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Article: Hunting the Russian boar. (part 1)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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What happens when you cross an American icon and his dos with North America's second most dangerous game?
Bob Ramsey's got me in his paint-Bald, flap fendered, dust-grimed pickup with a pack of dogs chained in back--we're headed out to exercise the Russian boar hounds.
It's not yet dawn as we look for waterholes that show some tracks. Boars root, plow, and eat all night, then go to water at first light. Afterwards they wallow in mud or rubble, then slowly walk two-thirds of the way up a hill to bed. There, when the noon heat comes, the wind'll blow to cool them and keep the flies away.
Their lay-ups will be found in a tangle of cedar saplings, ...