Sporting Shooter

Howling Dogs

My wife received a call from her father. One of his mates, a local property owner and his family were at their wits’ end. They had been losing new calves to wild dogs at an unacceptable rate.

“We sure are interested…very interested”, I heard my wife say. These hunting opportunities don’t always present themselves, so we jumped at the chance.

After contacting the landowners and rearranging our calendar, we had set a date for mid-September. Now, as we had never hunted wild dogs specifically, we went in search of information on the subject and came up short on hunting detail. Those that we spoke to insisted “you can’t hunt dogs, you just come across them by chance”.

The Friday before our weekend hunt, we headed to the range to sight our rifles and got talking with a fellow hunter about our plans.

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