That hill looks familiar. Any chance I've been there?

Is he hanging around Shanks, or was it just a fleeting visit as it is frequently ?
Would be nice to know how good a jaw he has.

Its just come into the main breeding time for them, and it is like a switch has flicked on. two weeks ago you couldn't find a pig in daylight, let alone a boar! Now we have taken 3 respectable boars in the last week.

This guy was a good looking boar but still young, maybe 2 inch tusks. There was a real trophy with him, but he was too switched on and left very early in the piece. A pig of 200-230lb live weight and with 3 inch + tusks.
They will be around now as long as the sows are in season. Roughly the next two months. But Its incedible how big their territory is and it maybe him, or a totally different boar I see next time out.

Paul its right up the back of my place. Up the main track if you went up there.

Hey shanks the CSIRO in Australia collared wild pigs here and found that the sows are the ones that go looking for the boars,not the other way around.

I know the sows travel, but they bring the boars back to their home area. I see the same sows in same spots, the boars are the ones that show up when the action is on. When the girls are on heat they do travel about hogging but not as bigger areas as we see with the boars. Can watch a sow group for weeks without seeing a boar with them, then bang! Sow on heat and anywhere between 5 and 10 boars show up. Can watch a boar tracking a sow across the farm at times.

I had been watching a big group of Pigs for several weekends. A few big sows and a bunch of smaller pigs.
Then one morning i hear a big fight break out. I high tail it over that way. The grass is waist high. I decide to just run right up in the middle of the fight. Two big boars fighting. When they stopped for a moment i put a arrow thru one. Pigs went everywhere. Watched the same group of sows climb the hill and go in the clearcut. My biggest boar to date.

Pigs were raiding cattle feeders. I got trailcam pictures of giant boars occasionally. Daylight pictures were almost unheard of. As a matter of fact i think i only have one daylight pic of a big boar that wasnt with a sow.

Yep same here. You can go half a year without decent sighting's of truely big boar's. You occasionally see their prints and at times will catch a short sighting on the bush edge or just on dark might see one cross a clearing. It all changes when the sows come on heat though. Only other time I feel I have a good chance of finding one is on a hot humid day with a lite rain. Seems to get them out and active for some reason.

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Paul its right up the back of my place. Up the main track if you went up there.

Yes, I think Michael took me up there on the ATV.

Yep, id say so. probably stood within yards of where he is in the pic.

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Gryphon, I think its an Aussie thing that the

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sows are the ones that go looking for the boars

Sorry, couldnt resist that !

Starts here in Europe in November December and then you will see the boars tailing the sows during the daytime too! Fun times.

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