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They don't show the killing stabs in the video. Probably to avoid snowflake over reaction.

While Germans in black powder days had cool ceremonial short swords for the coup de grace on downed stags and boars, a stab to the heart. Maybe Kuduae and Lancaster and Rolf still do!?

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While they had short swords, Aussie doggers carry a variety. Bayonets. To a variety of different knives. Straight, sharp and medium to longer length I guess isctge criteria. Long enough to reach the heart with a solid lunge. My comments are just what I have read. Marrakai mentioned a pig knife once in a thread. An H&K or a Steyr or similar knife.

My farm supplies shop had a young guy doing pig digging. He had a number of his own dogs. Unless he had a secret spot in range, any decent supply of feral pigs is a good solid drive away in NSW or Queensland. To keep dogs active would mean lots of regular trips. As a result not many doing this here in SA. Most commenting live in NSW or Qld within range of Great Dividing Range piglands.

Locations of SA pig used to be North of the Murray River near the border. However no one I have spoken to have said they have pigs or admitted it. Including the CEO of the large grape grower organisation, a large station owner further North. Another property owner, mixed grapes and grazing. Maybe this feral pig populatin is very located? The best feral pigs, really wild pigs were not far away but remote.

On Kangaroo Island. An expensive ferry ride over. In the Western half of the island, populations of wild pigs, including in and around Flinders Chase National Park the verges if which were I hunted them. Introduced by whalers and sealers reportedly before settlement of the Colony if SA (?). A long time in the wild these pigs assumed some wild boar characteristics. All black. Very good clean meat and little or no disease present. So good clean eating. I hunted them one time on the coldest wettest weekend of the year. Rain sideways! The Antarctic is the only land to the South! The Southern Ocean to the South. I wish I had had dogs that weekend. I was the only fool out in the weather. The pigs were snuggled in the thick bushes with tunnels underneath. Even in the wide gravel road verges. I could hear them under there. At night the dirt road looked like it was a pig highway with all the fresh tracks on it. Dogs could have got them out for me.

Alas the KI feral pigs were heavily depopulated by the bushfires a few years ago. Now the govt has plannedcomplete extermination by using night and heat sights and aerial shooting. They are able to shoot into those thick bush patches using heat sights. Sad to a hunter, good for the farmer. I'd like to get a small number of the wild pigs into an enclosure. Never had pigs before. Imo they are a unique breed now. I do believe I read that one farmer does have a supply of them behind wire in captivity.

Back to the video. These NT and FNQ (Far North Queensland) are bigger than a lot of Southern feral pigs. The wild feral pigs becoming more boarlike, called Razorbacks, for their spinal hairline. The Southern ferals easier to flip and less dangerous if smaller.

Btw note how one of the pigs being held by a dog keeps heading towards the camera man. Wants a piece of him. The dog hanging onto its ear keeps the aggressive pig from any rush.

I think it is gutsy stuff hunting pigs with dogs and a knife.

How it must have been done in Mediaeval Europe evidenced by tapestries. Using boar spears. Good dogs are needed. There accounts of ancient kings being killed hunting wild boars. Modern day pig doggers say a spear is too dangerous for the dogs, a knife is better.

My fear is for the hounds. They enthusiastically jump in. Enjoy it. Have leather protective breast plates. But pigs tusks and teeth are nasty. Dogs get wounded and killed. Sad. The humans often carry stitching kits and anti biotic syringes.

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John aka NitroX

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