France 2024/2025 Hunting Season

[Methos]

Bonjour ladies and gentlemen.

France's Hunting season has started a month ago but due to work and social obligations I wasn't able to partake in our first 3 driven hunts. By all accounts the first 3 were amazing. In the first one 12 boars were shot in less than an hour. Second and third delivered 8 and 7 boars each.

Saturday morning we were hunting an area called Le Cacalau, Provençal for snail. I were posted on the edge of an olive grove. Very dense in front of me but a lane of about 6 m between last olive tree and a excuse for a fence. When we got to our posts I were posted at the bottom of the small hill but I asked the organizers if I can deplace my post with 20m to be able to see both sides.



Things started very slow. We were on our posts for more than an hour before anything were chased up. I saw a boar at around 400m but obviously didn't shoot. It went to the other side and my friend shot at 3 times killing it. A while later I saw another boar of around 60kg at almost the same spot but it was coming down on our side. I had the cross on it, and when it stopped I was ready to shoot at around 230m. It is far in France but not where we hunt. I had the rifle on the tripod and as I were calculating my shot the guy next to me decided to hurry the pig up and started shooting at 300m.

I had the scope dialed up to 6 for the longer shot.


The boar was supposed to come our way and I were frantically looking for it, next moment I heard a noise to my left and a group off younger pigs of around 30kgs each ran out of the olive grove. I shouldered the 308 and the first one dropped just after the first olive tree. Let the second one pass as I reloaded and shot the 3rd one just as it got to the fence. Reloaded and gave a hurried shot at 5th one. Wounded it. The rest all disappeared into the impenetrable bush behind me.


À while later the dogs came by and chased up the one I wounded and I eventually killed it with a knife. I've never even shot a double and now a triple in my first hunt of the year. To say I'm stoked is a understatement! Last year I only shot 2 in 27 hunts and today 3. Thanks to all the trackers and dogs!





Cheers

[oafpatroll]

It was no less enjoyable reading it for a second time here. Thanks for sharing these accounts, reading them is almost like travel to as yet unexplored places for me.

[Treeman]

Bonjour ladies and gentlemen.

À while later the dogs came by and chased up the one I wounded and I eventually killed it with a knife. I've never even shot a double and now a triple in my first hunt of the year.
Cheers

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How do you tell a SA boy from the rest at a French hunt ?
uhhhhhhh ? the guy killing pigs with the knife is a good guess ?