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carpediem4570
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Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe
      #385050 - 01/06/24 10:44 AM

Good Evening:

I am writing from Alberta, Canada. I am very interested in going on a wild boar hunt to Europe. I am looking for recommendations from others.

I’ve looked at some ads on the www and am curious about pricing. Does the hunt include accommodation?

Are there trophy fees?

Any hidden costs?

Can I bring my own rifle?

My only caveat is I do not want to go to any country that supports the Russian state, ie Hungary, Serbia, etc.

Your input would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Max

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carpediem4570
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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: carpediem4570]
      #385163 - 07/06/24 08:29 AM

I am absolutely shocked. I would have thought there were a few people on here that could offer some insight. Or is this posted in the wrong place.

Kind regards,

Max

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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: carpediem4570]
      #385164 - 07/06/24 10:44 AM

I am surprised no one has chimed in, myself.

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NitroXAdministrator
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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: carpediem4570]
      #385165 - 07/06/24 11:11 AM

There are several members on here I'm sure would have some information. One person in particular. I'm not sure what the politics of his country is. I'm not sure why that is relevant?

NE members might take some days to drop in, and if they see this thread or not.

Euro hunters often hunt boar, not through an outfitter, but through their own hunting rights rented forests and lands. I've never hunted directly hunted European boar. But have been interested. Would be looking for an invitation to join acquaintances, friends in France, Germany if there at the right season. I have been invited to hunt in Bavaria, a couple of times. A French friend OWES me a hunt. I just need to be there at the right time!

Boar hunting is often done by attending drives. Groups of men and dogs, pushing boars towards lines of shooters. The hunters needing to be good running shots and also be able to identify the sex and maybe age ranges of the running boars. I'm a bit paranoid of shooting the wrong beast e.g. a breeding boar sow.

I have hunted boar from a hochsitz by being invited to join with the hotel owner to hunt with him for one night. During the Heym International Challenge, to which I was invited due to NitroExpress.com . We didn't see any boar, maybe one. Some foxes. Maybe a shot at a boar? I forget. We didn't get anything. Was interesting to see what was done and experiencing it. I remember Max (?) used night vision optics, had a camera mounted to aim through the scopes. The shot was taken aiming with the small TV screen mounted beside the scope. New stuff for me. His hochsitz was a large horse float. Two floors, the upper floor the hochsitz. Care needed to be taken as it was a bit noisy.

Another of our members attended shoots as a guest himself of a German Baron's big elaborate affairs. I met the Baron/Freiherr during a trip. S, our member had a small herd of wild boar himself in his Swedish forest.

I've hunted in Europe a half dozen times. I've Always borrowed a loan rifle or shotgun.

Sorry I can't assist really with a European outfitter or booking agent.

Good luck.

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Edited by NitroX (15/11/24 06:12 PM)

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93mouse
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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: NitroX]
      #385172 - 07/06/24 06:40 PM

At first - the ways that Boars are hunted here in EU - JFYK.

Single hunts

1. High seat hunting at the feeder and (or) at passages. Usually, the boars that are coming to the feeder are well known, on passages are random. Hunts are taking place in the late afternoons into the night and can last as long as you are able to sit it out (whole night is doable – however during winter months nights are bloody long...luckily usually pigs come earlier). For piglets and yearlings is all year round same for trophy tusker – however for tusker (in my parts) best time is late February early March, but you can get it later as well. Sows are protected from March till July in parts around here – depends on a country.

2. Stalking – usually during the night, or in good areas also during the day (spring-summer months), when nights are shorter and in the spring when grass is growing, they like to graze into the day – after rain time is also prime…Moonlighted nights are hard to beat scenery like however dead dark night with thermal optics is usually more productive.

3. Hunting with good “Boar-dog” – there are parts and dogs where/with those hunts are doable – you start with a dog guide and his dog that is let loose and it sooner or later finds a boar – many times a tusker – dog is equipped with GPS tracker and once the boar is stationary you approach and shoot it – can be physically demanding.

Driven hunts

It can be done either free range or high fenced. If free range your expectations should be adjusted – many come, some shoot.
High fenced – much better opportunity wise – also some high fenced areas are so huge that you won’t notice the fence – only when entering and exiting – it will cost more tho.

BUT- If you are coming alone you will have to join a group of not known hunters (sometimes locals) – those scenarios on occasions don’t play out as expected…be prepared.

Just some thoughts…

For Slovenia and Croatia you can contact my friend at - there is no Boar mentioned on his site but we hunt together in Croatia and have some good connections there:

http://www.slovenia-hunting.com/language/en/hello/

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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: 93mouse]
      #385174 - 07/06/24 11:05 PM

Thanks. I was thinking of you as one of the best to reply.

