Above is the progression of skinning a wild boar! Crazy stuff. The past few days I have been staying on a farm with a family of wild boar hunters! This has definitely been the most unique Kiwi experience yet. These guys live a rough life and are passionate about hunting. I walked into a house full of bones... they have 14 hunting dogs and hunt almost everyday. This isn't typical hunting either... you need to be really fit to do this stuff. I went on one hunt where we had to run through the bush for an hour to find the dogs. The dogs sniff and when they smell a pig they go crazy and chase after it until they find it. The hunters run after the dogs. When the dogs get to the pig, two of the dogs hold the ears of the pig while the other dogs surround it barking. Then when the hunter gets their he picks the pig up by its hind legs, turns it on it back, and stabs its heart (worst part... def couldn't watch it)! If the pig is fighting too hard or the dogs aren't doing a good job then the hunter shots the pig to be safe. This is just skimming the surface of explaining this kind of hunting.
These pictures are insane. That one looks like the boar is riding piggy-back... or would it be boar-back?
ReplyDeleteAnother place I'd have liked to have gone. What do they do with the kill? Do the hunters have somewhere they sell the meat and the hide? Or do they process it themselves?
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