Germany Hunting Pictures

[Foxi]

Wolf attacks in Germany and EU-Europe

Unfortunately I am unable to put this video here because of its size, which I got from a friend and so I show you only a few photos, under which many animal owners in Europe have to suffer.
Wolves are completely protected, killing or harassing them is under very severe punishments throughout the EU.
In our densely populated cultural areas they have excellent opportunities to keep grazing animals without fear.
They must not be hunted and learn, like the bears in the parks of North America, that they are allowed to do anything without punishment.

Many biologically oriented livestock farmers give up, but every grazing cattle is the complete opposite of the unspeakable industrial meat production.
In order to get compensation for damages, enormous financial challenges are necessary to protect the animals doubtfully. The compensation is marginal, how can valuable breeding cattle for example really be replaced?
Look at the still-living calf. How can you replace the pain ?

What kind of compensation is this, when it is often claimed that there were no wolves. In Germany there have never been so many "poaching dogs," since we have wolves again.
The national press is basically hiding the permanent attacks.
The wolves should return without resentment.
The Green conservation policy
"Refugees welcome"

 

[Wheels]

Sorry that your having to deal with this Foxi. Politicians and bureaucrats everywhere make decisions based on emotions, not facts.

 

[JPbowhunter]

Wolf attacks in Germany and EU-Europe
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Unfortunately I am unable to put this video here because of its size, which I got from a friend and so I show you only a few photos, under which many animal owners in Europe have to suffer.
Wolves are completely protected, killing or harassing them is under very severe punishments throughout the EU.
In our densely populated cultural areas they have excellent opportunities to keep grazing animals without fear.
They must not be hunted and learn, like the bears in the parks of North America, that they are allowed to do anything without punishment.
View attachment 240499
Many biologically oriented livestock farmers give up, but every grazing cattle is the complete opposite of the unspeakable industrial meat production.
In order to get compensation for damages, enormous financial challenges are necessary to protect the animals doubtfully. The compensation is marginal, how can valuable breeding cattle for example really be replaced?
Look at the still-living calf. How can you replace the pain ?
View attachment 240500
What kind of compensation is this, when it is often claimed that there were no wolves. In Germany there have never been so many "poaching dogs," since we have wolves again.
The national press is basically hiding the permanent attacks.
The wolves should return without resentment.
The Green conservation policy
"Refugees welcome"

The government here is looking to reintroduce dingos around where i live. Haven't talked about compensation for list stock yet

 

[Foxi]

Wheels,JPB,
here a better picturefrom an other one.
I like wolves, but they belong in the wild.

 

[Foxi]

Solid bullet or not ?

contrary to popular opinion,I have never had any bad experiences with solid bulletts (FMJ)
Also in Europe, where it is allowed /was, I have shot not so less with it and was always satisfied.
In Africa, in case of doubt always used a solid coat, as long as the game stands free.
This old guy walked through his chest with a .375 full metall jacket for 60m and then fell head over heels like a rabbit.
A safety shot through the neck and a not so small branch came down from 6m height.
That always leaves a bad feeling with me since then .

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

Foxi . . . excellent photos, thanks!

+1

 

[Nyati]

Same story with wolves in Spain, Foxi.

Here, in some regions, they can be hunted with specific permits. But not enough permits are issued to solve the problem.

They are getting cheeky, some have been spotted as close as 45 km. north of Madrid.

 

[Foxi]

a friend shot this magnificent Snowsheep in Kamchatka last summer with his .338 Lapua Magnum.
He had 10 days only sunshine,the following guest 10 days rain and fog.
Especially in the wild you need luck,he had it.
But it is a long way in this area. Moskau -Petropawlowsk = 10 hours by plane and then you won't be in the hunting ground for a long time.
When you studying this picture,- a hunters life is beautyful
Foxi

 

[BenKK]

Old-fashioned solids are a wonderful thing, Foxi, and that Cape buffalo is magnificent covered in mud!

 

[BenKK]

Congratulations to your friend for his Kamchatka adventure!

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

Foxi, your friend had a successful hunt. Congrats for your friend.

 

[Foxi]

I call them Bison. Yes, the Wisent.
That is an incredible effort being made.
Any time wildlife is set free there will be issues as people and animals adjust.
Keep us up to date on the project please.

the Wisent protection project draws further circles
It also developed into a small tourist magnet.
A gate for visitors and a free roaming herd.
Never bad when money comes into the wallet.
Now four young bulls have been brought to Romania to avoid inbreeding and to found a new protection project in the Carpathians.
I know the Carpathians a little bit and think it is an ideal habitat for these fantastic animals.
You can read the homepage also in English and other languages,so you want.
https://www.wisent-welt.de/startseite/
Greetings
Foxi
(always fascinated by buffaloes)

 

[BenKK]

Beautiful animals, those wisent.

