Thanks to AR, I am making a very good deal.
I traded Jacques Chirac for my new English friend Steve64 from Worcester I met on AR.
I am doing the best I can to make him shoot nice wild boars. High standing this afternoon and driven hunts on Saturday and Sunday.

Wish both of you some happy hunting and fine weather, so the light at night will be good!
Hope you have some good days and see some boars too

cheers
from Germany
Konstantin

Danke Konst,

I am most happy to have got a nice new frienD thanks to AR
Chirac's visit in GB was a flop, his flop.
For Steve, not so.
In 3 days he shot 2 wild boars. He is a sharpshooter and a snap shooter as well. He could have shoot more but was very respectful of the boar sizes limits and mostly is very safe. He overrespected the safety regulations.
You can see that his face was smeared with blood as tradition requires when you are shooting your first boar in France + in Alsace + in Lorraine.
All of us were very proud he joined us and we have had an exceptionnal good time together. A very nice fellow, a pity he is living this far.






His wonderfull memory will last forever in our collective mind.


thanks to AR? thanks AR

Nice scenes! Aren't those fellows in the red a local 'vautrait'(boarhunting w/hounds)? Do they also come to the battue to play and honour the game?

Jean,

Looks like you guys have had some good fun! How is the hunting done? What is the role of the guys dressed in red?

Erik D.

The driven hunt looks like a lot of fun. I guess we're all waiting for a few details. Maybe Steve64 could post some details as well?

- Stu

hi jb hi konst
i would like to thank JB AND HIS WONDERFUL FAMILY AND GOOD FRIEND CLAUDE for my stay in france the friends i have made are great the memories will never be forgotten.
i have made a lot of good friends there jb it is not far away only 10 inches on the map haha.
france has everything the friendliest hunters nice boars and the nouvou beaujolais is another story though sadly i could not drink a lot because of driving.
JB AND CLAUDE MERCY MONSIEURS
REGARDS STEVE

HI STU
SOME DETAILS OF MY TRIP
I WENT HUNTING ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH MY FRIEND CLAUDE WHO IS STANDING NEXT TO MY RED FACE WE PUT TWO BOARS OUT WITH HIS EXCELLENT DOG PIP WHO STOOD WITH THE BOARS 30-45 MINUTES WE THEN WENT TO A HIGHSTAND JUST BEFORE REACHING THE STAND WE SPOTTED SOME BOARS FEEDING WE SELECTED ONE TO BE SHOT THEN I FLATTENED IT WITH MY 7X64 WITH 160G TROPHY BONDED BEAR CLAW IT DID NOT MOVE A MUSCLE GOOD EXCUSE FOR A BEER OR 3 SAID CLAUDE
ON THE SATURDAY WE SHOT IN LORRAINE MYSELF AND JB WHERE STANDING TOGETHER A FINE RED STAG RAN OUT FROM US ABOUT 5YARDS AWAY A FEW MINUTES A BOAR FOLLOWED THE SAME PATH I HAD TO WAIT FOR IT TO CROSS THE TRACK FOR A SAFE SHOT I PLACED A GOOD BULLET WITH THE FIRST SHOT 9.3X74 DOUBLE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY I SAW A LARGE RED PATCH ON ITS SIDE IN
RIGHT PLACE THE BOAR THE BOAR WENT APPROX 70 YARDS WE FOLLOWED A BLOOD TRAIL THAT RESEMBLED SOMEBODY SPILLING A CAN OF RED PAINT VOILA
ON THE SUNDAY ON JB REVIER A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF BOAR WHERE PUT OUT BY THE EXCELLENT TRAQUERS I HAD APPROX 8 STANDING ABOUT 70 YARDS AWAY SAFE TO SHOOT BUT I LET THE SHOOTER TO MY LEFT SHOOT FIRST AS THEY WHERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM FOR A GOOD SHOT..
THEN THEY RAN INTO WHAT I CONSIDERED NOT TO BE A SAFE ANGLE
THEY THEN CROSSED THE ROAD GOING UP A BANK IT WAS NOT SAFE TO SHOOT BECAUSE ROAD WENT AROUND TO THE LEFT AND ANOTHER HUNTER STANDING APPROX 200YDS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN SERIOUS DANGER I COULD HAVE SHOT 3-4 BOARS OUT THAT BUNCH THE BANK WAS SO STEEP THE BOARS HAD TROUBLE CLIMBING IT SITTING DUCKS
SORRY I WILL REPHRASE THAT SITTING BOARS
THANKYOU TO THE PRESIDENTS OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE
I HAVE INVITES FOR DECEMBER AND FOX DIGGING FEBRUARY
HOPEFULLY I WILL BE THERE
THANKS JB
REGARDS STEVE

