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Marrakai
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Top Quality Territory Boar
      #39185 - 16/10/05 09:03 AM

I trust fellow posters here would be interested in viewing the results of a successful hunt last weekend, south of the Roper. Unfortunately the buff were off-limits, however a number of feral hogs and donkeys bit the dust, along with two feral cats. The highlight of the trip, and the reason for my post, was a tusky old boar bagged by my hunting mate Marty on the second day. It rates as one of the best I've seen taken in the Territory, probably the best, and a personal milestone for Marty in terms of trophy quality. Check out these choppers!




The old campaigner had a head like something out of the Van Helsing props department!




The tusks have been boiled-out and by now Marty should have the measurements to add, hopefully they were long in the jaw for a high Douglas score.



I suspect we'll walk many a mile of river-bank before topping that set of trophy tusks. Won't stop us from trying, though...

Congratulations, mate!

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mickey
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marrakai]
      #39191 - 16/10/05 12:24 PM

Nice pig. I hop I can get a shot at something like that in December.

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Marty
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marrakai]
      #39196 - 16/10/05 09:27 PM

Mate.

Measured the bastard pissed and without a tape measure. Went 29 3/8 (or something). I'll remeasure sober and with a tape measure and see what I get.

I would have thought it would have cracked 30, and even 32.

I'll keep measuring till it does.

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Marty
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marty]
      #39221 - 17/10/05 05:27 PM

Measured sober and got 30.

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ALAN_MCKENZIE
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marrakai]
      #39229 - 17/10/05 09:55 PM

Tony,thats a hell of a set of ivory.

Well done Marty,I've never seen a set as prominent in the jaws as them.

Which leads me to a question for you Tony.

Why did your mate John B have to come over the border to shoot pigs in West Aussie when you have pigs of that Quality in the Territory..

No trophy fee eh.(LOL)



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Marty
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: ALAN_MCKENZIE]
      #39231 - 17/10/05 10:06 PM

Quantity.

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ALAN_MCKENZIE
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marty]
      #39232 - 17/10/05 10:35 PM

You aint wrong there,John said they shot something like 270 + pigs in the short time they were at silver city.

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Taos
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Loc: Nevada, U.S.A.
Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: ALAN_MCKENZIE]
      #39258 - 18/10/05 11:13 AM

That is one hell of a hog anywhere. I have seen maybe 1 like that on the hoof in California years ago. Our dogs could not stop him and as I recall there was quite a sewing party after they finished with him. Great boar!!!!!!!!

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Marrakai
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marty]
      #39339 - 20/10/05 12:15 PM

Marty:
You were robbed, mate! Can't believe that set of tusks didn't go 33 or better. Must have been short in the jaw, though the swelling well-back along the jaw-line suggested there would be plenty of length inside. Also that broken tip is a shame, reduces both the overall length and the grind measurements. Oh well, we'll just have to get a bigger one next weekend....

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SAHUNT
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Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marty]
      #39353 - 20/10/05 03:20 PM

If I shoot a hog like that, I will also get pissed. Well done Marty.

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Alpine_Hunter
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Reged: 30/08/05
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Loc: NE Vic, Australia
Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: SAHUNT]
      #39363 - 20/10/05 05:44 PM

That is a great pig with or without a score. That would be one to mount in the jaw rather than just as tusks.

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470Nitro
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Loc: Madrid - Spain
Re: Top Quality Territory Boar [Re: Marrakai]
      #39383 - 21/10/05 12:38 AM

Nice one . As far I know, more than 29 is a monster .

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