whitetail
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- RSA, Zimbabwe
Good afternoon AH folks! If you know me and have read some of my prior hunting reports- you know I have a sense of adventure and love international travel! So this year, my wife and I decided to take my mother with us on our European trip the Munich, Germany (4 days after the close of Oktoberfest both fortunately and unfortunately lol) then on down to Salzburg, Austria, over to Vienna, Austria, and then on to Budapest, Hungary. We did many "walking tours" of the cities, I drank plenty of local brews (especially in Munich), shopping and eating the local favorites, etc, prior to being picked up in Budapest by Laszlo Albert, owner and operator of Passion & Prey Hunting Hungary, whom I met a few years ago at either DSC or SCI convention (I forget). He drove us up to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Holloko, Hungary (meaning "Ravenstone" after a local myth) that is absolutely amazing- such a peaceful, laid back town to walk around in, enjoy the local cuisine and hike in and around. The fall weather was perfect with the leaves literally changing while we were there! My wife especially enjoyed this part of our trip as it was our 1 year wedding anniversary (we had both been previously married with children) on 18 October. Me, being the suave man I am lol, rented out the 13th century castle fortress within walking distance of the town for the evening and we were served a 7 course candlelight dinner in the "Knight's Room" wherein a meal has not been served in that room for over 300 years. I was able to do this as Laszlo was able to fix it up for us- he had to obtain special permission from the town council to do so. Obviously, I will not be able to ever top that anniversary gift (unless I'm able to take her to the moon with Elon Musk haha)!
The fallow rut was fully on and when I mean fully on- I'm not kidding!! The fighting, "croaking" and action was beyond compare- crazy in fact!!! It wasn't too difficult to find a really nice one (silver medal) and put it on the ground.
The mouflon hunt took a couple of days as the ewes had all eyes on the rutting rams (as well as all eyes on us); however, after patience and dedication- I was abe to take a nice one on the 2nd day trying.
The red stag hunting, was MUCH MORE difficult as the rut had been over by approx 3 weeks. Jim Shockey had hunted with Laszlo in the full rut just about 3 1/2 weeks prior to my arrival (also FYI- Passion & Prey is a Craig Boddington endorsed outfitter- so in other words, Laszlo is legit in his operation). The stags would only come out into the fields for feeding at twilight and would hurry back into the forest at dawn making very little time for putting on a stalk or when seated in the high stand (which we did both). The day before I was able to double up on 2 beautiful stags, we went to a Buddhist monastery the afternoon before (my wife teaches multiple yoga styles and is in to that sort of thing even tho we aren't Buddhist)- but it was incredible! Laszlo told me to write down my desire of a red stag on a blue heart that they give you there to write on (your future hopes and dreams, etc) before placing it on the Buddhist fencepost after burning incense and trying to manifest your wishes. We then did a "sound bath" for 1.5 hours of meditation- my wife has done multiple of these in her life- she said this one was the best ever. Also, the "bowl" for the sound bath at this monastery holds the Guinness Book of world records for being the largest- who would've thought?! Anyway- manifest a great red stag I did as I got not one but two beautiful stags the very next morning as we made our way to them prior to them entering the forest. Wow- what a trip!!! I could go on and on about all the other places we visited but want to keep this mostly about hunting. So if you have any questions- don't hesitate to DM or PM me as Passion & Prey Hunting Hungary has it going on! I'll definitely be hunting with him again (maybe Macedonia or Bulgaria)!
A few random pics of Budapest (including one of the famous Turkish thermal baths and Hero's Square) are pictured.
My wife and I will be heading "Down Under" in late June, 2027, to the Northern Territory of the Outback with Alex Jagers of Big Country Safaris Australia to hunt trophy water buffalo and banteng, scrub bull and wild boar (as well as a day of deep sea fishing and of course, spending several days to tour all around the waterfalls, billabongs, etc).
Cheers mates!!!
The fallow rut was fully on and when I mean fully on- I'm not kidding!! The fighting, "croaking" and action was beyond compare- crazy in fact!!! It wasn't too difficult to find a really nice one (silver medal) and put it on the ground.
The mouflon hunt took a couple of days as the ewes had all eyes on the rutting rams (as well as all eyes on us); however, after patience and dedication- I was abe to take a nice one on the 2nd day trying.
The red stag hunting, was MUCH MORE difficult as the rut had been over by approx 3 weeks. Jim Shockey had hunted with Laszlo in the full rut just about 3 1/2 weeks prior to my arrival (also FYI- Passion & Prey is a Craig Boddington endorsed outfitter- so in other words, Laszlo is legit in his operation). The stags would only come out into the fields for feeding at twilight and would hurry back into the forest at dawn making very little time for putting on a stalk or when seated in the high stand (which we did both). The day before I was able to double up on 2 beautiful stags, we went to a Buddhist monastery the afternoon before (my wife teaches multiple yoga styles and is in to that sort of thing even tho we aren't Buddhist)- but it was incredible! Laszlo told me to write down my desire of a red stag on a blue heart that they give you there to write on (your future hopes and dreams, etc) before placing it on the Buddhist fencepost after burning incense and trying to manifest your wishes. We then did a "sound bath" for 1.5 hours of meditation- my wife has done multiple of these in her life- she said this one was the best ever. Also, the "bowl" for the sound bath at this monastery holds the Guinness Book of world records for being the largest- who would've thought?! Anyway- manifest a great red stag I did as I got not one but two beautiful stags the very next morning as we made our way to them prior to them entering the forest. Wow- what a trip!!! I could go on and on about all the other places we visited but want to keep this mostly about hunting. So if you have any questions- don't hesitate to DM or PM me as Passion & Prey Hunting Hungary has it going on! I'll definitely be hunting with him again (maybe Macedonia or Bulgaria)!
A few random pics of Budapest (including one of the famous Turkish thermal baths and Hero's Square) are pictured.
My wife and I will be heading "Down Under" in late June, 2027, to the Northern Territory of the Outback with Alex Jagers of Big Country Safaris Australia to hunt trophy water buffalo and banteng, scrub bull and wild boar (as well as a day of deep sea fishing and of course, spending several days to tour all around the waterfalls, billabongs, etc).
Cheers mates!!!
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