hunting Europe

[matt schuster]

If Steve H hunts a European country, will any other Americans be allowed to visit afterward?  LOL - that could be a problem.   Just kidding Steve.

[foudarme]

if he likes good wine, cheese and food, he is welcome in France!

[Ian johnson]

foudarme, I was just there in england for the rugby cup, glad RSA won

[tradtusker]

come on south africa! about time the cup came back to green and gold soil!

anyone know what bowhunting opertunities there are in bulgaria, its pretty cheap to get there from the uk but not sure where you can hunt?

[ca]

http://www.europeanbowhunting.org/members.html
tradtusker look at the map , bowhunting is not legal in Bulgaria

[Kevin Bahr]

I don't know if Steve likes good wine food and cheese, but I know he likes FREE wine food and cheese...
I know what you mean, Shoe Man.  
Couldn't resist that one Stevie, HA!

[Rick McGowan]

Matt, no you weren't! Kevin, I don't think we ever came across any wine, but he did eat the FREE "cheese" at the nomads tent and he snuffed the FREE snuff to! He is popular in China though, of course they thought he was the lead singer of ANTHRAX and they did infect him with something, hmmm!

[foudarme]

Originally posted by Kevin Bahr:
I don't know if Steve likes good wine food and cheese, but I know he likes FREE wine food and cheese...
I know what you mean, Shoe Man.  
Couldn't resist that one Stevie, HA!

[Rick_H]

I thought Iceland was a Scandie country too...

[Steve H.]

Geez, what's the chance that I just happen to peek in here and three of my aledged "buddies" are in here slandering my good name!  LOL

I think Shoe did score me an invite to France thou!  I do like wine and cheese!

[Kevin Bahr]

Oh THERE you are, hehehe...
The next exotic foreign locale I'll see you in is Pittsburgh, with RicMic, Shoe Man and everyone else, I hope!

[Rick McGowan]

France is good, they already don't like us!

[Frenchy]

French law has been recently revised about the non-resident bowhunters            
Now it’s possible to hunt without the French bowhunting agreement (less than nine days)
But you need your own bowhunting license        

If you want ask for information :

 http://www.ffca.net/FFCAsite/front/news.php      


« Dans le cas des non résidents :

- si le chasseur ne chasse que quelques jours (c’est à dire qu’il ne prend qu’une validation temporaire de maximum neuf jours), il peut directement pratiquer à l’arc sans justifier de sa participation à cette Journée de Formation Obligatoire.

- si le chasseur chasse régulièrement dans notre pays (c’est à dire qu’il prend une validation annuelle), il doit (et peut maintenant) suivre la Journée de Formation Obligatoire.


Rappel : pour obtenir une validation (temporaire ou annuelle), le non résident doit, quel que soit le mode de chasse qu’il pratique, présenter un permis de chasser délivré par l'autorité de son pays »

[Brent Hill]

I hunted in spain around Medina Sedona with my widow and my wife for red stag with one of the magor outfitters in europe / spain.  Beautiful Mountains, long hikes, and tons of stag, mouphlon (bad spelling will be my downfall), and fallow deer that were all as sharp as any whittail in the states.  Beware!  First, they all say that they bowhunt, but mostly they have only seen bows.  I was their first.   Secondly, alot like other outfitters that hunt with primarily rifles, they are set up to hunt for rifles only.  My outfitter did set up a brush blind at my request but treestand or wind appropriate setup would have been nice.  Third, these trips are very expensive and to the best of my recollection set up only on private land and run by private outfitters.  I spent twice as much on my spnish stag hunt as I did on my africa hunt where I took 3 animals versus 1.  After my africa trip that was on a bow only ranch,  I can never go back.  I'm not against rifles, I just hate having one handed to me each time I reached for my silly stick contraption. (Thats how I felt in spain and canada.)  I never found a bow only operation in Europe but if there is one, sign me up !   Now the guides I hunted with are tough, they know their game, they treated you well, and were excellent stalkers within 50 yards (perfect for rifles) but thats where the problem appeared.  After 50 yards, my guide, the game keeper, and I would attempt to clear the distanceto 15 - 20 yards.  I was never allowed to pay indian by myself.  Like the dumb kid who kept stubbing his toe, all three of of us would venture on and get busted almost everytime.  I'm not any super hunter, but let me snap the twig of slide on the pebble that spooks the animal.  However Europe, specifically Spain and France have beautiful countryside with some amazing animals and they are great places to take the wife and make a combo hunt / girl vacation trip.  Just be prepared to spend alot, take long shots (20 25 yards are long hunting shots for me), and pal to hunt with rifle guides.  Bhill

[AndyTheCornbread]

I grew up in Finland and we do consider ourselves part of Scandinavia culturally and geographically but not linguistically unless you count the fact that Swedish is one of our two National languages. So is Finland a Scandinavian country? The answer is, it depends on how you are referring to it. That aside here are the animals you can hunt in Finland with a bow with a draw weight of 40lbs, also for Roe deer and beaver an additional requirement of a broad head being at least 22mm in diameter is added and for beaver you must have a string like a bow fishing line attached in order to retrieve it:
Ducks == Mallard, Teal, Garganey, Wigeon, Pintail, Shoveler, Pochard, Tufted duck and Goldeneye
   
Seabirds == Long-tailed duck, Red-breasted merganser and Goosander
   
Eider, male
   
Eider, female
   
Coot
   
Greylag goose
   
Bean goose

Canada goose
   
Woodcock
   
Black grouse

Hazel grouse

Capercaillie
   
Willow grouse
   
Ptarmigan

Partridge

Pheasant
   
Wood pidgeon
   
Northern hare,
Brown hare

Red squirrel

European beaver

Canadien beaver
   
Muskrat

Red fox, Blue fox, Raccoon dog, Badger

American mink, Polecat
   
Pine marten

Ermine

Roe deer, male

Roe deer, female and calf

As far as where to hunt in Finland that you would have to ask some one else. I have always hunted our land in Pohjois Savo or friends land nearby to ours. We know everyone where we hunt so crossing into a neighbors land is OK. I don't know where the neighbors land ends and where the public lands begin. That would be a question for some one who lives and hunts there year round. I can e-mail and ask my father how to find out that information but it may take him several weeks to get back to me on it. We are from Savo     computers are not our parents generation's strong suit