A few years ago I was fortunate to take part in a driven hunt in a forest in Germany. As a driver.. not a shooter. It was quite an experience. Part of their forest/herd management. Quite a few little handbag roe deer shot and about 6 BIG pigs. Afterwards everyone meets at the hunting lodge for a bbq and some Jägermeister. Jägermeister translates roughly to 'hunt master'. The small wording around the label on a bottle is the 'hunters creed'. Google the translation. They had hunting outfits, trumpets and stuff. I got some nice photos and a video somewhere.
Everyone has the same moral right to hunt and gather food here in NZ. Regardless of race or ethnicity. Give nothing to racism.
Yep - and quite a lot of that Asian 'exotic live harvest' ends up in Chinese/Vietnamese/Etc. animal markets, and thence is enjoyed by all of us around the world as a pandemic animal to human virus.
My point being that, given the thrust of this thread, there ain't no controls on hunting whatever you like in Asia, and look where that has got us!
Working on the pheasant drives is how us poor country kids made pocket money in England, following the fox hunters on our bikes was just for fun and to watch the rich huntsmen on their horses to see if any would fall off pissed or also following the hare huntsmen dressed the same as the fox hunters but who didn't use horses.
Hey Mooseman - I'm guessing you probably use your son's rifles to shoot in North America, but with the state of the world and all the restrictions is it still practical to take your own firearms overseas for Elk hunting etc?
Although I have done so with guided hunting, for some deep-set reason I don't like using other's rifles to hunt - its just not the same.
Maybe its just me?
Yep, in the late 1990's I was in the back blocks of Laos and saw those. Was able to approach them and have a good look at them. All pure home made caplocks made from heavy walled water pipe. Some door handle architecture fashioned into a spring and trigger, wooden stock, lots of string to bind them together, cap gun caps used to initiate. Black powder home made, even to the extent of extracting the Pot Nitrate from the dirt underneath a pile of old animal carcass bits (put aside for just such a task). Shot for the monkeys @25m was just road gravel held in place with paper. It worked is all you can say. These guys were skinny as a rake, and protein was hard to come by in those mountains. So illegal or not, when needs must people can build guns to keep themselves fed, no matter how draconian the Govt.
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If I get to pull the trigger it will be with one of his rifles as it's easier to travel without firearms. When I hunted Alaska for my moose I had applied for a permit to bring my 338 but was declined as I didn't have a current Hunting licence in my paperwork, I had been advised to buy the licence from my outfitter on arrival in Talkeetna. As it turned out I borrowed a Ruger 338 Win Mag from one of the guides and shot my moose with it, it would have been nice to use my own rifle though.
I like Germans, has worked with them for few years. My boss was not a outdoor kind, but a shooting guy and pilot, he said he got special permit of carrying conceal pistol. On weekend, at train station there were many people with big backpack and gears ready to go into the mountains. It seemed, those trains could take them to everywhere. 8 years ago, I thought about moving Germany, but to learn another language at age 40 would be painful for me.
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