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The beautiful castle of Konopiste in the Czech Republic. It contains among other things fine collections of trophies of Prince Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The beautiful Konopiste Castle, with the lake in the foreground. A path around the lake provides a pleasant walk through the forest. I remember when walking around it, seeing a snake slithering away in the grass. Something I did not expect to see in temperate Europe. A small selection of Prince Franz Ferdinand's collection of trophies. Another wonderful corridor in the castle. A winter fairytale castle. Konopiste covered in snow. I must find my own collection of photos of Konopiste from my trip. |
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A castle I visited and stayed in, in Hluboka in the Czech Republic. Not so many hunting themes, but a great castle, modelled on Windsor Castle in England. Nearby, a kilometre away was the "hunting lodge" which I will soon share with you. |
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Quote: JB Yes I believe there is a whitetail deer herd in the wild in Finland, and have seen it referred to previously over the years. No first hand knowledge though, unless someone wants to invite me to have a hunt after one. Sika deer in Finland too I believe. |
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Quote: If you have a look at some of the photos I posted from India, some years ago, you will see what looks like lattices carved from wood, which is actually intricate stone carvings on the buildings. The European stone and plaster work is neat too. My guess regarding tapestries is they are a form of insulation. Cold stone walls covered with tapestries would be a lot warmer. Also another great hunting chateau of the Loire Valley, I must post some photos from there too, and also of the "tiny" royal hunting "lodge" of Chambord, is Cheverny Castle or Chateaux. This Chateaux still has the several hundred year old leather wall coverings which I believe also were a form of insulation. |
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Talon contest: Fawn's gripping encounter with golden eagle as it swoops in for the kill . With one set of talons grasping its back the outlook wasn't good for this fawn as a golden eagle swooped in for the kill. But a split second later the deer managed to duck out of danger as it scrambled under a fence forcing the bird of prey to rise back up into the sky. The dramatic scene was played out during an annual eagle hunt in Slovakia and was captured by photographer Milan Krasula, 30, who spent four days trying to get a good picture of the chase where owners release their birds to go after prey. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078926/Oh-dont-Deer-ducks-away-eagle-swoops-kill.html Another great photo from the wonderful collection of Yaşar Ünlütaş. |
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Daniel, Like the roe and boar. Is the game bird capercaillie or black grouse? Thanks for posting. I'd like to hunt Romania one day. Have seen many excellent hunting photos from Romania. |
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The bird is à capercailie.shot in flight with à 20 gauge The boar was almost 240 kg.shot from 40 meters.one bulet.longest tusk 26,5 cm Thé bear was 400 kg...shot from 20 m....:-)) |
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For crkennedy1 I was shooting on a driven Pheasant day on Saturday, by Oban, on the West coast of Scotland. The weather could have been better. There was no wind, which does not help, and it was misty at times. We ended the day with 90 Pheasants and 1 Woodcock. Steve. |
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Quote:Quote: I was picking-up on the grouse day, not shooting, so the gun in the pic is not mine. The model is( I think) EELL 687 20 bore.The owner treated himself to a pair for his birthday last year. I also shoot a 20 bore, but mine is 100 years old, and has the barrels the right way round. Steve. |
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Quote:Quote: Yes the countryside does not look very Romanian, however that was what was claimed. I forget where it comes from. Perhaps the agent was using the photo for a booked hunt in North America and I got it wrong? Still a great trophy for a young girl, or old guy, or anyone. |
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93mouse, Nice pictures! I especially like the one with the pooch, gun and mallards. Looks like you had a very nice day. Mark |
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Thanks guys. Sville it is a coypu (nutria). Hunt took place on a marsh grounds on the south of Ljubljana - situation is identical as in Louisinana: http://nutria.com/site.php |
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Quote:Quote: Thanks You all, very nice pictures, especially grouses, dogs, and this weird nutria. Regards to the bear, it seems too big for a European bear. One of my partner shot in Romania a tremendous big bear but not that big and of darker colour. Regards to the garbs of the girl, not really what we're wearing in Europe. Regards to the rifle, not at all our style. Our barrels are always blued and synthetic butts aren't fashion...........let alone the scope.It's a picture from America. |
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larcher, What was the count? It looks like you had a good hunt. gryphon, Looks like you had a good haul as well, was the meat as good as it looks? Waidmannsheil to you both! Mark |
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It will be a skull mount..logistics precluded me from doing anything other. BTW freight between here and Sweden is horrendously priced,I sent a hunting knife that was $60 freight and I sent a medium sized book that was $40 ..what? forty bucks for just a fkn book? The antlers/skull due to the box size? Well thats gonna be fkn bad. |
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Jesus Banana (expression from Stephen King book dreamcatcher ) That's a tremendous bull John. A pity I wasn't there when you got it. for my pictures, it was sort of a nightmare. During our last beat hunt week end, we badly needed that the red deer minimum be shot. Instead, 103 wild boars and 23 roe deer but no red deer. We sold the game but the truck that came had no hydraulic tailgate. We asked a farmer to help with a forklift. One is always pleased with a large bag, but then it was too much, a pain to store all of this game, a pita to sell the whole lot. |
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Jesus Banana (expression from Stephen King book dreamcatcher ) Ha ha I sort of thought along those lines too when I first found him in the forest. |
