BOULDER BROOK:DIARY OF A GERMAN WACHTELHUND HUNTER

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Deutscher Wachtelhund (DW)

DIARY OF A GERMAN WACHTELHUND HUNTER

Alexander Hubertus Busch has chronicled his Wachtelhund hunts in Germany in the Fall 2005 November and December.

The forester who manages the area and plans the hunt has rights to the animals harvested. He may give the game to the hunters, take it to a butcher shop, or put it in his freezer. Some forest areas are owned or rented by a hunting club.

Next driven day was on the 4th of November on a military training range (we saw a camp of British tanks - no joke).

It wasn’t a very good day. We got 4 fallow, 11 boar and 2 roe deer.
That day there were not so many game. They were more north on the range we were the next day. The range has a total size of 10500 hectare (26,500 acres).

Here is a fine looking example of a Wachtelhund, Netti Weidelsburg 02-697. He will be released for the hunt in a few minutes. The hunting stand is behind him. A stand is not used in all hunts.

On Nov. 5, the next day in the northern part of the military area. We got 2 red deer, round about 30 fallow, 25 boar and round about 10 roe.

The fire is a tradition (flambeaus are also used for that purpose). It is made to be reverence for the quarry and to make it a little bit ceremonial. For every species is also blown a special signal [tune] with the hunting horn. And at the end of the Signal, the hunt is over. Hunting is harvesting but it’s to show that we haven’t forgotten that we killed an animal to eat it.

Next hunt was on the 17th of November. It was the hunt of the prime minister of Hessen (Mr. Koch) . I was not invited by him.
We were invited by the forestry commission (they organized the hunt) because of our dogs.

On 18th of November the hunt was again on a military training area.

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On the next day (19th of November) the next hunt was the same area, but several kilometers more north.

I was that day on the end of tank shooting range. You could see really far. In front of me was a wide area of broom (some hundred hectares). Inside that was red deer, boar and roe deer.

My high seat was damaged by machine gun bullets. It was standing at the border of the shooting range.

View from the hunting stand.

I got a piglet that day. It was caught by the dog after a bad shot. Ended it up with the knife (shooting is too dangerous for the dog).

The next hunt was 23rd of November. It was a good bag. I remember 27 red deer, 25 boar, some roe and one fox. It was a very nice day. The dogs worked very well. The younger dog caught together with 3 other dogs a wounded male boar (3 years and 67 kilo) and the older one brought quite a lot of game to us (red and boar).

This boar that was caught by the dogs. It had a bad shot on the front leg. Quite good work from dogs and my girl friend (Just as explanation: for safety reasons because of the dogs you cant shoot then and you must end it up with the knife). My girlfriend sticked [knifed] the wounded boar.

Sticking means if the dogs have caught a boar and you must kill it with the knife. I don’t know the right English expression. Its too dangerous to shoot in such a situation because the dog(s) cover the boar.

It was really a perfect day with some really brilliant work from the dogs.

Hubertus

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