And this shows when hunting in the Top End, sometimes a successful hunter just has to get his feet wet and muddy.

Mick, doesn't the mud make a lot of noise and scare the pigs away? Maybe a reason for the somewhat longer shots and need for the sticks?

Good idea to use some shooting sticks in that sort of country. I remember hunting fallow deer in a coastal area of SA. Flat tussock coastal 'swamps' covered with tussocks about thigh high. And salt pans. Islands in the salt pans. Sometimes one could only see the antlers sticking out above the tussocks. Shooting offhand was very difficult, ranges maybe 90 metres plus. Don't want to miss, they aren't paper. Longish shooting sticks would have been perfect I realised years later. Now this area is probably all housing. Big new suburb being bult there, old Buckland Park. Sad.

Here's hoping the Top End resists urban and close settlement for another fifty years.