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NE.com 2003 Nig Bore Boar Hunt - "The Strategy"
      #6420 - 03/01/04 12:43 PM

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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.



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Re: NE.com 2003 Nig Bore Boar Hunt - "The Strategy" [Re: NitroX]
      #6422 - 03/01/04 12:57 PM



Some of the typical bush in the area. Open country, perfect for flatter shooting scoped medium bores.

Looks easy to drive or walk but the countyside and also the tracks were absolutely full of small "sink holes" in the dry earth. Very dangerous walking if you did not look where you walked and breaking an ankle quite possible. No running here. What causes these "sink holes", differential contraction of the black soils (?), limestone base and drainage points through the limestone (?) - even the owner did not know ( ).

Driving through this country was not really possible. It took us a couple of hours to cross 3 kilometres of a rough "track" on the Western boundary. Did see a nice herd of pigs and younguns, but they were off before shots could be taken.



Closer to the river. More grass but not much sign. Taller trees, a great place to camp if one has the wish.

Looks green but not good feed.





The area on the other side of the bend was a long peninsular in the river's bend. Lots of weeds, bushes and trees. Plus uneven ground. Nearby the irrigated fields which were a non-shooting area but very good feed.

We suspected the pigs near the river camped in this bend during the day hidden. Spent one morning scouting the bend but did not prove this theory.

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Re: NE.com 2003 Nig Bore Boar Hunt - "The Strategy" [Re: NitroX]
      #6426 - 03/01/04 02:30 PM

Help me out here. Where, on a Map, would you be? Any goats around?

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Re: NE.com 2003 Nig Bore Boar Hunt - "The Strategy" [Re: mickey]
      #6431 - 03/01/04 04:09 PM

OK Mickey just for you, I went to hours of effort to create this map for you.

(actually I had it already prepared for a future post )




Goats?

Goats are now a valuable commodity and we had permission to shoot them if we saw them (or a few anyway) but at $25 each.

We did see a mob on the paddock near the Barwon - about 30 or so.

It was funny when we met up with the farmer after the storm. He didn't know he had any where near as many pigs on the property as we were seeing (even though he told us about good shooting numbers), the goats and the cows in his crop. We thought he had let the cows in the paddock as there was little feed anywhere else and they had been cmaping there for weeks. But no, they weren't meant to be there.

On the way back we saw hundred and hundreds of goats along the roads near the Darling River area. Mob after mob feeding within eyesight (and shooting range) of the road. No good billies though. I am still to take a really good billy trophy for the wall even after shot a couple hundred billies at least but in an area not known for good heads. Don't even have a set on the walls at all. All my early ones I tossed onto a shed roof and they are still there.

This easy hunting country for goats used to produce good heads but many of them have probably been exported for meat in the last decade.


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