2025 PIG & DEER HUNT COMPETITION

Owen River Pig Hunt 2025 — Results & Thanks

What a weekend! Huge thanks to everyone who came out, competed, helped behind the scenes, and supported the event. We had an awesome turnout and some impressive catches!

 

Top Results:

• Average Boar Weight: 45.9 kg

• Heaviest Boar: 66.5 kg. Winner: Hamish Turnbull.

• Heaviest Deer: 122 kg. Winner: Astin Knowles.

• Heaviest Sow: 52 kg. Winner: Kent Strange.

• Longest Tusk: 2.43 in. Winner: Aaron Eaton.

 

Junior Highlights:

• Heaviest Junior Pig: 21 kg — Winner: Emma Hyatt

• Biggest Goat Horns: Winner: Jack Kelly

• Biggest Possum: 4.26 kg — Winner: Luke Adam

• Biggest Rabbit: 2.16 kg — Winner: Ollie Curnow

• Biggest Hare: 3.98 kg — Winner: Arlo Nicholls

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Big thanks to all our awesome sponsors who helped make the Owen River Pig Hunt such a great weekend.

Special shoutout to Aryn Town AT Tree and Dean Kinzett Forestry for their major support — and to all the local legends who backed us:

Murchison Mechanical, Cory Jones Contracting, NBS, Murchison Vet, Murchison Electrical Ltd.

Kahurangi Angus, Murchison Four Square, Hamish McLeod, Murchison Tea Room, Beechwood Café,

River Café, Peter Badcock Contracting, Graham Ferguson Contracting, Dominion Brewery, Bidfood,

Murchison Helicopters, Farm Source, PGG Wrightson, Gun City, and Coast Outdoor.

We couldn’t do it without you. Thanks heaps for getting behind the event and supporting our community.