SAMI A CHANGE OF PACE PART 1 - INDICATING DOGS

With business and family commitments requiring a lot of my time these days, I made the decision after more than a little soul searching. A lot of it was about what was good for the dogs. I owed them that much.

And just like that, I had no pig dogs. Problem was, I loved having a dog with me and I still loved my hunting. I turned 50 last year and I realised there was still a large chunk of big country that I wanted to look into (isn’t there always?) and limited time meant much of it had been spent crawling around in gorse gullies after pigs. I have really migrated back to bush hunting in recent years too, for what in many ways is the ultimate hunting challenge. Where technology doesn’t make a blind bit of difference and it is all down to the hunter. So, what to do?

Twenty or more years ago, before I took up pig hunting, I had a ball shooting a lot of deer over an indicator dog. We were a tight little team. I have always loved the bond you can have with just one dog when you are working closely together.

A well-trained dog fits in with family life. It’s become a bit of a fashion trend to own a dog these days