I discovered this old film in another forum and thought that it´s worth a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...6U&feature=related.-

WOW

Just the right rifle to compliment such regal hunts of the past ..........
totally irrisitable .......

Saw this there to Hermann Goering hunting photos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2yHImWKvQ

I like Görings Red Stags specially Matador and Trabant. This are ALLTIME Kapital Stags.

Seloushunter

Nainital,
last fall I was hunting on Poland. The roads in the forests was strait and coverd vith paving-stones. I ask and was told that we was hunting on land that the Kaiser use as a hunting land.There was a castel somewere I do not see unfortenly. Great hunting in Poland, lot of bores and red deers.

Matts

When i was in Poland there were many stone tracks that looked as good, if not better than some of the national roads.
It turned out they were the original tracks left from Rail Lines that went from Poland to Russia!!!

Pathetic, a "canned hunt XXL". That jerk did not even have to load by himself, just pulled the trigger. Thanks God we're a republic now after all those freaky Wilhelms and Hermanns...

I would liked to have had the Franchise seling all those Loden Capes!!

I would bet that all of them were tailor made, same like officer's uniforms back then. No prêt-a-porter for the gentlemen in these times...

"I would bet that all of them were tailor made, same like officer's uniforms back then. No prêt-a-porter for the gentlemen in these times."
DUK,
As a young soldier I was posted to Germany and on arrival had to meet the RSM, as all new soldiers do.
He took one look at me and said my uniform looked like a sack of potatos.
He then introduced me to the Unit Tailor, a German, and within the space of less than an hour my uniform was transformed into one that fitted me like a glove.
All the time the tailor was working on my uniform I stood there half dressed choking on the smell of the foul cigar the tailor was smoking.
Those German tailors could work magic with a pair of scissors, cloth and a needle and thread.
That was in the late fifties and early sixties, I doubt if it is like that now.

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Originally posted by DUK:
That jerk did not even have to load by himself, just pulled the trigger.

The Kaiser's left arm was paralysed. That's why he shot from a stick. Also, his infirmity made it difficult to handle a rifle, so he mostly shot a shoulder stocked C96. Considering the too weak caliber, he aimed for the neck, hence the name "Kaiserschuss" (Emperor's shot) which is still used to describe a killing neckshot.

Oh, I was not aware of that fact. Still, this kind of hunting rather reminds me of slaughtering and not of hunting. Did you see the "wild" boar kept in pens, to be released for the hunt?

I allow to disagree on the weapon used. It was probably a long and stocked Parabellum 08 and not the Mauser C96 he used in the movie. Caliber might have been the same 7.63 mm.

Of course, like most Royal hunts, it was a mere mockery of true hunting, a bloody shooting game at best. However, I remember reading a book years ago about another former imperial hunting preserve in former East-Prussia (annexed by Russia at the end of WWII), called Rominten and where Reichjagermeister Hermann Gôring took over the management. From what I remember, big Hermann seemed to have been a real hunter and true connoisseur.

There is a famous book on Rominten written by it's forestry director and possibly the most famous German Jäger and tradionalist Walter Frevert.

During the war Frevert also hunted partisans and, reportedly commited suicide disguised as a hunting accident while serving as forestry director of another big game reserve, Kaltenbrunn in the Black Forest.

Very interesting reading, I don't know if Frevert's works were translated into English or French.

Also an interesting fact is that the German hunting law introduced in 1936 already under the Nazi regime was quite modern in many aspects and, that is most surprisingly for that murderous regime, most ethical when it comes to the treatment and the sustainable use of our game animals.

I don't know how far Göring was involved in the elaboration of that law that was, like the Autobahns, mostly based on efforts developed still during the democratical government of Weimar.

Our current federal hunting laws still are greatly influenced by the old "reichs jagd gesetz" and still quite modern, except the wording. The old guys just did not yet know that it was sustainable whate they were doing.