- he is a PH - those are client's trophies ready to be shipped.

Very nice. Where was the impact and how far did the boar travel? You must be getting into busy season with driven hunting kicking off.

7x64 Hornady SST - liver shot - you can see peritoneal membrane that bullet draged out on its way out - pig went for 200m or so and was found dead in the stream as seen on pic.

Dang it guys - at 7:58 a.m. once in a lifetime...

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Originally posted by Rule 303:

mouse93 Good Chamois. Please excuse my ignorance, do you normaly find Chamois in timbered areas like in your photo. I am use to them being on steep mountains with a lot of rocky/grass open areas with some bushes.

303 - some of Chamois do stay below the forest border (below 1500 m - a.s.l.)

Wonderful, how old was this old warrior?

Hard to tell atm, since horns are covered with tree resin in such amount that it makes counting very hard...he is old - should get better view when I clean the trophy - will let you know.

One should see my friends face...he was there and around for last 2 weeks and didn't have a clue about him (nore did I )...yeah those willy old birds pop up here and there - one never knows.

Still haven't extracted the bragging photo that my hunting buddy took, but 2 weeks ago I got a nice little 8-point red stag. After spooking a couple other deer, this one came at me over a ridge, turned around and took off, but returned with doe and calf. When he stopped at 75 yds, I got a clean shot and he fell to a 250 gr Norma Oryx from my Husqvarna mod 1651 in 358 NM. This happened about a half mile from a tractor road, and in the snow he was easy to drag.

And when I came home after hanging the buck in my buddy's garage, my wife had sheep heads in the pot and beer in the fridge. Am I not one lucky SOB...

@mouse93
Congrats, a trophy of a lifetime!

Mouse

Is that the same dog that I have admired?

Same old, same old... She turned 11 in August, still going strong.

Super Gamsbock
Kräftiges Waidmannsheil !

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Originally posted by mouse93:
Same old, same old... She turned 11 in August, still going strong.

Aging gracefully too!!!

I am getting myself ready for her departure into Greener Pastures tho - it is coming enivetably - hope it will be painless and quick...



Till then we work around the clock - full moon and driven hunts in full swing - only Friday today just finished 7th tracking of this week (Weekend ahead )...cull tomorrow...will report...

Recent successes



The bird seed thief gets his comeuppence

Not much time for hunting at the moment but I managed to shoot pig the other day

Some more ...let's try in German today...bitter - 15 deg.C morning.



Stalked a yearling stag and gave him 293 gr TUG from The Right One at 80m distance

"Anschuss"





"Nachsuche"






"Weidmannsheil!"

Good thing you had a tracking dog eh?

Bog it was an easy task of follow the blood in the snow...

Quite contrary from today - deadly serious - after vertigo influenced tracking of wounded 1y.o. chamois I have whitnessed a deadly 20m free fall drop of my dog over the cliff - I thought it it was all over...



Luckily it wasn't and we may live to tell another story tomorrow...

Sounds like a close one! A couple of years ago I sent a friend's Bavarian flying down a hillside when I rolled a feral goat down for extraction. Watching that dog do a rotation in the air in slow motion is a moment I won't forget anytime soon. Fortunately, it was unhurt when it touched down!





Extraction was a bugger as the rides are too wet to bring the truck down to the carcass. THEN they told me I could borrow a quad next time.

This years reindeer. Had a fantastic time hunting, but it took 12 days before I finally got my buck. This one is very pale compared to the ordinary reindeer. The reindeers spent a lot of time in the forests this year and hunting them there is a lot more difficult than up in the mountains. I managed to shoot my buck at the border between the mountain and the forest.



I took this one with my Blaser R93 in 6,5x55 using Accubond 140grs. I really like the Accubonds, and for the 6,5x55 one has to load proper hunting ammo as most factory-ammo are downloaded "swedish" versions of the 6,5x55. I dont remember the velocity, but will chronograph my ammo using my new acoustic chronograph.

Wonderful, I like the colour of its coat. Is it worth tanning the hide?
Are the reindeer in mixed groups or in single sex herds at this time of year?

The colour is quite nice and unusual. It is possible to process the hide and end up with a nice and warm rug, or as we did in the army, use it to sleep on when tenting during the winter months. Tanning? I dont know, but i suppose so.

This one was taken september 9. From the very beginning of september the males join the main herds and by september 15. most males have joined and the rut is in effect. Of course unlike most deer, meat from reindeer bucks are not suitable as food during the rut, so one has to be careful and observe the animals a while before shooting.

This one is 31/2 yrs old and perfect for eating. :-)

No pic to brag due to extreme rain, but I shot a moose early in November, slaugtherweight was 143kg...southeastern part of Norway..ZKK 602 .375H&H, Federal 300 grain.

Sounds good - what tastes better moose or reindeer?

In my opinion..moose

Reindeer of course...

...duh

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Originally posted by Tordenskiold:
Reindeer of course...

Totally agree!

Anyone hunting over the Christmas period?

Have a days informal driven driven phaesant shooting on the 27th with friends, and doubless will get out after a doe or two or even some ducks.

Major highlights of 2012 have getting level 2 Deer Stalking qualification - got a call this morning they had passed my portfolio and certificate is in the post. Also given the all clear for Lymes disease.

In terms of stalking had three reasonable bucks of the piece of ground I manage. One was with my father - we used to hunt regularly when I was younger, but with me living in Edinburgh and him down in Oxford opportunities are few and far between. Sadly he is now pretty lame and not sure if we will get many more chances.

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
Anyone hunting over the Christmas period?

The animals in Norway are celebrating Xmas, so it is not legal for us to hunt from December 24 till January 1......

When you see its eye, one might get the idea that it suffers from Chamois blindness.



I have previously shot a Carpathian Chamois with a similar eye.

Actually when I've cleaned the skull it became appearent that it was caused in a fight by another Chamois perhaps 1 month ago - hook went in almost 2 inches - direction from ear toward nose...

@mouse93

My first thought was that it was an injury it suffered when it fell down the rocks after the shot, but on closer inspection it turned out that it was an "old" injury.

I have no experience with Chamois blindness, so I saw this as another opportunity.

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Originally posted by Norwegianwoods:

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Originally posted by Boghossian:
Anyone hunting over the Christmas period?

The animals in Norway are celebrating Xmas, so it is not legal for us to hunt from December 24 till January 1......

That's very civilised! More time for drinking.

@boghossian

In Norway is nothing civilized.


Raging bears’ beer boozing puts human parties to shame: 100 cans of beer, mountain of food, cabin in ruins

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Originally posted by huntingineurope:
@mouse93

My first thought was that it was an injury it suffered when it fell down the rocks after the shot, but on closer inspection it turned out that it was an "old" injury.

Here is a pic from our parts of a living one with (probably) the same injury:

Was up in North for work and managed to squeeze in 2 stalking days. Most of the first day was spent watching driving snow from the front seat of a Ford Ranger. I managed a couple of hinds and a roe on the second day.





Nice fat animal. 53kgs in the larder.

Driven boar 2012

Trying to put a photo.