Table of contents for July - August - September 2017 in Bacon Busters

Compiled by Larry Tarrant. It was all on! Middle of the day and we decided to check out a dam which was near our camp. The air con was great since we had just walked four hours up and down the river, but now pulling the truck up just short of a good dam; we knew we had to get out into the heat. It was as hot as blazes and flies by the mouthful, but you don't notice them when you are pumped up. As soon as we both moved to the back of the truck, over the dam wall came a mob of good-sized pigs. What amazing timing. Surely, they were waiting for us! A whispered strategy between my good mate and I was concocted as the previous…

Check out these Snowy Mountain brutes! One just has to experience the wild and harsh, scrubby terrain in these cold mountains to know that these big Aussie beasts are tough to catch, let alone find. Tumut local, Andrew Gilchrist knocks over his fair share of boars and to his and his dog’s credit, they come up with some crackers!…

My old man, brother and I have caught a wide range of trophy boars from all ranges of country in QLD and NSW. From unforgiving mountains to thick corn and sorghum, to scrub, open cattle country and swamplands. Every boar is different and every boar tells a different story. Hunting such a vast range of terrains requires a few dogs in our hunting pack. We run two Brian Neal/Warrego Arabs (Bunji and Bella) that are used as Ute and ground finders/luggers. We also use a Dane/Warrego Arab (Scooby) as a finder and the muscle for those hard-to-catch boars, a Dane/Mastiff/Warrego Arab (Tazz) used as a Ute and ground finder. The smallest in the pack is out Catahoula (Mia) used as a bailer for the crop country and mountains. Our best…

Always when out hunting, I ignore my aches and pains, I eat the same food every day and always make good gains, Resist any complaining, and boring people with my hurts. My life is really going well, ahead in great big spurts. I understand when loved ones, are to busy with their time, Doing just my own thing usually, as the pain is only mine. Hunting is my pastime, to get out in the bush, It doesn’t take much to get me going, not even a little push The hunt was planned already; I was aching to get started, Being that happy to be going, my eyes even almost smarted. We set off for a great spot, where pigs were always abundant, The idea really was, to make the buggers…

My mate Matty Willis and I decided to go out for a look on the quads one morning at a nearby station. We covered a few kilometres along the river with plenty of sign around, but no jumps from the dogs. We pushed on to check a couple of swamps and finally, the dogs all jumped and pulled up a good sow weighing 104kg. We decided to head back because it was starting to heat up a bit too much to keep running the dogs. As we got back to a little creek we'd already been passed earlier, we saw a good-sized pig track across our quad tracks. Willis reckoned we go for a quick walk in there; and sure enough his tracks were fresh as the dogs worked out,…

After heaps of sign of pigs, my brother, mate and I from Wagga Wagga decided we would go looking for them. After an early morning start, we stumbled across a mob of pigs lying around the dam. We rushed up into them and dropped eighteen with the shotgun and not many got away. All pigs weren't overly big, but it was still a good find. Around midday, we still had one more spot that was sure for a good catch, with signs of a big old boar. We stopped the buggy up in the scrub and walked down. I was loaded with bullets in the gun, my brother with the knife and my mate ready to rush in and give us a hand. There he was, lying down in the…

Experience Wild Boar hunting at it's best in this newly opened hunting Concession on the Western Arnhemland coastline. Wumanyari is a unique area abounds with Wildlife, Flora & Fauna and of course good Wild Boar populations. This area is unique and is also abundant with Aboriginal Rock Art and Culture. On your hunting experience, you will hunt Wild Boar on a minimum 2x1 basis. Vehicles will transfer you from our newly constructed camp to and from our hunting concessions where all of our hunting is done by walking and stalking. Hunt the coastal floodplains to the thick jungle creeks for boars. Everything is included except alcohol as this is a restricted area and a permit needs to be processed for liquor. To and from camp transfers is also an add-on…

Bonnie HOME TOWN: Gordonvale Qld JOB: I work for my fathers carpentry business (Full Boar Carpentry Contractors) doing labouring and admin. I'm all about family and hunting. LOVES: My animals HATES: When my Hilux breaks down(seems to be happening alot lately). HOBBIES: Hunting BIGGEST BOAR: 110kg live weight IDEAL DATE: Can't beat a Bunning’s snag! WHAT YOU’D DO WITH $1MILLION: I'd go off the grid, buy a hunting property and live off the land. WINNER! 'STICK'EM IN STYLE!' PRIZE PACK WWW.STICKEMINSTYL E.COM. AU…

Hunting under the dark of night has got to be one of my most favourite methods of shooting. Some of the things you get to see and watch are just unreal! I've set myself up with a thermal scope sitting on a 30-06. I find it best used sitting on carcasses. Living and working on a remote cattle station in some of Australia's thickest mulga, the pigs are hard to get at. My way of hunting the big boars out here is when the opportunity arises, set up a good bait-station and come in late at night with the thermal and check the carcasses. The year has started with a bang as I've shot some of my best boars to date here within a few weeks apart. We were mustering…

We rushed the dogs into gearing up and headed off for a morning hunt in the mountains one morning. Only running our main dogs off the Ute, the backups were confined to the cage for now. We had a few good finds and a some nice boars along with a heap of mob pigs, so we kept on poking on until we flushed out a nice mob. The dogs split up, so we ran to our smallest bitch that had a pig bailed in a bush with no lugger. Mat checked the tracker, only to see that our lugger and other finder were 870metres down the valley. The tracker was saying treed, so he set off to fetch them! On arrival, they had a nice young boar about 60kg in…

Warthogs are found on the plains and savannas of Africa where they spend the day munching grass. Nights, they spend underground in their dens. Although the hogs have a good sense of smell, their weak eyesight allows a stalker, with a low sun behind him and the wind in his face, to get up pretty close; so close that I have shot quite a few with my muzzle loader. Over the years, I have used an interesting variety of rifles to hunt warthogs - guns such as Martini Henrys, Sniders and the Westley Richards ’Monkey Tail’ carbine – just to make the hunt different/ more interesting! Anyway, I recently went on a walkabout in the bush with my Professional hunter friend Neil, who was in the process of applying for…

At the fit young age of 40, young Michael Saunders is still getting about busting boars when he can. LOL! Michael spent a day of late cruising around the scrubby paddocks amongst the fallen timber and Wilga terrain. Leaving the dog at home on this day, he’s thanking himself he did, as these three brutes would have caused a ruckus to say the least. All three boars had an ear missing and were solid tanks that had been taking advantage of the evident feed. Done well Michael. Keep up the good work! Ed…

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There is always a good population of pigs roaming the hillsides around home in the Central West. One warm December night in the Crookwell area, I went out hunting with my mate Gareth and his three dogs (Bear, Ted and Sooty). We walked about 15km that night and caught a big bugger about halfway in. After the chase and hold, we dispatched the mountain marauder and then caped him out for the carry about 7km back to the Ute. He was the third good pig for the night and the biggest in both tusk and body that I have ever seen. He put up a good fight for the dogs and luckily never connected with a hook. When the hills are alive with pigs, it’s always worth going out!…

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