Thread: Wild dogs - Discussion

I recall a bloke telling me how he and a mate were shooting pheasants in some very difficult access area of (I think) Kaingaroa forest?
Got to an old hut and there were two dogs on the veranda which slipped off and disappeared into the trees when the blokes appeared.
Next thing the dogs - big heavy bully types are coming at them at full pace. Both shot in the face at close range.
He thought that they may have been guard dogs for a dope patch but it was the wrong time of year ?? or pig dogs gone wild ? anyway they were pleased that they had shotties and not Rods.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

I recall a bloke telling me how he and a mate were shooting pheasants in some very difficult access area of (I think) Kaingaroa forest?
Got to an old hut and there were two dogs on the veranda which slipped off and disappeared into the trees when the blokes appeared.
Next thing the dogs - big heavy bully types are coming at them at full pace. Both shot in the face at close range.
He thought that they may have been guard dogs for a dope patch but it was the wrong time of year ?? or pig dogs gone wild ? anyway they were pleased that they had shotties and not Rods.

Do you know the date of this
Was it Matea Lodge - Kiangaroa (old and not used anymore)

1975/6
I was staying there, as mate and I were Thinning to waste our Summer High prune block (doing more hunting and Possuming than Silver-culture :-)
Had an Irish Setter (the one I told you other day about that chased that magnificent Royal Stag that I got solid lock up Buck fever on :-(

I was crapping myself every night as Setter Bitch came on heat and this huge black and tan dog came in every night and howled etc
After 3 or 4 nights of this almost "Hound of the Baskervilles" reenactment - I let her out

She was gone for 2 days
Had a 11 litter of pups 9 weeks later - then on coons in Awamarino district

I got a shot at that Dog - but missed as leaning out the window was not the best of options for rest and crap torches in those days (prob also suffering from Dog Fever :-)