http://i791.photobucket.com/al...ugalJan2013038sm.jpg With the help of Steve Robinson I booked a three day hunt with Athina Hunting Tours in Portugal. Took my Blaser k95 with a Trijucon 2.5x 10 in 30-06 with 200 gr. partitions. Complete pass through end to end on both pigs. We hunted over wallows under the full moon at night, and spot and stalk during the day. The first night we had pigs all around us that we could hear, but no shot. Next morning we took a walk and managed to find one in it's bed at about 90 yards, I had my first. Later that Night on a wallow, we had a small boar come in, but I waited, and in about a half hour one a bit lager ran him off. After a short wait, he returned and gave me a nice 40 yard shot. The food was fantastic and the guides were a lot of fun to be around.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful pictures!! Thank you very much for posting them!

Wonderful pics and a great hunt!

ENY
Great hog, wonderful countryside,and the wood on stock .. stunning. Excellent photographer.
Tell us more.
Is not Steve a great guy?
Congrats.

Elton

Loverley stuff.

Sshh! Question asked in a whisper, "Where was the Hook?" Ssshhh!

Hey Eny,

I'm glad you had a successful trip, and sorry we could not be there with ŷou, but Steve is a great host.

Adam and I are planning our September hunt for stag and boar now and perhaps we will aim to be out with you in November too.

Best regards,
Kiri

Outstanding in every way.
That looks like great territory for chasin' hoglets. Great pix.

By all means, more hunts and pix.

Also, my Merkel K1 Stutzen wants to be a K95 when it grows up.

Best

GWB

Great pics! Congrats on a great hunt! I love Portugal...can't beat the people, food, wine...and of course the Port!!

Bob

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Originally posted by Bob in TX:
Great pics! Congrats on a great hunt! I love Portugal...can't beat the people, food, wine...and of course the Port!!

Bob

I'll second that.

Bob,

Don't know if you've tried the local village wines but many are even better than the shop bought ones.

I don't know what happened to my photos! Anyway, yes Steve is a great guy and I can vouch for the local wines. We also saw a lot of red hinds and spikes. One nice stag, some fallow bucks and a ton of partridge. Also, I would like to mention that all airport staff I dealt with (Boise and Lisbon)were just great to deal with. I'll see what I can do about the photos

Hi Eric

Glad to know you enjoied the hunt and your stay with us.
Great pics.

Edgar

Edgar

Welcome to the forum!

The little stone structure in the second last picture, anyone know what it is and it's history?

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Originally posted by Scriptus:
The little stone structure in the second last picture, anyone know what it is and it's history?

My friend Edgar is the expert and hopefully he'll comment.

Although it's hard to gauge size from that pic, I'd guess it's either some kind of a massive a bread oven (doubtful though), a mill or an animal shelter but that's only a guess.

FWIW, the castle in the last picture is almost certainly a Knights Templar castle from somewhere around 1100 - 1300 AD or so.

It looks as it has something to do with water, judging by silt or sand outside the door on the right. Interesting place. Even the buildings in the fore ground below the fort have a substantial wall, and that above a cliff or bluff.

Perhaps a water mill of some kind?...... I notice the river actually flows beneath the structure so it probably has something to do with the flow.

In the case of the walled town, I'd guess it was probably just that. The original town that probably sprung up there where it could seek the protection of the Templars in times of need and trade with them in times of peace and the buildings outside the wall are probably later buildings that were built after the walled area filled up.

But then again, I could be totally wrong on all of it!

I've just started reading about the Peninsula wars here which is very interesting but haven't started researching much about the previous history yet though.

Hell, I have just spent a lot time on Wikipedia checking out castles and forts. Quite interesting.

Portugal is full of them buddy and as you say, all VERY interesting.

Steve is right, every where you go, there is some interesting history. from the druids, celtiberians, romans, knights Templars, etruscans, paleolithic people, and I'm sure I've missed a few.

Eric,

I'm really glad the hunt went well - I see Edgar and Dr V are looking as dapper and stylish as ever .

As Kiri says, it would be really nice to tie up with you next time you're in Portugal - if I starve myself for the next six months, I should just about be able to manage four days of 24/7 Portuguese food, coffee and wine intake...

Guys, it's really straightforward for US hunters to bring their rifles into Portugal to hunt and the hunting itself is excellent and affordable.

Adam.

Adam, I hope to meet you there this fall (November) and we will look for a nice stag!Don't worry about starving your self, I'll just tell Edgar and Vassalo that we want to see a lot of that river country on foot

I think, of all the areas we stalked over there, the steep valleys and ravines around the Tejo and along the Spanish border were my favourites - although I may come to reconsider that view if I find myself dragging a stag out of one of those gulleys. Mind you, Edgar ably demonstrated that the combination of Portuguese driver and pimped-up Land Rover Discovery is pretty much able to access any point on the globe, be it vertical, rock strewn or axle deep in mud, so I'll leave the extraction to him!