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John, The one I saw was similar size. First time I ever got 'buck fever', but not in not being able to take the shot, but in trying to count the number of points or tynes. Couldn't count. Calmed down and counted at least five on one side, but couldn't see the other side. So waited. He put his head down to feed. How easy a shot would that have been !!!!!!!!!!!!! Lifted it, I saw the other side was good enough, he took a step and was gone ..... fffffffffff!!!!!! Ha ha. Think I got to see him last year though when Ule/Ole shot him. Best every head taken in that forest per the others. I know the cost of sending stuff to and from Sweden and Norway, mate! Sending stuff from Denmark was half the price on my first trip several years ago. |
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http://www.thesealsofnam.org/seal-hunts/sweden/ Sweden's licensed seal hunt began Wednesday with a record-high number allowed to be shot. Published onsdag 16 april kl 15:37 Share 400 gray and harbour seals can be culled up until the end of 2014, which is a record number since the licensed hunt began in 2001. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has also extended the coastal areas where seals can be shot and fishermen themselves can take part from their boats if they aquire the appropriate license. The agency is acting on behalf of the Swedish fishing industry, which says the voracious seals devour fish caught in their nets as well as damage equipment. Glenn Fridh, a 50-year-old fisherman in Blekinge, where seals can be shot for the first time this year, tells Radio Sweden that he has been forced to move into shallower coastal waters to avoid the seals, but they are even appearing there. "For the past year, the seals have been coming between the islands, really close to the coast, so I don't know what is going to happen in the future," says Fridh. Hunters have fallen short of reaching quota numbers in the past, but Fridh says it is not easy to shoot a seal. "They are a big problem because when you are out at sea, the wind makes the sea go up and down so you never see the seals. You just see later that they have been there with pieces of fish left in the nets," Fridh tells Radio Sweden. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?artikel=5839412 |
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"Stray bison which charmed rural village in Poland shot dead by local farmers who feared it was seducing all of their cows A stray bison which charmed a village of Poles has been shot dead by local farmers who feared the animal was seducing all of their cows. The animal, nicknamed Bartek the Bison, first appeared in Lakiele in autumn and quickly became a staple of village life. But after spending time grazing with cattle herds, the bison attracted the attention of the village's cows. To the horror of local farmers, the livestock stopped returning to their barns to be milked at night instead staying in the field with Bartek. After calling a village meeting, the farmers agreed the animal should be killed despite protests from other residents. The town's mayor, Jan Zaborowski, said the animal was causing no harm to the majority of the village. 'Despite his great size he was very gentle and was even given the name Bartek. We have no idea where he came from or how he got there, but he didn’t do any harm. 'He interested the locals and so he was fed and nobody bothered him. As a result although he was nervous at the start he began to spend more time in the local pastures than in the forest. The animals stopped returning to their barns at night to be milked, instead staying out to graze with Bartek 'At night the cows would stay with him rather than in their barn. I guess he was building himself a family and a herd of his own which is perfectly natural. 'But that didn’t impress the owners of the cows who were used to them coming home in the evening to be milked. All of a sudden they were staying out with the bison instead.'" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ucing-cows.html |
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London, Downing Street... it seems they have a problem with the fox there http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wi...ting-foxes.html " London council issues advice on shooting foxes Wandsworth Council tells residents if a 'vixen is shot during breeding season, the den has to be traced and the whole family of cubs humanely killed' Wandsworth Council says that starving foxes is the best way to get rid of the pest Photo: GETTY By Tristan Kirk 8:29PM GMT 16 Nov 2014 Comments213 Comments A London council has offered advice to its residents on shooting foxes in a bid to rid themselves of the urban pest. Wandsworth Council has issued guidelines on fox control which include baited traps, snaring, shooting, and starving the animals. The Conservative-run authority insists it is not advocating any method, but merely offering advice for residents who have a fox problem. “Shooting is not usually appropriate in urban areas, but where it is carried out, care must be taken to ensure the safety of the public and other wildlife,” the council states. “If a vixen is shot during breeding season, the den has to be traced and the whole family of cubs humanely killed.” It suggests starving the foxes is the “most humane and natural way” to kill them, and advises residents not to leave food, meat, and household waste lying about. The council warns that poisoning foxes is illegal, as other pets and other animals could be at risk, but snaring is acceptable provided the traps are visited at least once a day. The advice adds: “Baited cage traps can be used successfully in urban areas but captured foxes have to be humanely killed by shooting or by a vet.” While making clear the council “does not deal with foxes”, it has said the methods suggested are legal and acceptable for Wandsworth residents. The guidelines, first published two years ago, have been re-issued by the south London council in response to a Facebook campaign for new wheelie bins. One resident, from Tooting, has complained that foxes are ripping through the bin bags left out for collection, leaving rubbish strewn across the streets. In response, the council has urged residents to buy their own bins to “limit food supply” to the foxes, and only put out bin bags on the day of collection. Fox hunting was banned as a sport in 2004 by the then-Labour government, but last year Mayor of London Boris Johnson called for a crackdown on the pests after a spate of attacks. " |
