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By Cody Towell
BACON BITES BACK MICK BUXTON

“It was rocky, and we both stumbled. I fell, placing my hand on his head”

I have been hunting for about 5 to 6 years now and We got to 450m and couldn’t drive anymore we began
caught my fair share of pigs. Always in the thick of to run, only to here yelping. We let two more dogs go CODY BUFFIER WWW.BRISTLEUP.COM.AU
it and the first at the catch to dispatch it, but this time thinking this might be the big boy I was chasing. Sure
this boar had other ideas. So on a local property that I enough, it was he wasn’t the biggest but a good boar
hunt, I knew of a pretty big boar getting about along the none the less about 80-90 kg and was giving the dogs
creek. Seeing tracks, diggings and I believe I had seen what for! I ran over to dispatch the big fella. I grabbed
him break away from mobs, cut off to the side up a gully a back leg as he threw one of the two dogs that were
every time thinking “one day I will get you, smart boar.” hanging and tried to run done the hill, dragging me
It was almost a full moon, a mate and I were keen for down with him. It was rocky, and we both stumbled.
a run, so we packed up the dogs and were off stopping I fell, placing my hand on his head. Just like that, he
at a small place close to town catching a few then on to had me. Crushing and thrashing, he tore at the inside
the bigger place. We got there and caught another, with of me rude and ring fingers. My natural instincts kicked
the dogs firing, so we decided to go over the mountain in, and I started throwing my other fist swearing and
and into the creek. With four pigs under our belt already carrying on, I got him off. My mate finished him off and
the dogs jumped, flying up the gully the big fella loved. we were off to the hospital where I had surgery the next
We stopped the Ute listening then bang, 908m on the day. So after this experience, I learned I didn’t want to
tracker, and there was a bail in the distance. get bitten again!

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