I'm going to Tunisia for Barbary wild boar in a couple of weeks...one of those hunts I've always wanted to do but haven't gotten around to. The outfitter is Baron Eckhardt...he's been running these hunts for 20 years, sounds like a lot of fun--but almost all Europeans, almost no Americans. Surely there's somebody here on AR who can offer some insight?
Thanks, Craig

I know a few guys who have hunted tunesia. Barbary boar are smaller then european boars but they carry nice tusks. They do only driven hunts. Tunesia allows only shotguns and shooting is very difficult. From my driven hunt experience i would recommend a redpoint on your shotgun. Good luck and please post are port.

Dennis

I use to have a great Driven Wild Boar hunting Video by James Douglas. Looks like a great option.

Erik Eckhardt in the movie. Have fun Craig

Wow, that looks a little too close! Erik sent me a series of stills of another charging boar, pretty sure it wasn't the same one. He maintains these boars are quite a lot different in habit from European. It is shotgun only, otherwise this is probably the first African hunt I've done in many years where I don't really know what to expect...but it's short, inexpensive, and sounds like a ball! Thanks for that video clip!
Regards, C

Craig that 450/400 should be a great pig equalizer.

Mike

There is a video on You-Tube depicting some Swedish hunters getting a proper "knock the crap out of you" beating in public by goons in Tunisia.

Now that is a frickin' nightmare !

Sir, I have not done it myself, but one of my good Swedish clients/friend does it every other year with Eckhardt. He had a bid of a bad experience earlier this year with clients during the civil unrest there. Someone got slapped around a bit, but I'm not sure what the deal was.

Everyone raves about it, and I have been invited a hundred times, but never realy gave it a second thougth.....too much in southern Africa to do still. Because the country is mainly Muslim, no pigs are eaten, and therefore there is a solid population of them. This is what I have been told in any case.

Have fun, shoot straight and God speed!

From what I see up here in scandinavia regarding wild boarshoot in Tunesia the operators charge outragously prices for pigs the muslims consider varmints anyway. Regarding their prices I wouldn`t go to a country where I couldn`t bring my rifle. Tunesia for me is just a country I have to fly over when going further down!.
Oh yeah..The same goes for Turkey!.

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Originally posted by Scriptus:
There is a video on You-Tube depicting some Swedish hunters getting a proper "knock the crap out of you" beating in public by goons in Tunisia.

Those clients were largely victims of circumstance and quite simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tunisia is almost certainly a very different world now just a few short months later. I am not sure that any outfitter could have prevented the convergence of people assuming that "foreigners with guns" were coming in as mercenaries on one side or the other of that very unexpected revolution. I would hunt Tunisia right now with no real concerns.

I talked to some folks that were there this summer and they had no problems. I guess the bar in the starwars movie ( and much of the landscape) was filmed there and the locals all wanted to know if they'd been to see it. I guess it's a tourist spot?
other then the food was boring and not very good they enjoyed themselves.

Damn, those things are fast!

465H&H

Check the State Department web site. Recently they had an advisory out on Tunisia.

I've been to Tunis several times on business and have toured the country with my wife on a vacation trip. I thought the country and the people were great. Some of the things I liked doing were: strolling through the Medina in Tunis (even more fun if you have an Arabic speaker with you), visiting the Bardo Museum (best collection of Roman artifacts and mosaics in the world), visiting and then having dinner in a good restaurant overlooking the Mediterannean in Sidi bou Said (outskirts of Tunis), wake up before sunrise in the old quarter of Kairouan and watch the market stalls open and the souk fill up with people and noisy merchants, stroll through the amphitheater at El Djem (only the Coliseum in Rome is bigger), take a donkey cart ride through the oasis at Tozeur during the date harvest, stay at the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata (which Americans think was discovered by a Stars Wars movie director)at the prehistoric troglodyte settlement. And, if it suits your fancy, go down south and spend a little time in the Sahara with it's stunning desert scenery. My wife and I rented a car and did a self-guided tour, which allowed me to take a detour to Kasserine to see where my dad had fought against Rommel's Afrika Korps.

I'm sure many will think that just flying over is all Tunisia merits, but I think they're wrong.