I had been wanting to go hunting with Dad for ages. I had been before but never caught a pig so I got really excited when dad said we could go in the morning. When the morning come I jumped out of bed and got straight in to my hunting clothes then helped my brother…
My name is Jamie Heywood, I am 28 years old, and father of four beautiful kids to my lovely Mrs, Haylee. I have been hunting since I was walking, and love and live it. I live at the top of the South Island and hunt with my 3 main dogs Lucy, Rosie and Sky. My…
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Well 2020, what a bloody shit start to be honest. It was looking good in the beginning and hunting aspirations were extremely high, well mine were anyway. I was just able to get my pack all sorted and they were just starting to hunt well together. I was also able to take my young fella…
what a sight, both dogs holding hard with the boar’s head in between two beech trees with his shoulders too big to go through Hi there my name is Roman, I live in mid Canterbury and this hunt started off like a lot of our hunts. A spontaneous mid-winter afternoon hunt, dogs are keen…
“Hurry up! Get on the motorbike you kids, we are going hunting!” I shouted. ‘Vrrm vrmm’ and we were off down the track and up the hill into the bush. “Now be quiet” Grandad Paulie said to us. Then we heard the dogs barking like gorillas. We jumped off and raced up the steep, slippery…
I was pretty lucky to get to live on a decent size farm just out of Central Otago for the last 4 years and have hunting on my back doorstep I was pretty lucky to get to live on a decent size farm just out of Central Otago for the last 4 years and have…
Hi my name is Sam I’m working on a farm called. None of your business. Winter is upon us now and the pigs are coming down lower and are starting to really enjoy ripping up some of my paddocks. A wee bit here and there, that’s life. But when I see a couple of paddocks…
As of every hunt goes it starts with the dogs being geared up and loaded onto the Ute, today we decided to take the two pups out ( Lucy n sky) and leave the main home due to a rip a couple of weeks ago when she pulled a good 115lb boar but that’s another…
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