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he is a hunter: "White-beaked dolphins trapped in the ice and eaten by polar bears Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on sea ice, where they hunt ice-associated seals. However, they are opportunistic predators and scavengers with a long list of known prey species. Here we report from a small fjord in Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, a sighting of an adult male polar bear preying on two white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) on 23 April 2014. This is the first record of this species as polar bear prey. White-beaked dolphins are frequent visitors to Svalbard waters in summer, but have not previously been reported this far north in early spring. We suggest they were trapped in the ice after strong northerly winds the days before, and possibly killed when forced to surface for air at a small opening in the ice. The bear had consumed most parts of one dolphin. When observed he was in the process of covering the mostly intact second dolphin with snow. Such caching behaviour is generally considered untypical of polar bears. During the following ice-free summer and autumn, at least seven different white-beaked dolphin carcasses were observed in or near the same area. We suggest, based on the area and the degree to which these dolphins had decayed, that they were likely from the same pod and also suffered death due to entrapment in the ice in April. At least six different polar bears were seen scavenging on the carcasses." http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/26612 |
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Quote: Black fallow. Fallow come in a variety of colours. Oursin SA which I hunt are the menil or prettiest colouring of the white dots and a reddish/russet colour, similar to a chital deer. Then you get the blacks, browns, and whites. Another colouring as well I forget ??? We were trying to shoot out the other colours, mostly browns, which had got into the local herd to keep it pure menil. Some hunters aim for a grandslam of a trophy example of each colour. |
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http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature..._north_iceland/ "Nature and Travel | Iceland Monitor | Sun 17 Jul 2016 | 9.45 GMT Polar bear shot and killed in North Iceland Photo: Iceland Monitor/Björn Jóhann An adolescent female polar bear which had found its way to North Iceland and got within 500 metres of an inhabited farm was shot and killed late last night. Locals spotted the animal around 10pm and informed police. As dictated by official Icelandic procedures for such cases, a marksman was dispatched to gun down the polar bear. The bear was spotted by Egill Bjarnason, who was riding his horse close to his home farm of Hvalnes, some 40km from the North Iceland town of Sauðárkrókur. People in nearby farms were informed of the sighting and advised to remain indoors while the operation to kill the animal was under way. One of the animal's canine teeth is broken, which suggests it was several years old. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Björn Jóhann Egill and his father Bjarni were joined by experienced marksman Jón Sigurjónsson, who delivered a fatal shot straight into the animal’s heart from an estimated distance of 130 metres, some two hours after the first sighting. The carcass was taken by tractor to the farm, where locals gathered to catch a glimpse of the dead polar bear. This is the third confirmed sighting of a polar bear in this part of Iceland, the previous two being in 2008. Sea currents are reportedly strong in this area and it is difficult to tell when the animal reached land. Egill Bjarnason (left), Bjarni Egilsson (centre) and Jón Sigurjónsson (right). Photo: Iceland Monitor/Björn Jóhann According to Egill, as soon as he saw the bear, he was in no doubt that it need to be killed immediately, given how close it was to the farm of Hvalnes where children had been playing. It was also important not to allow the bear to get back to the sea, where it would be difficult to locate it again. The carcass – that of a large adolescent female polar bear – will now be examined by staff from the Icelandic Institute of Natural History and the Environment Agency of Iceland. Locals say the bear will probably be stuffed and displayed in a museum." |
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Quote: ---- Interesting on how different cultures and parts of the world handle things. "Experienced Marksman" is curious to me---does this mean that in Iceland most or many do not have their own weapons and/or don't do much hunting? Is the "experienced marksman" paid by the government to take care of such occasions? Ripp |
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You're right Lancaster, only Vipera Aspis (http://vipera.fr/fiches-especes/vipere-aspic/) in my area but no Vipera Ader. Louis |
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Quote: I note they are protected in some countries, useful animals!!!!!! We get along fine here in my country without any snakes or other nasties that bite and or are poisonous. Nice to be able to walk, sit, crawl and put your hands anywhere you like in our bush without worrying about something latching on and potentially killing you. The only snake I would have time for is a very dead one, even then better off not seeing any alive or dead. |
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last day of june roebuck season starting very complicated here this year, very dry and sometimes extreme hot so roe was sometimes realy invisible, this combined with lots of work and having no time. today I visit a good place first time for the last month, being there 8.30 pm ,at 8.55 a good buck came out of the wood and 2 minutes later got the 7x57R Brennecke TIG bullet from my drilling there where not even midges, like holiday |
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Waidmannsheil Lancaster. In Romania I "broiled". Not hot by Australian standards but also humid. Temps around 30 deg C. Rained most evenings or afternoons. Saw one fine roebuck from a train and another roe from a car. Took some photos of that one. Maybe two others from a train. Well done on your roebuck. |
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Waidmannsdank I heard it also from a friend in denmark, the unusual dry and hot summer in norther europe make the roe nocturnal. it was the very first buck I see since the season started, so surprised he realy came out in my direction don't know if I had to shoot but it was "my" buck. the hole situation had something unreal! |
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Thanks guys. Yes it was taken in Slovenia by a client that I guided. It is one of 19 we got in 2 weeks rut time a week ago. It was a tricky stalk with last 50m belly crawling, shot at 280m with .300 Win. |
