Resume

On Monday morning we left Hungary after a great week of hunting, thanks to Franz who made it possible to hunt his area while he was on a holiday trip to Croatia with his fiancee and all the others in Hungary who took good care of us.
After meeting some friends in Austria we collected the meat of the first buck, payed Franz a visit in Vienna to say "Thank you" and good bye and went back to Germany.

Now we're looking forward of the salmon season to start on Vänern and to go back to Sweden.

Hungary, buck 3 and 4

Saturday and Sunday I had to hunt in another area together with Gabor, who was guiding me.
Saturday morning was without success, so we went back in the evening. On the first stand we could see only a few young bucks, which made us to change the spot and the stand. Even at the other stand we saw at the beginning only a young buck and a doe, feeding lonely. As darkness approached, a buck came out of the forest close to our stand. We watched him with the binoculars and decided that he was good to be harvested, which I did. He went down at the spot.
I gave Franz a call and he told me that there was another buck to be collected to fulfill the harvesting plan for the area. So we went out again the next day, a bit earlier as the day before. After reaching the stand in early morning dusk our target buck entered the scene. Gabor called him with the whistle into shooting range. I shot and after a few seconds he was down.

Hungary, buck 2

On Thursday evening we saw only a family of wild boar with 10 piglets eating snails in the bush close to our stand, no buck. The next morning we went to another stand, but apart from some wild boar and red deer and a young buck, nothing was around. So we decided to drive a little bit through the area close to river Danube. Around 9:00 o'clock we saw a doe approx. 50 m away between some bushes. Ferrie stopped and said, the buck must be there as well. We waited a few minutes, Ferrie called with the whistle and the buck came out, perfectly placed for a shot. He went a few meters before going down.

Hungary , 1st buck

The next day we continued our trip to the Hungarian area close to the Austrian/Slovakian border.
At the hunting lodge we were welcomed by Piroschka, who should take care of us in the coming days in terms of cooking and so on. I called the professional hunter, Ferrie, who is taking care of the hunting area and agreed on a first outing in the evening, which was not successful. On the next day we saw a lot of wild boar and red deer but no roe buck to fit in our targeted scheme.
On Thursday morning we went out again at 4:30 and it was pouring down with rain. We went to the same stand as the day before. After waiting half an hour we saw a buck entering the road in the forest together with a doe. Ferrie said, this is our buck. The two were playing around and finally mated. After that, the buck disappeared into the bush. Ferrie called him with the whistle, he jumped out again and I shot him, he was down immediately.

Roebuck hunting trip to Austria-Hungary

I received an invitation from my friend Franz from Vienna to hunt some Roebuck during the mating/rutting season in his hunting areas in Austria and Hungary. So we started on the 1st of August our trip to the south-east.
After meeting in Vienna, we went on the first evening to his Austrian area. We entered the stand and already saw the buck, which was our target. Franz called him with a whistle imitating the call of a doe in the rut. The buck came closer to the stand but was allover sudden accompanied by another buck challenging him, this took a few minutes than the second buck went off and we could lure him again so that I was able to pay him a shot, after a few meters he went down. The first buck was harvested.