Table of contents for April - May - June 2016 in Bacon Busters

Gday Everyone, I've had enough of the Summer heat & humidity already and I’m looking forward to the colder months. The extreme seasons make it really sticky & uncomfortable and that's why Autumn and Spring, I find, are the most pleasurable for hunting. The dogs seem to work better and do not suffer as much! To be honest, I've been really quiet since Christmas on the hunting front and my brothers & my team of dogs are in a transition period of younger pups coming through after losing a good pair of handy hounds. On a sad note, my original pig dog, Missy passed away, but had a great 19years under her belt. Attached is a pic of her and Jeep (my original duo) out at Nyngan with a hooky…

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I have been starting to get back into hunting regularly after my car accident, as I hadn’t been for quite a while. With my old dog keen and my young son Callum even keener, I organised a trip and with a phone call I was good to go. I asked my mate Mitch to see if he wanted to go too! Before you knew it, the Cruiser was loaded and off we went. Mitch had his twelve-month-old Mastiff/Stag/Bullterrier bitch Millie, I had my main dog Max who is a line bred Bull Mastiff/Dane and was pushing 8 years old. I also brought my two young pups to get them started. Ruger, my 5-month-old Dane/Stag/ Arab, and 12-month-old Jock, who is a Cattle/Kelpie/Collie. After a couple of hours of driving, we…

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180kg Monster! COMPILED BY JAMES ISELIN It was the day after Boxing Day and I was out at my mates parents block in the Burnett region. We had caught a few average pigs, but on the last night we went for one last run and ran into this monster! We were lucky enough to watch the hit-up and the battle unfold. Buka hit him first and the boar just smashed him sending him flying through the air! The whole time Buka had him; his four paws were never on the ground as he was getting some serious airtime. The boar flung Buka off and came straight for us and as we scrambled to get away, Buka had pulled him up again. That was when Sarge had joined him in the…

It was another hot/humid afternoon and we just had around 50ml of rain. My mate Brad & I decided to go for an afternoon hunt, so we walked along the edge of a swamp for a couple of kilometres. The dogs showed some good sign & bolted into the lantana, but shortly returned with no luck. We decided to go for a walk through the mozzie infested lantana and after some 500metres, we started to see some fresh pig sign. Looking at it, a mob had travelled through recently and it wasn’t long before the dogs were on! A solid beast appeared and the dogs had the 60kg boar under control, so we could do our thing! We then trekked toward a nearby swamp and chose to walk into the…

I have been reading Bacon Busters since I can remember. My old man brought them home all the time when I was a kid and I'm 24 now, haha! Time certainly flies! Anyway, I'm a sparky an hour west of Brisbane and I only get out west once every month or so if I'm lucky. I head out to Goondiwindi most trips, but every now and then head a bit further north. My Mrs (Jess) loves coming out whenever the boys can’t make it and she isn't working. My funny looking hairy dog (first ever dog) ‘Rocky’, who is about 5, had a rough one and isn't that flash anymore, but has still caught well over 100 pigs and still has the most heart out of any dog I've seen.…

I have been hunting the hills at Barraba NSW for the last 15 years with my own dogs and we have caught many good boars over that time. This year I have lost my two main holders to old age and injury and now I have had to rely on my old finder to teach my new Bull Arab puppy how it’s done. The old dog has been catching some good pigs, but she is getting old and has no teeth left in her head. The puppy has been stock and roo proofed, but has not caught any pigs to date (she has been watching)! Last weekend, I started my holidays from Property Management in real estate and decided to leave Sydney and head to my mate’s property at Barraba…

With Fishing, when a heavy low-pressure system moves in, the game gets active. Last week, pig chasing here, was no exception. When the weather forecast called for extreme cold temperatures for western Japan, I knew the pigs would be out and about. Japanese boar are covered in a thick coat, and have a massive fat layer to get them through the winter, and this is the kind of weather they love. It took a heavy hand to get these thin-skinned Aussie dogs out of bed. It was clear in their eyes, ‘Why the hell should we be chasing pigs in -3 temps?’ The first day of the plummeting weather, we went out just after work to a mountain 10 minutes from home. The dogs picked up scent right away and…

