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