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G'day, I have just returned from a five day trip to my cousins station (ranch) 625 mile from my place. His 'block' is 38,000 acres of native scrub that carries no stock at the moment, as he has not restocked since an 8 year drought that ended 2 years ago.
I spent 1 day travelling there, 3 days hunting & 1 day on the return drive.



Wild pigs are just returning to the area, but are hard to find.
The hunting was hard work, I just walked through scrub alone, taking a lot of care so as I didn't get lost. The country is dead flat with no outstanding landmarks & you can't walk a straight line because you are constantly walking around bushes, trees etc. (I must get a GPS!). Weather was very hot and on the last hunting day it reached 109 degrees in the shade.
But yesterday morning (1st Jan) I found what I was looking for; what a way to start the new year! The hard work was worth it. Not just a pig, but a boar!

G'shot! What do you shoot slugs or buckshot? Those critters do so much damage. Enjoy your posts on shooting in Australia.

I used 1 1/4 oz buckshot load. 15 balls to the 1 1/4 oz.
Gun is a Beretta 471 Silverhawk.

Are you going to cook him up and eat him Aussie? I believe you guys down under would say put him on the Barbie?

No, he is not going onto the barbie because I seen what he had been eating. Putrid, rotten dead kangaroos and goannas with maggots as a condiment. Very unsafe eating I think.

I hate those damned things with a passion! Last week a neighboring ranch with about 10,000 acres hired a helicopter and shooter to kill as many as possible. In about half day they confirmed 271 kills and many got away. Heaven only knows how many we have but they are a plague, destroying turf, fences, and everything else. We're going to start feeding them a stew of clay targets, diesel oil, and corn. Ought'a fatten them up nicely!

Joe, I was woodcocking Saturday before last and had what I believe was a sow bluff charge my dog and me. We must have gotten a little too close to her and her brood. I was in thick rivercane when my Britt Abby started barking. I knew what was going on and when I called, she came to me. I put the gun down to leash her and when I did a coal black hog about as tall but two to three times Abby's weight charged us. Out of reaction, I ran towards it hollering. The hog spun on its heels and ran away. I got the hell out of there. When I first saw the hog it was less than 5 yards away. If it ain't gators, it's snakes. If it ain't snakes, it's gators. If ain't gators or snakes, it's hogs. Crap. I put in a call today for cut gear for Abby. She already wears a skid plate vest for regular rough and tumble conditions so I might as well get her something a little more robust than what Lion Country offers. A hog hunter in SW Oklahoma told me that every year he hears about bird dogs being killed by hogs. Apparently they have a Eurasian strain that is badass. www.hardcorehogdogs.com offers a Kevlar vest for baying dogs. This happened to a man in my wife's home county. Stan probably knows him. http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2081&cid=84 Damn hogs. Gil

Gil there are a bunch of guys in my home town up here that know about the hog problem you guys have and would enjoy a good hog hunt. Trouble is that they don't know anyone down there or where to go. We're all Germans up here and like pork sausage with our saurkraut, beer, 'n schnapps. Hell a hog is soul food to us.

Jerb,

Years ago we had a duck lease and an outfitter had the hog rights. Folks from all over the country came to hunt with this outfitter who is no longer in business. One morning when we finished the duck hunt, one of the outfitter�s men was standing near his truck on the rice field dike with the tailgate down and an open cage. He had just released a �wild� boar into the marsh. He said he could hear the dogs coming up in pursuit so he needed to skedaddle before the �sports� saw him and put two and two together. No doubt the boar was wild before trapping, but I don�t believe the brochure described this procedure in detail��catch and release� hog hunting.
On the land there was another area that food was put out for the hogs in the woods. The local Krispy Kreme owner would give the outfitter the day old doughnuts to �bait� hogs and hold them in the area. The hogs got addicted to the doughnuts and hovered in the woods while the doughnuts were dropped-off. Wild America.
Gil

Well, Krispy Kreme is a gateway drug to all sorts of food addiction. No suprise the hogs got hooked.

Friend of mine went bowhunting for bears over bait a few years back. He passed on a large bear, saying he just couldn't draw and shoot while (or after) the bear was chowing down on a jelly donut and had powdered sugar all over its snout. Totally blew the moment for him.