What is it with tusks, trophies, ivory? For hundreds of years, man has harvested animals for food and utilised the rest of the carcass including meat, bone etc for tools and ornaments. It is no different to today! Hunters show off horns, antlers, tusks, ivory, skins in remembrance of that special hunt. Some people turn their noses up at this, but they really are just ornaments. Materialistic momento's that remind us about a time in life when we had a successful hunt! Well, we've got some rippers this issue! Check out Emily Thomson's beast she caught. He not only has good tusks, but is a crackin' tonner! The same goes for Craig Holdsworth from the western districts of NSW. That boar in the back of the Ute has a great…

The start of the Wet Season in the Cape changes everything! Pigs are on the move and locating a good boar during the wet carries a few more challenges than the dry. As the floodgates of Heaven open, many of the roads and tracks that were open during the dry become inaccessible and the ones that are open require a well-equipped vehicle to take them on. It doesn’t take much to find yourself a long way from help when you are out chasing a hog, so there are a few necessary steps that should be taken in preparation for any wet season hunt. It’s time to give the hunting rig a good service and make sure that your tool kit is fully stocked. Grab a set of spare fan belts…

Have I gone soft? Or perhaps just sensible in my middle age! I may not be the man I thought I was. A confrontation with a Grizzly brought it all to the fore. You see, I thought I was a Grizzly man, so when we grabbed a collection of 700cc Yamaha Grizzly and Kodiak ATVs to review, I expected to get on fine with the sportier, sexier model and to be bored on the more workman-like Kodiak. Give me the fun glamour-girl everytime. Then at some crucial moment, I realised I was getting on better with the Kodiak — the nicer, gentler, softer Kodiak. That wasn’t in the plan! Yamaha’s Grizzly 700 is a much better ATV in 2016 for the updates endowed upon it, so you have to wonder…

It was going to be an absolute stinker at forty plus and as dry as a dead dingoes donga! We decided to escape the heat, so an early start would definitely be on the cards, but we slept in anyway! With everything in our favour against us, we packed up the 4WD, put the Honda side-by-side on the trailer and headed off! I felt a little naked not bringing my loyal four legged hunting companions, but due to an extensive 'wild dog’-baiting baiting program in the area, it wasn't worth the risk. Our dogs are pets that come hunting and part of the family, so much to their mutual disgust, they'd be cooling their heels at home. It had been almost twelve months since my long time friend and hunting…

NICKNAME: Farmer LIVES: Windorah, Channel Country SW QLD JOB: RINGER LOVES: Spending time with mates, working my dog, riding horses HATES: Sexist people and hangovers! FAVOURITE DRINK: Lime Summers/Canadian Club/Midori & Lemonade BIGGEST BOAR: I don't weigh, but with my own dog probably 80kg! HOBBIES: Rodeos, campdrafts, fishing, catching pigs (Is drinking a hobbie? Haha) IDEAL DATE: I’m not really into dates, but love spending time doing anything with my partner WHAT YOU'D DO WITH $1MILLION: I’d buy a place with some horses and dogs and live happily ever after. Haha!…

As I pulled back into the paddock in my truck, I caught this big solid fella just on sunset. My cousin was on the header and kept an eye on him while I flew home to grab my bitch. He just gradually strolled out of the crop onto some pea stubble where he stood ready to rumble. He'd been in the situation before the way he stood his ground and hit my bitch. I couldn't believe our eyes when we ended up putting him on the scales weighing in at 161kg live. A once in a lifetime opportunity just strolled out like a sitting duck. I’ve been seeing some huge tracks for nearly three years now, which we are quite sure, belonged to this fella. He's in the freezer now…

Are you sick of hunting the same old property and want to explore some new hunting grounds? Well this 2500ac-working farm is now allowing hunters to come and enjoy weekend’s away hunting with friends. Settling into the cosy homestead, the large industrial kitchen fitted out with fridges and freezers is perfect for the big cookups for your group of friends. With polished floors and room for up to ten persons, the comfortable renovated homestead will surprise everyone on how neat and tidy the place is! This Central Western NSW farm has a large area of seating around the campfire, as well as modern hot water facilities including shower and flushing toilets. The surrounding country shows typical characteristics of your Central NSW lands consisting of open grass paddocks which house quail,…

Let’s get started! First we need to work out what shape we want, then to draw that shape on a piece of steel. The piece of steel being used this time is an annealed piece of 15N20. The easiest way to rough-cut it out, is probably with an angle grinder using a thin cutting disc and then the rest is ground to shape on a linisher. The knife I am making now will be for finer work, like caping out a boar and also handy to cut some meat off a good eating pig. The same principles in this writing need to be applied when making any type of pig knives! Ok, the shape has been ground out and now a centre line is marked where to grind the grinds…