Much of the discussion on here is about catching small stuff (rabbits, fish, vermin grey squirrels), but what about the big stuff?
Is there a way of trapping a boar?
I imagine that you can trap one in a pit, but for this, maybe you'd need a team of several beaters to flush the animals to the pit, so that's not really feasible.
Another solution might be to provoke an animal so it charges, and get it with a boar spear... that's always a possibility.
Thinking about how to provoke a boar, I wouldn't want to loose an arrow at it only to wound it, at the risk of it running off and suffering pointlessly. But how could I provoke it to charge, rather than just frightening it away? Call it nasty names?
Maybe it'd be a good moment to point out that the country where I live allows bow hunting, and spear hunting of boar... just in case anybody thinks I'm going to be trying this in the New Forest
Keith.
Is there a way of trapping a boar?
I imagine that you can trap one in a pit, but for this, maybe you'd need a team of several beaters to flush the animals to the pit, so that's not really feasible.
Another solution might be to provoke an animal so it charges, and get it with a boar spear... that's always a possibility.
Thinking about how to provoke a boar, I wouldn't want to loose an arrow at it only to wound it, at the risk of it running off and suffering pointlessly. But how could I provoke it to charge, rather than just frightening it away? Call it nasty names?
Maybe it'd be a good moment to point out that the country where I live allows bow hunting, and spear hunting of boar... just in case anybody thinks I'm going to be trying this in the New Forest
Keith.