Australian Hunter

The ginger boar is no more

With pigs too plentiful on my hunting grounds, I had temporarily switched attention from wild dogs to feral porkers. The trail cameras were showing lots of daytime pig activity on a dead cow, so hunting buddy Pete and I decided to sit over the carcass late one afternoon.

Only a week or so previously I had shot a smallish ginger boar there using the same approach. The trail cams were indicating that the sows had overcome their fright and resumed business as usual, with a

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