Hi
@Kouprey,
You can check my thread on hunting in croatia, although not related to Tito, but to these islands that you mentioned.
Indeed, he had a residence on the islands of Brioni, of the coast of Istria.
Today it is a national park, and I mentioned it as one of national parks in Croatia.
It is still summer residence to our president, but most of islands are free for tooristic visits. There are hystoric sites, roman structures, summer theatre, etc...
Some animals on are stil there. Population of fallow is problematic. Too much.
However, to my knowledge, no hunting there, unless I am wrong.
To this residence, marshall Tito brought and introduced first breading heard of Mouflon.
As it turns out to be, mouflon hunting was one of Tito passions. From that initial herd, a program was developped for introduction of mouflon in mainland, and I beleive that all moufloun was reintroduced to hunting grounds in Croatia from that initial stock. A legacy. Moufloun now is wide spread around croatia
On hunting rifles:
In one of the threads I made some posts, (you will have to search), one of Titos hunting rifles is on sale in Croatia, mosin nagant given to him by central committee of USSR, with engraving, etc.. details of the seller I can find somwhere if you are intersted. Origin verified, papers certificates, etc
Fot other rifles of masrhall Tito, but not all, they are collected in museum in Belgrade, Serbia.
They have posted a brochure in pdf, on museum web site.
Language is bilingual, serbian (Cyrilic), and english.
You may like it. Here is the link to pdf brochure:
https://www.muzej-jugoslavije.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2008-Lovačko-oružje-JBT.pdf
I have also attached this PDF here.
Titos trophies are also in museum in Belgrade.
There is also a book, about Tito hunting excursions and politicians who visited for hunt. The book:
Title: Tito - Lov - Poltika (engl Tito-Hunt-Politics)
Subtitle: Tito u lovu, lov u politici (engl. Tito in hunting, hunt in politics)
Author, Danilo Todorovic.
Link to amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Tito-lov-politika-Danilo-Todorovic/dp/B0088QDB7C/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1580729900&refinements=p_27
anilo+Todorovic&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Danilo+Todorovic
It can be ordered from several serbian book selling web sites, as well.
Unfortunately the book is in Serbian lanaguage, latin alphabet (not cyrilic)
I would love to find it in english translation, to have as present to several of my friends international hunters. But so far, to the best of my knowledge, the book is not yet trasnlated to english commercial version.
It was writen by a life long director of main Tito's hunting lodge mr Todorovic, where Tito brought many of domestic and foreign politicanas for exclusive hunts. And the book is full of details and anecdotes of those high level hunts. (Such as previous story). Dont mix this with islands, Brioni, previously mentioned
The hunting lodge was in area Belje, and hunting grounds were very large, partly in Croatia, partly in Serbia, and for it Tito himself said, it was a testing sample, for relations between two republics, when he brought croatian and serbian politicians for hunt, from informal socialising he could get a feeling of developing regional issues.
The area Belje was famous for best red stags. Even today, good hunting can be organised there.
