Hi JDeeres2
You write a traditional German Boar hunt. There are to traditional ways of doing Boar hunting in Germany.
It is possible to get a visitor’s hunting license (14 days) for Germany when you have a DSC1, but it might depend on the local County where you have to apply. It needs an invitation to a hunt, and then the application has to be made in the same county as the first day of hunting will take place.
Then there is firearms. From here we just use our EU firearm passport, I don’t know how to get permit from UK firearm certificate, but it is possible.
Night hunting from tower, is the most effective way of shooting wild pigs, and by far the cheapest.
Then there are the driven hunts, they are fun, but don’t expect to get a chance at a boar every day. A realistic bet would be around 50% pr. Day, chance to even seeing a boar, on these hunts, then comes the challenge to hitting it on top of that. (shots are only taken within around 50 meters and only clean sideshoots, unless you want to be banned from any further hunting there).
I am living I Denmark and I made a lot of hunting trips for myself and friend to Germany, both individual night/day-hunts, and driven ones. I know the language culture and hunting system, that’s the reason I usually make the trips when we decide to go hunting in Germany. We tried private, federal, and state hunting, and have to say the private ones are usually the best, but also expensive and hard to get in at.
The last 10 years I almost exclusively stuck to state hunting, and mainly in the state of Hessen, as it can be appied to directly from the internet Hessen state forest site (it is only in German
).
The individual hunts I have made we by the shooting rights for a piece of state Forrest. The rights usually will be for 5-7 days. That means if we are a group of 4 hunters, we typically get 120-200 hectares of forest, with a number of towers in it. Then it is up to us to hunt from those towers. Pigs can be hunted from dusk to dawn, and we are also allowed to shoot roes and eventually reds/fallows/muffels. The deer/wild sheep, can legally only be shot 1 hour before and after sunrise/setting. I don’t know if it is allowed to use night vision, I don’t ask, then I don’t get a no, and I have never had a forest worker complain, even if he seen our night vision.
Typical price for 5-7 days will be 500-700€, no shot fee. If it is a good piece of forest expect, 10-20 roes, 2-5 pigs, and maybe a red/fallow/muffle pr hunter on typical 6 days. In other words there will normally be more than 1 animal pr hunter pr day. But hunters are different, and some shoot more others less. 2 good friends of mine went on a 5 days hunt for roebuck in may 2024. Those 2 hunters shot 31 roebucks and 4 pigs and 4 racoons during those 5 days.
Then it is the driven hunts. If state hunts, those are for 1 day at the time. When I organized them, I will usually find a week where we get several hunting days in a row, meaning we get 3-5 days of driven hunting. Its hard to say how much they shoot, but it is less than 1 animal pr hunter pr day.
Prices (2024) are typical 150-220€ pr day for 1 drive of 3-4 hours duration, and only shot fees on trophy reds/fallow/muffle, and no mature sows allowed. There will always be someone from the group who does not even get to se an animal, and others will have more luck. German hunting morale is very high, and all animals not lying on the spot will be searched by dog. They count the shots, and if there are more than one search from one person this person will be banned. So if you shoot at an animal and it doesn’t lye on the spot where you can se it, then stop shooting anymore that day!!!! This may seem a bit hash when you just fired a shot a a roedeer, and know it was a comlpeate miss, then 10 minutes later, a big male boar come walking slowly past your tower, but stick to it!!! Or another option is: dont miss when shooting.
Just don’t expect 8-12 shots fired a day, like in the “driven hunt movies”.
Hope this information helps a bit
