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Hallo, I hope someone can help me. I'm from the Netherlands and looking for about 100 mallard eggs. Contacted some game farms but none of them are willing to ship them to the Netherlands. Bit of a long shot but maybe someone over here could help me? Selling eggs themself or know a adress how can ship a small order to the Netherlands. Thanks in advance

I will be for 3 months in England (till end of July) and I am looking for stalking and shooting opportunities, for a day or weekend. I have several years of experience with roebuck stalking and small game hunting. However I have never been out for muntjac and I would really like a change to hunt them. Besides muntjac I would also like to go try for some roebuck or pigeons. At the moment I am arranging my shooting permit, I should have it within a month. If you can help me please send me a massage or email, Paying for it is no problem!

In Holland hares are traditionally considered game just like pheasants. And certainly not varmin. I will only shoot hares from October till December as they start having young’s from January. If there are only a limited amount of hares I would certainly not shoot them, they will not do any significant kind of crop damage. And it will take a long time for a small hare population to recover.

I am quite surprised that even do you only have a lead ban for duck and gees you also use steel shot on other of game. In Holland we have a total lead ban for many years now and the majority of hunters use steel shot because of its low price. But many hunters agree that lead shot kills much better. Regular steel shot is usable at distances up to 35, 40 yards but not much further. I have shot game at longer distances but it is (almost) impossible to kill it cleanly and in most cases you will end up with a wounded bird. Even at shorter distances you always end up with quite a lot of winged birds. Shooting at 60 yards with standard steel shot cartridges I would certainly not advise because you will never be able to consistently kill game stone dead at such distances. Simply because the weight of a steel pellets is to light to retain enough energy. Maybe this will improve if you use some super magnum cartridges but I still have my doubts The type of steel shot is use: Pigeons and grows over decoys 28,32 grams of number 5 or 6 Pheasants, ducks 32 grams or more number 5,4,3 Gees 32 grams ore more number 4,3. (Most of the game I shoot are greylag and white fronted gees and normally I would prefer Winchester 34grams, number 4 or gamebore 36grams of number 3) For hares and foxes I will always use bismuth or tungsten. Because steel shot has not enough shock effect, especially if you don’t hit it right they will just run for hundreds of meters before they die. I hope you can understand my English as it is not of a very high level.

Hi there, I come from Holland and I have been involved with shooting and fishing from a young age. I shoot mainly small game and roe deer in Holland, but also other game in Sweden, Germany and England. I managed to arrange an internship for my study in England from April till July and I have applied for a shooting permit to bring my shotgun along. Now I am looking for the possibility to do some shooting. I have been shooting driven game England several times before (pheasant, partridge). But as England is famous for its pigeon shooting I was hoping via this forum to find some reliable addresses where it could be possible to shoot pigeon’s for a day or weekend. Besides pigeons I am also looking for the possibility to do some muntjac or roebuck stalking. Hopefully you guys can help me with some addresses ore maybe advise me a reliable shooting agency.