The art of   tracking game

While we don’t do it intentionally, sometimes it happens - an animal is wounded and rushes into cover. I have had it happen to me, though it’s rare. Recently, I had a big mud-encrusted boar take off after I hit him with a well-placed 90-grain Speer bullet from my Tikka Lite .243. Normally, such a shot drops a big boar like a brick – normally…

But this one humped his back and took off into a dam’s thick rubber vine. This stuff forms vine thickets that are almost impossible to see under let alone make your way through. I waited on the high dam wall for him to break cover and head into the bush on the other side but he stayed put, no doubt grinding his tusks to razor sharpness as he prepared to take me on. I picked up his tracks from where he