Good boar while out shooting

Pig hunting, trapping pigs with grain. 38 in total

Pig hunting, trapping pigs with grain

Pig hunting, trapping pigs with grain

The biggest issue for me on this trapline were the cattle. The quality of the cattle husbandry on this property was so high that the stock went out of their way to be friendly, often too friendly for keeping traps in the ground. This is when you catch dogs with your brains not your brawn.

By now, many people are wondering why the Glenfiddich hut needed to come down. If you understand the old term, "stand to your digs" as I do, it means to "hold to one's principles" and thats what we did. The majority of our supporting landholders hold hunters in very high regard and are right behind our system. Unfortunately a few, and only a few, don't hold hunters in high regard and that is their right. Judy and I were forced into a corner, we had to yield or stand firm.

Do you have the guts to "stand to your Digs", to hold to your principles?
If you do, you will understand what I am saying. If not, bury your head in the sand and say, she'll be right.

An integral part of managing a red deer herd is ensuring that the majority of the breeding is done by the best genetic animals. Just like the Whitetail deer, the wild red deer of Queensland Australia have their own quite unique traits that are integral to maintaining a quality herd. Over the coming months, we will explore many of these areas on this channel. Lets start with a great hunt for a big "Cull" stag during the 2022 red deer rut.

I was as "crook as a dog", with the dreaded bott but the show must go on.
The cattle seemed to sense my plight and were wrecking every trap set, well almost all. Hold the line and things will start to work.

Hunting with one of the gentlemen of this game. GB and I go back a long long way, so it was something special to take his best mate Jason out with us for his first red stag. A true Qld free range old mountain monarch.

Thank you one and all for the kind words and support after last weeks clip on our grand old Glenfiddich Hut and its untimely fate. I thought now, it best to give you a glimpse of why so many loved this mountain cabin like we did. We tasted freedom and showed others what it tasted like too. It can and must happen again.

As I was camping out at one of the cattle yards, I hadn't heard the news. Half the crew on this big property had tested positive and had the same symptoms I had. Just keep trapping a voice in my head told me.