Hunting licence
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Pine Marten
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Yes. I'll get back to you later. Remind me if I don't.
mereside
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hellboy, just get one from the area he's in, contact the Fédération Départementale des Chasseurs for his area as it is in regions, a permit doesn't cost much for a short 9 day permit, you can get a yearly permit for 210 euros, you will need to send a copy of fac to get a permit validated,regards wayne
here's the regions to contact, probably be easier for your brother
chasseurdefrance.com
here's the regions to contact, probably be easier for your brother
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8x57
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You will also need to supply information confirming that you have adequate insurance. If you are a member of BASC they can supply a translation for you. The NGO insurance was extended to include France for me though I had to supply my own translations via Google translate.
I understand that in some regions of France the local federation can supply insurance for a small additional fee.
I understand that in some regions of France the local federation can supply insurance for a small additional fee.
Flash9919
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Is your brother not a member of the local chasse? If he is, then it’s considerably easier if you get him to sort it out for you. As others have said, you need to get a permit, I think a 9 day permit is about 70 euro. Members of the chasse can then sign in a guest for a number of days hunting....you’ll get a day ticket from the head of that local chasse, at which point you’re pretty much sorted.....don’t be overly alarmed if you start to question their general approach to hunting, in particular safe backstops, firearms handling etc....it can be a bit of an eye opener especially in the more rural areas....that said hunting in France is very, very well regulated....don’t think for a minute you can simply rock up, shoot what you want and bugger off.....it doesn’t work like that....each boar needs to be tagged when shot, then a fee Is paid to the regional chasse per beast unless it’s under a certain weight (most tend to be about 1kg under that weight!!), the fee goes towards compensating farmers for the damage they cause. In rural France the Chasse are like the NRA....they pretty much have free run over all land, I could be wrong but unless a farmers got many 1000’s of acres I don’t believe they can refuse the Chasse access....if they do, they’ve no longer got any friends!
oh.....and to add, in rural France no body speaks a word of English....that includes the local Chasse offices!......although down in the Creuse, the local Chasse that I go out with though my Helion was voodoo witch craft!
oh.....and to add, in rural France no body speaks a word of English....that includes the local Chasse offices!......although down in the Creuse, the local Chasse that I go out with though my Helion was voodoo witch craft!
All good advice above; i.e. simpler for your brother if he is already a member of the Departmental Hunting association. Licences in France are for the local department only, or the local department plus the adjoining departments, or national. All can be had for 3 days, a week, or a full season. A copy of your FAC is a must and obviously you will need your Euro pass also to travel. I would advise getting local insurance as in France it has to be "illimite" [unlimited] which is a totally alien concept to UK insurers who always have an upper limit of liability. That said it is not expensive and the Departmental Hunting Federation will put you in touch or, if you are lucky, even arrange it for you. The recommendation is usually for 7mm or larger but .270 is enough. The French have relatively recently removed the restriction on "military calibres" which even many years ago they acknowledged had no basis in logic. It took some years since the enabling legislation was passed before it went into effective law.
Most of my French wildboar experience was near the German border, and with a German born host, so we had German organisation and discipline with French flair, food and wines, in German quantities - the best of all possible worlds! The hunt legislation is well enforced and more than once over the 20'ish years we were visited by the Wildlife/Nature Police. They were always, polite, friendly and helpful unlike ............. There are explicit legal duties on the driven hunt overall captain, the line captains, and the beating team captain. As a consequence we were spared some of the scarier experiences one hears related of French hunting. They publish figures for deaths and injuries annually in France and I only know of 2 fatalities in the last 25 years attributable to 1 person shooting another. There was a huge outcry because someone shot a mushroom picker - deemed contributory negligence (equivalent) because he should not have been there and had passed "chasse en cours" = hunt in progress signs on his way into the area. Almost all of the fatalities were either falling injuries or heart attacks!
Go and enjoy!
Most of my French wildboar experience was near the German border, and with a German born host, so we had German organisation and discipline with French flair, food and wines, in German quantities - the best of all possible worlds! The hunt legislation is well enforced and more than once over the 20'ish years we were visited by the Wildlife/Nature Police. They were always, polite, friendly and helpful unlike ............. There are explicit legal duties on the driven hunt overall captain, the line captains, and the beating team captain. As a consequence we were spared some of the scarier experiences one hears related of French hunting. They publish figures for deaths and injuries annually in France and I only know of 2 fatalities in the last 25 years attributable to 1 person shooting another. There was a huge outcry because someone shot a mushroom picker - deemed contributory negligence (equivalent) because he should not have been there and had passed "chasse en cours" = hunt in progress signs on his way into the area. Almost all of the fatalities were either falling injuries or heart attacks!
Go and enjoy!
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