Yes i shoot this young roe deer in france , one and half hoour driving from Nice.
It's an open private propriety where the owner was tired to get rifle hunter with a lot bang bang and dogs 3 times a weeks 5 months a year. This guy love horses and need them to be quiet and finaly we found together with my bowhunter association a agreement to get the permission to hunt there . We have 3 roe deer tags for 10 bowhunter. You don't need tags for Wild Hogs
Anyway, Thank you for your interest
Bow hunting is 100 % legal in france since 1995
same periods, law and limit as gun or rifles
only two restriction so far :
- mechanical broadheads are not allowed
- the arrow must weight a minimum of 465 grs
every body who want to hunt in france need to pass an examination call "licence to hunt"
for the bow hunter you have also to be present to an obligatory information day about the basic of bowhunting
So far since 1995 , more than 10 000 guy with the licence to hunt get the information bowhunting paper and get with the right to bowhunt.
In each state you have today a bowhunter association fo big BBQ, to help the beginner and to find place to hunt
In France you still have someting like one million hunter because hunting is, not every where but very often a democratic and cheap thing running by village association (a good thing when you and your family are from a good place to hunt but it's quite also a hard thing to go in sometime)
in the next 20 years, according to the age of the hunter , we will go to divide this number of hunter by 4
Today Bowhunting is the only type of hunt to get new hunter who grow up far from the country
We are lucky, bowhunting is almost "just" normal now, the major problem can be to get individual tags for big game the drive hunt method is very popular every where and it's can be difficult in the cheap village system to get individual tags But if you want to go to the drive hunt with your bow you can do it ... you need to know
In some other country like germany or belgium bow are forbiden, in some other you can only hunt in closed place , in other like one of the north of europe you can only use a mechanic bow
Spain, Italy , France are the most friendly for local bowhunter after in some far est country like bulgaria you can hunt but it's very expensive and commercial
In France to come for hunting you need to present your hunting licence first to get a temporary licence for cheap money
after you need to find a territory, there are not public land where every body can hunt or lotery tags .
every square meter are under the hunting rule of State , private owner or village hunting association
If you get a french friend to invite you that will cost you nothing to go to the place where your friend invite you
if not, you can try by the way of national forest administration. they are selling tags but be careful with the size of what you are going to shoot
voila / i did my best / if you have more question ?
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