The cost of boar shooting abroad

[Corvid8x57]

My trip to Croatia is a highlight of the year - great company & proper sport. However, it is the opportunity to shoot a driven boar, not a certainty. Too many people think that it will be like Wild Boar Fever & are disappointed. Counting the days until November!

 

[NullMac]

The reality is that you can have a few good days at the stags for that price. Red deer stalking is very cheap in global terms.

 

[Deutsch - Drahthaar]

Its certainly getting more popular and more expensive and with wild unfenced its not guaranteed either. I like to do 3-4 trips a year but don't like thinking about the costs.

 

[Deutsch - Drahthaar]

It be easier and cheaper to set up a connection for some serious hunting/shooting in Aus. Air fare included.

I have always wanted to do that just with the big dogs in Aus or NZ

 

[John Gryphon]

I have always wanted to do that just with the big dogs in Aus or NZ

Do some random searchings and you will find plenty of blokes that will let you tag along for beer and fuel.
When I had my own pack and it was in the internet days i would have had a Pom a fortnight...
"hoy Pom,he`s a good boar,take my knife and stick him"

 

[CBH Australia]

If you could point that sweat deal out to me, I would bite your hand off!

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I have been to Africa on a cull hunt package that was good value and offered by an outfitter when I posted what I was looking for.

 

[Selous]

Huntershill offered some amazing cull packages at the Stalking show last year. From memory in the £2.5k bracket

 

[Selous]

Here you go @Stalker1962 I found the photo of the flyer from the thread

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Did anyone pick up a flyer from the guys at this years show offering what looked like a really good deal in eastern cape ? I picked one up and lost it before I could follow up. My son and I are now thinking about putting a trip together. Any leads or contacts appreciated. Cheers all.

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[Jagare]

My trip to Croatia is a highlight of the year - great company & proper sport. However, it is the opportunity to shoot a driven boar, not a certainty. Too many people think that it will be like Wild Boar Fever & are disappointed. Counting the days until November!

Before covid kicked in I went to Croatia on a trip that Vlad organised. It was a first rate hunting trip with plenty of boar seen and shot. I've been on two trips with Vlad, highly recommended.
There are trips where certain numbers of boar are expected to be shot. When the numbers fall short is a refund given? There are agents who are quick enough to charge overages. The agent I have used in Hungary charges by how many boar are shot. A basic charge and then a price for say 1- 10, 10- 20, 20 - 30 ect. The last time I went ,just before covid we had a bag of 90 + on the parade. Over two days and that cost me 1600 euro's. With driving down and hotels, hotels that are very reasonable in Hungary plus eating out in the evenings the whole trip came in at under 2500 Euros.
The dealings with the Hugarian agent was all done very professionally by them..

 

[Pighunter]

If a hunt organiser sells a trip where a certain number of boar are expected to be shot then I would expect the bag to be around the numbers advertised.. I have no problem if there is a reasonable number of boar shot at the end of the day but lady luck has not smiled on me. Such is hunting.

Absolutely.

The last hunt I went on in Hungary was advertised as 30 boar included and we ended up with 9. The beaters worked hard but the ground had been hammered, as could be seen from the visitors book.

There was little shooting and I had 2 shots at boar at 200 yards. The organiser had told me that I would be fine with a 9.3x74R Express with open sights, with proper advice I would have taken my 300 winmag with scope, which might have given me a chance.

Just not good enough having parted with just shy of 2 grand........

 

[swagger700]

I went on my first trip to Bulgaria this year which I thought was decent value for money compared to driven game shooting here. 2.3k all in apart from beer and few bits for tips .I had 3 days where all I saw was a roe deer and not much trade but 15mins of madness on the other day where all hell broke lose and I was lucky enough to shoot 3 including a decent boar which I suppose i was lucky 2 people never saw anything in 4 days. Accommodation was good food was good

 

[Jagare]

I went on my first trip to Bulgaria this year which I thought was decent value for money compared to driven game shooting here. 2.3k all in apart from beer and few bits for tips .I had 3 days where all I saw was a roe deer and not much trade but 15mins of madness on the other day where all hell broke lose and I was lucky enough to shoot 3 including a decent boar which I suppose i was lucky 2 people never saw anything in 4 days. Accommodation was good food was good

How many guns and what was the final bag?

