Here I am, having lit the grill.
Totte is on his way.
Going out to hunt some wild boar.
He should show up any second now, I think.
Hey! Here I come with some food too.
If you're treating me to wild boar hunting, at least I can bring dinner.
Yeah, absolutely, it's Friday, so I was thinking of making tacos.
Yep, this is going to be tacos!
That? - Yes!
But with a special twist.
Yeah, I see that.
With wild boar, of course!
Here’s a little gift for the hosts so you can grill properly this summer.
Some marinades, some BBQ sauces, and a few other things.
- Wow, that’s great.
It goes well with pork, I've heard.
I’m planning to make tacos al pastor, marinated wild boar
that you grill and serve on a nice corn tortilla
with lots of cheese and a wonderful pineapple salsa.
It's going to be epic.
Okay, here we have it, the quick taco.
A tortilla with lots of delicious Västerbotten cheese.
This tacos al pastor
with extra fruit and chili, and then a
mango pineapple salsa with some sambal and red onion.
And then,
for the greenery and for you,
cilantro too,
since you like it so much.
This feels pretty basic for a taco…
No, great job. It looks incredibly tasty!
Thanks!
Epic evening this is. Yeah, awesome evening!
Here’s a pretty big field that sweeps
around the islets.
Then you can cross an asphalt road that I showed you on the map.
Then another big field.
It's wheat, it’s starting to get a bit hard now, but they're out here a lot.
Just two evenings ago, there was a guy out here, there were boars everywhere.
The other field on the other side will give you significantly better wind.
We focus on brown boars, yearling boars.
Lone yearlings that you can really see are all alone.
Absolutely no sows, and 100% males.
That’s what we shoot here.
Cool, any questions? - No questions.
Crystal clear. - Crystal clear, cool, cool.
Let’s see how this goes. Fingers crossed.
Dropping Tottie off here, and then we’ll head to other areas a bit further away.
So we cover everything properly.
I think it’ll be good. - It will be.
Happy hunting!
This is absolutely wonderful, I completely love it.
Just the beginning of a new night.
You have no idea what’s going to happen.
It's going to be an absolutely fantastic night.
Almost windless...
Barely a cloud in the sky. Well, one cloud.
We’re out in wheat fields that are nicely ripe.
And there are lots of boars here.
So this is going to be great fun. I’m so happy.
This is the life.
Alright folks, it’s time.
Dropped Tottie off in a field a bit away.
Where there’s been a lot of activity.
We’ve gone to check another field.
Already on the way out,
on one of the fields where we hunt, there were already boars out.
So they were early.
Generally speaking, now that we’re this far into the grain hunting season,
they come out later and later, or when it gets dark. They don’t feel as safe anymore. But over there, they were already out.
As you might see, I’m using a lamp. Going a bit old-school.
I’m going to scan the field with a Hikmicro Habrok 4K.
I’ve tested it a few times now, and honestly, it’s really worth the price.
It has both a thermal sensor, Let me make sure I’m pointing correctly, yes, thermal and digital
with IR.
Really good for spotting the boars so you can switch over, zoom in, and look with the 4K sensor on the digital. 0:06:18.600,0:06: 22.600 In this field a few days ago, I was after a pretty big boar
for about 2 hours, it kept moving around.
Never got a good position.
It slipped away, but...
when it ran off the field, new boars came,
a sow with five yearling boars.
I got a shot at one after 20 minutes.
So there are boars, so now I think we should go out, check, and give it a try.
Looks calm.
I’m scanning with this.
Hikmicro Lynx. Incredibly small and light.
But it’s enough to spot if there’s game here.
Sometimes you just see a couple of spots. Maybe a pair of ears.
Then you can bring out better equipment, like my scope,
Hikmicro Stellar.
With that, you can adjust and get really good sharpness
and see better what it is you’ve spotted.
Those two work really well together.
It’s a completely wonderful night to sneak around here.
About 26 degrees warm.
Animals everywhere, rustling in the bushes.
Rustling in the forest, in the fields,
So far we haven’t seen any wild boars, but...
It’s still early, it hasn’t even gotten dark yet.
Now we have two places we’ll start with.
The first field we’ll come to with the wrong wind here.
On the right side. But it’s very active.
If nothing happens there, we’ll move on to the left field,
a long, narrow field where we’ll have perfect wind.
That’s the one we believe in the most tonight.
We’ll head to the edge of the forest instead of the spray track.
We’re way too far out on the field here.
So I think we’ll go up to the edge of the forest instead, it’s probably better considering the wind.
I see there’s something small around.
I think there are at least three boars,
One bigger and two smaller.
But the reason I’m standing here is partly because we’re a bit higher here,
up on the road, so you can see down over the wheat.
You have a better chance of not disturbing them, the wind is good, but...