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Thank you 93Mouse; 19 beasts harvested in a two-week time, you are on a mission to eradicate red stags from the Slovenian hills! Louis |
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Louis still 6 to go - full quota is 25 - all within numbers set by Ministry of environment (that are set at least 1/3rd too high to be sustainable IMO)...still the hard works beginns now the clients are gone - we (PH and 4 deputies) must cull 220 females and calves till the end of the year...with 40 lost during the winter that means at least 180. Anyway it is a great area full of reds (for the time being) - here is a pic after one of the morning hunts. |
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93: Great posts! One of the great things about this site is the exposure to how things are done to manage game in various parts of the world, hunting regulations, etc. Yours are always interesting and informative. That's a fine looking dog!! What breed? I have been absent from the site for a long time but I need to give you a special thanks for helping me some years ago with my proposal to legalize blood tracking dogs in Idaho. It took about 2 years to get cleared and passed, but that proposal was approved and it has been legal to use a blood tracker since then! With a little help from googletranslate, "Najlepša hvala!!" |
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Bayrischer Gebirgsschweißhund Bavarian Mountain Hound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Mountain_Hound "The Germans were really meticulous in order not to lose any prey and developed a technique for which they bred resistant dogs with a great sense of smell, a strong bone structure, dropping ears and a steady temperament. These dogs were medium-sized and reliable. The Bavarian Mountain Dog was developed in the 19th century by crossbreeding specimens of the Hannoversche Schweißhund breed and hunting dogs from the Alps. The result was a hunting dog ideal for the work in the mountains. In 1912, the "Klub für Bayrische Gebirgsschweißhunde", (Club for Bavarian Mountain hound), was founded in Munich. Afterwards, this breed started gaining popularity in Austria and Hungary" common today all over the alps this dog is a descendant of the Hanover Hound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover_Hound the Hanoverscher Schweißhund - "Schweiß" is the blood of game in german hunters language so Schweißhund is a bloodhound and Gebirgsschweißhund is a Mountain bloodhound the Hanover hound is a descendant of the St. Hubert hound: "The St. Hubert hound was, according to legend, first bred ca. 1000 AD by monks at the Saint-Hubert Monastery in Belgium; its likely origins are in France, home of many of modern hounds. It is held to be the ancestor of several other breeds, like the extinct Norman hound, and Saintongeois, and the modern Grand Bleu de Gascogne, Gascon Saintongeois, Ariegeois and Artois Normande, as well as the bloodhound. It has been suggested that it was a dog of mixed breeding, not at all uniform in type.[7] Whether they originated there, or what their ancestry was, is uncertain, but from ca. 1200, the monks of the Abbey of St Hubert annually sent several pairs of black hounds as a gift to the King of France. They were not always highly thought of in the royal pack. Charles IX 1550-74, preferred his white hounds and the larger Chiens-gris, and wrote that the St Huberts were suitable for people with gout to follow, but not for those who wished to shorten the life of the hunted animal. He described them as pack-hounds of medium stature, long in the body, not well sprung in the rib, and of no great strength.[8] Writing in 1561 Jaques du Fouilloux describes them as strong of body, but with low, short legs. He says they have become mixed in breeding, so that they are now of all colours and widely distributed.[9] Charles described the 'true race' of the St Hubert as black, with red/tawny marks above the eyes and legs usually of the same colour, suggesting a 'blanket' black and tan (see Section on Colour types above). To De Fouilloux the 'pure black' were the best of this mixed breed. Both writers thought them only useful as leash hounds. They both refer to a white hound, also a St Hubert, which by their time had disappeared, having been interbred with another white hound, the greffier, to produce the king's preferred pack hound, sometimes called the chien blanc du roi. They appear to have been more highly thought of during the reign of Henry IV (1553–1610), who presented a pack to James I of England. By the end of the reign of Louis XIV (1715), they were already rare.[10][11] In 1788, D'Yauville, who was master of the Royal hounds, says those sent by the St Hubert monks, once much prized, had degenerated, and scarcely one of the annual gift of six or eight was kept.[12] Upon the French Revolution of 1789, the gifts ceased, and hunting in France went into a decline until the end of the Napoleonic wars. When it recovered during the 19th Century, huntsmen, with many breeds to choose from, seem to have had little interest in the St Hubert. An exception was Baron Le Couteulx de Canteleu, who tried to find them. He reported that there were hardly any in France, and those in the Ardennes were so cross-bred that they had lost the characteristics of the breed.[11][13] Writers on the bloodhound in the last two centuries generally agreed that the original St Hubert strain died out in the nineteenth century, and that the European St Hubert owes its present existence to the development of the Bloodhound." those St. Hubertus hounds were given not only to france by monks but all over europe and they are the grandfathers of the Hanover hound but this dog today is the result of only breeding the best of the best over centurys. "Bloodhound References to bloodhounds first appear in English writing in the early to mid 14th century, in contexts that suggest the breed was well established by then.[16][17][18] It is often claimed that its ancestors were brought over from Normandy by William the Conqueror, but there is no actual evidence for this.[citation needed] That the Normans brought hounds from Europe during the post-Conquest period is virtually certain, but whether they included the Bloodhound itself, rather than merely its ancestors, is a matter of dispute that probably cannot be resolved on the basis of surviving evidence. In Medieval hunting the typical use of the Bloodhound was as a 'limer', or 'lyam-hound', that is a dog handled on a leash or 'lyam', to find the hart or boar before it was hunted by the pack hounds (raches).[19] It was prized for its ability to hunt the cold scent of an individual animal, and, though it did not usually take part in the kill, it was given a special reward from the carcass.