Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, December 18 2008 Volume 12 : Number 850 In this issue: RE: Ears perk up over bounty on boars- The Edmonton Journal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:19:44 +1300 From: "Walter Martindale" Subject: RE: Ears perk up over bounty on boars- The Edmonton Journal > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:14:10 +0000 > From: Trigger Mortis > Subject: RE: Ears perk up over bounty on boars- The Edmonton Journal > > "and stabs it in the ticker" > > Stabs it? > STABS IT?? > > Wild boar are pretty fierce. I'll use a rifle thank you. > > How big are the New Zealand boar? Yup. Stabs. That's where the term "Pig Sticker" for a long knife comes from. Boar, cornered and held by snout, rump, ears, other parts by the dogs, Hunter jumps on the pig, pushes the knife into the chest and wiggles it about to dice up the ticker, lungs, arteries, pig dies. They're full size - no predators, lots of food, no real winter, either, unless you're in the mountains. Like I said, I'd rather do it from a distance with a piece of lead. Partly, me got no dogs (don't particularly like the species - bad incident when a little kid), and partly, me not that adventurous - or fit - or successful - the dogs find them and chase them where as I'd be doing it on foot with a bow, muzzle loader, or with the suppressed .308. In NZ, there's even a magazine devoted to boar hunting. It's one of those rites of passage for a kid to stick his/her first pig, and then shoot them from then on. Walter ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V12 #850 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:drg.jordan@sasktel.net List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)