I just had a pig of a time

Boar posing with Sako Vixen .222

Came across this character this morning on the opposite side of a gully I had just sidled into. He was mooching around some windfall playing now you see me now you don’t. I was struggling to find a vantage point on very steep ground to enable me to get the shot away. It was a tense few minutes before he then decided more altitude was needed on this Thursday morning. I swung around a large tree and snapped the shot off as he was disappearing into some dense scrub. The shot was good and the 53 grn. Barnes took him just under the back-steak angling forward behind his left foreleg. He dropped instantly and then proceeded to “Hollywood” end over end and roll some considerable distance before coming to rest. A few futile kicks and “its goodnight from him”