[20] It also seems that from the earliest times the Bloodhound was used to track people. There are stories written in Medieval Scotland of Robert the Bruce (in 1307), and William Wallace (1270–1305) being followed by 'sleuth hounds'.[21][22] Whether true or not, these stories show that the sleuth hound was already known as a man-trailer, and it later becomes clear that the sleuth hound and the Bloodhound were the same animal. In the 16th century, John Caius,[23] in the most important single source in the history of the Bloodhound, describes its hanging ears and lips, its use in game parks to follow the scent of blood, which gives it its name, its ability to track thieves and poachers by their foot scent, how it casts if it has lost the scent when thieves cross water, and its use on the Scottish borders to track cross-border raiders, known as Border Reivers. This links it to the sleuth hound,[24] and from Caius also comes the information that the English Bloodhound and the sleuth hound were essentially the same, though the Bloodhound was slightly bigger, with more variation in coat colour.[25] The adjacent picture was published in Zurich in 1563, in Conrad Gesner's Thierbuch (a compendium of animals) with the captions: 'Englischen Blüthund' and 'Canis Sagax Sanguinarius apud Anglos' (English scent hound with associations of blood). It was drawn by, or under the supervision of, John Caius, and sent to Gesner with other drawings to illustrate his descriptions of British dogs for European readers. It is thus the earliest known picture published specifically to demonstrate the appearance of the Bloodhound. We are told it was done from life,[25] and detail such as the soft hang of the ear indicates it was carefully observed. Fully accurate or not, it suggests changes between the Bloodhound of then and today. The collar and long coiled rope reflect the Bloodhound's typical functions as a limer or leashed man-trailer in that period. The earliest known report of a trial of the Bloodhound's trailing abilities comes from the scientist Robert Boyle,[26] who described how a Bloodhound tracked a man seven miles along a route frequented by people, and found him in an upstairs room of a house.[27] With the rise of fox-hunting, the decline of deer-hunting, and the extinction of the wild boar, as well as a more settled state of society, the use of the Bloodhound diminished. It was kept by the aristocratic owners of a few deer-parks[27] and by a few enthusiasts,[11] with some variation in type, until its popularity began to increase again with the rise of dog-showing in the 19th Century.[10] Numbers, however, have remained low in Britain. Very few survived the Second World War, but the gene-pool has gradually been replenished with imports from America. Nevertheless, because of UK quarantine restrictions, importing was expensive and difficult, throughout the 20th century, and in the post-war period exports to the USA, and to Europe where the population had also been affected by the war, considerably exceeded imports.[28] During the later 19th century numbers of Bloodhounds were imported from Britain by French enthusiasts, who regretted the extinction of the ancient St Hubert. They wished to re-establish it, using the Bloodhound, which, despite its developments in Britain, they regarded as the St Hubert preserved unchanged. Many of the finest specimens were bought and exhibited and bred in France as Chiens de S. Hubert, especially by Le Couteulx de Canteleu, who himself bred over 300. Whatever few original St Huberts remained either died out or were absorbed into the new population.[11][13] As a result, the Bloodhound became known on parts of the Continent as the Chien de Saint-Hubert. In the mid 20th century the Brussels-based FCI accepted the claim of Belgium to be the country of origin. There are now annual celebrations in the town of Saint-Hubert, in which handlers in period dress parade their hounds. In Britain the bloodhound has continued to be seen as a native breed, with European St Huberts being accepted by the UK KC as bloodhounds.[29] In Le Couteulx' book of 1890 we read that 'Le Chien de St Hubert actuel' is very big, from 0m,69 to 0m,80 (27½-31½in) high.[10] This does not accord with the 16th century descriptions of the St Hubert given above, nor with the FCI standard, but the idea that the St Hubert is much bigger (up to 0.915m, 36 in) than the Bloodhound persisted well into the 20th century, among some St Hubert enthusiasts.[30] When the first Bloodhounds were exported to the USA is not known. Bloodhounds were used to track runaway slaves before the American Civil War, but it has been questioned whether the dogs used were genuine Bloodhounds. However, in the later part of the 19th century, and in the next, more pure Bloodhounds were introduced from Britain, and bred in America, especially after 1888, when the English breeder, Edwin Brough, brought three of his hounds to exhibit at the Westminster KC show in New York City. He went into partnership with Mr J L Winchell, who with other Americans, imported more stock from Britain.[15] Bloodhounds in America have been more widely used in tracking lost people and criminals - often with brilliant success - than in Britain, and the history of the Bloodhound in America is full of the man-trailing exploits of outstanding Bloodhounds and their expert handlers, the most famous hound being Nick Carter.[15][31] Law enforcement agencies have been much involved in the use of Bloodhounds, and there is a National Police Bloodhound Association, originating in 1962.[32] In Britain there have been instances from time to time of the successful use of the Bloodhound to track criminals or missing people. However man-trailing is enjoyed as a sport by British Bloodhound owners, through national working trials, and this enthusiasm has spread to Europe. In addition, while the pure Bloodhound is used to hunt singly, bloodhound packs use bloodhounds crossed with foxhounds to hunt the human scent. Meanwhile, the Bloodhound has become widely distributed internationally, though numbers are small in most countries, with more in the USA than anywhere else. Following the spread of the Bloodhound from Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, imports and exports and, increasingly, artificial insemination, are maintaining the world population as a common breeding stock, without a great deal of divergence in type in different countries.[1] During the late 19th century, Bloodhounds were frequent subjects for artists such as Edwin Landseer[33] and Briton Riviere; the dogs depicted are close in appearance to modern Bloodhounds, indicating that the essential character of the Bloodhound predates modern dog breeding. However, the dogs depicted by Landseer show less wrinkle and haw than modern dogs.