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Does anyone here have any experience with this lodge in France? Thank you in advance, Paul http://www.sanctuarysporting.co.uk/index.html Never use a cat's arse to hold a tea-towel. | ||
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A couple years ago, the gentleman running the place appeared on a forum I frequent. Our Wild boar breed naturally each year. We have little to do with them at any time. We simply supplement their diets with natural foods and provide an ideal set-aside area where they can exist in a completely natural environment. We supplement the population with boar from outside the Parc to keep the bloodlines pure. Before the season starts we trap a quantity of animals, suitable to hunt and they are released into the main body of the Parc. Discussion took place - and he confirmed that he could 'guarantee' numbers on a driven hunt. This seemed hopeful, until it was made clear that the desired numbers of pigs were released into a pen. These are then driven past the 'hunters' until the appropriate number of carcasses were obtained.  'Put and take'! They do exactly as described on their site. Not for me - but each to their own. Rgds Ian Just taking my rifle for a walk!........ | |||
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I thought every where in France was pretty much a fenced preserve? Perhaps I'm mistaken... I''m sure someone can put me right. Rgds, FB | |||
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No, that is not the case. I have personally only hunted Alsace, but there we hunt totally free and natural populations of wild boar. I have a colleague who owns some property near the Mediterrenean. Pigs on his land and adjacent properties are hunted free range. - mike ********************* The rifle is a noble weapon... It entices its bearer into primeval forests, into mountains and deserts untenanted by man. - Horace Kephart | |||
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With 1.3 million hunters, most of French hunting is free range though there are also preserve shoots/canned hunts available. | |||
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Around Rambouillet wild boars as well as stag are ubiquitous. My wife totally wrecked one of our cars last year by running into a boar, and my daughter slammed into a stag only two weeks ago, breaking the windshield and ripping off a rear view mirror. Darn things are all over the place. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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It`s as canned as you can get ! A friend of mine hunted there and he wasn`t impressed at all, and he was invited as a friend of the owner/operator. When I spoke to the operator, I was told the boar are totally free range and are not disturbed at al etc etc etc "but, we do feed them most days,oh and we do move some boar into the hunting area when needed " Sounds very wild to me  | |||
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I have never been but I have talked to them. I cant quite put a finger on it but it didnt work for me so I never pursued it. The one thing I do remember was thinking how expensive it was. | |||
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Unbelievable, but that has to be a preserve of some sort....  | |||
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I think must be a high fenced area... D.V.M. | |||
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i have a friend who has a farm over in France. He hates the boars and i'm free to shoot as many as i want whenever i'm visiting. The boars will come right into the yard and try to break into his sheds to kill his male pigs and mate with his sows. They can be a real nuisance. | |||
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A couple of years ago, driving from the west toward Romorantin, 2 gigantic boars (certainly not less than 450-500 pounds each) crossed the highway in front of my car. They weren't hurrying, just moseying along ...from one unfenced side of road to the other....they were the biggest pigs I have ever seen...and very dark. | |||
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I have got two cars destroyed when impacting stags at night. I now live outside of Rambouillet and see bunch of wildboars, deers or stags crossing the road in front of me quite often.
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I spoke to this operator on on the telephone and was less than impressed by his "knowledge" of suitable rifles! FROM HIS WEBSITE:
Somehow 7x64 with a 175 grain bullet isn't suitable for "his boar"! Or the 280 Remington equivalent or 270 Winchester with a 150 grain bullet. OK elsewhere in the Loire Valley but not here it seemed. He also seemed to imply that there wasn't a problem with bringing a .308" into France. At that point I think that I had heard enough to make up my own mind about wanting to ask any further about bookings. | |||
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I think this is the outfit that has stands at the larger gamefairs??? IIRC they used to advertise shooting over about 600 acres, but when I pressed them, they said most of the boar were taken in a "walled hunting area" within the estate and it was difficult to get a straight answer just how big the walled area actually was.. Regards, Pete | |||
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