Unlucky boar

[jindydiver]

I was invited a while back to come and shoot some pigs that were causing grief at a farm. They were making a bit of a mess of the paddocks but really live on the neighbours place, or the neighbours neighbours...., and over the last 2 years I have cleaned up a few when they have been passing through. Mostly though I shoot foxes there, which makes me happy enough.
Yesterday though, I got a bonus. As normal I circled through the scrub to get downwind of the tea tree paddock and had a whistle. No foxes showed (I whacked a dog fox in almost the same spot last week) so I moved down to the tea tree. The cows were going off in the cleared paddock next door so I wandered along slowly to go see what the fuss was. All fell quiet when I got there and I thought to myself "It is only a matter of time before me and the pigs are in the same place at the same time again" as I turned walked back along the track to start a zig zag into the tea tree. Sure enough just 30 metres away there was a pair of ears sticking up. I could only see the top of it's head and it's shoulder but that was enough
He ran about 60 metres through a patch of leptospenum and back into the short tea tree before falling over.


A quick drag back to the track (he almost made it there for me) and I cut out some meat to take home.

half way though...

 

[Portuguese Pointer]

Very nice harvest.

 

[Bubblehide]

Sweet!

 

[Deleted member 33033]

His expression in the 1st pic is kinda like mine today. Post Thanksgiving gastro blues.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

Super congrats jindydiver, great looking meat on that hog. Rack of pork spare ribs sounds great right now. Thanks for sharing your down under adventures....tra

 

[land4cat]

What's a Dog Fox ? Any pictures?

 

[Norcalihunter]

What call do you use for foxes? Middle of the day work? Or just dusk and dawn?

 

[Deleted member 33033]

What's a Dog Fox ? Any pictures?

 

[jindydiver]

What's a Dog Fox ? Any pictures?

This is the fox I mentioned....
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[jindydiver]

What call do you use for foxes? Middle of the day work? Or just dusk and dawn?

I just use a button whistle. We call all day generally but the foxes response depends a lot on the season and they often work better in the cooler parts of the day.

http://westernfirearms.com.au/shoot...ting-range-traditional-fox-whistle-p-660.html

You can make them from shot shells too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBrGfWiUv24

 

[JustGuy]

Is it exclusively an Australian way, or it is International Fox language?
When searcheng "Fox Whistle" it produced only Australian results. What language American fox talk?

 

[Norcalihunter]

Is it exclusively an Australian way, or it is International Fox language?
When searcheng "Fox Whistle" it produced only Australian results. What language American fox talk?

I was wondering the same thing calling coyotes with a rabbit in distress call is nothing new to me but this is

 

[dthome]

I've had gray foxes in California come within 10 feet when I call with a simple squeaker like what's in a pet toy.

 

[jindydiver]

it is just a rabbit in distress call, just with a clear tone

 

[Bobaloo]

it appears you use the same rig for fox and pig...mind telling us what you're running there?

 

[jindydiver]

Rem700HB in 7mm08
the scope is a Viper pst


If I was just after foxes I would use my 22.250, but I am at that property looking for those pigs so I take the 7mm. The thing with foxes (and cats) in Australia is that they are a terrible burden on our natural ecosystems and most hunters will shoot them every time they come across them no matter what the original quarry was.


this one taken with the 30-06

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[imperial valley hunter]

nice kill.. did you just take the meat that is cut out of pig picture or process the whole piggy?

 

[jindydiver]

nice kill.. did you just take the meat that is cut out of pig picture or process the whole piggy?

I took the back legs and the backstraps. The rest was left behind.
Over here we have the freedom to choose what we want to do with our kills, we can take the lot, leave the lot, or anything in between. With pigs especially there is no concept of sharing with others and restrictions on your hunting (except for land tenure) because there are way more pigs than people and hunters only make up around 10% of the population. There is no chance we will run out of pigs to hunt, you just have to find a place you can get access to that holds pigs and you are set.
I was given access to this property (and now a number of his neighbours) because the owner wants the pigs suppressed and the deal is that I must shoot every pig I can.
Here is a big load of meat I recovered from 3 smaller pigs I shot there in early '13, and one of the pigs.

 

[imperial valley hunter]

that is awesome. congrats. a piggy is on my bucket list.

 

[wmhandy]

I can just picture the pig running through the leptospenum! That's your summer season so I'm imagining pink flowers? If the pig would have passed through some rosmarinus officinalis your meat would have been "pre-seasoned"! You're a good hunter and a great story teller too. Thank you for that. Good on ya mate!