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WINNER
CORY SMITH
BY CORY SMITH & BRENDON LOLLER
HOOKY WA BOAR
Well, the hunt started the same as any other, my
mate Brendon & I collared the dogs and headed
south to a property about an hour away from town.
We reached the spot where we knew some good
pigs were getting around. It was an overcast day
not to hot with a nice wind around. Working the
back of the ute today was our 2 bailers Blue dog a
Bull Arab x Cattle and Ginger a Pitty/Stag x Bully.
We drove for about an hour with the dogs only
jumping once going 150 meters and coming back.
They were looking keen but came up with nothing,
so we kept on trucking through the bush and came
up to a water hole. The dogs were looking keen
on the Ute. I said to Brendon, “they’re going to go
here.” I stopped the ute, but they didn’t jump so I
started to drive off, and they both got keen again, I
stopped again and off they went. They ran straight
to the water then come back to the Ute, but we
could tell there was something about as they were
still too keen. If you think there is something around
it never hurts to get out and go for a bit of a walk.
Get the dogs to follow you, and hopefully,
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they will find that pig that’s trying to lay low.
Brendon & I got out of the Ute and I started
to walk towards the water hole when both the
dogs took off in the bush, and they were moving
fast. We ran back to the ute to get the trackers,
watching both the dogs work and waiting to see
if they would hit up. Sure enough, we heard that
sweet sound of a good bail, and they had him
pulled up. We had my holder Ace an American
Bulldog x American Staffy in the box. I normally
run him in on a lead most days but thought
to my self, not today. I let him out of the box,
and he took off through the bush. Brendon and
I ran after him, running through the bush we
could hear the two bailers Ginger & Blue Dog
barking. We got about 200 meters from the ute
& stopped to listen. I heard a bark from Ace.
I turned to Brendon and said “He’s barking, it
must be a good pig for him to bark.” With that
we started running again, crossing a creek line,
the dogs weren’t to far from the creek maybe
another 100 meters.
BRENDON LOLLER
BLUE DOG
Bullarab x Cattle
GINGER
Pitty/Stag x Bully
“Sure enough, we heard that sweet sound of a good bail”
I got there and Ace was on one ear and Blue Dog was
on the other. He had a good set of hooks on him. I
yelled out to Brendon who was a few metered behind
me. Brendon ran up and grabbed the boar to finish off
the job. We realized we forgot a knife so Brendon got
the dogs off and I made a quick run to the ute to grab
it. After this it was time to carry the big fella out, we
took turns carrying him on our backs. It wasn’t very
far back to the ute but with that boar on our backs and
crossing the creek line it seemed a lot further but we
got it back to the Ute eventually. Once we had some
photos and we were all set we called it an afternoon.
It was a good Sunday afternoon run for Brendon and ACE
I so we loaded the dogs and the pig up and started American Bulldog
heading back to town. Once we got back to town the x American Staffy
next thing to do was to weigh the boar. He come in at
77kg live, not a huge pig but he had awesome set of
tusks. We were stocked to be out in the bush enjoying
what we love to do in Western Australian pig country.