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Let me share some more light on the place and a "typical" hunting day - latest season cull type hunt.

Place is called Belje and it sits on the border of the National Park called "Kopacki rit" - Kings hunted There - see more:

http://www.kopacki-rit.com/indexen.html

The most important fact is that there is no usual "civilized" press on the game. Place is isolated from all but foresters and hunters that are alowed to enter those premices. So game is very relaxed and you can see their usual day pattern - quite opposite than in most populated areas in EU.

Day would start by sitting on high seat as on pic

sometimes in the wooded terrain with view like this

waiting for boars that would be returning from night feeding toward their day rests.
You have to be quite sharp and fast, since boars would be passing those clearings without stopping - chalenging shooting stuff...you pass many before you manage to squeeze one in.

After 8 a.m. or so pigs would be already in their daytime dwellings and guides know those places alright. So you would be stalking those favourite spots (bases of huge old trees, thickets, remains of fallen old trees...). Ofcourse boars bedded down, out of sight, do spot you sooner or later - well before you spot them - and take off. You do your best and try to ceonnect with a shot - many times through some thick stuff, sometimes they pass the clearing however usually over 150-200m - trotting - tricky...On occasions one of the lot isn't aware quite what is going on and hesitates for a moment...consider it a gift!

This goes on till noon, when you retrieve to mansion and take lunch and a short nap till 1.30 p.m. when guide picks you up and you start your afternoon hunt by stalking toward feeders, that have been filled by your lunch time and boars are usually already on their feet, plowing around - chances are quite good you will stumble upon a lot and gave them some fire.

In any case, you would than proceed to the high seat and await dark. If boars would appear 1 hour before dark you would have a good chance for another herd to come in - taking two from one seating is nothing to write home about - no need to seat in the night, unless you are after trophy male boar. Now those are willy old birds - I have whitnessed many times them coming close to feeders and stand in some thick stuff totaly still for 1 hour or even more. They would come out only if everything is spotless, very late, many times in pitch dark. Here is one (as much as you can see of it)

Have bumped a couple of them by stalking - fair chance and great sport - if you are quick enough and have a thick wallet

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Anyway it happend so we have wounded a piglet and a friend that was with us employed his Bavarian Tracking Dog. Piglet shot in the guts with 7x65R and RWS Evo bullet made 1 mile "U" shaped track when we bumped it. Guy let his dog loose and finished it off - good chance to see how those trackings end up - tight thick close quarter stuff .

GPS data of the track

And a final approach with a Coup de Grace - Enjoy - it doesn't get much better than this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtijV82jCY