Steve,

Thanks for the report. Sounds like a lot of fun.

What make is your double? I was admiring it in the pictures.

- Stu

hi stu
the double rifle was an excellent chapuis 9.3x74r kindly loaned to me by jb derunz
steve

This is from Jbderunz, who is having trouble posting his reply:



""Thank You for your interest at this fruitful exchange, thanks to AR. It�s truly AR in action.
First I make my apologies to StuC I cannot meet in Strasbourg, to ErikD waiting for too long, explanations about shooting in French Equ Africa and Boghossian wanting to know if free hunting (guideless, self managed) is possible in Benin and Burkina.
The guys you see clad in red in the background are no red coats (the ancient name of the britt soldiers) but only horn-players. These guys are playing every music requested by the tradition (meeting, riding to the hunt, hounds freeing, the name age and sex of the game (even the number of antlers), game-sighting, exit of the forest, river crossing, the death, halali, cur�e ... the honnors, the farewell.................More than 50 circumstances, not counting the 100 plus fanfares.

In the region where I am living, former German country, the hunting with horses and dogs is prohibited. Nevertheless we keep living the hunting traditional musics played mostly by shooters who are wearing hunting or riding clothes. Usually they are playing to honor the bag.
I am deeply shocked that hunting is banned in GB. It�s an evident violation of human rights.
In France we are counting : 300 stag-roe-boar packs using 17000 hounds, and on foot, 450 hare packs, 5000 hounds, > 1000 fox packs and 8000 hounds. More than 200 000 followers.Sure Hunting is flourishing and growing fast.
Boghossian is asking how we proceed. From November to January, one sunday on four, we pack about 50 shooters, we encircle as tightly as possible a wood part, �traque� by the name ( about 20 hectares, 50 acres), one shooter every 50 or 100m. Are lurched in the traque 20-30 beaters and 10-20 slow hounds (dachshounds, terriers, german pointers, drahthaars, no �running hounds� like harriers, foxhounds, brunos, griffons, bleus...not allowed because of ex-german country). They will split in 2 groups and comb the traque and flush out the wild boars awaited and shot (bow and rifle) by the shooters surrounding the traque. No hogs over 40-50 kg, absolutely no sows for a constant breed to be kept. Red deer and roe deer are shot as well but in restricted numbers. Free shooting on foxes. We make 2-4 traques a day.
Without question it�s fun. It�s the opportunity to meet, to invite and be invited, absolutely no class struggle, city dwellers and �countrysiders� mixed. Not speaking of well eating and drinking. Hard time for our wives, save the shooters ones, for quite every week-end is assigned to driven hunting.
IMHO it�s quite exactly the same abroad, isn�t it?
Steve I am happy you are pleased. You know, the first hunting day is the best day in the year for most of us. It�s a rare pleasure to share joy, experience, talents and enthusiasm to realize a wonderful day. May be you didn�t care but quite a quarter of the shooters were coming from Germany or Swiss. Politicians and medias are apt to encourage egoism and usually the worst parts of the nation mind. At the end of the day, thanks to the foreigners we feel more broad-minded, more informed, more intelligent and all in all better.. I had a heavy heart leaving you.

Thanks to AR, Thanks AR"


Thanks a lot, write You later.
Yours friendly JB"