As ever, your chance of success owes a great deal to luck and where the boar decide to run. We had a couple in our party who never got to fire in anger, as opposed to others who knocked over several boar. I had two, which was double my total of last year.
Luck and the grounds he decides to use and the local payment system are the deciding factors.
He used to pay the local guy so much based on pigs shot and if not many were shot Frank gave the guns a rebate, now he pays the local guy a flat rate regardless of how many are shot.
I am now using agents that base the price on the number of Boar shot, not sex or size but total number per day.
I pay a fixed price for the airport transfer food and accommodation and licence based on the number of days and then a fee based on so many Boar shot each day.
I have been with Frank when the beaters and dogs all packed up and went home after the morning break and was told we could have a shooting contest if we wanted to fill the rest of the day !!
The last time I went with him, your first trip I think Dom, our total number of pigs shot for the three days was 7 of which one was shot from the track on our way to get in to position by mini bus, another shot on the last day by a member of another group of 15 hunters that joined us for the last day.
We were a group of twelve and on the last day joined by a group of fifteen so not very lucky that time at all.
I have been with Frank on several occasions, sometimes twice in one season.
His admin cannot be faulted and he always seems to get a group of like minded guys together so the craic is always enjoyable.
I realise it is a group effort as opposed to individual scores regarding Boar on the ground at the end of the day but if the number isn't many and not many shots have been fired overall then that makes a big difference too.