 

[7x57Joe]

Magnificent beast!

 

[Foxi]

Is he coming or not ?
I have often been blamed by my PHs ,that I prefer to take the camera, rather than go in readiness when things get tight.
But for that I have a Professional
Not 20 m away.
The picture is a great memory for me.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Keep taking those pictures. They are the best.

My Avatar is one of "those pictures".

(Low res version)

Right in the middle of a stalk, within fifty yards, inching forward.
Nothing like it.

 

[Foxi]

Red deer rut in the Carpathian mountians again

Like almost every autumn, we flew again to the rut of the deer in Romania into the endless forest mountains of the Carpathians.

We wanted to see something different and so we arrived in Iasi via Vienna. Directly at the border to Moldavia and drove with the rental car three hours back into the mountains to Bacau.

The area was unbelievable, even more beautiful than the one we knew so far.
It is the historical Romanian part of the Carpathians, not Hungarian dominated like a large part of the Romanian Carpathian Arc.
Much mixed forest and these forests give more than large coniferous forest complexes.

On the second day in the morning, one of my two friends shot a good,old stag with 7,5 kg trophy weight (.30-06) with the weapon of the guiding hunter.

Heared a lot roars,but I saw in the four hunting days only a single stag, which was too little with 6 kg .
In one evening, I stalked unsuccessfully with my guide two good voices, we stumbled back in the dark again to our car and had to determine that the steering wheel lock could not be unlocked any more. We had this time another car and in that of course no water supply thereby. I had a miserable thirst.
Well, we had a rifle to protect us from bears and so we went to a hilltop at night where we had telephone reception.
It is a question of life to always make sure to have a fully charged cell phone and two!! good flashlights when you stumble around in the mountains at night.
You always have to start from the worst and in these pathless areas you are stuck at night without a flashlight.
So we called for help to pick us up and went back to our broken car.
I was terribly thirsty. My hunter had a canister with self-produced wine with him and in my need I took deep swallow this cruel selfmade terrible Sauvignon Blanc and was immediately drunk, so strong it was. Anyway, I slept well until we were picked up two hours later.

One hunting day was a big disappointment for the other buddy.

In principle we do not take our own rifles into the Carpathians, we all want to avoid the discussions at the airport. Today's weapons of the hunters there are, unlike 20 years ago, all good with good rifle scopes on them. But they are just not our own rifles.
A calling stag approached and was shot with the 9,3x62 on 80 m and lay in the fire. He came up again and got the second bullet, which let him collapse again in a flash and began to come up again.
With the repeating of the second bullet, the third and last one was thrown out of the Zastava and so the weapon was empty.
They hectically searched for the third cartridge on the forest floor and when they found it, the stag had disappeared.
One was not to be found now in large concern the stag, because with this caliber and the 247 gn Geco bullet the stag could lie only 100 m further in the thickness.
So one believed. However it was not to be found.
Also no problem, dog here and then it was that.
But not to be believed, in our district arrived after half a day of waiting just a small, scar-overseated hunting terrier, which after 150 m meant it would have no sense and he wanted to search rather without leash and went hunting on his own fist.....................................
In a hunting ground of 50.000 ha (over 123 ' acre) there was no hunting dog worthy of the name !!
Given our own dogs at home, we didn't want to believe it, but it was so and this deer was unfortunately not found.

Hunting the rutting deer in the Carpathians is not for beginners,I wrote it before and for those who cannot bear to go home empty.
But forest runners and wilderness enthusiasts become addicted. Addicted to these endless wonderful forests, their often strong and credibly clever stags in an area where at night in mountain and valley no lights glow and the company of good comrades, who speak a different language, but are still the same mind.

Merry christmas to you.
Foxi

 

[BRICKBURN]

Nothing like sleeping out with Bears in the neighbourhood.
Great report.

 

[Foxi]

Nothing like sleeping out with Bears in the neighbourhood.
Great report.

Brick,
with this homemade wine, you would have forgotten all your worries in a flash .

 

[7x57Joe]

I really love the pictures! Thanks for posting them.
The story of the wine brought back memories of my childhood days when several of my friends and I went camping. Michael had some homemade "peach brandy" that was unfit for human consumption and got sick drinking it.
So very unfortunate not to recover the wounded stag. In all my years hunting, I have lost only one animal that I shot and it made me feel terrible. A friend told me, if one shoots enough game it will happen sooner or later, and so it goes.