The forecast was for showers all day so I wasn’t going to go for a hunt. I woke up to drizzle outside so decided to get some jobs done. First job to feed the six lambs up the bank. Then throw a hay bale into the feeder for the sheep before heading down to the hut block to feed 2 lambs and put a hay bale for the sheep. As I was feeding these lambs the dogs disappeared, checking the Alpha 200 showed that Rastus, Bro and Tig were tracking up the face in the covernanted block, they went out about 170 meters before doing a big ark around back below Me where I had watched a hare tracking out 30 seconds in front so I called them back in.
With seeing them so keen, and knowing that they had spent a bit of time in there kennels over the last couple of days while I had been driving a milk tanker I decided to take them for a quick hunt up in the covernanted block.
I had brought the trusty 44 down with me knowing that there was a pig on the opposite face.
The night before I had to call the dogs back off the face.
So I took the dogs for a quick run up the face opposite the house. I saw Rastus and Bro get keen and track off below the track. Watching on the tracker I could see that Bro had tracked along and up above me where the Pigs would have been feeding during the night. While Rastus had kept tracking below me where he let off a couple of barks on a number of Pigs. At that first bark Bro came straight down past me towards the bail, at the same time Tig and Fog took off. Fog had not been out for a hunt for a couple of months as he has been retired however today I did not have a collar on him so I could not see what he was up to. One of the Pigs broke which Rastus followed before the back up arrived. I turned the 4 wheeler around and headed down to the bottom of the face hoping to get an easy pig. As I pulled the bike up I could hear a pig being held 125 meters away on the opposite face. Because I hear Pigs alot I could tell that the dogs had a sow of about 80 pounds so I called them off as I could see on the tracker that Rastus had stopped a pig away down by the road. Tig and Bro both listened when I called them off and Obviously Fog was not on this pig as he would not have heard me and he was not wearing a collar. With Tig and Bro on the bike I rode down the track and pulled up 76 meters away from where Rastus and Fog were bailing. When Bro arrived the pig must have tried to break as the bail turned to a hold. Luckily Tig did not join in so the boar was only grunting. I was hoping the boar might break down into the creek but no. So I left the gun on the bike and struggled through the crap to get to them. Within Two meters and Fog must have lost his grip on the boar and it broke right into the creek where I wanted it to go.
In the creek the dogs decided to bail again at one point when i was filming you get to see when the boar spots me and thinks about charging before the dogs distract him again. After filming the action for a while I climbed up to the bike and grabbed the 44 and also got some good footage on the camera phone when I went in to shoot him.