Hunting - last page

Another reason for keeping the population down - apart from giving people meat and the mooses from starving from overpopulation - is to avoid accidents. Moose accidents in traffic are pretty common, and as you may have guessed, the triangle with the black moose is a traffic mark that warns for mooses. It is widely seen in Sweden and has become a popular souvernir for German tourists to steal!
 
 

My main reason for liking the hunting is the experience of nature that it gives. Sitting outside all alone in the forest often lets you see a lot of wildlife, and the killing is not the main thing, even if it of course does feel like something of a bonus if the hunting also pays off a bit. Watching the woods come to life in the morning or, as in this picture, calm down as the sun sets is a relaxing experience that makes you forget the stress of the city.

The dog is the hunter's most valuable companion, and there's actually a rule that you have to be able to have a tracker dog present within 2 hours in case you damage an animal and have to search for it to make sure it's dead. Dogs are of course also used in the hunting itself. Henna (left) is a labrador retriever and basically a bird dog, but we use her also when we hunt moose and deer. On our land there is, apart from moose, also roe deer and hares that we hunt, and also quite a lot of foxes, badgers, squirrels and woodpeckers. There's also sometimes capercaillies and black grouses, that are hunted in Sweden but to my knowledge none has been shot around where I hunt. The other year though, my cousin did shoot a hazel grouse. So there's a lot happening in the woods. If you're lucky (and I was happy to be this year) you can also get to see eagles that are truly majestic birds. (In case you wonder, capercaille, black grouse and hazel-hen are birds of the same family as the pheasant. They are more common in the inner and Northern parts of the country where the woods are deeper and more undisturbed.)

 

Finally just a couple of pictures from the lake we have nearby. I was lucky to catch me along with the rainbows (2 of them!), and then there's my dad with Henna, the dog, in front of him and our two hunting comrades Owe and Matti (who shot the bull).
 

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Swedish hunters association - here you can find more information about hunting in Sweden

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