160lb Club

A little cooler the last couple of days and as my Brighter future still hadn't arrived I thought I may as well go hunting as only fools and horses work remember.

Up early let the Dogs off and away we go keeping the moles on the heal as they have been trying to catch the odd deer lately, it hasn't dawned on them that they never will, anyway got to a spot where I though a pig might be hanging out then I let Lu&Ming walk on keeping Puk my new bitch with me, Puk is a bit of a meat head and is having trouble staying away from the sharp end on the pigs but holds hard, anyway sitting on the ridge watching the dogs working on the tracker they where about 300 meters away now so I thought I had better get after them 5 minutes later I here barking, didn't sound like a deer bark, so I let Puk go and I off after her, I heard her arrive because then bailing reached a higher pitch, the dogs seemed to have a good bail going but no squealing, then silence, I was moving fast as I worry about Puk getting ripped, the dogs started up again in the next gut, off I go flat out down into the gut the dogs are being chased around by a big black boar, as usual Puk is going in for a hold then she lets out a yelp as the boar gets a tusk into her shoulder she backs off, then the boar is chasing the other two dogs around they are bailing hard out right in it's face, the pig stands side on right in front of me and takes a 357 slug in the shoulder, down he goes.

The boar weighed 167lb and how do I know, well I cut him into 4 pieces and relayed him home over 5 hours so I could weigh him, but from now on they will be getting boned out on sight as my back can't take to much more of todays carry on, unless they are by the track or look over 200lb of-course. 

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