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"Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting
      #75951 - 09/04/07 12:35 AM

"Luck at Boole Poole" - a hog stag hunt


Seeing it is currently the Hog Deer hunting season in Vic this month of April, I thought this article of my hog deer hunt from 1995 would be of interest. Please enjoy!


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In 1995 - I think that was the year - I was lucky to be drawn for the first time in the ballot for a hog deer hunt at Boole Poole in the Gippsland region of Victoria.

I had been entering the ballot for a hog deer hunt on the National Park islands at Boole Poole for several years, after all, all it cost was $10 to enter and now I had been drawn.

Being drawn you were allocated a week for the hunt. If you couldn't make it, tough, you missed out, and a reserve was chosen for your place. I was going to make it!

Back then we had the choice of either a stag or a hind, and I was definitely happy with the result of this hunt.

Please read the article by clicking on the small page image below and opening the page to read.


"Luck at Boole Poole" - a hog stag hunt




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This article was printed in the 1996 "Australian Shooters Journal Digest - Volume Four".




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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: Ezine]
      #75956 - 09/04/07 01:21 AM

Who's the young fellow in the picture?

I would love to shoot a Hog Der but the only chances I have had are offers to poach one or pay way too much.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: mickey]
      #75959 - 09/04/07 02:37 AM



Top stuff John, well done.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: 500Nitro]
      #75966 - 09/04/07 03:39 AM

I was doubly lucky in that I was drawn for a second time for the balloted hunting several years later. Again at Boole Poole National Park so I could use some of the knowledge of the park from the previous hunt. "Blond Bay" was also available for balloted hunting, and actually was the original area before Boole Poole was opened to balloted hunting but I haven't seen that National Park (yet!). Hopefully one day I will.

None of us scored on that hunt, it was much wetter and a lot of hog deer, about sixty were found, had reportedly drowned in flooding a few months earlier. But even without success in getting an animal we still had a good time. Three of us hunted from the camp and another guy had access to a hut and a private block neighbouring the park. Good blokes. Will tell more of that story later.

But it is very lucky to be drawn twice like that. Many guys enter these ballots every year and have never been drawn. Still for ten bucks it is very cheap and you have to be in it to have a chance.

Mick,

YEP definitely younger and greener! And I was pretty "green" on that hunt suffering from the effects of glandular fever. But that definitely made sitting still and quiet a lot easier too!

Looking back I made a few mistakes. I look at how far forward I cut to extract the lungs. Gave the taxidermist some extra work too. I hung the stag by the antlers to let it drain out a bit. It was a requirement that only "field preparation" could be done to the animals (ie gutted and cleaned) before they were officially inspected, so the animals were kept intact until then.

I was lucky on that hunt in one of the fellow hunters offered to give me a ride back to the mainland in his tinny, hard to get off an island otherwise!

500Nitro,

Thanks. Would do it again too if I got the chance. I love hunting hoggies and they aren't bad eating either. I would take a doe too. They would look nice as a full mount, but I am already suffering from a lack of room to put the "trophies"!


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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #112319 - 23/08/08 02:29 PM

I posted these elsewhere, so might as well bttt here as well.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #150787 - 16/01/10 03:48 AM

BTTT

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #150800 - 16/01/10 06:21 AM

I`m getting off my arse this year to go down to the area for a hoggy hunt,I went once 30 years ago,time I did again eh!

You are right about the meat,it is excellent tucker.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: gryphon]
      #150875 - 17/01/10 02:54 AM

Gryph,

I really would like to hunt them again and perhaps take another.

I MUST enter the ballot again, haven't done so for years, but who knows one might get lucky again.

Nowadays however the vintage gets in the way, but the worst would be, having to forgo the hunt if selected, better than not trying at all. AND vintage is so often in February nowadays that perhaps a March hunt (or April) is not impossible.

