Charlie64
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Winter is the time for "driven hunts" throughout Germany and other European countries. Whilst a lot of hunters that we know have been moaning about small bags and few animals, we experienced the opposite last weekend. A superb Driven Hunt in the Sauerland in Germany at the invitation of some close friends of our. 40 guns, 20 beaters and some 30 dogs - ranging from terriers to Dachshunde to German wirehairs - with wonderful late autumn weather and beautiful colours. The hunt ranged over 1.000 hectares with the beaters and dogs working in four groups pushing the game slowly through the guns. The hunt lasted 4 hours after which we laid down a bag of 24 European wild boar, 8 roe deer, 5 foxes and 4 raccoon. The hunting horns sounded for each of the animals - Sau Tot, Reh Tot, Fuchs Tot and Raubwild tot in keeping with German hunting tradition. The largest pig weighed in at 92 kgs gutted and some 5 years. A big BBQ and beers followed! The next morning we successfully found and dispatched a wounded red deer young hind after an 11 km blood trail - a high front leg shot. That was some amazing tracking with a superb Bavarian hound! I was shooting a Rigby Highland Stalker in .275 Rigby and my wife her Blaser R8 in .270. A memorable days hunting with good friends - hard to beat! Here a few photos of the colours and bag.
Winter is the time for "driven hunts" throughout Germany and other European countries. Whilst a lot of hunters that we know have been moaning about small bags and few animals, we experienced the opposite last weekend. A superb Driven Hunt in the Sauerland in Germany at the invitation of some close friends of our. 40 guns, 20 beaters and some 30 dogs - ranging from terriers to Dachshunde to German wirehairs - with wonderful late autumn weather and beautiful colours. The hunt ranged over 1.000 hectares with the beaters and dogs working in four groups pushing the game slowly through the guns. The hunt lasted 4 hours after which we laid down a bag of 24 European wild boar, 8 roe deer, 5 foxes and 4 raccoon. The hunting horns sounded for each of the animals - Sau Tot, Reh Tot, Fuchs Tot and Raubwild tot in keeping with German hunting tradition. The largest pig weighed in at 92 kgs gutted and some 5 years. A big BBQ and beers followed! The next morning we successfully found and dispatched a wounded red deer young hind after an 11 km blood trail - a high front leg shot. That was some amazing tracking with a superb Bavarian hound! I was shooting a Rigby Highland Stalker in .275 Rigby and my wife her Blaser R8 in .270. A memorable days hunting with good friends - hard to beat! Here a few photos of the colours and bag.
