I remember estimating one herd of wild pigs in the Top End on the floodplain as having 300 piggies! Biggest mob we had seen that trip. And we didn't get one out of that mob. The property owner's son was going to roar his Jeep out onto the plain, we jump out and shoot away, running after them as necessary. But we got stuck in deep mud a hundred metres out instead, and didn't get even one! A hour or two later we had extracted the Jeep using paperbark trunks from hundreds of metres away to line a track back out. Not happy! Ha ha. We did get some 23 or more, I forget nice sized boars in those three days between the two of us. The boars were usually solitary and not in the big mobs.

Mick's impressive photos of game, good stuff, a thousand Mick's might start making a dent. Good work by Mick.

Other parts of the Territory wild pigs can be quite scarce. In Arnhemland they are not as common. Usually present in smaller numbers. The property above was rich wetlands, Fantastic waterfowl numbers, but no shooting of them. Great cattle country, a year after I was there owned by RM Williams company and lost access. Since passed on to new owners is my guess.