Jimmy shot a large sow on his previous trip to Blaauwkrantz in June 2008 and was looking for a boar to complete his bushpig pair.
Six pigs emerged from the extremely dense vegetation to the carefully prepared bait.Jimmy and I could clearly distinguish this monster amongst them and the 300 Win Mag 180 grain Barnes X did the rest at 50 yards once Jimmy had settled the Zeiss cross hairs on him and had squeezed the Hill Country Rifle trigger.
Bushpig was Jimmy's priority on his 8 day safari and although we hunted for bontebok, caracal, blue duiker and porcupine,Jimmy understood that targeting bushpig was in a league of its own.The first evening stakeout at another bait had the pigs come in and in the moonlight we could see them milling about as we were preparing for the shot at a monster boar there too,mysteriously they disappeared into the night.What spooked them is still a mystery...I always say that these bushpigs have a sixth sense.Anyway we headed to another bait a couple evenings later when the wind was good and this time luck was on our side.
Coincidentally Jimmy is also an angora goat farmer and owns a large ranch near Rocksprings,Texas.This town is the mohair capital of the USA although,as in our region,mohair production has dwindled in favour of wildlife ranching there too.
It was great to hunt with Jimmy and old friend Ole Bardy from Helwig Hunting Services, Rocksprings again.
Congratulations Jimmy!
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