Thread: The pigs are getting cheeker

my pick , it will be a sow with a mob of suckers / weaners in tow. From my limited experince they wise up to hunting pressure quickly as, we went from dogging them to, spotlighting , night vision. everytime you got one or two even three or four but educated the rest...they learnt very fast and pigs up this way breed like flies ..I believe the sows come into season at 7 months old and have good numbers of wee digging machines...so you end up with some well educated mobs.

You have to get after them and keep the acid on them, I had the privilege of being part of a crew that had the pleasure of some private land with pigs coming out onto the property, it started off as hunting and ended as pest control, the damage a couple of small sows with suckers can do to a wet paddock is horrific, and when you hit a mob with dogs or rifles you get one or two the others changed their habits and got harder to hit. We ended up hunting weird hours and taking time off work to get into them mid week, some weeks there would be 3 or 4 then next time would be a dozen, killing suckers is never a pleasure but we were trying to protect the landowners grazing.

Then summer came and they disappeared, we patted ourselves on the back on a job well done, then as soon as the paddocks got wet again , Christ what a mess! 40+ pigs in two months not one over 60 lb.