Hi guys,
This hunting season is closed and we are thinking at the next year.
All of us have some dreams, my is to hunt one Elk in Norway. But I don't know wenn hunting season is and if this is possible without to pay an specialized hunting-agency. Some years ago I hunt as guest in Germany, is this possible also in Norway???
I'm not looking for an extraordinary trophy, just live an outstanding hunting experience with real hunters... (like me).
Thanks
Faina

i assume you mean moose?(elg in norwegian).
season starts 25.sep.
i'm sorry i can't help you out, there is no problem beeing a guest hunter, you've just have to find someone to hunt with.

if you like i can post your thread on the norwegian hunting/shooting/gun forum together with some contact information?

Faina.
Moose hunting for foreigners ain´t that easy to come by.
Big game hunting in Norway is strictly regulated, and basicly it is the landowners who has the right to hunt.

There is also government land for lease, but one has to participate in a draw, and there are restrictions about who can attend.

If you don´t get in touch with somebody who can take you in as a guest hunter, the only solution is to book a hunt with one of the very few agencies who take foreigners hunting.
I know there are some, but I have no adress at the time beeing.

I have the impression though, that it is a bit costly.

Perhaps Sweden would be a better shot.
I have the impression that guided hunting is a much bigger industry in Sweden than in Norway.
(they don´t have our terrific landscape though

Thanks guys,
it's an idea, it's a dream. We have time to organize this.
Yes, it's easier to book a hunt with an agency, but this will cost me like a new car!!! And in most case you'll not live an real hunting experience like if you hunt with local hunters.
For me isn't important the trophy, much more is to have contact with people that live in this countrys, to hear here hunting stories, here experience. This will made me rich, not a wonderful trophy!!!
Maybe, it's a dream.
Faina

Why norway ? Maybe it's easier in sweden or finland ? It's really easy to organize here in Estonia, but we don't have mountains so, not the same landscape

Don´t let your dreams go Faina, things will sure work out one way or another

That it is interesting form me, Qnn, can you give to me the details? Also via PM if you prefer

Why Norway? I don't exacly why, personaly I never sea Norway, but I know a little bit of story from this state, and I feel great admiration for this people.
There are sure many other nice state where I can hunt, but I would like to start my experience in a non-mittle european state from Norway.
Faina

Faina,

Just know that if you hunt with the Norwegians you will come away with a great desire to grow a huge moustache and drink thet rockt fuel they call aquavit....

I am managing to resist as I have only hunted with them in the UK but the Moustache is definately still a possibility!!

Rgds,
FB

I can promise you FB, that I will bring Aquavit to Baldoc in March
It takes some time to get used to it, but after that it´s just plain sailing

don't let them scare you off, Faina.

i'm not to fond of aquavit myself, but give me a bottle of Jack Daniel's

Faina,
they do not know our Italian distilled spirit: Grappa, the crafted one, not the industrial ...... the secret gun of Italian Alpine corps

FB, I'm moustached!!!
Stefano, the real alps-hunter powder is gennepy, and I made this by myself!!! But drink only at home after shooting... or I sea too much chamois...
Faina

My favourite aquavite is a brand called "Løiten Trestjerners".....the essence of that brand of spirit..

The rest of them are for p***ies.....

More details on hunting in that nice country are available here.

Faina,
my grandmother was from Domodossola area, and I well know genepy, even if I prefer grappa, where are you from?Not important the exact place, but from which area?

I'm "original" from Verbania from many generations, but my heart is in Ossola mountains. That's why when I've time I'm in val Bognanco...
Faina

Hi Stefano,
I have made two years ago some bootle genepy, do you like to test if it's good???
Want anyone test??? Come by me....
Faina

Un di' o l'alter vegni si' a pruval (In dialetto vigezzino spesso la u si trasforma in i e viceversa )
Mia nonna era di Bitegn (Buttogno) di S.Maria Maggiore.

For our not Italian speaking friends:
A day or another I'll come to taste the genepy (the text between the parenthesys is and explication of a carachteristic of the dialect of Val Vigezzo that often change the u letter with the i letter and viceversa)

We digress a little but...

I was in Serbia a few weeks back looking at some property in the mountains. Every time we stopped to look at something one of he neighbours would come out with a bottle of home made Raki and insist we drank some. The difference in quality was substantial bbut after a couple you didn't care!!

I never got cold in three days!!

Everyone seemed to have Damson trees in their gardens and they virtually all drank the stuff that they made out of the damsons.

Genepy though is fabulous stuff. I drank it in France while skiing once and just as I was getting into my stride the barman hid the bottle in the Chalet because apparently I didn't respect it enough!!

Rgds,
FB

you can check out this site:
http://www.trysilviltguide.no

they organice moosehunting in norway. I hunted with them last seson and shoot 3 moose in three days.

Unfortunately they do not have the English version yet.

Stefano, this is not a problem for me, I speak also german...
I take a look on the site, it's nice, but not exacly what i'm looking for.
Thanks roebuck25

Faina

Hi

Here is one provider that looks serious:
http://webtemp.telenor.net/naturfritidas.tmp/hXGXAnhdbKZN.6.idium

You might wanna try to go to www.sluttstykket.no, it's a norwegian hunting/gun forum, might have some more luck there.

If it was posible I would have invited u myself, but I'm not going to be in Norway in the moose season this year.. Or the next 3 years for that matter . Maybe sometime in the future..

Good luck, I'm sure you'll find something.

Johan