From sitting on the deck at home I spotted 2 boars on the opposite face. The bigger one looked to be about 120 pounds, light ginger with some black spots. The smaller one was a Grey boar about 90 pounds. Because of this time of the year hunting has to be either early or late because of the heat of the day. The first chance I got to get out saw me arrive to the spot I had seen these two boars at 6.30am and the sun was was already warming things up. When I went to check the garmin handpeice I realized that I had left it on the bike 100 meters up the face above me. Rastus was mucking around with me while Tig and Bro were gone so I climbed back up to the bike. The other two dogs caught back up to me and I could see on the tracker where they had gone which is where I would have expected these 2 boars to be. A little later Rastus and Bro went for a good look around but still did not catch up with them. I had a big smile on my face as I rode back to the house because these three dogs had caught me a good pig every hunt for the last three months and here I was knowing that there were Pigs there and the dogs could not find them.
That evening I was sitting on the deck looking at where the pig rooting was and there was those two boars back digging up more.
Next chance I got to get out was four days later after night shift and this time the day was a lot cooler with a forecast of showers turning up by 8am so I had two hours to try and nab one of these boars. I just parked the bike above the sign and let the dogs do there thing. It was Tig and Bro that bailed up together soon to be joined by Rastus. As I was heading down Bro grabbed the boar which saw Tig come back to me because he knows that I don’t like to hear Pigs squealing. When I got close I talked to Bro so he stood back and bailed well. I managed to get into a position on a fern directly above the boar so I took my time to get some footage. Was interesting to see how the three dogs bailed from a different angle yet put on very little pressure in the footage you can see Bro bailing in front of the boar, Rastus is to the right and Tig who is not doing much barking is standing to the left. This boar would have worked out by now who the biggest threat was and that is Tig. Tig knows this so he just has to look at the boar as long as he does not put any pressure on the boar will not want to charge him. Rastus loves bailing and does not put too much pressure on so this left the boar focusing on Bro so he was in his element as he just loves bailing boars. This boar looked to be about 90 pounds and was probably the same boar I called the dogs off six weeks earlier and today was again his lucky day as I called the dogs off Him again.
