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Troy & Shannon - 133kg WA Boar

“We got within 150 metres and I could hear the roaring”
ELUSIVE MONSTER
By Troy Schmidt

We were sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon About half an hour had passed when the dogs got dogs had him distracted and grabbed him by the and about half an hour later they flew from the
when my partner Shannon and I decided to load keen and left the ute, but they weren’t in a real tail. Instantly I thought to myself, what have I gone Ute and hit him again. An almost identical thing
the dogs up for a quick hunt at around 2 in the rush. They worked the ground pretty hard and and done here! He pulled me around like a rag happens again me getting in there shooting it and
afternoon. I had been told of a boar for a couple before long were out at 1.2km so I decided to doll through the thick tee tree, and after a minute the dogs shitting themselves and losing the boar!
of years that had been roaming the area. This drive a bit closer to close the gap a bit and start of struggling, I had to let him go. We never had I was running out of options and three times this
boar had touched up a few dogs in the past and making some ground on them. I got to about 600 a knife or even rope to tie him up. We were also happened, but on the 4th time I got into we’re
managed to avoid being caught. Some claiming from them when we pulled up to hear Hornet and decked out in shorts and thongs to make matters the pups had him, and when I shot, he looked
it was around 150kg mark. I had seen some Ragnar barking in a thicket. They had something worse. Things were just getting harder and harder, a little disorientated. So, I waited for him to turn
large tracks in the past and I knew the pig must pulled up but it broke and pushed out to about and it seemed like an uphill battle. I remembered and rushed in to grab a leg. Finally, he was on
have some size about it but was bit skeptical on 900 metres further. Once we were confident they that I had the 22 in the car from shooting the night his side. Two and a half hours, 4 kilometers, sore
it being 150kg. So today we were hoping to finally had a good steady bail we started making before, so I sent Shannon back to get it. I got in dogs and several shots and it was over, we had
come across the big fella and put the tale to rest. our way in. We got within 150 metres and I could a good spot and shot the big fella twice aiming him in the bag. We knew how big he was and
About 5 minutes into the hunt I notice some tracks hear the roaring noise as he chased the dogs between the eyes. As this is a practice I don’t how hard it was going to be to get him out, so
on a pad. The pad is the same one the pig was around. I knew it was a big fella and I was hoping normally use, and the dogs being terrified of guns I called a couple of friends to help us load it on
using last time I came through a couple of months it was that big fella we had been after. We got in they backed right off, and my main dog ran all the Ute. We headed home to get some photos,
before. The tracks where big, that big I could fit closer, and he was giving the dogs a toweling so the way back to the Ute, and the boar legged it. I weigh him and to skin him as we wanted to get
an ice coffee bottle in the track. But it was hard to no amount of encouragement would get them to thought that was it. I went back to Ute loaded the him mounted. The first job was to pull him up on
tell how fresh they were so we continued hunting. grab him again. I snuck in behind him while the pups on and drove all the tracks in the area, the scales, and he weighed in at 133.90 kg.
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