I hope you gentlemen enjoy the picture.

With my very best wishes for the newborn year

montero

montero,

Thanks for sharing that picture...I would love the chance of taking a boar some day! So whats the story behind the hunt? And what type of hound is that Bavarian Mountain bloodhound?

Regards

Pete

Pete,

I shot it in a "monteria" (guess where mi nick comes from), a form of hunt in which game is driven with dogs.

This fellow stoppped on his run to fight the dogs and seriously injured five of them, one of which died the next day.

It then fled at full speed, the dogs baying on his chase.

I could take a first shot when he was crossing an opening that hit him a bit low but right behind the shoulder which did not stop him. A second shot in the ham when it entered the bush did not stop him either, but eventually fell 20 or maybe 30 meters after.

Bullets where Brenneke's TIG in 12,8 gram at 890 m/s out of my custom 8mm MAZON and both went through completely.

"Polka" is a Bavarian Mountain Blood Hound which I always take with me while hunting. She is trained to follow and find wounded game.

montero

monteria,

Thanks for that...it must be a very exciting way to hunt to say the least!

With regards to those Bavarians, we are hearing a lot of good things about them as far as tracking wounded game goes. Unforetunatly, I don't think we have any breeders here at present. Do you expect Polka to get mixed up in the rough stuff with boar or do you only put her on a trail if you think the boar is down?

Regards,

Pete

Weidmannsheil Montero, that is a lovely picture and some pig! I'm sure it was a great hunt.

When I saw the picture, it was an enigma: here was a guy, clad like a British Gentleman (or how we see pictures from the UK anyway, tweeds, hat etc - perhaps the red shirt was slightly out of character, but still...), with a decidedly continental game animal and a Germanic dog, shooting what looks like a custom Mauser with no open sights (very un-European ), with what looks like a big Zeiss mounted in US type rings. Go figure! And it turned out that Spain is the country where all that comes together. Seems like you take the best of everywhere and blend it according to your own style and preferences. Good on you!
- mike

Polka's job is to find any wounded game, but we always work together, that meaning that I would not unleash her in the trail of a large boar, and I would carry my rifle.

On roe, chamois, etc, I take her to the anschuss or place where the animal was standing when it took the shot and I let her go when I see her concentrated on it. She follows it and when she finds the animal she bays to call me.

The other day in another monteria my son hit a sow (50-55 kilos) with what I thought was a very good shot which turned out to be too far back. I though I had heard it topple over so I took Polka to the exact place of the shot and let her go. She left and a couple of minutes later started calling. I thought the sow would be dead already so I run making too much noise making the sow flee away with Polka following close. The sow entered a thick bush of spanish oaks and immediately turn round to hit Polka with her snout in the middle of the chest and threw her toppling over for 4 or 5 meters. It it had been a big boar armed with tusks most probably he would have killed Polka.

At all the noise 3 other dogs came and got hold of the sow, my knife putting an end to the story.

Polka was lucky to learn a lesson without paying too much of I high price. And I was lucky too since Polka is my huckleberry and I would very much regret losing her on a mistake of mine.

regards,

montero

Weidmanns Danke, Mike!

You really hit the head of the nail in all you observations...

montero

That�s a nice pig Montero. Which was its weight and the length of the tusks?. Felicitaciones.

nainital,

liveweight was in the neighbourhood of 90, maybe 95 kilos.

I have not seen the tusks out yet, but I would say 17-18 cm long and a width of 2,3cm.

saludos

montero

Great picture!

I wish we hunted in clothes like that with hounds

Feliz ano nuevo montero!
If I see this good boar,the hunter and his dog(The BGS looks much cooler than the hunter )I think must bee nice to hunt there!
Now we have moon and snow so I will try to get one too!
Waidmannsheil from J�ger Hauke to Cazador montero!