[15] Origin issues Throughout most of its history the bloodhound was seen as a dog of English or Anglo-Scottish origin, either of unknown ancestry,[23][34][35][36] or, more recently, as developed in part from the St. Hubert.[13][14][31][37][38] It was only in the 19th century that it was claimed, primarily by Le Couteulx, to be the St Hubert itself.[10] Medieval hunting pictures show raches and limers, of the general sagax type, with hanging ears and lips, but not having the specific characteristics of the bloodhound. 16th century descriptions of the St Hubert as short-legged, and only medium-sized[8][9][39] have led to speculation that the main European antecedent of the bloodhound was rather the Norman hound, which was very large, than the St Hubert.[12] Others such as the sleuth-hound, the Talbot, the dun-hound[14] and the southern hound, as well as pack hounds, have also been supposed to have contributed to its make-up. Some writers doubt whether anything certain can be said about specific breed ancestry beyond the last few centuries.[3][31][38] The picture given by Le Couteulx and D'Yauville of the St Hubert was that it changed considerably through mixed breeding, and perhaps degenerated, before its disappearance,[10][12] while the bloodhound which replaced it, preserved its original character. However, it is apparent from 16th century pictures that the bloodhound itself has changed considerably.[20][35] The modern St Hubert is the English bloodhound, in descent and type. Generally, national and regional variants of hounds, terriers, spaniels etc. have been recognised as separate breeds, France in particular having many regional breeds of hound;[7][12] the bloodhound's identification as the St Hubert makes it an anomaly in this respect. Whether the bloodhound is British or Belgian in origin is ultimately not something one can prove historically, depending as it does on whether one chooses to regard two related animals differing in tradition, and history, and somewhat in type, as separate breeds, or variants of the same one. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodhound |
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Thanks Ripp - it was indeed. Hey 57 - long time no see, but what a way to be back with magnificient news - congratulations - I am glad it worked out! Must tell you we have an wolf population explosion here and all attempts to get a shootable quota are blocked... The dog is Bayrischer Gebirgsschweißhund or BGS in short as Lancaster pointed out. Bitch belongs to a friend of mine that is a PH and on driven hunts too occupied to lead it, so I take her out instead of him and we are clicking together just fine - the pic above was taken after succesful tracking of wounded red deer hind for 12 km, through wolf and bear infested rugged hilly country - incredible job, hard to believe untill you see it in person. It is a unique feeling to follow experienced dog (for days if it takes) without a single doubt that it is spot on trail... Sadly they don't last - as some older members remember my old one - she passed away peacefully on Oct. 23rd 2016. On Tuesday she refused to eat on Friday she declined water on Sunday she was gone...Here is a pic of her, 2 days before going to the happy hunting ground. She was 16 years old and had a great hunting life. |
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93: Thanks for that. Very good stuff. And thanks to lancaster for the info on the dogs! Sorry to hear about your old one. But she had quite the life of 16 years! Regarding your wolf population. You WILL see precipitous declines in game if you guys don't control them. The problem is, there is no way TO control that doesn't involve toxicants/poison I bet they won't let you use that. So your future is fewer head of game to hunt. Now, if you have few hunters and an abundance of game, then you may be OK. Here we have lots of hunters and in addition to wolves; coyotes, bear, bobcat and mountain lion that all kill a large amount of game either as fawns/calves or as adults. Our entire system of hunting has been turned upside down by wolves. By the way, is that a Blaser there with the dog? What caliber/scope? |
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Quote: I've read those are good bullets but have no experience with them. I actually like the cheap Prvi Partizan 285 grain RN's. They are "soft" and work well for our deer and bear and elk. I've used them in both x57 and x62 9.3's. |
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was waiting over bait, in the morning short before the first light only the man in the moon give a little bit, just enough to see there was a movement, a shadow. he was wandering around the bait just like a fox maybe 15 meter away. dont expect a badger because this is a fox hotspot and we try to get as many as possible only to help the poor hares and pheasants who have it hard to make a living today in an agriculture that dont care for their needs. nobody hunt hare and pheasant here anymore. you never see a badger here in day light. he love the moon and is only on his feets when the sun is going down and before she comes back . if you have a classic drilling you love it, you can believe me |
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Hi Louis, yes the very same - it is a pure pleasure to work with, as long as your stamina is up to. She can track for tens of kms without mistake - tha calf on the pic was a second tracked down on Saturday (hit in the front leg) the first one was hit in the hind leg...all in all I made 14km that day. Still time is running fast and we are already adding a new recruit - his name is Ben and with all the hunting and shooting we do here will be up to task in no time. |
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Quote: Only just looked at this thread, some great stuff on here, but the Vulture was a surprise to me, heck if we shot one in Africa we would be in Deep shit, found a dead one once & was hoping to get the skull for my collection, my buddy said no way to take it or even touch it, darn ! Thank you for posting ! |
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Some live action - Coup de Grace on wounded red hind after 5km trail. Hind was wounded in its front leg and it was the third that day that I tracked down. Young companion that did the recording with his cell phone was rather impatient and later shaken upon the shot tho . https://youtu.be/-LK5KVz_S7Y If some of you wonder - no I did not shoot the dog - here is the extraction - the beginning. It took us 3 hrs to get it to the road. Broken (shot) front right leg can be seen on the pic. |
