Hi Staffan,

From your viewpoint, but you might not realise you do have some traditions, simple ones perhaps. Maybe not all the Germanic ceremony of Central Europe, of horns songs to celebrate the taking of a pheasant, or a boar or whatever tune is called for. All the special language and words, the waidmannsheil etc etc.

But one of the simple Swedish traditions is their love of a camp fire.

A fire is built for a get together for morning tea, and the toasting of a sausage over the open fire with long telescopic tongs or a small tong fitted to a light branch. Coffee and sausage, not tea.

Again for lunch with a soup. And finally even at the end of the day, another fire is built.

Not sure if this is a peculiarity of Sweden? Because as when I was in Norway last year before heading off to Sweden, one of the Norwegian hunters asked whether the hunting parties in Norway build lots of camp fire.

However even in Norway I was surprised that some moose/elg/alg hunters build little camp fires to sit beside, while on station! On station where they hope to shoot a moose if it runs by. Personally I would worry the small fire might aid in alerting the moose a hunter is there, but maybe they know better than me?

I always try to be careful when hunting in especially Europe not to step on anyone's "toes" as what many take for granted, I may have no idea about. Like taking a beer to the skinning shed. Everyone else had finished theirs in the hut, but I took my unfinished beer with me, and got some looks. Scandinavians are a good and friendly lot of people and very welcoming hosts so usually nothing serious.