I don't write deer stalker because I think here in Norway we hunt our deer somewhat different from you British deer hunters. First of all we don't have your moors and large areas of open ground where we can spot the deer and stalk it. Our deer roam our woods and mountains. And our deer is very much nocturnal, it stays in cover during daylight hours and come out and graze when dark. And to hunt deer in daylight hours, it's pretty much useless to step in to the woods and search for the deer. They will hear us and see us long before we can spot them. So in daylight we use the ambush method. Find their trails in the woods and wait near them. Or arrange small drives, when we have an idea where the deer may lay resting. Send a hunter down wind to disturb it, but not scare it too much. We want it to move as slow as possible when it decides to move. Deer running scared are difficult targets. And we hunt at night, when they are active and can gather in quite large groups out on the fields to graze. Night hunting is legal in Norway and very common. Good optics is essential , but night vision optics aren't allowed. It is amazing how close one can get to the animals at night, and in good moonlight one can have safe shots on grazing deer. It is much easier to do selective shooting at night in the moonlight than at day. Hunting has a large popular following here in Norway. It is widely accepted and very seldom get any negative press. When thinking of it, we have around 500.000 registered hunters here out of a population of 5 million. So every 10th Norwegian is a hunter , out of our 5 million adult male/female, kid , baby , elderly in nursery homes. In practice this will mean I think, that nearly 40% of our voters are hunters. So we haven't any anti hunters political party here. Even our Green Party (MDG) will claim with a shy smile : " No, we aren't anti hunting or anti guns") even though I guess they hate our guts. But they dare not say so. It is still affordable to hunt and hopefully it will stay so. And a bit more lenient towards buying and keeping hunting guns than what you guys experience ...
Norwegian deer hunter
- Thread starter Robinson
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Roedeer 1962
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Nice write up from the continent, thank you Robinson
Thank you for consider us being continental. We don't feel much continental up here in the north east corner of Europe, but technically I guess we belong the continent.
Posting a picture of our hunting camp some autumns ago. We tend to have very modest accommodations some times, but the benefit is that the hunting part start as soon as we get outside. Late season buck here.
Posting a picture of our hunting camp some autumns ago. We tend to have very modest accommodations some times, but the benefit is that the hunting part start as soon as we get outside. Late season buck here.
Beautiful country & great people - damned cold in the winter & in the summer I swear some of the mosquitos are that big they have got 4 engines!!
My avatar pic was taken after a successful hunt near Løten about 8-10 years ago.
My avatar pic was taken after a successful hunt near Løten about 8-10 years ago.
True @Donkey Basher , mosquitos can be a nuisance and they are big sometimes. But it´s been awhile since any has been actually abducted by them, and warning signs are put up in areas with high risk of mosquito attacks...
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