k99yle 53 Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Thanks very much for the comments Aussiepigger... Now for the latest news...I have been appointed a Game Manager for the northern region of NSW acting for the Game Council of NSW. My area will reach from near Port Macquarie to Broken Hill and up to the Queensland border. I don't know the land area yet but looking on a map is seems bigger than Great Britain...I am the only bloke covering the area so I have a bit of travelling ahead of me ha ha. Anyway, the job is to promote ethical hunting, finding hunting opportunities on public land for legal hunters and catching poachers. I will also be arranging hunter training and that includes dogging pigs and shooting deer, foxes, wild dogs, rabbits hares and so on. I'm looking forward to the challenge but the immediate impact will be that I will have to drop this thread until I find out what I can and can't say (Game Manager is a government position so there are rules about how much we say without departmental approval. So I will disappear for a while and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their feedback and support. As soon as I can I'll be back but until then, good luck and good hunting. Cheers. well done for the new job ned. shame you cant carry on the thread as it has been a real good read. good luck for furture hunting and the new position. hope you carry on thread soon atb mike Great news about the job Ned. I hope it works out for you. I will miss reading all your threads and looking at your photos. Thank you for everything. atb Kyle Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave C 63 Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Good luck for the future Ned, i hope to see you back on hear soon mate. ATB Dave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ArchieHood 3,692 Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Congratulations and good luck Ned,look forward to hearing from you in the future. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thomasc4329 10 Posted December 11, 2010 Report Share Posted December 11, 2010 Absolutely brilliant thread Ned keep up the good work Quote Link to post Share on other sites
langouroux 14 Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 excelent thread ned. i'm loving the ozzie slang as well, I spent 10 months out there unfortunately i got let down on a pig hunting trip. but the surf was amazing! lovely dogs as well mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hullhunter 219 Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 (edited) this is by far the best thread on the thl thanks for sharing. would you say this is real or is it a photo shop? thanks. Edited December 28, 2010 by hullhunter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dux 5 Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 @Hullhunter: The photo is real. Sad story really as it was apparently a very gentle pet pig sold to a game farm and then dispatched rather poorly by the kid. http://www.google.com/search?q=hogzilla&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF_en http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.as http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0322_050322_hogzilla.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
judge2010 196 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 nice pig dog. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ross 1 Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 This thread is/was fantastic, and for once no bitching at all! Hat off to you Ned and your dogs! hope the job is going well and you'll be back filling us in with your hunting trips? Ross Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ned Makim 116 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) This thread is/was fantastic, and for once no bitching at all! Hat off to you Ned and your dogs! hope the job is going well and you'll be back filling us in with your hunting trips? Ross G'day everyone, I'm sneaking back onto the odd forum now that I am finding my feet in the new job. I've spend most of the first few months training. In Oz now you have to have a ticket for everything so you and your employer are covered by insurance. All to do with occupational health and safety... Now I can officially drive a 4Wd and a quad (ATV), drive defensively, cape and butcher a deer, interview bad guys and prepare a brief of evidence for court and use an extendable baton, pepper spray, open hand knife defence techniques and negotiate ha ha. I must be able to do it all because I have the certificates...funny stuff. A lot of useful training though. The area I have to manage is huge. I am trying to work out how many Great Britains it is but it is about 33 per cent of NSW or about 260,000 square kilometres. Impossible really but you pick and choose your battles... Ironically, since joining a hunting management organisation I have done bugger all hunting. Well I've been hunting but mainly getting bogged hopelessly because of all the rain we have had this summer. Country that is never damp is now like quicksand. Very strange to see... I have a picture of two and a little (very poor) video to post of some hunting once it all loads so that will appear in the next few posts. In other news I have written a book on training boar dogs and that will be released on line in mid Feb I think. I'll talk to the mods here about advertising it just in case some of you blokes are interested. I am also in the process of setting up an on line magazine readers can subscribe to for hunting stories and vids. Again, I'll talk to the mods here about advertising that. So there you go. As I said, some pix and video to come and thanks for your continued interest in the thread. Cheers, Ned. Edited January 18, 2011 by Ned Makim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ned Makim 116 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Here's a wet weather pix. Paul had to drive an hour into the bush to find me and pull me out of this bog. One of many testing times since the rains came... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ned Makim 116 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Here's a decent boar son Paul caught during one of his trips into North Queensland. It was near a place called Charters Towers. Good rough boar. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ned Makim 116 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 And this is a big sow I got in a barley crop before Christmas. She was a genuinely big pig. Very happy with her. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ned Makim 116 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Paul's mate Dave with one of the boars the pair picked up since the last lot of posts. It was a good night as the next shot shows... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big game 1 Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Well done with the new job Ned, hope it all goes good mate. As usual you have a top thread going to mate. All the best with the book to mate I'm sure it will be educational & a good read. Cheers Dom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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