This book is set in the best pig hunting area of New Zealand; the Wanganui hinterland and the author tells a good yarn of his early days in the Te Tuhi valley and of the big boars he encountered. It is a story of pioneer farming and the battle against the bust and the wild pigs that ravaged the sheep flocks, of dogs and danger and companionship. Threaded through the stories is much valuable information on wild pigs, hunting, guns and ammunition that took the author forty years to accumulate. Ken Cuthbertson has passed on to the Happy Hunting grounds, his hunting career lives on between the pages of this book so a new generation of hunters can thrill to the stories he tells.
This book is set in the best pig hunting area of New Zealand; the Wanganui hinterland and the author tells a good yarn of his early days in the Te Tuhi valley and of the big boars he encountered. It is a story of pioneer farming and the battle against the bust and the wild pigs that ravaged the sheep flocks, of dogs and danger and companionship. Threaded through the stories is much valuable information on wild pigs, hunting, guns and ammunition that took the author forty years to accumulate. Ken Cuthbertson has passed on to the Happy Hunting grounds, his hunting career lives on between the pages of this book so a new generation of hunters can thrill to the stories he tells.