Roe deer hunt 2026

Muskox said:

I prefer group hunts, but I couldn't find anyone that wanted to go with me.

Agent is Leif Jonas of Tyrol Austria.

Rifle is my R8, 6.5 CM, Zeiss V8 with the FBT stock.

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Muskox said:

Yeah beautiful buck. Gray face!

Super clean six point. What more can you ask for.

I am heading to Slovenia to hunt gams and reh at the end of the month.

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Muskox said:

Yeah beautiful buck. Gray face!

Super clean six point. What more can you ask for.

I am heading to Slovenia to hunt gams and reh at the end of the month.

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Luminous Ham said:

A two-day hunt, an uneven 8-pointer

Roe buck hunting season in Denmark runs from May 16 to July 15, from sunrise to sunset. This year it took 14 outings to get a fork buck (two points on each antler).

Throughout all of this I hadn't seen anything I could say for certain was a six-pointer, which I needed next because of our quota system. However, I had several times seen bucks in the area marked with the green circle on the map below, when walking back from the meadow at 6.2 (where I shot the fork buck). It was either clearly a fork buck, or it was at such a distance that I couldn't clearly tell what it actually was. I had tried several times to sneak closer via the red line (the dark green where it is written huset is trees), but was either spotted (often it was with a doe — its sister? — that I hadn't noticed, but who spotted me) or it had simply vanished into the ground. The grass and thistles were really tall! Sometimes I saw it bouncing around in the rapeseeds north of the green circle, seemingly in high spirits.

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After the fork buck, I had been down there several more times, including standing on the ground at the yellow dot, but without seeing a buck for sure — only does, or something, that I did not know what was, ran away. One evening I tried again at the yellow spot, and suddenly a buck with a large set of antlers came walking toward me among the thistles and other growth, close by, maybe 50 meters. Luckily I already had the rifle on the shooting sticks and after a while could tell it was more than a fork buck. My pulse shot up wildly, but there was no shot opportunity as it was partially hidden most of the time.

Eventually it got so close that for the first time ever I began considering whether a shot to the chest would be an option, the alternative being that it would walk right into me.

Suddenly it turned broadside, but I could only see its hindquarters, and it disappeared. I waited so long that it was nearly closing time and decided to move a bit north around some thistles. And then — it spotted me and disappeared into the rapeseed field. But now I knew there was a six-pointer (or so I thought)!

After a short night in the cabin, the game (sic!) plan was the same the next morning: Up before sunrise (at 4.30): down to the yellow cross. Already on the way there I flushed a buck, possibly a fork buck. It ran off barking. I stood still, and when it settled down again I managed to move closer, part of the time crawling. It spotted me again and ran further off, disappearing into the grass. I continued but couldn't see it. Suddenly there was also a roe doe out there that had spotted me. It drew the buck along with it and they were gone. My pulse was already high.

Later, from the yellow dot, I first saw a roe doe and a bit later a (probably) fork buck far off in the direction of 7.8. It reassured me that it was a fork buck, meaning the six-pointer could still be around. Nothing more happened over the next couple of hours though, and it got extremely hot, so back to the cabin for a nap — that was the day with the 30°C heat.

Thursday evening I decided to try something new — went down to the blue dot, where I lay, sat, and stood on the ground from around 4pm amid the weeds (almost no stinging nettles…). A doe passed by at one point; it came within 15–20 meters before it spotted me. With about an hour left before closing time at almost 9pm, so after 5 hours on the same spot, I stood up with the rifle ready on the shooting sticks, just in case.

Already my pulse was elevated, and then, with a little over half an hour left, a doe suddenly appeared almost 100 meters out. My pulse jumped another notch — what if her brother was there too?

And then, there he was — a buck, a six-pointer! Partially hidden. My pulse was now extremely high. It moved, eating, westwards, partially hidden behind grass, etc. the whole time. Then it stopped right in front of a small opening in the grass, and I realized that if it took two more steps forward, this might be the only chance I'd get. It did, I fired, and it dropped, and it couldn't see it, at the orange spot on the map (at around 90 meter (80 yards) distance). My heart was pounding in my chest — what if it had run a bit after all, meaning I'd need a dog in the tall grass and cornfield? But it lay right where it was shot. It was a small, stocky one — 18 kg dressed weight.

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A fantastic experience. Only when I had field-dressed it did I discover it was an uneven 8-pointer.

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Well-deserved, if I dare say so myself, after a determined, (somewhat) planned effort over several outings.

The buck hunting season is over now, next thing is a buffalo hunt. But despair not, I have already written two pages of a hunting report, just from the planning stages....!

PS: If you wonder why such a detailed account, it is not just for you - it's for my own use: I print the story and put it behind the antler plaque, for when I get dementia and can't remember the story myself.

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avon_7 said:

Lucky you. my Spanish Roe Deer hunt did not go so well.
The guide just drove around in the car on public roads and wanted me to shoot animals out the car window. ( off a public road I might add) After a day of this I told them to take me home.
Very dissapointing. They seem bewildered that someone like me would decline to hunt that way.
I did spend a few days in Barcelona though and that was fun. I met some nice Polish guys in camp and they put me onto their outfitter in Poland. Looks like I will be hunting near Krakow for my Roe Deer and will give Spain a miss.