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there was a good joke lately there is nothing so devastating like a divorce except 8x68S RWS H.Mantel bullet on fox was making crop petection, actually a lot of hunting here is in fact crop protection maize was sowed and wild boars were there they working very exact to find it while having duty for crop protection the boars dont come but fox running from left to right at 10.30 pm - last light one week after st. johns day. there are two groups, one dont shoot if its only a fox because something bigger could come and then is another group shoot any fox they see. I belong to the last. got a very nobel shoot at 50 meter running with 7x57R and Brennecke TIG bullet in the evenfall. maybe not the best shoot in history but I am happy to get him area have a lot of wind turbines, dont like them but they have also something good: you allways see the wind direction and there is allways some rattle and game forgive you an unexpected noise because of this common noise level at 11 pm the wolf came over hope to get him on the pic but only the glowing eye is seen because of the flash. you may think anything is over then but 30 minutes later fallow deer came out of the forest |
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Waidmannsheil! Always a worry when they run off out of sight! But it did not go far. Looking at all your excellent photos, gets my lungs,c hest and heart pumping in sympathy! Thanks for posting all those photos, makes the post so much more enjoyable to "live" some of the hunt through your camera lens. I love the alphutte! I want one of these for my bush block. I must post some photos from Romania/Transylvania of little huts they have there of two stories. I would love to build an Aussie simplified version of them. Thanks for posting And a nice trophy and some chamois/gams venison to take home. Chamois has always been a species I would like to hunt. My fitness was once excellent, but now needs a huge improvement before it would be possible. Even with a Kiwi hunt of a chopper dropping one off up at the top and a mountainhunt or camp to stay in. One day .... maybe ...... |
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Quote: A wolf? Wow. Where roughly is this in Europe where there are wolves? I know there ware some in France. Some re-released in Sweden and Norway. I think on the mountain about Florence in Italy the gamekeepers told me there was the occasional lupo still. So I guess there are still some about. And a chance encounter. |
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the guy that shoots any fox in sight will take whats there. if he had a 500 NE in his hands he would shoot the fox with this rifle - well, actually wolf country starts now 100 meter from my own house this map is made 3.12.2019, 10km by 10km raster green field - he is there green field with black dot - he reproduce there a friend film this one here with his mobile phone some times ago in broad daylight |
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the hut was build together then disassembled and fly on the mountain with a helicoter and build together again one minute with the helicopter cost 250 euro so you prepare everything perfect. the hut had electric light by a solar panel and a car battery and constant water that was spring fed above of the hut. very luxury my guide was a passionate smoker so I was able to follow him. the other guy who is some years younger climb the way we make in 1,5 hours in 20 minutes. |
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Congratulations on your chamois hunt, Lancaster, harvesting a 13-year-old one, quite an old age for this game, is a great achievement, and thank you for the photos and report. I hope you have now been infected by the mountain hunting virus and will therefore be able to share such reports with us on a regular basis! Louis |
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So many wolves in Germany. And thanks for the comments on the hut. Luxury indeed, especially the mountain spring water. I dream of such water. Thanks for the replies and original posted story and photos. Places to dream about. |
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only a pic, more when having time |
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That looks just a bit larger flash than my .458 loaded with a compressed load of H335. It's muzzle flash was only 3'in diameter about that long as well. |
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Not thoroughly convinced that firing Panzerfausts is legal in today's Germany? Louis |
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we had a goose hunt yesterday in the evening,30 hunter at all positioned around a favoured sleeping place. the birds came very late in the evening and the Hebeschuß - lifting shoot by the hunting chief that openend the hunt was more an act of despair to start it while there was some light. the usual confusion broke loose with goose flying in every direction but there was only one real chance when two were flying in the direction of my neighbor 25 meter away, a young man who got his licence only last month. iirc, this was his first game taken when he got one with a new but used beretta 12 ga he just had for some days now. the other goose flying over him, I had a tree between. when free I let loose the magnificent 4 ga. pinfire gun. another neighbore behind me was able to make a not bad pic with the mobil phone in this moment. recoil and noise is tolerable also when I bend the body to left side as possible. look on the position of my feets. don#t get the goose, was probably behind her and she flown away from me in a sharp angle. anyway it was nice to have the 4 ga. pinfire out for hunting again. http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=327948&an=0&page=1#Post327948 10 minutes after the first shoot we were in complete darkness and I forget the headlamp at home. some cowpot on the way and I was successful to find one but who cares with gumboots. the area before the little tree right side was my position, the goose fly then behind the birch and when passing I try to shoot, the other hunter was where you seeing sit the wirehaired the gun itself is to heavy for holding it all the time so you better looking fort a rest |
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Glad you got out with "her". Better luck next time. My rifle's flash not quite as brilliant, though. |
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probably the only gun making a muzzle flash like a battleship its interesting how many black powder grains leave the muzzle still burning |
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Shame you never got to put a goose in the pot mate, hopefully next time. Still it seems that you had a great time just getting out & about with that lovely old lady of yours. |
