Just back from a late night stake out...
A mate has had a fair bit of this show up in one of his paddocks lately.
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When I first saw it I thought...what a bloody mess, surely there must be more than one? Set up a camera and yep 4 of the buggers.
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I headed out to his place tonight once the kids were in bed and off down to set up in the paddock.
Borrowed a couple of hay bales and sat down behind those about 100m back from where he thought they were coming under the fence.
After about an hour or so we started to hear the odd noise in the scrub behind the fence. A breaking stick, the sound of moving scrub, another breaking stick. Then a snuffle and even a few grunts [emoji106]
Slowly they got closer and closer coming down the hill towards the paddock. First time I've thought "man a thermal would be awesome right now".
But that we didn't have so we just kept on waiting, and listening for an eternity in the pitch blackness.
Eventually we could hear what sounded like feeding. Surely they must be in the paddock by now?
So the only thing for it was to get ready, flick on the maxtoch and hope....."you ready bro?" "Yep"
I was already behind the rifle and looking through the scope when the lights went on expecting to see pigs everywhere [emoji3]
NOTHING...there was nothing there, what? What the hell? We could hear them for the last hour so where did they go??
I was just lying there looking through my scope feeling a little bemused when two eyes rose up out of the grass on the edge of the scrub.
I kid you not but those eyes came up on either side of the cross hairs. PERFECT...Boom!!
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Never saw the other ones at all. Which means if the paddock destruction doesn't stop I'm picking there will be another late night stake out happening soon.
Not bad for a Thursday.
Hot barrels all [emoji106]
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