I tried my luck on bushpig this last weekend but alas bushpig as won again. My brother heard from a farmer not even 2 km away from our plot in Ellisras about maurauding bushpig and so we asked if we could help. He had only shot two pigs thus far in the last 3 months not very succesfull but shall I say he didn't go and try every night.

There was only a little bit of mielies left (Corn) and what was left was the labourers corn and they don't belive in neat rows of corn but plant as many as you can in the spot you get. So the milies didn't have any rows so if the bushpig would enter it we could only hear it and not see it.

The fence was 20 meters from the mielies, 8 meter bush then a road and then the mielies. So the only shooting oppurtinity would have been before the milies in the road and maybe out again. The farmer told us that he shot the ones before just before they enter the mielies. So just before dark we got ourselves ready 20 meters from the road the wind just fine blowing into our faces and waited. I was armed with my trusty 375 H&H loaded with 270 gr rhino bullets going at 2500 fps I wanted the pigs to go down as quick as possible. Trough the fence and that would be reeds from a riverbed that has water for 4 months of the year.

About 50 minutes later we heard noise at the fence a minute later the rush of a pig running straight into the mielies. We waited for another half an hour for more pigs to come but looks like this one was, was a loner. All the time we could hear thye plants being pushed over with a crashing sound and then eating not further than 20 meters from us.

We decided to get closer my brother with the hand held spotlight and me with my 375. We were 5 metres from the mielies and still hearing the bushpig going at it but there was no way to see anything as it was a dark night and the moon went down early. I got onto my haunches and my brother as well and aimed at the noise. My brother swiched on the spotlight and we could see nothing but mielies the pig however did see the light and ran off deeper into the mielies. After a minute we could hear the mielie plants crashing again what cheek did this pig have but he knew we could'nt see him and so he won the game. The next day we were at the farm again during daylight and from the tracks he was the only bushpig that came for the night and a big one as well just goes to show then don't get that big for being stupid ! The next night the wetaher was bad and it was drizzling a bit and we decided not togo after the pigs again. But I enjoyed the hunt it was very exiting and quite an adrenaline rush hearing the pig carshing trough the mielies even though it was the opposite way.