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Just thought you would like an update of the August shoot after 3 days of hunting 83 pigs were bagged. One section I walked into one afternoon showed great sign so I backed out to choose my time. So two days later I popped in for a sneak around and picked up 19 pigs in 1 hour with the 300 mag. A lot were dropped on the spot and the others not knowing what happened just put there heads down and kept eating all while I was hiding behind a tree.
Next day I did a big ride around on the quad and picked up about 14 that day and should have been about 25 as I got the quad bogged and in the spinning of the tyres mud got into the action of the Hawke eye 243 so waiting for the right time to start the trip home being dusk cam across heaps of pigs but the mud stopped the trigger engaging. To the heart ache of it just had to watch as they ran in front of me crossing the rd even running down the fence line 20 m in front me stopping when I did.
That’s why I got the synthetic stock its shower proof and thus started the next dilemma had a few( cups of tea) ? cleaned it and its all good ready to go. Got into the reed and started to see hogs only to find 80% of my eye piece fogged up. It was average only got 6 pigs and watched about 20 run away while trying to find the black spot around the clear section of glass around the outside of the eye piece. The remedy was unscrew the eye piece light the wood heater and sit it on top 40 min solved.
I walked in from the opposite end and found the day care centre lounge room and restaurant and for two days walked through the same patch nailing more every day and still had so many around me but you just cant see them. The last day produced 32 pigs and at 5.30 ball deep in water hit the 80 mark and the wall. So I started to walk back doing the very load trudge in water and a big boar ran from the right in front of me so then its 81. On the way back to camp found 4 more out in the open going out to feed on the crop next door so that’s were 82 and 83 came from.
Oh the cat was a bonus as you know they kill so much of our fauna
Cheers Jb
Just thought you would like an update of the August shoot after 3 days of hunting 83 pigs were bagged. One section I walked into one afternoon showed great sign so I backed out to choose my time. So two days later I popped in for a sneak around and picked up 19 pigs in 1 hour with the 300 mag. A lot were dropped on the spot and the others not knowing what happened just put there heads down and kept eating all while I was hiding behind a tree.
Next day I did a big ride around on the quad and picked up about 14 that day and should have been about 25 as I got the quad bogged and in the spinning of the tyres mud got into the action of the Hawke eye 243 so waiting for the right time to start the trip home being dusk cam across heaps of pigs but the mud stopped the trigger engaging. To the heart ache of it just had to watch as they ran in front of me crossing the rd even running down the fence line 20 m in front me stopping when I did.
That’s why I got the synthetic stock its shower proof and thus started the next dilemma had a few( cups of tea) ? cleaned it and its all good ready to go. Got into the reed and started to see hogs only to find 80% of my eye piece fogged up. It was average only got 6 pigs and watched about 20 run away while trying to find the black spot around the clear section of glass around the outside of the eye piece. The remedy was unscrew the eye piece light the wood heater and sit it on top 40 min solved.
I walked in from the opposite end and found the day care centre lounge room and restaurant and for two days walked through the same patch nailing more every day and still had so many around me but you just cant see them. The last day produced 32 pigs and at 5.30 ball deep in water hit the 80 mark and the wall. So I started to walk back doing the very load trudge in water and a big boar ran from the right in front of me so then its 81. On the way back to camp found 4 more out in the open going out to feed on the crop next door so that’s were 82 and 83 came from.
Oh the cat was a bonus as you know they kill so much of our fauna
Cheers Jb
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