Spent a good day in the Aussie bush recently chasing a few porkers and deer. Stalked in close to some fallow bucks early in the day but some nasty wind changes blew my chances. Spent a good half hour on an old looking, curly lipped boar that I could not get a shot on due to thick foliage. In the end he had me pegged and chomped his tusks at me several times before heading off into the scrub. After several more hours of careful searching I found a mob of four pigs feeding on a flat in the last hour of daylight. Spent fifteen minutes within shot range of the sows hoping a boar might materialise out of the adjacent scrub, but as it appeared that wasn't to be, I made the descision and heart shot this sow at seven or eight metres.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc220/tommogb/sow2010.jpg)
She made it thirty metres or so in a grunting rush that had her run past me close enough to touch with my bow.
61# PSA Widow with CX Heritage 350 shafts and an Aussie Black Stump broadhead did the job nicely.
Good shot placement and a nice pig.
Very nice hog! :thumbsup:
Jerry
Awesome animal, looks like you made a good choice :archer2:
Very nice & great shot placement, I'm jelouse because I've yet to get to go piggy hunting yet.
nice stuff tom. it's great being close to 'em!
:thumbsup: Good shooting sir!
Very nice! :thumbsup:
Good job!!!
Well done.
When's the barbie? Congratulations!
That's the difference between sticking to a hunt versus calling it quits when there's any shooting time left.
Anything after the shot takes as long as it takes anyway...lol
Thanks for sharing!
God bless,Mudd
Nice sow mate.
WOW, that's a hog. Congratulations.
The Aussie Black Stump strikes again!
Great shot!
Shoot straight, Shinken
Perfect shot! Nice work.
Nice!!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Good shooting and perseverance. Do you eat them or have to leave the meat lay? I have heard some areas in Australia have to may parasites in the animals to be safe to eat.
Very Nice :thumbsup:
Congrats on a nice hog and a well placed shot. :thumbsup:
Nice hog & shot!
Awesome animal, perfect shot! Nice work
Great hog, better picture. Congratulations. Thanks for sharing. :clapper:
Nice!!!
Wow, great end of the day!
nice shot mate ...
as for the eating Aussie pigs query... my expereince is if they are well cooked and taken closer to the coast they can and often are good eating . The pigs around Texas in Queensland Australia that live on the prickly pear trees makes some of the best eating game meat I've eaten. Even more so the rare mountain pigs we get here down south in Victoria
as for the big western plains pigs of New South Wales and western Queensland, I wouldn't eat them unless starving!!!
Nice looking hog! :thumbsup:
Nice porky . Good job sticking to the hunt.
Good-going, Tom! Is that PCH having a well-earned rest since grassing the stag?
Nice porker, congrats! Can't wait to get after them myself.
Thanks for all the comments.
Ben M has it on the money with the eating. Around my area they are usually pretty good so kept some meat for a mate who loves it.
Ben K the PCH was resting due to a shortage of arrows to shoot out of it. With this now rectifed, it will be seeing more bush time sooner rather than later. Can't let it rest on it's laurels.
SUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEyYYYYYY!
Great shot! I want to hunt hogs.
Love that pork BBQ!
looks good