Why you don't go hunting with too many people

Beadwindow said:
Now, if only some of those game farms in southern ON would let their boars loose and establish themselves..... I guess that I'd be hunting woodcock with a Brenneke slug in the second barrel....

Its only a matter of time. From what I can find out the pigs are only gaining numbers in the praries and they are spreading out fast. I'd bet if you really looked around you would find pig tracks that you thought were deer. They are very elusive in heavy cover and have no natural predators in Canada so they are breeding like rabbits. Let me tell you for a beginer hunter they are a HARD prey. I've only ever heard them active when it was really dark out.

One day I'll have a nice skull to mount though.
 
From folks I know in Australia who hunt these beasties...

Use well armoured and trained dogs to flush them.
Never go into the thick brush close after them.
Never travel on uneven or loose ground.
Always wear protection on your legs, and groin area.
The Medieval Boar spear is still the best for close work.

What these guys did was play right into the Boars defence mechanism...lure you onto uneven, and loose ground, with brush cover, then double back on you for a charge at your Legs, and lower Torso...which can be fatal to the hunters.
 
Yea I've tried pushin bush for them and they just disappear into cover leaving only tracks. My impression of the local variety is that you need to be a well seasoned hunter (not me) first of all and you really need to know their habits. These pigs have so much area with cover to hide in and they don't need to come out till after dark so you could be in an area and if you don't know what to look for you wouldn't even know they were in the area. They pretty much have everything going in their favor as far as prey go.
 
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