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Nice ! well done.

Cracking buck, well done. Thanks for sharing .

We indeed have several sightings of muntjac in the Netherlands. But not many. We even have sightings of wallabies in our woods . And that is without drinking. A (anonomous) friend of mine who has hunting grounds in Germany wants to buy some muntjac and release them into the wild in Germany so they can breed. Not sure if that is a good idea.

In the Netherlands it is LAW to shoot wild boar with a minimum caliber of 6,5 mm and an energy of 2200 Joules at 100 meters. Maybe it helps? I shoot a .308 w. Most common used in the Netherlands and Germany are 7x64, 306 and 30.06. By the way, if a wild boar has been rolling in the mud and it has dried up muck on its body, its like a body armor! Also the amount of fat can be a factor with shooting it dead succesfully. In the end it is (off course) all about shot placement.

Hi, I got myself a second hand pump action shotgun, it is a Winchester 1200 with 4 different chokes included. I bought it of a friend. Does anyone has any thoughts about the gun? Looks a bit long and heavy but actually shoots nicely. Just interested what other people think about it. Thx

Nice trophy, well done

Well done Tried it myself last week and only got 3 in 2 hours

Damage to crops is primaraly done by red deer, fallow and wild boar. Roe deer do not have a big impact on crops. Roe deer, together with fallow and red deer can have a big impact on woodland. It can be the case you will have to pay for damage to young trees. But most of the new plantations are fenced in. Badgers can do damage to grassland. Damage to crops because of wild boar or red deer can be from 100 euro to up to 10 thousands of euros. There have been extreme damages in hunting grounds in Germany of around 100.000 euro a year. Made some people even bankrupt hiring that particulair permission. Needless to say that these hunting grounds are very difficult to lease out to (sensibel) hunters. But most damage costs are around 500 to 6000 euro. Depends on size hunting ground and the countermeausures you are taking (for instance putting up electrical fencing around maize, sitting almost every night next to freshly drilled crops and shoot every wild boar in sight) I myself am looking for a new hunting area to lease in Germany. There are offers but they have damages of around 10.000 euro. Too much for me. :blink: That is the reason a lot of germans themselves do not hunt these grounds any more. Became too expensive, and you do not know the fixed price. Can be worse or better. There are hunting organisations who will lease out there hunting ground with a fixed ammount for damages. So you know where you stand. I am still jealous with a lot of you UKhunters. Most of the times you have a permission and you do not even pay for it. That is very unlikely in the Netherlands and Germany. If you want a permission you will have to pay. I am thinking of maybe lease a permission in the UK, but do not know if that is possible for foreign hunters??

That is a nice looking buck, weidmannsheil

Nice story, thank you for sharing

Well done :blink: And in Holland we do have those windmills as well. I like the old dutch ones which were used for milling corn and pump out / drain water. I dislike the turbine wind mills. They are deadly to the landscape, so ugly and i think it makes more sense to invest in nuclear or solar energy. But that is a totally different topic, sorry

Well done Nice request of the farmer.

@Verminator No, up till now wild boar are not in the numbers that it is worth to go after them. It can be a very seclusive animal.

Well done . Good shooting also.

Nice buck, well done ! Just wondering, are there any cull limitations? For me 15 roebucks from the same ground sounds like a lot. That is not very common in the Netherlands or Germany. But maybe you have large grounds?