NZ Hunter

NEW ZEALAND'S IVORY

Both would be nice! But scrappy pigs with great ivories from big native forest country are high on the list for me.

As with so many successful pig hunting stories, this one started with a call from the farm manager saying that hed been seeing sign of a good pig during the week. Justin called me saying hed seen a decent mark (print) coming to a dead sheep so we knew we at least had a starting point in the native forest along the boundary.

With a nice early start on a still, frosty day, we first wandered out an easy leading ridge that ran in to the heart of

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