Thanks for the update MadDog! Keep on posting….

Very cool thread. Y'all got some big pigs out there! Your gun laws are crazy! If the government tried to impose that on us, I'm afraid there would be a 2nd revolution or civil war.

I would like to think so but we’re only a generation or two away from them, Canada, the UK, etc., etc,. etc.,

It’s only getting worse here. Just last week a friend of mine had his guns siezed. About 2 months ago he got into a wrestle at a bar, and had to pay a public nuisance fine. No court case, no conviction, no priors, and they used the public nuisance fine as justification for taking his guns. He can fight to get them back, and he is going to, but going to cost him time and money. Absolute [censored] show.

I went to Australia on R&R when I was in Viet Nam. I chose not to stay in Sydney and was invited to a small town in the country by a member of the (Australian-American Friendship Association ?) I stayed at his house, at his parents' farm, and at a friend's house. They fed me, bought me drinks, everything; I never spent a penny. We hunted kangaroo at night, driving through fields in a pickup truck, guys shooting from the back, over the cab and out the sides. It was crazy, dangerous fun. We shot birds that looked like mourning doves, but the size of pigeons. We hunted boars one day, but never saw any. Warm, wonderful, friendly people!

This reminds me of:

Been bit of a slow start to the year with a lot of wet weather. Finally got my first boar for 2023, kids were with me and got to see all the action and they loved it. About 60kg /130lbs

Hell yeah!

Y'all move over here and we can send back a few liberal weenies in trade

Ill send over my wife's liberal cousin, she is fat enough to count for 3

Y'all watching the Super Bowl over there?

Never hurts to bury a good one...wrapped in plastic inside a secure case...

How long have you all had feral hogs? Those look very much more like ferals than Eurasian blood lines, head shape.

Couple more from North Queensland Australia, first boar was 102kg/220lbs

Great post MDH, welcome to the forum
Interesting looking dogs, that brindle one looks like he has some mountain cur in him. We've used a few when we ran dogs years ago, dang good nose on them and we actually used them in a very similar way. Have you ever owned any Black Mouth Curs?

Do any opal mining? Co I worked with yrs ago had several go there gold prospecting, found some good chunks.
Kinda looks a lot like Texas, minus dingo and Ru.

Some of the better boars I’ve caught with the dogs from North Queensland Australia in the past months

That last one looks like it never passed up anything edible.

What is that rifle? It looks like it has a revolving action.

Those guys have some huge cutters!

Hey Mad Dog,

Thank you for this thread! Do most of the boars over there have the long cutters or are you just posting the exceptional ones??

JR

That looks to be a Circuit Judge Polymer, .45 COLT/410 Bore, Matte Black, 18 in.
Rossie Circuit Judge Polymer

By the way welcome to the forum and keep killing those hogs Mad Dog.

Mad Dog, come back anytime and keep coming. Aussies are a lot like Texans. I’ve known several.

It is an age thing. Boar cutters usually don't become very noticeable until well after 2 years of age. They erupt much sooner, but it isn't until about 14 months of age that you can use them to distinguish between males and females. After they erupt and become sexually diagnostic, it can take them a couple of years to get very long, So when you see a boar with longer cutters, you know he is an older individual, probably at least 3 years of age, but aside from eruption, there is no exact aging based on cutter length, only generalities.

I have aged boars in the past that tooth wear along the cheek teeth indicated the hog was around 2 years of age, but his cutters, unbroken, were less than an inch long.

So my guess is that he is just showing us some really nice hog kills of his.