This was actually the day before I went too the states. I just didnt get time to post it up..

Id been wandering around a bit up a small river with some open flats, forest and cliffs. At one set of cliffs I looked down through the trees and saw a handful of eating size pigs.
I left them alone and next day told our farm worker who is training up some pig dogs.
I suggested that I drop him, off downstream with the dogs, then Id boost it upstream to stand on one of the bluffs with a rifle In case as he pushed up my way, something ran through ahead of him.
Anyway fortune favours the brave, and as I reached my clifftop vantage point, 7 pigs including a large boar emerged from the bush underneath me not 80 meters away.
Instead of shooting I got ready and waited for my mate to arrive with the dogs. he did and the wind was wrong for the dogs and he couldn't see them, so I lined up and shot the big boar which was at the back. The rest of the mob dived off the little terrace they were on and ran straight into the dogs, which nailed a nice 75lb boar.
The big guy went just on 150.

Solid looking bugger on the right.

Yeah. The pigs down here are very deceptive. Always heavier than they look on foot. Getting lots of size at relatively young age too.
Weird coloration as well. Im wondering if someones been doing a bit of back breeding euro wild boar.

50 years ago a mate of mine photographed a litter of small piglets in Marlborough showing Wild boar type side stripes. He concluded that some of the pigs brought to NZ in the early days from India and Asia had a lot of Asian Wild Boar in them. The pigs from the UK were purebred. DNA could be interesting.
Got a Roberts Gazelle this morning. As you do!

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50 years ago a mate of mine photographed a litter of small piglets in Marlborough showing Wild boar type side stripes. He concluded that some of the pigs brought to NZ in the early days from India and Asia had a lot of Asian Wild Boar in them. The pigs from the UK were purebred. DNA could be interesting.
Got a Roberts Gazelle this morning. As you do!

We were hunting pigs with our dogs on Wanganella Station in the early 70`s and there is a shit load of Cubungi, a tall swamp grass/reedy shit that the pigs hid out in and I came onto a sows nest that had striped piglets in it and remarked at the time to mate Billy that "we have truly wild Euro boar blood here"

Shanks your scruffy looking boar is a frigging mixture of wtf lol.

Yeah they are different. Always heavier than they look, massive shields, Huge girth through the chest area, and the colour.

Nice piggies!

Nice piggies.

Domestic village pigs in India produced striped / spotted piglets like wild boar.

The main difference is the hackle and crest hair running along the back. The wild ones are much wider and taller.

Size wise, the Indian wild boar have a wide variance, ranging for the real big boars in some regions going as high as 225 kg to the tropical jungle boars that are more like 150 kg.

Indian wild boar look a lot leaner than European wild boar.

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Originally posted by the Pom:
50 years ago a mate of mine photographed a litter of small piglets in Marlborough showing Wild boar type side stripes. He concluded that some of the pigs brought to NZ in the early days from India and Asia had a lot of Asian Wild Boar in them. The pigs from the UK were purebred. DNA could be interesting.
Got a Roberts Gazelle this morning. As you do!

We used to get a reasonable percentage of red striped piglets at my old place. I caught a few and crossed them over a few generations, the adults turned into rusty dark brown pigs with lighter facial colourings. Tuskd tended towards being thicker flatter and shorter than the black wild pigs. They would also throw quite a few of what we called blue pigs. A kind of greyish blue colour.

One from 1978 caught with my dogs in lignum NSW nor west of Hay. Interesting colour and it they them was actually a barrow.

Here are some pictures. Some village pigs have been hybrids with European domestic stock & similarly with wild boar as well.

The they/them would have had massive pulled tusks Gryph. The ones we've got there all seemed to grow backwards in the jaw as well as forward.

Naki we see quite a few that look like the boar bottom left. Im presuming thats a xbred.

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The they/them would have had massive pulled tusks Gryph.

Yes he was a big boy all over, when I straddled him to sink the steel in my farkin feet barely touched th e ground.

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Well done on the pigs!

Is that a Hungarian vizsla as a pig dog ??

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She's pretending. I had her with me on top of the bluff while the pig dogs were working below.

There may be a pig or two in this lot Shanks.

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Pigs, deer, you name it.

and bugger all people!

Got the Xmas veni sorted this morning. nearly stuffed it up with over confidence. He was walking and I went for a neck shot at 65meters to save venison. An inch higher and would have been a flesh wound.

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Got the Xmas veni sorted this morning. nearly stuffed it up with over confidence. He was walking and I went for a neck shot at 65meters to save venison. An inch higher and would have been a flesh wound.

I got pics of some horned veni today,you woulda shot him.