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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: NitroX]
      #385175 - 08/06/24 12:51 AM

As was I.
Good report 93mouse.
I was surprised by the night hunting as we have NONE here in B.C.
Discharge of a firearm between 1 hour after sunset and 1 hour before sunrise, is illegal.
With waterfowl, the timing is 1/2 hour after and before.

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85lc
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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: DarylS]
      #385179 - 09/06/24 02:16 AM

93Mouse, that is a great report.

Night hog hunting is fairly common in the US using thermal and night vision scopes, some having built in cameras.

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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: 85lc]
      #387626 - 09/11/24 04:42 AM

Hello Max,

late to the party, but I didn´t see the post before...

First:
there are some hunting providers in Germany who offer a range of options, but I do not have any experience with these, so beware!

- hunting during nighttime, which normally needs a hunting guide who assists in the selection of the right animal, and for example rejects the shot on a sow and releases only piglets or medium age pigs

- a driven boar hunt with more guests and during daytime (sometimes more like a social event), normaly from a stationary site like a hochsitz or driven-hunt sitz. There are safety and game release instructions given before the hunt.
There might be piglets and foxes free, but for trophy animals (like a 100kg boar) there will be most likely a fee, and hefty fees if you shoot the wrong (mother) animal before all youths are collected

In Germany you are able to bring your own rifle (import and on leaving, an export permit is necessary!), but you have to announce the hunt at the relevant authorities. You have to provide a clean criminal background, an official hunting invitation and maybe some paperwork that you are a hunting club member and or familiar with weapons handling in your home state. Then you can apply for a foreign guest hunting license, which is normally valid for 14 days and restricted to the hunting invitation.
Normally the outfitter company will assist (for a charge, of course) in the necessary paperwork.

Weapons permit, hunting license and hotel/guest house are normally not included in the fee for the hunting itself.

I think for the first time hunting in Germany it would be easier to have a loan gun/rifle.
Blaser R93 or R8 are fairly common in Germany, and especially for a night boar hunt the optics are very good, sometimes even night vision in addition to and mounted in front of the telescopic sight are available, if you want to hunt trophy boars. Night sight AIMING devices (one device) are not allowed.

best regards
Rolf

PS: beware of a tradition: after you collected the 150kg luxus trophy boar, every one in the bar will make a toast to you with a loud WAIDMANNSHEIL and the shot glass in the left hand!
Reason: if you answer the toast with the glass in the RIGHT hand, you are required to buy every left-hand-glass guest another schnaps...

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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: Rolf]
      #387730 - 15/11/24 06:26 PM

Thanks Rolf for also answering. Maybe the original poster will see the two excellent answers and thank you two guys.

I still can see in my memory boars in Northern Italy on a mountain above Florence where we stayed in a "hunting hotel". Actually a hotel specialising in training gun dogs. I went for a walk around dusk and those large dark blackish "tanks" came out on the mountain tracks and grassy fields among the forest trees. Two dark for photography. But can still enjoy the minds eye memory.

Elsewhere in Europe as well, but I'm forgetting where and when. In the French St Hubertus forest, wild boar in captive high fenced paddocks.

Boar and roe deer, such common hunting beasts for the European hunter or jaeger, but still on my bucket list of trophies and especially experiences. I'm jealous of the Euro hunters and their "hundred" roebuck skullcap mounts on the wall, or dozens of boar tusks on wooded shields. What is common for one man in one place, may be exotic to another elsewhere.

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Re: Wildboar hunt recommendations for Europe [Re: NitroX]
      #387732 - 15/11/24 06:36 PM

One question for our European hunter members, trophy shoulder mounts?

The common practice in Europe is often a mounted skullcap trophy display, possible on a wooden shield. Or for a boar, often just the tusks on a carved wooden shield.

If a hunter wanted a shoulder mounted trophy of a roebuck or a boar, how feasible is it?

I had trouble when living in England and hunting roebuck in Northumberland, unsuccessfuly, only a weekend, but I had discussed wanting a shoulder mount if successful. The Gamekeeper didn't like this at all, as they had to supply the whole beast for venison sales, un-skinned, only the head and some of the insides/gut removed. So a skull or skull cap mount was feasible but not shoulder mount where the head and cape from behind the front shoulders is needed.

If living there with a fridge, freezer, I'd try to buy the whole carcass myself, butcher it myself and eat it at home. Or if not living there, give it to someone. In theory solves the problem. But again, bureaucracy, as I think for any human consumption some organs needed to be inspected, even for on own farm consumption?!

Similarly for boar. A good boar shoulder mount would be very nice. How feasible is it to get that if hunting?

IMO a red stag, a wild boar and a roebuck are the epitome of European hunting medium beasts.

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