I was freezing. I guessed the temperature at -5º Celsius and I had been exposed in a quite open blind for hours. Yes, this September is very strange at La Pampa Province. The gauchos told me that a very big boar was killing their lambs and goats and I hoped to rid them of this menace. By the way, the land was dry as a bone after many months without rains. However, I was freezing and thinking on returning to a warm bed...when the big beast appeared, silent like a ghost in the twilight. I couldn´t even raise the gun with my cold hands before the killer disappeared again. I was hunting from a blind over a waterhole some 40 meters away, with only five meters or so of open space. End of the game: Hog 1-Nainital 0.
Afterwards I heard a shot from my partner, who killed a lesser boar to bring some meat home.
Oh well, this is a very good alibi for returning, I´m glad anyway. The joy is being there, just that.
As per our late expert, Lalo Mandojana, a real good wild boar is the most difficult Argentine trophy. And a cattle killer is the best to be had.

Good on you, amigo. The best part of it all is just being out there. Freezing, sweating, waiting. And then, sometimes a big bang, and sometimes....well you had that one. But you were there, that's what counts.

I know about cold too. I was sitting over a rub once in Alberta, the coldest I have ever been, I was wearing everything I had brought with. It was so cold my pinchuli was about the size of a roll of dimes....30 cents worth.

And I never even saw the buck. I think if I had to take a I could have broken off the stream and tossed it aside.... I know where the damn buck probably was ....in town having a

It was + 28 C here in the Great White North (Alberta) today. I wish that I was somewhere else this evening .. freezing in a ground blind waiting for a great wild boar to show ... As Edison Marshall, the great tiger hunter of yester year once said, ' The swine are noble game !' .. or something like that.

Dear Richard ,LALO MANDONJANA,LALO PALACIOS,MIGUEL PESCE AND MARMOLIN WERE GREAT HUNTERS OF ARGENTINA ,and they inspired me in this marvelous sport of big game ,but i consider the puma the most difficult game.Juan

Juan Jaeger: agreed about the puma caught in fair chase, but I suppose that Lalo Mandojana pictured the troubles in looking for a really good hog. Like you very well know, many times we followed or waited for a big one and after killing it found small tusks or one missing. By the way, big tracks don´t involve always big tusks, the darned things are like elephants in this subject.