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Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

Title:	The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:	Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:	SALEM::PAPPALARDO

Created:	Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1561
Total number of notes:	17784

591.0. "Isn't Europe hunting" by BONNET::VANDELINDE () Fri Jan 19 1990 05:40

    Hi,
    
    Reading through this notesfile, I've read some wonderful hunting
    stories, but nearly all from the US.
       
    Haven't we been hunting in Europe or were we too busy hunting so
    that we didn't have the time to write something in this file. There
    must be some nice stories waiting to be told.
    
    As for me, last year was my first hunting year. I obtained my licence
    in april 1989. In Holland, it's quite difficult to start hunting.
    I depended on invitations from friends, so I haven't been in the
    field as much as I wanted to, but I did have some nice hunting days
    on rabbits, hare, ducks and pheasants.
    The hunt on this game is closed now (except rabbits and
    cock-pheasants), but now the geese are coming down to Holland, so
    that predicts some nice hunting mornings for january and february.
    
    Dick

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
591.1	Howdy	XCUSME::NEWSHAM	I'm the NRA	`Fri Jan 19 1990 06:09`	8
	Dick, It's good to see Sportsmen ( oops..and Sportswomen if their out there ) from across the pond relating hunting stories to this conference. We need the new blood, as it gets kind of slow in here during the winta'r months. Red from New Hampsire, U.S.A
591.2		NHL::PAPPALARDO		`Fri Jan 19 1990 13:29`	13
	Dick, Does Holland offer any big game and if so what would that be ? If not, How far is Sweden from you, and have you considered Moose ? Nice to hear from someone way overthere. Rick ( Also from New Hampshire U.S.A.)
591.3	Dutch big game	BONNET::VANDELINDE		`Mon Jan 22 1990 03:40`	20
	Rick, Holland is a very small country and nearly all the land is cultivated. We have one little national park "De Veluwe", which is nothing compared to the huge national parks in the US, but there's living big game in it. I'm talking then about wild boar and deer. Because the park is having a maximum capacity of big game, some has to be shooted each year. The licences to kill a deer or a wild boar are distributed among a very little group of hunters, so the ordinary dutch hunter will never shoot big game on dutch territory. Sweden could be a possibility though. The swedish moose are living at about 1000 miles from where I'm living. I didn't go after this possibility yet. I just started hunting in Holland and I still got a lot to find out about the hunt on small game in my own country. But I'm sure that I'll consider this swedish trip in some years. Dick.
591.4		XCUSME::NEWSHAM	I'm the NRA	`Mon Jan 22 1990 03:54`	7
	>>>> Swedish Moose So that's were Swedish Meetballs come from...All kidding aside, what is the average size of the Swedish moose ? Are they basically the same as the North American species ? Red
591.5	Swedish Moose	MAIL::HENSON		`Mon Jan 22 1990 09:55`	5
	As I understand it, the Swedish Moose is the same species as our American Elk (Wapiti). I've read several articles in which this was pointed out. Jerry
591.6		BOMBE::BONIN		`Mon Jan 22 1990 10:01`	6
	A few years ago American Hunter magazine carried a story about a group of Swedish moose hunters. The Swedes had traveled all the way to Alaska to hunt the North American moose, which towers over its relatives in Sweden. Doug