Thread: First pig in years......

Went out today looking for goats and came back with a nice eating wild pig! The idea was to hunt a couple of clearings to pick up 2 or 3 goats for mince. I hunted and waited by the clearings all afternoon but absolutely zilch. Well that's not quite true; as when I hopped out of the car there were 2 goats staring at me through the roadside scrub about 8-metres away. But.... Not allowed to shoot on the road etc so I let them go.....

So I decided to try another gully a few kms along hoping there maybe one or two goats out. The gully gets hammered hard by pig hunters and of course they often shoot goats for pig bait; but there are still often some about.

Anyway; I'd walked about 1/2 a km down the gully; it was about 4.30 pm and the gully was getting a bit shadowy with low sun. About 50-metres away I saw a black log that looked just like a pig facing in my direction in the foot high grass. Anyway sure enough it raised and lowered its head a few times and I could 100% guarantee it was a pig. It dropped like a hot spud with a 55gr Buffalo River in the swede! It was a bloody nice eater that dressed out at about 25kg (head on)

The funny thing is that I had a feeling there were pigs about. Why I don't know. And about a minute before seeing it I was thinking about how many big boars that pig hunters (with dogs) have been after for years get nailed by a goat hunter tip toeing along quietly....

Next minute...... Very strange...... To say I'm stoked is an understatement; it's the first pig I've shot for soooooo long....

Well done. Good score.

Awesome

Boom. Take that! Well done.

Shot pigs are always the best eating, nice

You should be happy with that , should be good eating.