I don’t want to go out into the wheat and disturb them without being able to see, so here we can observe for a while.
Let them “settle in.” Those ones probably came out just as we arrived too.
But they’re slowly moving this way along the edge too, we’ll give it a bit and see.
Maybe they’ll pass a spray track too,
Then it’ll be even easier to judge.
As I said, I like to take my time,
I have a pretty good sense of the groups here.
That could be the group I shot at last time.
There are large areas too, could be new boars that have wandered in.
There’s some animal over there now.
It looks like a boar, but...
It’s far away, we need to get closer.
When I stepped up on the stone, the wheat is really high, so it wasn’t until
I got on the stone that I saw a group of boars
about 300-400 meters away.
Down in a dip too.
But the wind is perfect, so we’ll try to go that way,
try to find a spray track so we can quietly and nicely approach.
There are deer everywhere!
Three deer there, two deer there, and two just passed over there.
And a deer barking up in the forest now.
Right now we’re totally surrounded by deer.
It's cozy, it’s nice, it’s lovely.
What I mainly look at
to judge the size of a boar
is...
Of course the height of the wheat, but it can vary across the field.
But mainly the ears, the ears turn into real oven mitts
when the boars get big, and if you have the chance to see the tail,
when they’re wagging and twitching, the longer the tail, the older the boar.
Especially, they say, it’s the bristles on the end that get longer.
The older they get.
That was a deer too...
It’s good when you pull out the proper scope,
zoom in and adjust the focus, then you can really see 0: 13:10.040,0:13:14.320 from a distance exactly what it is.
The boars we were sneaking up on earlier
headed into the forest. I think they were spooked.
We’ll circle around this little islet too,
and see what happens there.
Now they’re several boars, which makes it easier to sneak up on them,
because they distract each other with all that smacking.
If it had been just one...
It’s much harder.
Let’s see if I get a shot, they’re standing too close to shoot.
Two of them are standing very close.
One has moved out...
Finally.
My goodness! They were hard to separate.
Let’s go check it out.
Now we heard a shot not far from here,
hopefully it was Simon who got some hunting luck!
Waiting for a report.
Well, here it is.
It was a little brown boar,
a bit high, but that’s classic
when hunting in the wheat.
Especially when they’re this small.
There it is.
It's really easy to miss, especially when you’re shooting with a lamp.
You think you can see a lot.
Thermally, it’s almost easier to see and know how
much they should lower, because you can get the silhouette from the heat downwards.
But still, it worked fine shooting with a lamp too.
As I said, nice little meat boar, Brownie,
gilt, female boar.
This one, you’ve already seen how it works, but,
really nice
actually.
Great tool for grain hunting.
Here, you would have seen clearly if there were any small ones running around,
which there weren’t.
But it took a little while.
What time is it?
From the time we saw them, let’s say,
40 minutes, 35, 40 like that. 0:17:31.680,0:1733.920 But that’s how it is. I’m never in a hurry when hunting in the grain. 0:1733.920,0:17:37.000 The opportunities come, and as I said, as long as you’re aware
of the wind,
then it usually works out.
Then you can take your time.
It’s much, much nicer and more fun in every way.
Enough said about that.
Let's take this little
piglet
and take it to the slaughterhouse.
Let’s see how Tottie did!
Hope he had some action too.
Well folks, that was really exciting.
There were two slightly larger boars and two slightly smaller boars,
and it took a good while to see
which ones were the smallest, and especially
to get a shot where there wasn't a bunch of grain in the way.
The shot felt really good though, so now we’ll go check how it went.
Yes, I got a boar too
this magical night.
A small boar, 35, 40 kilos.
Too bad they haven’t learned that it’s dangerous
out in the fields, and that they should be in the forest where they belong.
The boar was standing a bit at an angle, so the shot is a bit high and far back,
but it had the desired effect anyway.
It dropped on the spot and stayed there, so no tracking was needed.
So now we’ll go take care of it at the slaughterhouse.
Now we’re at the slaughterhouse, and we’re going to test this boar for trichinosis.
It’s super easy with the trichinosis app.
Simon just carved a little piece off the front leg. And he puts it
in the provided bags, scans a QR code, registers everything that can
be registered about this boar, and drops it in the mailbox!
- It’s that simple.
What an evening and what a night.
I just want to say a huge, huge thank you, I feel so incredibly grateful
to have been part of this.
Grateful to you for taking me on this wonderful night.
And I’m grateful to Mother Earth for giving us this experience.
To be able to harvest these fruits. Really, it was so much fun!
Glad to have had you along, you did great!
The birds are chirping, and it’s a little past three.
The nights get long during grain hunting. - It’s wonderful.
It is, glad you could join.
Big thanks for tagging along on our night adventure!
See you next time!