Crazy weather for Italy, on Saturday, while hunting Wild boars, two hours of snow strom. In a little time 5cm of snow on the ground, near 10cn two hours. At 12 o'clock the sun was shining.
On Sunday a cold wind has disturbed the hunt, it was impossible to locate the dogs for the noise and we finished beeing absolutely chilly.
It is not normal to have the snow and a temperature below 0°C in October.

Only two boars in the week end, both killed by the dogs owner and conductor, because they were in the dense bush and the do not want to escape from there.

Please, English friends,which is the correct name of the people that manage the dog pack during the hunt?

Steve

Are you permitted to hunt wildboar in Italy - when the snow is on the ground?

Not sure if this is the correct terminology - but the 'Hunt Master' or 'Master of Hounds' directs the pack - while the 'Whipper In' actually controls the hounds.


rgds Ian

Hi
The huntsman hunts the hounds.The 'whipper In' helps the huntsman to control the hounds.

The 'master of hounds' finances the running of the hunt and sorts out the meets (places where they go to hunt)

and you have a field master. Who controls the field (people who hunt on horse and follwers).

Steve

This may not be what you are looking for and my AR colleagues may have provided what you are looking for but a more general term would be "dog handler".

Sounds like the dog handler had the best weekend!

What breed of dogs are used in most Italian driven hunts? Terriers or hounds?

Here several breeds are common, like Beagle, Ariegiois, Fauve de Bretagne and italian Segugio.

Thank you all, hi Lorenzo,
did you have the same crazy weather in your area?

For IanF, yes I think that it is the first year that it is possible to hunt with the snow on the ground. I think that it will be possible until we will have so much boars and so many damages made by boars.
Previously it was not possible to hunt if the ground was mainly covered by snow. No one knows what did this mean exactly or how to evaluate that "mainly covered by snow", more over if compared with rangers opinon about this. Infact many hunters avoided to hunt in the past and many dared going hunter with the risk to be fined.

The pack that our dog handlers have is composed mainly by beagles, but there are also Russians, dachshund, dachsbrake and a pair of Ariegiois, an Italian Segugio and a Vandean dog.

Our dog handlers manage actuallly about 50dogs or a little more

Ciao Stefano, here unfortunately we experience the opposite problem; the weather is always sunny and warm and we are facing a serious dry spell. We are arranging some rain dances.

Well, if the girls are good looking and "easy", I think that I can do a sacrifice and partecipate to the rain dances .

It is something that I already saw in the past when I was a fan of diving, the Appennini mountains area real watershed, on a side sunny and on the other side bad weather. I hunt in the area of the border between Emilia region and Liguria, in Val Trebbia, not far from Genova, but probably on the ligurian side the weather has been good.

In Genova-La Spezia area, the rainfall is almost three times as much.

P.S. The weather forecast is for rain!