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It's December already and time for the annual "Feldjagd" and "Waldjagd" on a close friend's shoot near Düsseldorf, Germany.

My wife and I were invited as 'guns' along with our youngest son, who this year passed his German hunting exams and got his 'Jagdschein'. Plus two great friends who were visiting from the USA and were invited to join the shoot as 'beaters'.

Saturday 7th December dawned cold and sunny and we set off in the Defender for the short drive to the meeting point at 09.00 h. Forty guns and beaters in total but only half a dozen dogs. The shoot owner gave a safety briefing and advised we would be shooting hares, rabbits, predators and pigeon. No pheasant except Timo, our son, it being his first shoot, he could take a cock pheasant if he had the chance. We would try for 6 or 7 drives and would break for lunch at the village playground.

The weather held, the beaters worked hard and put up plenty of hares for the standing guns and Timo got his pheasant on the last drive. Someone else also shot a pheasant and was penalized in the pub that evening at the shoot dinner with a round of Schnapps for everyone! An expensive pheasant!

The day's bag amounted to 30 hare, 1 rabbit, 2 pheasant and 1 'other' (magpie).

The horns sounded and the hunt drew to a close at the end of a great fun days annual Feldjagd shoot.

And now I'll let the pictures do the talking .....






































































I was shooting a 1920's William Evans No. 2 twelve bore shooting 28 gram 5's with Anja shooting her 20 bore Browning and 28 gram 6's. Timo was shooting his 12 bore using 32 gram 6's.


In two weeks there is the 'Waldjagd' (woodland hunt) and we will be running our new Springer bitch for her first hunt! Exciting stuff!

Cheers

Charlie

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It looks like a really nice hunt!

Charlie,
Thanks for posting these photos - looks like a lot of fun!

I gotta chuckle at the last pic.
10's of thousands of guns and trucks everywhere and we lock up the 30 dollar bike.

Charlie,

You do get around! Too much fun.

Mark

Very nice! I always enjoy these traditional hunt reports.

Looks good Charlie:
Any good guess at the weights of those
hares?

We had lots of 'em around the post at
Dexheim. Looked big as medium sized dogs.
These prove it. We never could get close
enough to one to know and never found any
road kills for some reason.

What's the pile in the field? Sugar beets
maybe?

Good to see you're out there having lots of
fun hunting.
Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

George

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George hi.

The hares are great this year. Average weight 5 kgs. One or two at 6 kgs. Most guns / hunters will take one or two home for the kitchen. Never any problems with left over game!

Yep sugar beets. Harvested and stored on the fields. Also give the deer, hare and pheasant something to snack on !!

Cheers

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