HOB issue 23 – April/May 2011 The alarm rang at 5 am. Matt and the old man had already had a massive feed and mine was sitting on the kitchen table half stale. It was baked beans and bacon, which we were running low on. As I mowed the tucker back, I watched the red…
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Heres a delayed post from us at HOB. Please be safe on the roads and while you are out catching kai for the many feasts to come. Have a Marry Christmas & a Happy New Year Cheers, Harry @ HOB Subscribe to Hooked on Boars to continue reading and view MORE premium content! Subscribe…
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Part of our hunting adventures is about being in the bush, on the hills and generally just admiring the scenery in this place we call home. But how much do we know about the landscapes we hunt in? To be a successful hunter it’s always good to have a little knowledge about the environment as…
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Anna Girvan – Anna works in the pest control industry up in the North Island but her other hobby’s other than killing pest for a living and catching boars when she can, she loves camping, the outdoors, her dogs, traveling NZ and of course riding horses as she’s been doing that since the tender age…
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HOB issue 23 – April/May 2011 Bren is quite muscular but short and stocky as holders go. He had been given up on by others who were too busy to hunt him. We had trialled him on several hunts before and he was certainly keen. Although our hunting wagon is usually full, Bren has some…
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I crossed the ditch in October 1998 and started work on a property close to Hillston, South West NSW. I had heard all the stories about Aussie wild life from mates in NZ: everything bites and 90% of what bites kills. This was reinforced of course by the local who seemed to take great pleasure…
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On Saturday the 18th of January 2020 I stuck my first boar at my Grandads farm, in the Canterbury High Country with Richard and his dogs. I spotted it at a place on the farm called Pickaxe Creek. After about a 20-minute drive down the valley, we parked the buggy up next to a little…
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To date I have never used a bark collar on a dog but this article is about the result that I got to witness the effects of a bark collar. Because I live out in the country I do not need to worry about any of my dogs annoying my neighbours with barking too much….
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Well where to start. How about where are all the big pigs hiding at the moment? Over winter I got stuck into a fair bit of hunting and managed to get quite a few good animals in the freezer for winter slow cook meals and spring barbeque season but of all the pigs I have…
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It was foggy and overcast and I had just shut the gate into boar territory. The farm owner drove along the ridge. My granddad, Tony walked through the bush and his mate walked down the bike track. The dogs started barking then it went dead silent. An 80lb boar ran out. The pig saw Tony’s…