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The three dog fooders. And the final commentary on the day... Cheers.
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Got out for a training run today. I took the experienced Bobby and the green Roger up into the higher country to see if we could give the younger dog a few more opportunities to do the right thing. On the way I had a bit of encouragement, spotting a little mob of pigs in a paddock beside the main road. Didn't have access to the country so they lived to grunt another day. I had the quad on board because the property I was heading to has been wet and its tracks are rocky and slippery. It's much easier to lift the quad out of trouble than the truck... This is the place with the 6000 sheep, mo
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Most are in the past two years. One of two mastiff type dogs holding a boar is from 1982. A couple of others are from about 2004. One son is obsessed. I am obsessed. My uncle Tom (RIP) was obsessed. His sons were and one of their sons is. It definitely pops up a lot in out family. We are outdoor type people. I have rels who own lots of land and it is just understood we will be there to hunt pigs. Fishing is the other thing that there is a bit of an obsession about in the family. Cheers.
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Here's a new compilation of some boars you've seen and others you mightn't have. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mkP65pwazs Cheers.
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It's Winter here now so the temp has been down to -8C at night so the snakes aren't out much in the day let alone the night. You do see snakes when it's warmer but their objective is usually to get away. If one does hit a dog you've got f**k all hope. Same if one hits you. Very serious snakes in Oz. Some experts list nine of the world's top 10 here. Of those the ones near us are the Eastern Brown Snake and the King Brown. There are also Tiger Snakes. Those three will roll a dog or a man no probs but as I said mostly they want to get away. There are also Black snakes (Red-Bellied Blacks) they a
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Went for a look in in some mountain scrub today and picked up four. Bit of a mixed run because I reckon I should have got more but Mary was coming into season and all the team seemed to have lost their collective mind. Still ended the run with a 50-odd kg boar so I was happy with that. The other three were 25kgs and below. There were others there but the dogs tended to mob up on little ones instead of picking their own or running on. Grateful for the four but a bit pissed off I didn't do better. Had a few wild moments on the tracks too. It had been raining and some of the slopes were very gr
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It can be more awkward sticking the little pigs but more because the dogs can pull them around so the technique for us is to flip the pig on it's side and then order the dogs off. They let go and there's plenty of room. Dog cam would be awesome. I've got a head cam and we've toyed with putting it on a dog but it's a bit expensive for me to experiment with. Cheers.
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Some of the country.
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Got away for a run on some new country for about 24 hours from Friday afternoon until just on dark on Saturday. Beautiful country...high steep ridges running down to oats etc on creek flats. And pigs... Probably saw 50 but managed to knock over 14 before the rain on Saturday made the mountain tracks too dangerous to attempt. Not a lot of rain but easy to get into a sideways slide down into some ugly gullies. ScottR had invited me to one of his spots and I couldn't be more grateful. Top run, very comfortable camp and plenty of pigs if you had the legs to get to them. I didn't. I did a hamstrin
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Thanks again fellas. Just back from a visit to see a mate who manages 16,000 acres of mountain country. Had a good run on the pigs so I'll post pix and a report as soon as the camera battery recharges. I'll answer your questions too, just having a coffee and a bit of a rest. I've done a hamstring trying to run up a gully to get the best boar of the trip so I'm lying around a bit ATM. Cheers.
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I'll get some pix of them for you but they are a fairly basic steel mesh box about three metres long by 1.5 x 1.5. The door in is hinged at the top and is offset at an angle of about 20 or 30 degrees from the vertical. The trap is baited with grain or whatever and the door tied open so the pigs free feed for a while. Once the pigs are feeding regularly the door is unhooked and propped open with a stick. Next time the pigs go in they bump the stick and the door shuts. Other pigs can still push in through the door but it is only a one way deal. The offset angle allows the gate weight to keep it
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Thanks for comments again fellas... Had a property babysitting job at the weekend so, of course, it turned into a hunt. The cockie (farmer) is a bit sensitive about who and what and all that sort of stuff but he knows Paul and I so all good.Our mate Scotty was down too to pick up a dog so the cockie invited him to help feed the cat, the chooks, the farm dogs and the big domestic sow wandering around just outside the houseyard. Scotty and I went down early to do the jobs and picked up a pig for our trouble. Paul arrived about 2am after a birthday party (not his) and we all went for a dr
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The weekend yielded a few more hogs but I did it tough... First things first though. Paul got another five early in the weekend with another two reasonable boars and a few more holes in the hounds. He was back on the seasonal place (where the pigs come for the prickly pear for a couple of months a year...) The boars were 56 and 62 and both had useful tusks although niether were special. Hannah and her son BJ caught both boars. Hannah led with BJ following her rather than following the track himself so he will have a few goes on his own to bring him on a bit more. The three other pigs were all
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Bloody Paul has struck again. Her got a call from a cockie late yesterday to say there was a couple in his traps on one block so he took off after work to pick them up and forgot his camera. He got five in the traps. He had BJ and Suzie with him because it was only a service call and caught another five pigs in the open. Of the 10 he got he boxed eight 48, 46, 45, 43, 39, 36, 35 and a 25 kgs dressed. The biggest pigs wer caught by the young dogs and one of those (either the 39 or the 36 I can't recall) was a middle of the night naked in the dam pig. He said the dam was freezing and he was up t
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This is Paul's best from this evening. It's a 55kg boar he boxed, one of a total of seven pigs for the afternoon and evening. The other six were nothing special but good pup training. He took Molly the bailer and the youngsters BJ and Suzie. Molly stopped the boar and copped four stitches for her trouble but it was held by Suzie with later back-up from BJ. Another good training run. He's putting me under some pressure to catch up now... Cheers.
