Sexy Pig Hunter Wants A Wife: The Facebook group helping pig shooters find love

MALES must have at least one pic with a feral pig, ladies must be willing to kill feral animals. This is online dating, pig hunter style.

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IF you thought you’d seen it all when it came to modern matchmaking, take a look at the guidelines for this facebook group for rural loveseekers.

Males must have at least one pic with a feral pig, ladies must be willing to kill feral animals to help our environment.

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Along with age, closest town and state, plus what you like to do and any other details, these are the requirements for “sexy pig hunters” looking for love.

It might sound like a niche market, but the Sexy Pig Hunter Wants A Wife/Husband Facebook site is the real deal with more than 8000 members and a number of successful matches to its name.

Lonely hearts like Corey from Cloncurry submit pics posed with their kill hoping to connect with a partner who is also into ‘piggin’. They’re often overwhelmed with responses.

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James, a career pig shooter and miner from Cobar NSW had all but given up on love until a few mates convinced him to submit a post to ‘Hunter Wants A Wife’.

“It had been about two years since my last relationship and after beating around the bush going to pubs and clubs and various B&S’s I thought that was it — I was never going to find someone who had the same interests as me,” he tells news.com.au.

His profile included a glowing introduction from Lou Warren, the group’s founder who had known James for a couple of years, and his own description of himself.

“Love piggin, livin life two the fullest but above all just bein out tha scrub chassin a hog with the dogs,” he wrote (sic).

“Would like a like minded chick who aint scared to have a crack.”

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Within a couple of days James had his choice of about 20 women from all over the country who were keen to get to know him.

He settled on Jacqui, an avid pig-shooter in her mid-twenties who he now can’t believe he hasn’t known his entire life.

“We got to know each other on Facebook over about two or three months and I’ve now taken all my holidays, packed up and gone the 800km to Charleville where she is,” he says from Jacqui’s Queensland property.

“It’s not the most convenient option but it’s just meant to be. We’re basically the same person. I’ve found her.”

James says it’s what he and Jacqui have in common that made them hit it off, and said that’s often hard to find for pig shooters.

“We often live far from town and when you meet new people they might not be so accepting of what you’re into, but we love what we do,” he says.

The group is the brainchild of Northern Territory raised pig shooter Lou Warren who started a Facebook group called Chicks Smashing Grunters about four years ago.

“It’s about bringing like minded people together, and when you’re living far from the nearest town, you’re often not in touch with that many people,” she tells news.com.au.

“Also, people might not be that accepting of pig shooting, especially for women who are into it, it’s not really accepted.”

Ms Warren started her Facebook group as a place for women to showcase their pig hunting pictures, and it quickly grew into a nationwide support community for female pingers.

“It wasn’t long before people starting piping (in) saying, a lot of us are single, let’s use this thing to fix that,” she says.

Now the group has grown into a nationally reaching matchmaking service with more than 8000 members, receiving a big boost over the past fortnight following the launch of Ms Warren’s magazine, Chicks Smashing Grunters, the first Australian pig shooting magazine for women.

With such a wide-reaching audience, Ms Warren says there’s no such thing as “the average user” on her group, but most posts come from those in their 20s.

The group has grown so much in popularity, Ms Warren has experienced demand from overseas and has a view to expand internationally, as well as open up sister groups for hunters of animals other than pigs.

It’s even touched a nerve with women outside of the pig hunting community like Katrina Bott, who decided to take to the page in her search for Mr Right.

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“Truth be told I’m a little over waiting for Mr Right to come along so I’m trying all avenues to do so,” she said.

So taken by the prospect of meeting her own ‘Sexy Pig Farmer’, Katrina, who is not a pig hunter herself, says she is willing to learn for the right guy.