I finally got my other pictures in so here goes some more!

With one of my good friends we went down from Paris to visit another of my friends in the region of the Dordogne Valley for some driven boar hunts. They are a fun group of local farmers and village people who organize their own drives every weekend.

Here we are going out to our posts and some other members of the hunting group waiting for boar to come:

By the end of the day we got four boars. Again because of DeltaAirlines I no firearms so I borrow an old O/U shotgun that had slugs. It was not a "precise" weapon to say the least. Well at least that my excuse for missing with both barrels at a one of these boars...

On our last day we played tourist and visited some of the chateaus of the Dordogne Valley, simply wonderful... Its one of my favorite areas in France (that the boars, and the food are why I keep going back to this region).

Then on to Brittany...

Hunting for woodcock. The weather was to warm and there was only one flush this day. But it was a good, tough day of bird hunting in real Breton "Argoat" the old forests of Brittany.

Then on to a day of driven boar hunting. No boar seen, but lots of roebucks. Of course this was after roebuck season...

Looking down the line of posts:

The piqueur (the handler of the dogs with his three customary tools: the hunting horn, the whip and the long dagger):

I borrowed one of my gunsmith buddy's used guns in his shop a mint condition GDR Merkel Drilling in 16/16/7x65r. I really feel in love with it. I'm working on a deal now...

Speaking of drillings. My buddy used his beautiful Ferlach double rifle drilling: 9.3x74r/9.3x74/20. My crappy pictures really don't do it justice....