Any public land worth looking at? (PM me if you wish or don't tell me at all )

If I get a rifle in 6x70R I will be keen to give it a run on a hog deer stag or hind.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #159607 - 28/04/10 12:54 AM

what a weird place name

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: BillPoole]
      #159615 - 28/04/10 05:25 AM


Any public land worth looking at? (PM me if you wish or don't tell me at all )

Only found this post today JH,mate I have no idea of the public land available except on where to go on DSE maps.My stag was taken on Boole Poole privately owned land.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: gryphon]
      #245630 - 13/04/14 07:06 PM

JG, bringing this back up. You must remember it as you posted on it.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #245658 - 14/04/14 06:01 AM

Yes I do now on reading it,buggered if I ever remembered you getting TWO tickets though,that is really something.

One thing to note is that due to enormous poaching pressure at night and also that many many Hog Deer stags are shot as soon as they come into hard velvet the other side of Xmas the average size for a stag is small.
I took one at 12 inches and was happy at the time after my effort and that length seems to be 'ok' now whereas not that many years ago the idea of a 'good one' was around the 16" mark.

There is no real QDM re antler length with the hog deer and its open slather to those that take them illegally.

That 16 incher I sent to you the other day that publication in a mag prevents me from posting here was taken legally though.

I have to drive through 6-7 hours of sambar country to get to hoggy ground and I really cant be bothered.I still enter the ballot though and if I ever get picked I would go down as the chances are better in that location.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: gryphon]
      #245700 - 15/04/14 12:19 AM

Mine is between 11 and 12 inches I think.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #245710 - 15/04/14 12:45 AM

Mine's only 7".

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: DarylS]
      #245722 - 15/04/14 02:58 AM

OH Daryl thats bigger than average mate!

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: gryphon]
      #245727 - 15/04/14 04:06 AM

HA! - gotta have something to show for 6'1" and 240 pounds -

O'course, that's what it used to be - IIRC, that is!


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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: DarylS]
      #245739 - 15/04/14 06:49 AM

A bit like Leonardo`s statue of David eh!

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: Ezine]
      #245754 - 15/04/14 10:36 AM

I remember this article so well, I was in the NT at the time, I must have read it 10 times.

I had been in every draw except for about 2 I think and finally got picked in the Boole Poole Ballot 2 years ago, there was a health problem in the family that was serious enough to miss the hunt that year. Pretty devastated, but you do what you have to.

Then it poured rain and I was told by one of the other blokes that only one animal was sighted and none were taken on that hunt, (or the whole of the season for BP)

Good reading, nice stag!

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: Taylor416]
      #329542 - 21/06/19 07:01 PM

Quote:

I remember this article so well, I was in the NT at the time, I must have read it 10 times.

I had been in every draw except for about 2 I think and finally got picked in the Boole Poole Ballot 2 years ago, there was a health problem in the family that was serious enough to miss the hunt that year. Pretty devastated, but you do what you have to.

Then it poured rain and I was told by one of the other blokes that only one animal was sighted and none were taken on that hunt, (or the whole of the season for BP)

Good reading, nice stag!

cheers
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Wow, thanks for the complement. Read it "ten times"!

I have not even read my own article once. I can't read my own articles.

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: Taylor416]
      #330260 - 18/07/19 07:16 PM

Quote:

I had been in every draw except for about 2 I think and finally got picked in the Boole Poole Ballot 2 years ago, there was a health problem in the family that was serious enough to miss the hunt that year. Pretty devastated, but you do what you have to.




Chris, if you ever read this now?!

I had bad glandular fever during this time and hunted with it. Caused me some trouble with staying awake sitting up in trees or sitting somewhere waiting. But did not want to miss out on the drawn opportunity.

Second time I was picked, was a lot less successful. A flood had drowned a lot of hot deer, reportedly about sixty animals. All the excess water made sitting on waterholes redundant. Did not know that till afterwards. Sitting on trails to and from heavy cover to feeding areas was the better strategy the second time. Now I know if I am drawn in 2020!

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #352818 - 29/04/21 03:31 AM

Was there a draw for 2021? I did not enter. Probably would have got stuck in Covid Danistan or had to smuggle oneself in to so the hunt!

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Re: "Luck at Boole Poole" - Hog Deer Hunting [Re: NitroX]
      #378440 - 06/08/23 08:43 PM

Was looking for this article and the others I wrote for that yearbook. Did I ever scan them all?

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