I have been so busy with clients and hunting competitions that I have not been keeping up with some of the articles that I like to be doing so this is a quick up date on some of the boars that I have caught recently.
I traveled down South and hunted with Richard Hand and a couple of his mates for the Mornington tavern hunting competition in Dunedin. We had a good weekend with a lot of pigs and deer caught. I was a bit slack with the camera though as I only took a couple of photos of Richard carrying one of the boars out of a gully. This boar was caught on the first day of the comp by Lightning as Richard and I were closing in on the bail things went quite then twenty meters away in the broom I her Richards gun go off with him calling to me saying I think I just shot the average weight boar, and he was right it went 117 pounds. There was one twist though as there were two boars weighed in that were the same weight so we had to share the prize money.
The next week my son Bryce took out both Lightning and Fog for a hunt with a mate of his from down south, Anthony Godsall. They got onto a good boar which gave them the run around for a while before bailing in the thick gorse. Bryce said he almost had the gun to the pigs head before he could see it. This boar went 115 pounds.
Next boar I caught last week on my own. He managed to get the jump on me and it took the both Lightning and Fog two gully’s to find and bail him. Luckily for me it was only a matter of riding the 4 wheeler around to where they were. I stopped the bike well short of them as they were 400 meters away but only 100 meters above the track. When I closed in on the bail in the tight stuff the boar broke down onto the road and into the creek just below. This made things real easy for me as I walked along the road then shot the boar from about ten meters away and only had to drag him up that short distance. He weighed 133 pounds.
This last weekend I headed down South to help judge the Taieri pig hunting comp so my son Bryce took Lightning out for a hunt with his mate Corey Rose. They ended up having some real good success. One of the pigs that they almost had swam out into the lake that they were hunting beside only to have a boat come along and grab the pig out of the water and take off with it. I don’t think it worried them to much though and they though it was a good laugh. They also caught a 120 pound sow and a real stroppy 150 pound boar that Corey shot just after the boar had
thrown one of the dogs in the air. By the time the dog hit the ground on top of the pig it was dead as Corey’s shot had hit the boar right at the base of the neck and he did not even kick.
That’s four articles written tonight only two more and I will be caught up. Time for bed I think so that I will be ready for my next client that is coming in dog training tomorrow.