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G'day Dave, Between Paul and I we'd get two or three hundred pigs a year. Not all decent boars though... Cheers.
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Alright, here's the Paul update...He and his mate Dave (Dave owns Del, one of ours) went out to one of our spots midweek. The short version is they had Molly Susie and Susie's sister Del on board. Molly and Suzie jumped and headed into the rocky shit on the place and the technology showed Susie was atached to something. It took the blokes 20 minutes to climb into the spot and get Del in to back up her sister. Molly probably found the pig but Suzie swung for the 20 minutes to hold it there. He went 63 dressed and Suze came out of it without much damage. Very happy with the young bitch. Suze
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Thanks fellas, I'm back from another week camped away working. That's a story in itself... Dave C, yeah we sometimes load up with pups (Paul is one of my sons by the way, mate as well but son first...). Young dogs of that age need to face the music themselves to step up to A grade status. You always miss a few with the youngsters but there are key 'windows' in which they learn more of certain things and if you miss them you risk the dog never quite getting up to standard. All part of getting young dogs going. PS While I was away Paul got another 63 kg (dressed) boar. This time Susie held hi
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Thanks Archie, I don't feel a day over 49. Cold and wet here ATM so I'm sitting in front of the fire having a milk coffee (I still can't call them lattes...). SuperJen is cooking a proper breakfast and about midday I'm going to son James house to watch the UFC with him and my other son Paul and have a few rums. The dogs are all fed and dry so it's all good. Cheers. Oh and on the teeth. Mostly we don't even keep them but if they are a real good set we cut out the jaw and hang in on the shed to one day mount but really, for us, the photos and the experience and memory of being there is wha
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Paul just phoned in last night's results. He got four, three decent boars and missed two other gooduns. It's a relatively new place given to him by our mate Simon who has moved away. It's not a big place but there's a little feedlot and it's surrounded by bad steep scrub. The pigs come out of the shit country to feed and know their way home when the dogs jump. Paul took Hannah and three of her pups, Suzie, BJ and Del. Molly the bailer is still out of action after getting ripped up on the rough little boar in the creek last week. Anyway, he and mate Dave hit the property and scored a 66kg (dr
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Thanks jenksi87. Plenty of better operators than me out here, I can just put it into the words. Cheers.
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Sorry for the slow response. I've been camped away working for yet another week. BJ is by Kevin (RIP) out of Hannah. Kevin I bred from old Butters blood dogs Russell and Cathy and Hannah is Russell's daughter out of a deerhound bully bitch called Milly. The Butters blood dogs went back to whound, eng bully, eng mastiff and dane. But it's a long long time since the first crosses were done. Here they are just called Makim dogs now. Bj was shown pigs at about six months but was slower to come on than some of the others in the litter. He is still green but enthusiastic (and tough)... Cheers.
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I turn 50 next Sunday and there was a surprise party on Saturday night. Lot of rampaging around...just didn't have the stamina to hunt as well ha ha...
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We haven't. No crocs were we are but once a year we go to croc country and it's terrifying to hear that splash of the dogs and the pig, especially at night. Cheers.
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I didn't get out this weekend. Got caught up in a bit of a party... Paul was at the party too but he's got more go than me and got out for a look this morning. All up he got eight. Seven in one of his traps and one little boar in the water. Only two pigs boxed out of the exercise, a 27kg sow and the boar (42kgs). Boar doesn't look anything much but had a heap of go in him. Put nine holes in Molly the bailer in a hit and run, hit and run escape attempt. Paul put Hannah and Roger's brother BJ on the pig and they all ended up in the water just after dawn. They started on the edge but ended u
