HUNTERS’ ENCOUNTER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 2 October 1936, Page 10

HU NTERS’ ENCOUNTER

“OUTLAW” BOAR KILLED. SKIN LIKE ARMOUR PLATING. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 30. Two .sportsmen, Messrs E. H. and, K. M. lVlculi, who have returned to Now Plymouth after a pig-hunting expedition about 18 miles up the Wanganui River, had an excitinc story to tell of the capture of a huge “outlaw” boar. For almost a decade this boar had terrorised the district, killing lambs and menacing the saietj' of flocks of sheep and hunters. Mr K. M. Meuii said the animal was the fiercest lie had ever encountered. It kept struggling after five bullets had hit it in vital spots. Tho boar had been consistently fainted by local residents and visitors without success. The liieuli brothers followed its tracks for two da.ys without success.

At daj'break on the. third day they picked up its tracks and after three hours their dogs succeeded in bailing up the boar. As the hunters approached, the dogs jumped in and seized the pig, but one slipped and the boar sliced her in tho neck. It shook the other dogs off. There was a wild flurry, but the dogs secured the boar again. Mr K. Meuii sent a shot into its spine and jumped in to finish it with a knife. The wounded pig, however, raced away, dragging three dogs with it. Four more shots and a knife thrust were needed to settle the pig, which wa6 the size of a yearling cow. The animal’s skin was an inch and- a half thick all over the body and no less than eight .22 bullets were found in the pelt, as well as numerous shotgun pellets. The Meuii brothers were out for four day’s and secured 32 pigs and four deer. Two of the pigs were notorious lamb killers.