemens          157 pounds
Best tusks
Jaxon Davidson  18 5/8