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The first day to two we spent scouting the property and looking for sign. The owner had given us a map with all his crops marked on it. He he At first glance the cropped areas looked like what bush on a normal map looked like but the crops were important to HIM, so he had shaded these in. The bush was the blank areas.

Other hunters had only shot about 5 or so and saw several more pigs in a weekend and a helicopter shooting campaign had shot 2 or 3 thousand so they weren't going to be think on the ground. But with the severe drought many properties had said it was worth hunting at all and this property had irrigated crop areas plus the cereal crops.

WATER - FOOD - SHELTER

Find these three things and away we would go.

Water!

Pigs!

But when and how often do they come to water here? And from where ?

FOOD

The crops.

Checking over many dams and paddocks, the first day, we established there was little sign in the Eastern half. The Southern or River areas we would try a later day.

We were lucky and on driving home in the first evening we spotted pigs in the crop to the North, some 400 or 500 metres away.

Not a sporting method but the only option we had. Drive the 'cruiser right up into them, jump out and let rip, the headlights shine and the twilight giving enough light to shoot by.

Back into the cruiser and chase some more and out again and take a couple more

SHELTER

The surrounding bush on the fringes of the crop and unfortunately the neighbouring property. Many of the tracks led straight into the neighbours property with the pigs coming to raid the crops nocturnally.