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Just home from an epic hunt and I'm shattered, got my first pig, I'll do a write up tomorrow.
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Just home from an epic hunt and I'm shattered, got my first pig, I'll do a write up tomorrow.
Mean bro, looks like a good boar and with that colour I’d say North Canterbury?...don’t say.
I remember my first pig as a 12 year old and the 243 like yesterday and my first pig with the dog as a 13 year old and I’ve been hooked ever since...
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Congratulations! What a great first Pig!
Awesome ��
Well done
Looks a beaut.
Yup, Lees Valley good spotting you know your pigsQuote:
Originally Posted by Danny
Nailed him with the mighty 270 @150 yds perfect shot just behind the sholders, the shoulders are mint and won't be wasted.Quote:
Originally Posted by berg243
:cool:
Well the day started out pretty ordinary, we had been out on a mates block up the Lees Valley a couple weeks ago but the wind had beeb all wrong and even though we had seen a few deer we couldn't get close enough to shoot the buggers.
This day was similar and there was a bit of wind blowing in Oxford township so my hops weren't high as I was pretty sure by the time we hit the ridge lines in Lees Valley it would be blowing a gale at 1000m+.
But hey a bad days hunting is better than a good day mowing lawns :thumbsup:
We had actually set out to target deer as mentioned earlier we had seen a few up there a couple weeks earlier.
I never target pigs as I think the guys with dogs have a much better chance of success, also even though we knew there would likely be pigs up there my mate who has been on this block for a few years had never seen one.
We got to our first ridge line at about 3pm probably to early for deer to be out feeding but as no one had been up on the block for a week we decided it was worth sitting there for a glass.
Nearly an hour goes by and nothing other than a couple goats which weren't worth the effort as it would have been a huge mission to get them where they were.
The valley we were glassing was kind of an "L" shape and we couldn't see one end so we decided we were going to head up to where we had seen a few deer before as we wanted to be there when the deer started to feed.
As we rounded the corner of the valley we decided to stop for a quick 10min glass of the bit of the "L" we couldn't see from our first possie.
Just as we were about to head off again I was literally about to say to my mate it's funny there's no pig rooting on this face it loogs like prime pig country, he pipes up and says "pig"
Sure enough at the bottom of the gut crossing a slip theres a pig just meandering around was hard to tell how big as they often look bigger through the binos than they really are.
We ranged him at 540 yds a bit far for an ethical shot for me.
We had to head another 800m up the track to where we could drop down and close the gap, it was on.....
We boosted it to grabed our gear out the truck and once sighting the pig agsin made our way down into the gut to just above the scrub line.
The gut was not far off vertical in places and I knew we were in for a hard slog out.
The thing with guts is that they rarely provide a good flat shooting platform, we gound a rocky outcrop and even though it was sloping down hill and my left leg was hanging in the breeze it was good enough with the pack propped up in front of me.
Good advert for the 270 :thumbsup:
Well done - any weight on him
Mr pig was rooting around under a fern bush having a good old feed and I could literally only see his back legs and tail swishing around, so we waited, he wasn't going anywhere and if he did he would have to break cover to do it as the ferns he was under were in the middle of the slip.....we waited some more and more and this pig was having a field day dirt and rocks flying out from under the fern scrub and the pig disappeared from sight a few times but by the way the fern scrub was thrashing about therecwas no doubt hecwas in there.
After about 1 hour I was really starting to suffer from positional fatigue on my uncomfortable sloping rock ledge perch.
Even after a few stretches getting back into position my body would just start spasming and cramping almost immediately.
Now recently I've had a couple misses and I really felt the pressure not to muck this up, I said to my mate a few times I can see enough of him should I take him, the reply was just wait he's gotta come out sooner or later....
That's kind of an "in-your-face" pic of Mr Pig. Well done. Have to carry him far?
Just when I thought I couldn't hold my position any longer he showed just enough front shoulder for the shot......boom he took about a dozen shakey steps into the open not knowing if he was gonna bolt I put another one clean in his neck and he just fell over on the spot.
We made our way down and accross the creek and found him without much trouble and took a couple pics then gutted him.
The 145g eldx had totally obliterated his lungs, the first shot had definitely been a kill shot, he was probably dead on his feet when the second shot hit his neck.
My shot placement was perfect both shots went exactly where I was aiming. And almost no wasted meat.
All in all a great outcome.
He's probably somewhere between 100 and 130lbs at a guess @Sarvo , he's hanging in the buthchers chiller so I'll check on monday.
Well pleased to have the monkey off my back.
Yup bout 500m straight up through 2 scrub lines was a 2 and a half hour climb outQuote:
Originally Posted by Max Headroom
He's in great condition too plenty of meat on him
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Those rails in the pic above are at my head height, I'm 6'8 to give a rough indication of size his nose is about 4" off the ground
Also couple of firsts.
*first pig
*first kill with the sako 270
*first kill with a bullet I made myself, thanks @Ryan_Songhurst for your help developing the load
That’s awesome man. Well done :cool:
Feeling it today, we got home bout 9pm last night had a couple beers to celebrate then dinner and bed.....woke up @ 9amQuote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
Mean effort. Congrats
Top stuff very nice pig for your first well Done , gotta love those 145 gr ELD X bullets.
That pic with him resting on the tailgate and the country behind says it all really.. good for you.
My favorite too love being up on the ridgelines especially when we can drive up, even if we have to climb down for animals.....pure heavenQuote:
Originally Posted by doinit
Just been down to the butcher to discuss what I want done and he officially weighed in at 40kg or just shy of 90lbs not bad at all, funny they always look heavier at the bottom of a gut
awesome. I have caught a few pigs in Lee's valley, its a fantastic place.
What's your butcher gonna process this as, sausages, cuts of meat, anything like bacon or ham?Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
Back legs as hams, front shoulders as roasts, the rest as chops and stripsQuote:
Originally Posted by Max Headroom
