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Re: How to hunt bushpig?
      15/05/05 06:35 PM


I am really amazed ????????????????

This year in the CAR, we all (3 hunting teams) saw bushpigs almost everyday. I am the only hunter among the four of us, not to have got a nice boar. The reason, I was bow hunting them. Shifty winds made me fail 4 approachs on bushpigs males. I succeeded in 3 approachs with females and piglets only. Twice I snapshot and missed running boars. Should I have had opted for my rifle, I would have had 4 males shooting opportunities in 12 days, at least.
In the CAR, the bushpig is not to be found in the small hills but in the flood plains and jungle.
About midday, like warthog they are wandering close to the water. So the best moments to get them is early in the morning when they are eating in the grass and around midday. In the afternoon they are lazing in the jungle about. In French we call them POTAMOchere, Potamon meaning river in ancient Greek. This to explain they are living about or even in rivers.
My cousin shot a big boar whence the guide was calling duiker and bushbuck. A herd of 12 surged out of the jungle in the lap of my cousin and around him. (A bowhunter dream) He shot the male at 10 yards. Funny, at the bang of the 146 Rigby, all the pigs lied down waiting. 5 seconds later my cousin jacked another round in and the troup flied away. Never seen this ducking reflex with boar and wart hog.
In the CAR, bushpig is as much diurnal as nocturnal. The same with the rare Giant Forest Hog.

Concerning the taste : I feel the meat is as tasty as warthog's. The trouble is that the cook mixed warthog, bushpig, lion, duiker, eland and BABOON meat to fabricate Kebabs. The most searched meat back there is the Baboon meat. The governor (prefect) was permanently asking for. Note a CAR Muslim refuses to touch or bear a shot Baboon but is ready to kill to have a baboon meat ration.

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* How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator 03/01/03 02:03 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? butchloc   20/05/05 05:38 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator   21/05/05 12:13 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? 470Nitro   17/05/05 01:04 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? cchunter   17/05/05 01:23 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? SafariHunt   19/05/05 02:46 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? Oldsarge   15/05/05 02:16 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? SAHUNT   15/05/05 03:26 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? SafariHunt   03/01/03 07:58 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator   04/01/03 12:47 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? SafariHunt   04/01/03 01:53 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator   04/01/03 02:29 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? original500nitro   09/01/03 08:56 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? mdshunter   13/01/03 01:24 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator   13/05/05 04:15 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? McLarenSafaris   15/05/05 12:57 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator   15/05/05 04:05 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? larcher   15/05/05 06:35 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? larcher   16/05/05 06:03 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? NitroXAdministrator   21/05/05 12:15 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? larcher   21/05/05 10:21 PM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? DPhillips   13/05/05 09:39 AM
. * * Re: How to hunt bushpig? cchunter   03/01/03 06:49 PM

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