Thank you all for your welcome folks.
Donsider, my lease is near Alford . We have had the lease there for nine years. Like you, it is mostly roe but we do get some red, especially in the colder weather. We have had one good stag this year and a couple of decent bucks but mostly the bucks have had small heads, though the weights have been OK. The three other lease members live in Aberdeen and its surrounds.
I agree with you in respect of prefering to hunt boar from the high seat under the moon, rather than driven. I and my buddy from Inverurie will be going over for the February moon!! I hunt in Muhlhausen, Thuringa, in what was East Germany, with a friend whom I met a couple of weeks after the Berlin Wall came down. I also hunt in Boddinsfelde, which is just South of Berlin. Boddinsfelde is where we will go in February. The land at Boddinsfelde belongs to Dutch and German friends with whom we trade hunting. We try to get over two or three times a year. That, with a trip to Africa for plains game and our local pheasant shoot, keeps me pretty busy. The area you hunt in Germany, I have been to but not for hunting.
Thanks again for the welcome folks.
David.