Sporting Shooter

Tin Anniversay Porkers

OUR trip this year was pretty special as I had been shooting with Darren Paddy Andrews for 10 years. So this time we decided to hunt on our favourite piece of real estate up here in Far North Queensland for three weeks, or until the ammo ran out, to celebrate the milestone.

When managed to not coincide at take-off due to a SNAFU, but that was not going to stop us. Midday found us driving through the front gates of the station and a long time catch up with the manager, setting up camp, followed by a feed and we were off to a few waterholes that we had been directed to.

First two holes we lucked out on but on the third we spotted a pig coming off water and paddy put in the

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