This was to be the third year that the Ridgeline judging team have helped with running this comp and the first year for the new owner Stu Mee. One of the patrons John Bruce had a lot to do with the organize of the comp with a prize pool worth over eight thousand dollars of Money and prizes. John had also helped to get and set up one of the best hanging racks that our team has had the pleasure of using. These racks were erected in a rectangle shape and with a bit of Ridgeline tape we had the area in the middle clear of people so we did not have to work around people when moving animals from the scales to the racks to hang.
On the racks we hung the pigs up by their jaws with their front legs facing out so any person could walk around the outside and see the tag with the weight and the persons name who caught it. We also had the help of one lifter Tom who was a big man, he made a 3XL shirt look small. He was really put to the test when we had to lift up a 151 kg stag and defiantly earnt himself a beer at the end to replace some of the fluid that he had lost.
One hunter Don Burrows arrived to late for the weigh in as it had taken him a while to get his boar out. We did weigh his boar as he wanted to know what it weighed but was not entered. This boar would have taken out the best tusks if he had got it in on time as it measured 20 2/8. It was good to see that we had a couple of hunters come up to us and question us about weighing this boar in after the cut off time, this keeps us honest and they were OK once they found out that it was not entered, rules are rules.
Stu had done a very good job of supplying a free BBQ and roast pork sandwiches for all of the people at the comp.
Another highlight for me was at the prize giving when my son Bryce got up on the microphone for the first time and done the Ridgeline team proud reading out the prizes, this is one of the hardest jobs to do. A lot of people don’t realize how hard it can be until you are standing in front of three hundred people that are all looking at you. With our team taking on more competitions all the time it is good to have guys and girls in our team that can do all of the jobs from scrutineering, weighing recording and presenting.
Results
Biggest boar
1st Ashley Duckworth 157 pounds
2nd Andy Jones 139 pounds
3rd Brad Carswell 130 pounds
4th David Good 128 pounds
5th John Bruce 127 pounds
6th Logan Doake 126 pounds
7th Simon Vincent 123 pounds
8th Brent Harmer 120 pounds
9th George Aitken 119 pounds
10th Taieri Mullen 118 pounds
Average weight boar Jack Good 110 pounds
above average Micheal Fox
Bellow average Taieri Mullen
Best tusks Ashley Duckworth 18
Heaviest sow
1st Steve Tapp 121 pounds
2nd Camo 108 pounds
3rd Frances Drake 92 pounds
Average weight sow Alister Clearwater 79 pounds
above average Frances Drake
bellow average Alister Clearwater
Heaviest stag
1st Andy Stewart 333 pounds
2nd Frances Drake 240 pounds
3rd Steve Tapp 223 pounds
4th John Bruce 206 pounds
5th Noel Walsley 189 pounds
Heaviest hind
1st Steve Tapp 156 pounds
2nd Dave Burrows 130 pounds
KIDS SECTION
Heaviest Possum
1st P J Mcintosh
2nd Casey Mcintosh
3rd Sam Burrows
Heaviest Hare
1st Jack Clapshaw
2nd Isla Cunningham
3rd William Hassall
Heaviest rabbit
1st Indy Stringer
2nd Joe Cameron
3rd Larussa Burrows