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Quote: I think perhaps it is burning/expanding hot gasses most likely, which is why a longer barrel produces greater speeds. Your 4 bore will burn all of the powder that can be loaded into it's case, inside very few inches of barrel length - even up to 16 drams in a 4 bore CF ctg. gun. If it didn't burn and produce gasses, then the velocity would be reduced from the load that did burn, wouldn't it? Black powder is all burned/ignited in a short distance from the point of ignition however the gasses produced just keep expanding. This is why there is a peak in pressure very close to the breech, as witnessed by the pressure curve graphs. Note, that 57% of BP charge is solid waste AFTER it is burned. It is very hot & glowing as it exits the muzzle, along with the smoke. |
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had the bigest racoon of all times today in the trap notice the size of the drilling |
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THAT is a big fat coon. |
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Quote: What do you do with them? Eat them? Skin them? Pests? |
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do not eat them, being not from kentucky( don't know if they realy do it there) no, see them only as pest. as an invasive species they have a similar negativ impact on the local fauna like maybe feral cats in australia. some try to use the fur but I don't like them at all. will be used for dog training some days than feet the ravens and the crows. |
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Really big and impressive one Lancaster; sincere congratulations! Would convert well into a Daniel Boone-type fur hat. Louis |
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wait some times louis and he will reach southern france too. the speed this animal had expand his biosphere in the last 20 years is astonishing. here is a map of germany showing raccons hunted between 2000 and 2003: you see two red center, one in the middle and one in the north-east. the point in the middle of the country goes back to four animals released in 1934 by a forester for having another kind of fur bearing animal. the animal population in the north - east startet with a bomb attack in WW 2 hiting a fur farm. for decades this were local events and the animals hardly were seen outside of this area's but after 2000 this realy explode and I believe they have overrun the borders now in every direction. some times they meet a fellow guy the first time who expand his territory in a similar way from the east: the asian raccon dog. this guy was set out in ukraine in the 1930s and reach now luxemburg and switzerland in the west. both animals are declared as invasive species and thanks to the greens fur is completly worthless now. this shows the number of animals hunted per year since 2000 black = racoon blue = asian racoon dog you can see the strange "explosion" there are hunters who take 70 and more a year but this depends on the area (the german hunting year goes from april 1 to march 31 of the next year) |
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They are quite smart & their paws are VERY dexterous for opening gates, and boxes, latches. Dog food, cat food, they like it all. |
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"both animals are declared as invasive species and thanks to the greens fur is completly worthless now." We had a huge market going to Europe for wild pig meat Lancaster, then the greens stepped in & it was shut down - win win for a bloody pest. We all know who the real pest is....the bloody Greens! |
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Quote: I know they are smart in some ways but very stupid runing into the next trap if they see something to eat there. thanks god, if they were smart like a fox it would be harder. |
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Quote:Quote: I don't know about the trapping business, but the getting into things and figuring what that's all about was what I was referring to. |
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I understand you very well, they are very skillful when they are hungry and they help also each other. I had 3 cases when a racoon was liberated out of the trap by the help of his comrades who working on the trapdoor from outside until the other was able to open from inside. This ended when I perfect the traps, btw. "Names for the species include the common raccoon,[6] North American raccoon,[7] and northern raccoon,[8] The word "raccoon" was adopted into English from the native Powhatan term meaning “animal that scratches with its hands”, as used in the Colony of Virginia. Its Latin name means “before-dog washer".[9] It was recorded on John Smith's list of Powhatan words as aroughcun, and on that of William Strachey as arathkone.[10] It has also been identified as a reflex of a Proto-Algonquian root ahrah-koon-em, meaning "[the] one who rubs, scrubs and scratches with its hands".[11] The word is sometimes spelled as racoon." I only mean he is thinking most times with his stomach and if there is something to eat he goes into the trap like the members of his family the days before. In an open standing trap a fox would not go closer than 10 meter. |
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Why not ! Ibex obviously living in an area where it is fully protected. Louis |
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Funny one. Excellent photo. |
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Lancaster, Nice picture. That is one way to stay warm on a cold day. |
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when learning shooting for life was quite normal |
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Every lad should have a air rifle, rimfire or .410 shotgun to start with. I still have mine. And no bloody scope. Kids can learn open sights first. |
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I was hunting squirrels, birds, grouse (shotgun) open sighted air rifle for 3 years, then a .22 LR for squirrels & ground hogs for another 5 years before getting my first scope. |
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Top two holding SxS shotguns. Is that a Euro method? Certainly isn't the way I hold one, or the way the Brits taught. With splinter forends, I grip the tubes, usually at the end of the forend. |
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It's a painting Daryl. Probably the artist's impression. Nice painting anyway. |
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Is this a Russian railway advertisement? Or humour of some sort. Hunters dogs and guns on the train. |
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Nice painting of a gnarly old hunter. |
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Baron Münchhausen telling his storys |