Wild boar management hunt in England with George Digweed

[Music] We are in Sussex where George Digweed's boar problem started last autumn but the shooting season put a stop to any control measures. He has tried driving them in the daytime, lamping them at night time and he still hasn't been able to enjoy that Asterix and Obelix moment of roast wild boar. Tonight he's feeling confident. The local gamekeeper has been putting some feed down and the boar have locked on to it. George hopes he will get a chance to pull the trigger on his .308 We're going to try and maximise our chances with some infra red filming. It is nowhere near the class of the night vision we've used recently but we're hoping it'll give us an edge. What isn't giving an edge is the electric polaris. Even though it's in stealth mode the water logged fields give us away and our first boar doesn't stay around long enough for us. However, a second is just around the corner and George is quick to get on to it. The boar drops. We hold back and wait – but this pig isn't going anywhere. It is not something I like doing. But I would rather do it than have the cowboys riding around shooting them all up the ***. I will always shoot them in the head or just behind the ear, top of the neck somewhere there and then it guarantees an immediate kill where it is on the spot. Heart shots at this time of the night. Everybody knows that heart shots they tend to run and in the dark, you can't you could take a heart shot during the day because you can track it and find it. But at this time of night you have got no method of tracking it so I will shoot it somewhere where it is instantaneous. Our boar is a young male which is some consolation to the world champion. Incredibly boar don't have a closed season in the UK. From the end of this month I wouldn't want to be shooting sows. It is an excellent size for the table. It will eat well, make some good sausages as well. All in all it is an excellent one to take. This boar fell under an oak tree where much of the damage to the pasture had been concentrated. There is no doubt about it they have got to be controlled. If you look behind you, you will see the damage that they are doing and here look, just in here. That is not ... if I put just a knife in there you can see how deep they are going down. There are a lot of acorn shucks and that sort of thing. Probably looking for acorns from last year. You can see how deep that is. So they are doing a lot of damage. I look to see them about and I like to think myself as a conservationist, but at the end of the day everything needs to be controlled and we have got to shoot one or two. So we roll one or two over and you come out and film it being done properly and hopefully people will see it like that. So success at last. George feels he's done his job on behalf of the landowner, whilst ensuring that it was done to the best of his ability. And there are some delicious sausages coming his way.