The Hororata comp was organised by five of the locals as a fund raiser for the local community. This was to be the first year for this competition and by the end of the day the organisers said that they will definitely be running it again so the Ridgeline team have already been booked.
Three of the Ridgeline team attended, Bill Westwood, Bryce Westwood and Jamie Heywood. This comp was for boars only and stags for both adults and junior sections. There were two large pigs that stood out from the rest. One weighed in by Mathew Neal turned out to be a very large barrow weighing in at 227 pounds. In the rules it stated that pigs must have their nuts attached so the barrow was not allowed to be entered. The other big pig was in fact a nice large boar which weighed in at 201 pounds and was shot by a young hunter in the Junior section.
This was to be only the second pig that Madison Taylor had ever shot so it will be one of those memories for Madison that he will never forget for the rest of his life. He shared this hunt with his father Greg along with Aidan Christie and Kim Christie. It was a privilege to hand out the Ridgeline two ton tops to these hunters at the competition.
In the pigs tusks section there were a number of reasonably good jaws, if it were not for one top jaw standing out from the rest I would have had to measured about five different boars tusks to work out the best.
It makes the judges job a lot easier when there is a stand out and Shaun Monk’s boar had a ripper of a set of tusks on him.
There was a number of events to get the people involved, like the pig carrying competition and the possum throwing competition. For the possum throwing the organisers made up a dummy possum to keep the PC public from having something to complain about.
In the stags section there were 9 stags in the adult section and 2 in the Junior section. The adult boar section weighed in 17 boars with the Junior section weighing in 5 boars.
Results are Seniors Boars
1st 158 pounds Mathew Neil
2nd 154 pounds Shaun Monk
3rd 148 pounds Wayne Pullen
4th 145 pounds Joe Adams
5th 139 pounds Ryan Nisbit
Junior boars
1st 201 pounds Madison Taylor
2nd 129 pounds Harry Smith
3rd 118 pounds Jack Dedhaman
Average weight boar
117 pounds Shaun Mullen
Above average
127 pounds Greg Taylor
Bellow average
110 pounds Don Rouche
Best tusks
21 3/8 Shaun Monk
Seniors stags
1st 306 pounds Raymond Oconnel
2nd 286 pounds Phil Hawkes
3rd 273 pounds Phoebe James
Junior section
1st 128 pounds Sam Harrison
2nd 84 pounds oakly Jordan
Best antlers
Phil Hawkes