 In 2015 he admitted supplying firearms to an unlicensed person.Hore was raised on Stonehenge Farm, which he now runs with his wife, a sheep station near Patearoa in the Maniototo region of central Otago which has been owned by his family since 1910, and returned to the farm to live and work full-time after he retired from international rugby.He considers farming central to his identity—so much so that when he first met his future wife Francine while on a flight with the Hurricanes  and she asked his occupation, he replied "I'm a farmer."