...and the spirits are high



Now the main season is over, I thought I would share some atmosphere from our place. Photo was taken in the hunting cottage the night before hunt. Every year a couple of guys gather at this place to help our friend - PH - with red deer culls - it is snowing outside and the valley is far away...

Good luck!

and please share the "results" of the next days with us...

Klaus

They look a happy bunch of kindred spirits. Whats that hut heated with? You cold climate guys must know a thing or two about heating and insulation.

I only see three partialy filled glasses and one bottle of wine on the table - not the kinda real hunters I'm used to hanging out with!



Obviously a feeble attempt at giving Hunting Croatia a good name....pretty sure the photo's been censored!

Gerry you have missed the ugly plastic one in the front and there is a cellar beneath the cabin - so we try to keep it cool - tho close to Croatian border this is still in Slovenia - hum I guess

transpond - it is heated by the firewood stove and it is a plain log cabin, once the fire burn down it gets cold quite soon

This it has to be said is what is generaly missing from UK stalking.

An excellent scene; as I sit here with my ration of Laphroig I wonder what's in the plastic bottle

If taken in Slovenia then the stuff in the bottel should and could be Slivovic, a localy brewed hard boose made from plums, here in sweden we have the same stuff but here it´s named skogsstjärna ie forrest star..

In short Slivovic is the grease that makes the wheels turn on the coutry side, denying an offer of it and you have ruined all your good will.

Best regards Chris.

Husq., I thought that such alcos are forbitten for scandinavian persons!

Mouse, you have finished the boar-season, too? Here in G: we are now only allowed to shoot " Frischlinge", but this can be a problem, too, because I have seen "Frischlinge" from the last year, which are pregnant!

Mouse- so plastic jug contains slivovica or rakia?

MF, we have no clue what you are talking about, must be some myth from Germany

Cheers
/JOHAN

Johan, I got a new baby today: Brno Mod. "Z", in 7x57 in very, very good condtion. May be, that they are called Mod.21 !

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Originally posted by Monastery-Forester:
Husq., I thought that such alcos are forbitten for scandinavian persons!

Mouse, you have finished the boar-season, too? Here in G: we are now only allowed to shoot " Frischlinge", but this can be a problem, too, because I have seen "Frischlinge" from the last year, which are pregnant!

...ditto - guys got 2 saws this week (40 and 42 kg - first had 2 and the other 4 embrios allready quite developed - usually Frischlinge develope here early in the June but hose would be in April), allready saw a big saw with youngs of 10-15 kg from this year...capercaillie can allready be heard (it was supposed to be in April)...funny year to be expected...so I am personaly holding back on boars unless I am certain it is a male...

now to more serious business - first the stuff in that plastic is a cheap Italian wine, second - famous Slivovica originates from Bosnia and it is indeed (strictly) a plum brandy (very smooth ) - in Slovenia guys mostly brew fruit brandy (made from apple and perry) Germans call it Schnapps in Serbia or Croatia it is called rakia...

P.S. Here in Slovenia hunters are suppose to drink with left hand only!

Hahahahahhahah seriously great thread.

We Swedes are usually not used to drink anything but brännvin, ie distilled potatoes!

Lets just say that Swedes in general are at their best in social terms when they are sober, a bit dull perhaps but still not the raging wikings that might appear when drunk.

However I am one of the few Swedes that can drink and not become annoying to my surronding, at least not as I can remenber.

My rather deep knowledge of european brands of spirits where born when I worked as a groom during summer breaks at different horse events throughout Europe.

Driking was a big part of the job so to speak.

Futhermore I have also made one summer tour flyfishing in Bosnia and Croatia, to not drink when offered is a sin, and would immediatly dimish all chances to fish that farmers stretch of water.

As a final thought, there is only one brand of "schnapps" that I will not drink and that is Fernet Branca ie Fernet, those who know what I am talking about, I find wil know why.


Best regards Christian.

