Greeting the owner, we were handed a map of the 180,000-acre property which indicated the channels and the thicker scrub.
There was so much good-looking country we didn’t know where to start, as the pigs could literally be anywhere. Before setting up camp we decided to grab rifles and go for a walk around one of the tanks where the owner told us they had spotted a family mob with a decent boar earlier in the week.
There was a fair bit of sign around the tank, so we split and walked up a couple of different gutters that ran off from the tank. I made it back to the vehicle first, with no luck. Not long after, I heard a few shots and a mob of pigs took off across a clearing on the other side of the channels. I made my way over there and Glen had the first pig for the trip on the deck - a sow taken from a mob of seven or eight pigs.
That afternoon I was eager to put a pig on the ground. We made a game plan to work through a channel system, which turned out to be some excellent country. We were expecting to bump pigs any second, but they
