Nitro,

those pigs would have been great mounted in a hot dog roll for dinner

I think a shoulder mount... the full body wouldn't fit on a book shelf!!

lol
jeffe

Remember Nitro
The smaller the pig, the smaller the target, the harder it is to hit

PC

The Blaser is "Orions" and is an older model. From complete memory (so might be way off) I remember the designation SR478 (???). Have to look for my notes somewhere.

He also has a barrel in 7mm Rem Mag.

The rifle is only about 6 1/2 lbs with scope and mounts and kicks a fair bit in .375 H&H Mag. But accurate enough to let me shoot a dead branch about 2" thick a fair way away offhand. Do prefer to shoot the Whitworth which is about 9 lbs though.

I think it is 2 rounds in the magazine plus one in the barrel.

It has accounted for a lion and buffalo though.

PS A "Pork Roll".


Bakes

These little piggies - you are right, they are hard to hit on the run. But at 10 metres not too bad.

They are very funny to watch though as they move around in the grass and crop, oinking away. One they had winded us in the crop. Mum and her sisters were feeding 20 metres in front of us, and we were still moving to get an ideal postion for ambush. The little buggers were like a tidal wave moving throught he crop oinking "Mum, Mum, Mum - somethings wrong!"

The mob of 20 to 30 little ones were also very funny to watch in the tight circle hiding under a tree. They were watching Orion walk past them down further in a gully but were shuffling around looking in every direction. When disturbed off they went to two single file lines.

Would have been good to have my pump shotgun at that point.


Jeff

They now reside in a mud sink hole in the ground at Walgett. Filled it nicely too.

I planned that photo from the beginning and really wanted at least 2 if not 4 of the little buggers.

Just to show how Big the Boars were.

I took the tusks off the largest boar and they weren't much but took them anyway.

This year hoping to do a NSW or Qld AND a NT trip.

OK



Linked some pics here.







The largest boar taken. Not large. I was particularly pleased with this shot taken in twilight and paced the range at well over 200 metres (closer to 300 paces). He was hit in the lower shoulder running left to right. On the shot fell over, got up and ran at an angle a few metres to behind a bush.



On approaching the bush hiding him it turned out to be 50 metres away and he had by coincidence died in line of it.







Little piggie shot on the first evening again right on dark. Photos taken the next morning.







Orion with another pig shot at the same location. They pigs generally are nocturnal and we ambushed them in the last 30 minutes of shooting light before dark as they entered the cereal crops.



The two little piglets in the "title photo" were the two survivors from this herd and were taken in the same place several days later.









Australian Ginger Striped Bush Cat. Known for their unusually close haircuts.

Pics of the hunting country.



You would think the pigs would be in this sort of country. Not so.



This is the sort of country where they were found. Good tucker. Sweet and succulent.



A pig track was found along the water's edge and also on the upper river bank.



A good location to ambush the pigs, the forest edge along fresh crops. Use of binoculars was very important on these very large cereal paddocks. An emu in the distance looked just like a dot sticking out of the crop. A pig's back was very hard to distinguish especially as they came out generally only in the last 15 to 30 minutes of light in the veneing. Hunting pressure having made them nocturnal.

More photos and commentary added

Intro

The Armoury

Storm Gods

The Strategy