Sako,

How is hunting those Icelandic reindeer? I had tried to go to Iceland but the damn deal fell through and I ended up in Spain.

Cannot answer for Ben but it is nothing but fun for my part . Great landscape, great scenery, and usually a great hunt. The effort varies between hunting zones.
Trophies can be really nice for those interested in trophies only.

Regards

Don't forget the beautiful Icelandic women!

jpb

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Cannot answer for Ben but it is nothing but fun for my part . Great landscape, great scenery, and usually a great hunt. The effort varies between hunting zones.
Trophies can be really nice for those interested in trophies only.

Regards

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I haven't heard any good stories of their attitude but they sure are easy on the eyes!

I have been on a number of reindeerhunts with some very good Icelandic friends of mine, who come over here to shoot small game and hunt roedeer and wild boar
From my own experience I can tell you that hunting in Iceland is completely different from hunting in Europe. I have hunted them in area one, close to Mount Snaefell, which is a mainly flat territory

Shooting a raindeer is not more difficult that shooting any other species of big game, but the difficult part is to approach them without being noticed. Reindeer have poor eyesight, but their smelling and hearing is excellent. Moreover, they are nearly always in a herd, so only one nose needs to pick up your scent, or one ear your noise and off they are. This year we got a nice bull that was in a small herd of some fifteen bulls, a few miles away from us. There was no way of approaching them directly from the place where we spotted them first. So we had to move far around and it took us some four hours of walking and creeping before we reached a small rock at about 200 m. distance from where they were lying down. There we picked out the animal we wanted to shoot and had to wait for them to stand up and shoot one before they were on the move.

This is what I like about reindeerhunting. Seeing them starts raising your adrenalinelevel and huntingfever.You have to sneak up on them, which may take quite some time and effort. Then, finally taking down the animal is very rewarding, I can tell you!

This is however the easy way to get them. My friends have shot them high up in the mountains in other areas, which means a lot of climbing to locate them, but also carrying down a 75 to 110 kg animal after you shot it!

A lot of interesting information about reindeerhunting can be found on the site of the Reindeer Committee of Iceland:

http://www.hreindyr.is/english/

The women there are brilliant! I have a couple of friends that are married to Icelandic women they met while living in Iceland. (the USA has the Icelandic defence contract, so we have a base at Keflavik)

Would love to do some hunting and some hunting

Kokdyer, Sorry i ditnt reply sooner( i work far from my home) But the Icelandic reindeer are great for hunting if you want to try something diffrent. Unlike most European countrys Iceland has almost no woods and the area where the reindeer live is mostly tundra and desert close to the glaciers in the east part of the country!
The hunt it self does wary from which area you hunt, from flat territory to steep mountains and a lot of hiking to almost no hiking.

I think raindeer (the AR member not the animals) does explain it pretty well and the site he refer to is a good sorce for info!
For hunting reindeer you need a rifle, 6mm or bigger with atleast 100gr bullet!

The other tipe of hunting is mostly a night hunt starting around midnight and involves a serious amount of alcohol drinking!

Regards Ben

What you cant see,
you will not want

Yeah! Quitcher holdin' out on us!

Here are some pictures from this automn hunt,
http://www.sij.is/myndir.htm
Go to St. Hubertus link and take a look.
Hope you like what you see and a
merry cristmas to all of you

S�lvi

Great pictures! Thanks for posting.
You know norwegian and icelandic is not all that different languagues. I could actually understand a sentence or two..
Merry christmas!

Anders,

Do you know if hunters licenses (Jegerexamen sp.?) from all the other nordic countries are valid in Norway ?



The swedes have become extremely strict regarding the hunting rights of other nordic citizens and do only recognise the Norwegian licenses as being valid for all-year-round hunting. They recently excluded the Finns and Danes as well as Icelanders from being anything other than limited time guest hunters .



Regards

Great pictures S�lvi.
Island is beautifull, facinating and wery different from the rest of the Nordic countries.
I spent a summer there working for a Norwegian construction
company building houses after the volcanic outburst at Vestmmaneyir. 1973 if I recall or 74 ??
Som sort of Norwegian Governmental aid for thous who lost their homes on Heimaey, or shall we call it a helping hand among brothers........
We where at Sandgerdi, not far from Keflavik.
Felt a bit sacral standig at the old site ot the Allting, and the Gullfoss was somthing else !!

Hope to be back someday as a tourist with time to really axperience the famous Islandic scenery and hospitality.

I remember the reaction from our next of kin, the Scandinavia people when we had the volcanic outburst in Vestmannaeyjar.
Thank you for your contribution.

S�lvi

I have been interested in Iceland for a long time. I can't seem to convince the damn military to send me there.

I will have to try harder. I was supposed to go in 2003, but they gave the job to NATO.

Why do some hunters always want to hunt both slopes of the mountain at the same time?

Solvi, I agree with you,

Besides, I forgot to mention to Mats:
54 grains of VV 160 propelling a 150 gr. bullet defenitely convinces a reindeer bull to lie down and call it a day!

I very much doubt however if a few grains of cold, frozen Swedish seamen would impress any Icelandic woman at all; Defenitely not the ones I know!

So, Mats, go sit down in the hot tub,warm your essentials, look down at them and then decide where your priorities are!

Should the same question still be in your mind, I fear your brains have left your skull and settled themselves in a place where there is no room for them!

Nitrox...
Thats right, I know, I have been there !!!

I just had a look ath the link solvi mentioned and if memory serves me right me and raindeer have stayed in this very hut - and made soup !
It´s a small world isn´t it ?
By the way, regarding beautiful women, I don´t recall me and raindeer having that problem while hunting in Belarus last year. We most surely wanted only one slope of that mountain !