From a Sweden, where the hunting season is coming to an end..

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Originally posted by mouse93:

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Originally posted by Monastery-Forester:
Husq., I thought that such alcos are forbitten for scandinavian persons!

Mouse, you have finished the boar-season, too? Here in G: we are now only allowed to shoot " Frischlinge", but this can be a problem, too, because I have seen "Frischlinge" from the last year, which are pregnant!

...ditto - guys got 2 saws this week (40 and 42 kg - first had 2 and the other 4 embrios allready quite developed - usually Frischlinge develope here early in the June but hose would be in April), allready saw a big saw with youngs of 10-15 kg from this year...capercaillie can allready be heard (it was supposed to be in April)...funny year to be expected...so I am personaly holding back on boars unless I am certain it is a male...

now to more serious business - first the stuff in that plastic is a cheap Italian wine, second - famous Slivovica originates from Bosnia and it is indeed (strictly) a plum brandy (very smooth ) - in Slovenia guys mostly brew fruit brandy (made from apple and perry) Germans call it Schnapps in Serbia or Croatia it is called rakia...

P.S. Here in Slovenia hunters are suppose to drink with left hand only!

some more on Slivovitz - they claim it is a Serbian - tho who can tell ...Husquarna what is wrong with Fernet? - it is bitter and as such not ideal "allrounder" hehe - tho as a appetizer or digestitive for Italian cuisine it should be - it is like Underberg - i.e. Jagermaister is too sweet for me... tho some Italian guests bring special "grappa" i.e. brandy (grape based I guess), that is poured directly in the hot black coffe - great in the morning before hunt

Hi Mouse!

It´s all the same, grappa, slivovic, raki, brännvin..

My problems with Fernet started with someone handling me a bottle of what I assumed was Coke, really it was Fernet and soda water, thirsty as a sailor I downed 3/4 of the bottle in one quick pull, and then I noticed the taste..

End of story.

Jaegermeister is a drink for school kids on springbreak in the Alps.

I much more prefer a swedish "Bäsk" vodka seasoned with "malört" ie wormwood plant the same stuff used in Absint, a good apertif and general tool to weed out the men from the lesser ones.

Should any one feel like to try Bäsk, then I´ll send you a bransch of wormwood.

However I am one of those that might have a small glas the night before the hunt, but I am hunting sober, after a good hunt then ones again I might have a small cap again.

Best regards Chris.

Hello Mouse, are your bears still sleeping? I think, in this "winter" all things are a little bit out of order!

mouse: What is the food being eaten? Looks like fondue. Any special local customs for how this is served and what is dipped?

Chris - a sip of the elixir before the hunt is just for a bit of pluck not to smell the roses ...bears didn't close their eyes this winter - no rest for the wicked - Ministry of forests just released a state quota of 106 bears to be taken in 2007 - so there will be some hustle the very next full moon allready...alsatian it is fondue - cheese one - it was actually reexamination for one of the guys - he actually fixed us with one last year tho in his enthusiastic rush there was just too much of "hot stuff" put inthere so we politely refused to eat it - so couple kg of finest cheese mix wandered in the woods, where our dogs picked it up next morning and there was a parade of dog bottom gliding displayed by them after that

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there was just too much of "hot stuff" put inthere so we politely refused to eat it - so couple kg of finest cheese mix wandered in the woods, where our dogs picked it up next morning and there was a parade of dog bottom gliding displayed by them after that

Is that why they do that????

I made Tom Yum for some guests at the weekend and found fern rummaginf in the bin liner later on. She must have picked up the 4-5 chilli ends that were lying on the top!!!

As soon as she did it once I put her in the garden but didn't know the cause!!!

Oh well, it seems the dog has no sense whatsoever!!

FB

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Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
As soon as she did it once I put her in the garden but didn't know the cause!!!

Oh well, it seems the dog has no sense whatsoever!!

FB

- now you know why we have passed that savoury dish