HooDoo

Every time Me and Dave my nephew went hunting in the past Lady luck had deserted us.

And so it seemed this morning with Ming bailing a deer early on, then all the dogs chasing it for a couple of miles the pup trail barking all the way, any pigs in the vicinity would have been high tailing it out of the area and so I decided to head for another spot in the dingy, which was now taking on water due to the sea state and over loading.

Up we climbed after beaching the dingy, up, up, up, a little sign around a wallow then just before the ridge Ming started bailing, the other two dogs soon turning up with me and Dave close behind, the dogs were struggling with a 100 lb. boar. That we then managed to tip over with Dave sticking the knife in, great, Dave's first Boar and we had broken the HooDoo at last, only problem was we were a long way from the dingy, but after an hour or so we had the boar back at the boat, then a very slow but satisfying trip back home loaded to the gunnels.
Dave with his first Boar
 Dave took the pig back to Ch-Ch to be made into sausages, which I'm looking forward to trying.
Dave about to carry the Boar back to the boat.
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