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Luminous Ham said:

A two-day hunt, an uneven 8-pointer

Roe buck hunting season in Denmark runs from May 16 to July 15, from sunrise to sunset. This year it took 14 outings to get a fork buck (two points on each antler).

Throughout all of this I hadn't seen anything I could say for certain was a six-pointer, which I needed next because of our quota system. However, I had several times seen bucks in the area marked with the green circle on the map below, when walking back from the meadow at 6.2 (where I shot the fork buck). It was either clearly a fork buck, or it was at such a distance that I couldn't clearly tell what it actually was. I had tried several times to sneak closer via the red line (the dark green where it is written huset is trees), but was either spotted (often it was with a doe — its sister? — that I hadn't noticed, but who spotted me) or it had simply vanished into the ground. The grass and thistles were really tall! Sometimes I saw it bouncing around in the rapeseeds north of the green circle, seemingly in high spirits.

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After the fork buck, I had been down there several more times, including standing on the ground at the yellow dot, but without seeing a buck for sure — only does, or something, that I did not know what was, ran away. One evening I tried again at the yellow spot, and suddenly a buck with a large set of antlers came walking toward me among the thistles and other growth, close by, maybe 50 meters. Luckily I already had the rifle on the shooting sticks and after a while could tell it was more than a fork buck. My pulse shot up wildly, but there was no shot opportunity as it was partially hidden most of the time.

Eventually it got so close that for the first time ever I began considering whether a shot to the chest would be an option, the alternative being that it would walk right into me.

Suddenly it turned broadside, but I could only see its hindquarters, and it disappeared. I waited so long that it was nearly closing time and decided to move a bit north around some thistles. And then — it spotted me and disappeared into the rapeseed field. But now I knew there was a six-pointer (or so I thought)!

After a short night in the cabin, the game (sic!) plan was the same the next morning: Up before sunrise (at 4.30): down to the yellow cross. Already on the way there I flushed a buck, possibly a fork buck. It ran off barking. I stood still, and when it settled down again I managed to move closer, part of the time crawling. It spotted me again and ran further off, disappearing into the grass. I continued but couldn't see it. Suddenly there was also a roe doe out there that had spotted me. It drew the buck along with it and they were gone. My pulse was already high.

Later, from the yellow dot, I first saw a roe doe and a bit later a (probably) fork buck far off in the direction of 7.8. It reassured me that it was a fork buck, meaning the six-pointer could still be around. Nothing more happened over the next couple of hours though, and it got extremely hot, so back to the cabin for a nap — that was the day with the 30°C heat.

Thursday evening I decided to try something new — went down to the blue dot, where I lay, sat, and stood on the ground from around 4pm amid the weeds (almost no stinging nettles…). A doe passed by at one point; it came within 15–20 meters before it spotted me. With about an hour left before closing time at almost 9pm, so after 5 hours on the same spot, I stood up with the rifle ready on the shooting sticks, just in case.

Already my pulse was elevated, and then, with a little over half an hour left, a doe suddenly appeared almost 100 meters out. My pulse jumped another notch — what if her brother was there too?

And then, there he was — a buck, a six-pointer! Partially hidden. My pulse was now extremely high. It moved, eating, westwards, partially hidden behind grass, etc. the whole time. Then it stopped right in front of a small opening in the grass, and I realized that if it took two more steps forward, this might be the only chance I'd get. It did, I fired, and it dropped, and it couldn't see it, at the orange spot on the map (at around 90 meter (80 yards) distance). My heart was pounding in my chest — what if it had run a bit after all, meaning I'd need a dog in the tall grass and cornfield? But it lay right where it was shot. It was a small, stocky one — 18 kg dressed weight.

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A fantastic experience. Only when I had field-dressed it did I discover it was an uneven 8-pointer.

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Well-deserved, if I dare say so myself, after a determined, (somewhat) planned effort over several outings.

The buck hunting season is over now, next thing is a buffalo hunt. But despair not, I have already written two pages of a hunting report, just from the planning stages....!

PS: If you wonder why such a detailed account, it is not just for you - it's for my own use: I print the story and put it behind the antler plaque, for when I get dementia and can't remember the story myself.

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Miletic said:

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farmer_john said:

I like how you mounted them on the log slices. That looks good. How did you attach the skulls?

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farmer_john said:

How does the quata system and hunting in denmark work exactly comoared to other places

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Luminous Ham said:

A two-day hunt, an uneven 8-pointer
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It is not a national thing, it is our internal system on our group. You can shoot either three 6-pointers OR one fork buck plus a 6-pointer; none smaller than fork, no buck in velvet. So, since my first one was a fork, I only had a 6-pointer left.

Other groups have no such system, others have an overall limit, and in other groups you might pay per animal. The hunting law does not specify it. Among hunters it's hotly debated: do you use the spring hunt to take out the weak ones, or (also) the strong ones. And how many in total. We use this system and get roughly the same number every year, and this year another hunter got a potential medal buck.

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farmer_john said:

Is thisblike your hunting club? And how do the rules work exactly and how did yall come by them?

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