Got to where they have been traveling about 45min before dark, talk about frustrating, fresh prints over the top of tyre tracks from the mornings trap line checks going both in and out
Followed the tracks as best I could through the scrub down hill to a 10acre creek flat they have been rooting up then sat and waited until dark with no luck.
Walked back to the truck, started it up drove 20m down the track to where I could turn around and spotted something black in the headlights near a clump of trees, before I could work out what it was a brindle lump appeared. Rifle out the window and the black lump was down, couldnt keep the rest in the headlights long enough to get another shot. Given the direction they bolted seems the passed within 30m of the parked ute while I was off looking for them
Makes me wonder why I put in the hours hunting at times, could have sat in the truck yesterday listening to the radio and probably clean up the lot as they walked past. Similar to my 30" sambar last year, have put in months trying to get a good mature stag without success only to have one walk out into the open when I was going for a armed bush walk.
Guess that is hunting, you can do everything right and still have no success but keep putting in the hours learning as you go and eventually success will come. It might seem like luck and easy but you need to be out there doing it putting yourself in the right place at the right time to get lucky.
One very small hog and it was the biggest of the little mob so certainly a few bigger ones I need to catch up with
