A sheep dog. Or trap them on pool salt. http://www.rangelandgoats.com.au/infrastructure/trap-yard-design

A small jump down trap will work if you can get it onto salt. Its like crack to a goat.

Pretty much everything has been tried here, some weird ones include dalmation, doberman, curly coated retriever. Some work, some are ok, some are great - a lot are useless.

Have a friend stand as close as he/she can to the caught hog with a 6 foot stick and the dogs owners / handlers 10-15 yards away. If the dogs try the continue on the caught pig swipe at them (only use the force required - threatening is fine for most) and yell (whatever you want - NO, LEAVE, Get-out-of-it)  at the same time the owner should be calling the dogs like crazy. If you think there are other pigs in the area as soon as the dogs focus on the owner run in the opposite direction. As said before the harder headed one might need a tap or two. In Australia we focus on this quite a lot and call this "running on".

T

none of us have them but a lot of guys do...some good some bad like everything else

Around here it gets pretty hilly. A lot of places are too steep for a quad. I love to walk hunt and I have a circuit that normally takes me 2-3-4 hours (depending on pigs). I'm 42 and in reasonable condition but I can really only handle two days walk hunting in a row these days. One weekend we got 25 pigs in some steep country over two days. Lost two toe nails but had a bloody good time. Was pretty wrecked at the end but might also have had something to do with and empty bottle of rum...

Kiwis on the other hand are a whole other level...they are crazy..walk all day for one pig in country where if you fell you'd die and then carry the bloody pigs out on their back...nuts

T

That's a good time. The dogs deserve a center cut filet

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Ha...a roo leg more like it

That sounds like a great hunt. If you do not use catch dogs, do y'all just shoot them if they bay or do those heelers catch them? Are ya'll hunting private property or do you have government land or public land that you hunt?

My dogs catch all but the biggest boars, if they are baying I shoot. Had a badtrain wreck two weeks ago best dog now has a broken leg and another dog hurt bad but will be ok.

Hunting all on private land.

Run them on a gravel road beside a push-bike. I normally run mine 5-6km twice during the week and hunt them on weekends.

Dang that is some great hunting. That first hog is huge, great pics. Just curious do you guys use any catch dogs?

No not really, but all the dogs will catch all but the biggest fellas, previously we had what you guys call RCD's but have gradually moved away from it.

Not much use for straight "catch" dogs here...another mouth to feed and to heavy and slow for us

Any dingo's in areas ya'll hunt? Do they ever shadow your dogs like some coyotes do here? Great photos, good looking dogs

No not on that property, more dingoes closer to home, but they are very wary. Never had one come near a dog here in NSW, but have had them get cheeky in other areas. If they hang around longer than it takes to get out the 243 then they are dead. Had the occassional dog that will chase / catch them but its not something we encourage as if they start doing it sooner or later they are going to run into a big pack and get killed.

T

48 hogs!!! thats starting to sound like work! 
Ive heard no one eats the hogs over there because of parasites, is that true?

Some people do eat them...mainly Kiwis that have moved here

We do have a lot of disease in pigs here, Leptospirosis, Brucellosis, Sparganosis etc etc

thats about it from that trip

I really like the look of the dog in that first pic. HE LOOKS STRAIGHT BUSINESS

Thats Frank, he's one we bred owned by my nephew. Does all we could ask. Wrights and Thom's line. If you hate those lines - I don't care.

I'll did up a few more photos.

T

You ain't sh@tn that sounds like a hell of a time them dogs look whipped.

They sit around for a couple of weeks after we get home so no point leaving them with much gas in the tank on the hunt.

Its early spring here and about the best time of the year to hunt. My mates and I have been getting together to hunt around the last weekend in August for 11 years straight. We only hunted two days this year as there was rain coming and we where 150km from a town and didn't want to get stuck. In two days we killed 48 pigs, some real good ones too. Rode about 350km on each quad and emptied enough beer cans to make a good sized boat. Some photos -

cutting the ear off a dog works for (insert problem here - heatstroke, snake bite etc etc) pure garbage

If you feed a dog kangaroo it will start chasing them

heres a few things we do here, all of it varys in effectiveness depending on how hungry the pigs are -

1. just plain grain - use something they don't have access to now e.g. feed them wheat if they are eating standing sorghum
2. soak the grain with mollasses and water
3. soak with red cordial (coolaide)
4. vanilla essence
5. if the pigs are used to eating meat dry soaking the grain with a handful of dymanic lifter (fowl poop fertiliser)
6. in some areas people use sugar cane / bananas

If I hunt three dogs together they'll catch most boars. Two together tend to bay more. My dogs are getting more tattoo's every year

Pig populations out west are almost completely dependent on rain. Numbers triple or quadruple after a wet period. When it dries out like it has now (almost no rain for 2+years) pigs either die or move, in most cases die.

G'day all, don't get on here that much anymore (or other sites for that matter). But I still do some hunting when I can. Western areas have been in drought so long know that most of the pigs have died and its not worth heading out there. So mostly we've been sticking close to home. Here are a few photos.