Wednesday 24 June 2009

Muntjacs

Now these look like an increasingly interesting species to hunt:

See this interesting article

yummy, small, easily handled, and astoundingly sturdy.



Sweden and hunting teams

Sweden seems to have a weird and very collectivist hunting culture: in order to hunt you need to be in a hunting team and in order to be in a hunting team you have to be local, for preferably at least 3 generations.

So far so bad. What makes this interesting is that Sweden is getting increasing problems with not enough meece (plural of moose, OK?) get shot, that roe deer and wild boar are on the rise and that the hunting teams complain about lack of new members. But still they don't accept blowins. I am waiting for the pressure to get strong enough to force change ...