 

[reiver]

I have hunted on the continent since 2006
Back then I started with basswood. Franks trips then for 3 days hunting and b&b were around £1300 a trip with normally 15-20 boar if the guns could shoot . Things were a bit basic at times back then
Now excluding flights and tips you would be expected to pay around the £2000-3000 mark ? But then again the cost of everything has gone up in the last 18yrs . I still think it is great value for money compared to a day on the Grouse or a couple of days on pheasants
I shoot driven boar on a estate that has no bag limits and no trophy fees completely wild boar with no fences but you get what you get sometimes 30 boar a day and sometimes 4or5 but that’s not always down to the estate and more the weather , the quality of the hunters and Diana being on our side to get a good bag for they day ..
I shot 4 on the bounce on a drive one year saw a lot more as I had a double train come past me none of the other guns saw anything !! But that’s why it’s called hunting.
If you want big numbers then you probably need to go to a fenced hunting ground and if you book to shoot 80 boar that’s what the group will shoot give or take one or two on the trip .

 

[swagger700]

12 guns bag would be 30ish plus a big varmint. People who had been before said it was quite they were all blaming the wolves which there was trade

 

[Sol]

I know boar or driven game isn't something you jump into unaware but I must admit the prices are fairly intimidating as a newbie, £2500+ for the stress of perhaps not even shooting at an animal when the time comes.
when I could have a few days out deer stalking (tons, if I were to do does/hinds) in a much more relaxed controlled environment.

It looks bloody fantastic and great fun but I wouldn't be keen for rifle driven game though what seems to be the standard.

 

[swagger700]

I went cos I'd always wanted to go. I will be trying it again. I thought it was value for the experience of going away and the shooting I got

 

[Jagare]

I know boar or driven game isn't something you jump into unaware but I must admit the prices are fairly intimidating as a newbie, £2500+ for the stress of perhaps not even shooting at an animal when the time comes.
when I could have a few days out deer stalking (tons, if I were to do does/hinds) in a much more relaxed controlled environment.

It looks bloody fantastic and great fun but I wouldn't be keen for rifle driven game though what seems to be the standard.

For £ 2500 you could get yourself a place in a decent deer syndicate. Driven boar is very addictive and worth trying just for the experience. Watching wild boar fever vids does give a unrealistic impression of what driven boar is for us mere mortals. Over the years I've had mainly good driven boar days with a few that I considered to be border line rip offs.
Personally looking at some of the trips offered and bag expectations they seem expensive for what you get and there are other good shooting experiences that are better value for money..
I'll be sticking to boar shooting with the local hunting team and buy the odd day here in Sweden.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

12 guns bag would be 30ish plus a big varmint. People who had been before said it was quite they were all blaming the wolves which there was trade

I had that in the Hoenfels US training area in Bavaria. "Sorry the bag is again as bad as last years all being due to the wolf reintroduction" no mention of a rebate to the 75 guns with only 28 bagged, I saw nothing on both days. I complained the year after at the Dortmund show and K&K premium jagd said they would not go there again. The boss BTW was in the Caribbean when I did my trip, cant do rebates eh?
To compare, I sat out 1.5kms from my home over some maize bait last night for 4.5 hrs till 00:15 waiting on two 40kgs that have been seen there, A fox and that was it but it costs me nothing, there I am lucky.

 

[levigsp]

So what people need to realise is that ASF has reduced the numbers of boar across Europe drastically, resulting in the following.
1 Certain untrustworthy organisers are charging for unrealistic bags.
2 Certain greedy organisers know they have the pigs and know supply and demand make people pay more.
3 Some organisers just utilise bigger areas to get their client the sport promised. meaning more beaters, dogs etc and paying more out to clubs to use their land. Result higher prices.
4 Yet others have the numbers of pigs and charge sensible prices.
Its in your interest to do your homework.
I hunted in Hungary until numbers crashed and prices jumped. I then moved my attention to Croatia and still go there to certain places, finally Poland, harder to find whats needed but when you do!
I have always been of the opinion that we go fishing to catch fish, shooting to shoot something etc, this mindset that we go for company of some sort and the hunting is secondary is rubbish.
I go boar hunting to get boar, and apart from one trip I have always succeeded. And I do not pay huge sums! My last trip in total for 3 days driven, 1 week self catering accommodation for myself and wife, whilst not at the hunting ground. All food etc, cost me a little over £2000. Do your work, get to know people and it pays off. As for Africa, well lets go back to 2002, Flights from UK, lodge and hunting 6 cull animals, and 3 trophy animals, Greater Kudu, Scimitar oryx, And a blue duiker All in cost was about £8000, Ill leave it there.

 

[swagger700]

The brief shooting I had in the 4 days away was like a wild boar fever video . Shot 1 crossing ride 1crosing in front then missed one going away, then big one came had 1 shot in front of me then another shot 20 yards from me both with no reaction as though I'd missed rolled over 50yards away had 2 bullet holes touching when we went to look .2 bullet from 7mm rem mag tough animals !!