Recent content by Pighunter

Thank god I'm in France. Do you really want these people having all your data?

All of the above! She is a beast, 1600cc Stage 1 tuned and does everything she looks like she should - except leak oil 😉

Nice, but I reckon it would be 2-3 times the usual price! 2008 Rocker C chop and 1979 Fat Bob Superglide.

This is a tick box exercise when doing the validation online, nice and easy. I never insured my Jack Russell 'Bullet' when he used to hunt, any injuries sustained whilst hunting were covered by the club from contributions periodically collected from the members. Minor injuries are common to...

You do not need a permis de chasse, you can hunt off the back of a UK FAC or shotgun licence. You need to get registered with the local department FDC Federation de Chasse where you will be hunting and set up for an online validation. Eg here it is FDC66. Then you can apply for a temporary or...

Bonjour et bienvenu, I am based in Reynès in the PO. No Isard in our commune, but they're not far away! We do have mouflon though.

Stihl 2 in 1 every time for me, does the rakers at the same time and so easy to use once you have worked it out. And if the chain is badly damaged I dress it up with an electric sharpener with a grinding disc back to standard.

And dogs wear bells for various reasons: 1. So you know it's a dog, not a boar rustling towards you 2. So the piqueur (handler) can hear where they are 3. To encourage the boar to get moving 4. To stimulate the dog I love hearing the bells tinkling during hunts. My Bullet used to get so...

The vast majority of hunts here are very safety conscious, but there are others, so I've heard. We now have to do a safety refresher course every 10 years to keep hunting. And written and practical exams to get your permit in the first place. Shooting running ground game with high velocity...

All very different from our communal shoots here in the South of France! Here very much affordable shooting for all, which I think is great, and very much natural in thick wooded Mediterranean oak forests. Most shots here are sub 15 metres due to the density of the woods and the mountainous...

Bienvenu des Pyrénées Orientales! My friend who lives in the Alps says that there is little or nothing left to shoot at around where he lives due to the return of the wolves. Fortunately we don't have that problem around here, but we do have the outbreak of swine fever near Barcelona...

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Haven't been out today, but we had a lovely warm day, too warm for chainsaw clearance after storm Nils. So I was working on installing the baffles for the fishtails I recently got for the Indian. Way too loud for Mr Plod as they arrived, so I got some adjustable baffles which I've nearly...

It is common to shoot thrush and blackbirds here for consumption, not that I would. I remember one of the hunters complaining many years ago that the numbers are now limited in terms of how many you can shoot on each outing. Voilà, local tradition.

Just seen a troupe of mouflon pass by. Lovely male stopped 15 metres from me, but we're only allowed to shoot females and young, all the male tags are used. Damn.