Hi guys. I'm new here, just been reading for a few hours, and absolutely fascinated.
I'm from the UK. I live in the English Midlands. I'm gobsmacked by how different the hunting cultures are.
I'm a member of a syndicate which shoots driven pheasant and duck, in the traditional English way, which is definitely shooting rather hunting. The standard gun for this is a 12 bore o/u, but I shoot a 20 gauge Browning 725.
I also stalk deer (6 species in the UK, from little Muntjac and Chinese Water deer, through Roe, Fallow and Sika, up to quite big Reds) and shoot wild boar, which is sometimes driven sometimes not. .243 and .308 for the deer; 30-06 for the pigs.
The big theme I've come across here on the forum is finding, and jealously guarding, one's informal hunting spots. This is completely absent from our sport in the UK, because our island is so much smaller and more crowded (California is almost twice the size of the UK, but the UK has almost twice as many people in it).
In the UK (and most of Europe), you either own the land you shoot on, or you lease the right to shoot over it, or you have the written permission of the person who owns it to shoot over it. There is no public land that anyone with a license can hunt. Doesn't exist at all. That is like a dream to us.
On the other hand, if you want to stalk a deer, and you don't have land or shooting rights, anybody can book in with a professional stalker (who has shooting rights) and he will take you out, for not very much money, to stalk one. You don't need a license or any equipment. You can borrow a rifle and all his stuff.
I get the sense that this is not the case in the U.S.?
Which reminds me that I'm weirdly unable to access any .ca.gov internet page (dfa.ca.gov etc). I'm currently on a tiny island in the South Aegean with very slow internet, but it does work, just slowly. .ca.gov just doesn't work at all though. No page will load. I've tried for hours. Do they turn it off at weekends or something?
And in the absence of being able to get any info at all that way, please forgive me for asking, but can a visiting foreigner (who's prepared to fill in lots of forms well in advance) hunt at all in California? And are any deer or similar in season in the summer? I get the sense from the forum that it all kicks off about now.
Anyway, that's far too long a post. Got carried away. Apologies.
Great forum though. Loving it. Thanks for having me.
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I'm from the UK. I live in the English Midlands. I'm gobsmacked by how different the hunting cultures are.
I'm a member of a syndicate which shoots driven pheasant and duck, in the traditional English way, which is definitely shooting rather hunting. The standard gun for this is a 12 bore o/u, but I shoot a 20 gauge Browning 725.
I also stalk deer (6 species in the UK, from little Muntjac and Chinese Water deer, through Roe, Fallow and Sika, up to quite big Reds) and shoot wild boar, which is sometimes driven sometimes not. .243 and .308 for the deer; 30-06 for the pigs.
The big theme I've come across here on the forum is finding, and jealously guarding, one's informal hunting spots. This is completely absent from our sport in the UK, because our island is so much smaller and more crowded (California is almost twice the size of the UK, but the UK has almost twice as many people in it).
In the UK (and most of Europe), you either own the land you shoot on, or you lease the right to shoot over it, or you have the written permission of the person who owns it to shoot over it. There is no public land that anyone with a license can hunt. Doesn't exist at all. That is like a dream to us.
On the other hand, if you want to stalk a deer, and you don't have land or shooting rights, anybody can book in with a professional stalker (who has shooting rights) and he will take you out, for not very much money, to stalk one. You don't need a license or any equipment. You can borrow a rifle and all his stuff.
I get the sense that this is not the case in the U.S.?
Which reminds me that I'm weirdly unable to access any .ca.gov internet page (dfa.ca.gov etc). I'm currently on a tiny island in the South Aegean with very slow internet, but it does work, just slowly. .ca.gov just doesn't work at all though. No page will load. I've tried for hours. Do they turn it off at weekends or something?
And in the absence of being able to get any info at all that way, please forgive me for asking, but can a visiting foreigner (who's prepared to fill in lots of forms well in advance) hunt at all in California? And are any deer or similar in season in the summer? I get the sense from the forum that it all kicks off about now.
Anyway, that's far too long a post. Got carried away. Apologies.
Great forum though. Loving it. Thanks for having me.
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