Wanted: Big game Scandinavian contacts

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firebird

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Hello everyone. Being from Canada we get minimal exposure to any outfitters/ph in Scandinavia. And any brokers advertising Europe are aiming at the US market and pricing accordingly. $$$$

Has anyone got any direct contacts. I was thinking reindeer in Norway initially.

Thank you
 
Hi firebird, i dont have any experience of Norway but I have hunted in Finland and the raindeer there are semi domesticated not a very challanging hunt. However if you wanted a great experience of large game hunting you could look at Estonia. They have good numbers of Moose and Wild boar, a 2 day driven hunt with the local hunting club will not break the bank. I will p.m. you details later.
Tusker
 
tusker said:
Hi firebird, i dont have any experience of Norway but I have hunted in Finland and the raindeer there are semi domesticated not a very challanging hunt. However if you wanted a great experience of large game hunting you could look at Estonia. They have good numbers of Moose and Wild boar, a 2 day driven hunt with the local hunting club will not break the bank. I will p.m. you details later.
Tusker
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Hi Tusker,
Would you mind sending me some details too please.
Thanks,
Madu
 
Like said, Finnish reindeer are considered domestic animals and it's against the law to hunt them (or terminate them using "hunting style methods").

AFAIK there were some German hunters, maybe late 1980s, that were "hunting" the reindeer for trophies. It was leaked to the press and as you could guess it was not received well. Hunting legislation got complete rewrite in 1992-1993.

I second Estonia, clubs there are much more oriented to have paying guests, than in Finland. There are good deals to have in Finland too, but you have to be more "in the know".
 
I hunted with a Matti Myllymaki (mm.hunting on Instagram) when he and I were both clients of SikaMalc in scotland.
Matti runs a lot of hunts in Finland and Estonia and I th8nk he has some Eastern European access as well.
 
Hunted with this outfit some years ago very professional

www.scandinavianprohunters.com

Scandinavian Pro Hunters

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Wild Forest Reindeer in Finland are now off ticket. There are so few left since the Wolf population killed off most of them.
 
There is some areas in Norway with populations of wild reindeer. I have no idea if they sell hunts on them to foreningers.

I believe it is very popular for the locals so i would expect it to be quite expensive.

Google translate here.
It is a draw and permits are in many cases personal and cannot be sold.

If you would like to hunt reindeer with a Scandinavian touch, Greenland would be the place to go. The reindeer there have been mixed with 263 Norwegian domestic reindeer in the 50s.
 
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Tralle said:
There is some areas in Norway with populations of wild reindeer. I have no idea if they sell hunts on them to foreningers.

I believe it is very popular for the locals so i would expect it to be quite expensive.

Google translate here.
It is a draw and permits are in many cases personal and cannot be sold.

If you would like to hunt reindeer with a Scandinavian touch, Greenland would be the place to go. The reindeer there have been mixed with 263 Norwegian domestic reindeer in the 50s.
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Okay great thank you
 
The trouble with Reindeer in Norway is the fact, that non-Norwegians are not allowed to hunt reindeer on state-owned land, only on private grounds. Of the few areas with reindeer in Norway, only a few percent is private. You do the math, I've seen pricing up to EUR 10.000 for one head of reindeer... Greenland is the way to go, easier to find and cheaper.
But also red deer in the mountains in the western part of Norway is great hunting, and also fair priced.
 
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