Thread: Guttin a pig with scissors

Was flicking through some old photos and found this one



This back in about 2002 in the Marlborough back country. I spied this boar way down below me, so quickly dropped down until I felt I was close enough. No rangefinders then so no idea of the range. Dropped it with one shot of the .222 Sako vixen. Hit it in the neck from memory

When I got down to it I discovered I had left my knife behind. The only thing I had was a small pair of scissors in my first aid kit. Luckily they were pointy and sharp, and did an ok job.

The pig was bloody heavy and it was a long way back up to the truck. Luckily my mate came along eventually and I was able to cut the head off with his knife. Made the carry a lot easier after that.

One fine looking hound you got there stu...gwp???

Originally Posted by matagouri

One fine looking hound you got there stu...gwp???

Yep she was my first GWP, long gone know though. She was a better duck dog than deer hound.

Nice one Mr G I've heard of folks using a flattened fired case mouth before

Originally Posted by dannyb

Nice one Mr G I've heard of folks using a flattened fired case mouth before

Young Toby once used a fencing staple if I recall correctly.

Go the vixen. My mad mate trapped a huge boar on his farm back of Taneatua in a makeshift holding and all he had was a blunt pocket knife, did I say he was mad?

Originally Posted by stug

Was flicking through some old photos and found this one

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This back in about 2002 in the Marlborough back country. I spied this boar way down below me, so quickly dropped down until I felt I was close enough. No rangefinders then so no idea of the range. Dropped it with one shot of the .222 Sako vixen. Hit it in the neck from memory

When I got down to it I discovered I had left my knife behind. The only thing I had was a small pair of scissors in my first aid kit. Luckily they were pointy and sharp, and did an ok job.

The pig was bloody heavy and it was a long way back up to the truck. Luckily my mate came along eventually and I was able to cut the head off with his knife. Made the carry a lot easier after that.

OMG thought you were going to say you had some toe nail clippers in your first aid kit and gave it a pedicure. Way to go. Job done. Nice pic.

young mate got his first two deer in Ruahines took 4 hours to gut etc and get them out despite the fact vehicle only 1 hour away - told me he had bashed knife thru kneck with a rock to remove heads - I quess he is on a steep learning curve

I've had to bash two stones together to get a sharp edge to gut a deer once. Used another live round to begin the cut, fired parallel to the skin, then continued with the sharp stone. I have always run a spare small knife hidden in my essential gear belt ever since that event.

@landy bowled a pig on a back-country road with his truck, only had a collated strip of framing nails handy, sawed through the neck with them...

now doctor have done the autopsy and examined the powerplant via scissors can we take it cause of inertia was death .
speaking of things idiotic had a mate once who reckoned he could open a tin of bake beans with a .303. nuff said.

Smokey who was your mad mate from Taneatua my home town haha.