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Chasseur
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November hunt in France
      #44098 - 16/12/05 09:48 AM

Sorry for the delay in posting this, but I've been busy grading all those little brats papers...

For Thanksgiving week we went to visit friends and familly in France. We spent the first few days down in Southern France, in Perigord. One day of driven boar shooting with a good friend of mine and his hunting club. Very down to earth local people. No shots fired by me, but a great time. Ohhh, the food in that region of France... Confit de canard, musherooms (cepes), boar pate, hazelnuts... Wow!

At post waiting for boar in Perigord:



Then back up to good old Brittany where we used to live. Saw familly and friends for a day or so. More good food, including gallettes, crepes and cidre (well this is Brittany!!!). A half day of rough shooting with my gunsmith buddy there. Got a fat duck for my love's granny! Next day was another driven boar hunt. VERY narrow shooting lane and the boars were too fast for my limited abilities. No shots fired from my 9.3x74r Chapuis again, but great time. We were not allowed to shoot red deer sicne they save them for venerie (or a horse hunt like the British fox hunting, except for red stag!). But one tremendous stag tried to sneek past my post. He got within 3 meters of me. He was impressive, 12-14 or so points, but as I reached for my camera he caught the movement and with a big snort he bolted. That made day for me.

Here are the shooting lanes



Some boars:



Then off to Paris to visit another good friend of mine. After another good dinner, we had a looong conversation with nice drinks and lots of gun oogling Last day was our annual driven bird shoot just south of Paris. Its a great shoot run by the famous Dulary brothers, who were sporting clays champions. About a 80/20 mix of partridges and pheasants. The normal set up is two drives in the morning, with a great lunch, and then two drives in the afternoon. But arround 10am it started to snow so the organizer pushed on and we did all four drives together to be sure we could do it before the snow put a stop to everything. I was in a good post on the last drive: lots of parts and some longtails flew over! The best part was the falling snow, simply beautiful. Unfortunately my camera decided to first run out of film and then break, so no drive pictures... Then we went in for a great late lunch.

I'll try and add what few pictures I have in the next couple of days...

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In regards to action he should devote himself to hunting...
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Edited by Chasseur (17/12/05 12:48 PM)

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clark7781
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Re: November hunt in France [Re: Chasseur]
      #44578 - 22/12/05 04:37 AM

Patty, me lad....MORE PICTURES!!!

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EricD
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Re: November hunt in France [Re: Chasseur]
      #44591 - 22/12/05 06:07 AM

Great post Chasseur! I can't imagine a better way to spend a Thanksgiving weekend, visiting family, good food and drink, and doing some hunting. Thanks for the pictures.

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Chasseur
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Re: November hunt in France [Re: clark7781]
      #44627 - 22/12/05 12:36 PM

Thanks for the compliments guys! Here are some more:

(Clark I know, but the camera broke on me... It really made me mad on the driven bird shoot. I've almost never had a more beautiful sporting experience than that and then the door on the Olympus swings open and doesn't lock shut anymore...)


Here are a few more:

My friend in Perigord walking in the beautiful town of Sarlat. Its one of the best preserved medieval towns in France, if not in Europe as a whole. Great place, my crappy photos don't do it justice.





Though this actually took place right after I left, it gives you a good idea of the hunting group down there. My friend just shot his first red stag. Really a great group of guys.



Here is a bad picture of our tableau from last year. I had gone a month earlier in the season then and it was 95% partridges then. Because of the snow storm we did not do a full tableau at the end of the hunt this year (2005).



Here are the famous Dulary brothers enjoyings some refreshements after their work on the drives.



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In regards to action he should devote himself to hunting...
-Machiavelli



Edited by Chasseur (22/12/05 12:44 PM)

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larcher
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Re: November hunt in France [Re: Chasseur]
      #44760 - 24/12/05 04:20 AM

My apologies

I woud have kicked myself. Chasseur PMed me that he’ll be in France but I didn’t read his message in time. When I read it he was still in France and I had no way to get in touch with him. A pity.
In fact it’d have been tricky, I am living in the East of France and Chasseur went to Paris (center), Perigord (South-West) and Brittany (West). Anyhow we could have had a good dinner in Paris.

What can be said is that Chasseur had a damn fine time in authentic and (+/-) preserved regions where traditions (like gastronomy) are vivid. Just look at the mugs of the fellow hunters, they are no posh rich citydwellers but real indigens.
Look at the last pics, the Dulary bros in the bar. On the wall are 2 signs. The first one is the LICENCE, which means the bar may serve hard drinks. The second sign shows “Repression de l’ivresse publique”= Public drunkenness’s repression
And « protection des mineurs » = protection of persons under 18.
Chasseur You was in real France.


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Re: November hunt in France [Re: Chasseur]
      #47560 - 23/01/06 08:34 AM

What a wonderful trip. Thank you for sharing the photos and stories.

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