John

As you say they inhabit very different habitats. bushpig like thick bush and the best areas I know of are in KZN around the sugar growing areas....... the just adore the sugarcane.

A buddy of mine had a (pig mad) client many years ago who managed to take everything on his wishlist except a bushpig. The last evening they went back to camp and about 2200 hrs my buddy was chatting to the Zulu maid about the hunt and how disappointed he was not to have got a cleansweep and that they hadn't even seen a bushpig....... the maid looked puzzled and said, "Numzaan, why not shoot the one that lives here...... he drives me crazy and he's very old and to be shot as he empties all the dustbins every night" - He said, "what bushpig?" - She opened the back door and there it was going through the garbage about 15 yards away......... So the client did get everything he wanted, although he did manage to shoot the door frame of the wine cellar as well.

He's always regretted telling me that story as every time I see him, I give him shit about shooting a PAC bushpig in the back garden......