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017.jpg The Weihrauch HW60: in 17HMR, shortened by 8in and screwcut for a Jet-Z moderator, owned and work carried out by Chris Blackburn. Scope is a Leupold VII 3-9x50 and it has a Harris bipod
 
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011.jpg Chris Blackburn and his highseat, 3456 x 2304
 
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009.jpg Chris Blackburn (left) and Rich McFall put up the highseat, 3456 x 2304
 
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042.jpg A British boarshooter after boarshooting in Bavaria, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBoarshooting is half skill, half addiction. A good shot can make an almost impossible situation go right. He or she will be ready to fling the rifle to their shoulder and shoot in the split second it takes for a boar to cross a ride. Or if the boar is at a difficult angle for a shot, they will turn it by shooting in front of it.Who goes on these boar shoots from the UK? “You get the regulars,” says Peter Carr, the sporting agent in charge of our group and regular contributor to Sporting Rifle, “but two-thirds of shooters who come with me are new to it.“What it is with British clients is they are all driven bird shots and they want to try this. But it’s often not what they expect. I prefer it when stalkers come out here.“This is totally different to pheasant shooting. It’s more like a fox drive with a Welsh gun pack.”We were in Bavaria for two days’ driven boar – one small day on Count Erbach’s estate and a big day on Baron von Mayrhofen’s land. The party consisted of three groups of friends from Northumberland and Derbyshire. Most were new to boarshooting.Brian Scott had most of the sport in the British party. He shot four boar and a fox on the first “knockabout” day. He also hit a keiler – a large male boar – that was finished off by the next gun. Brian is a good shot. He is a Foresty Commission wildlife ranger at Kielder Forest and part of his job is culling 250 roe deer a year. He has been with the Forestry Commission for four years. Before that, he was a keeper/stalker on an estate in Banffshire. He has stalked all six of the UK’s deer species plus wild goat and a British wild boar in Scotland. He is using a Blaser R93 in .30-06, which he bought specifically for boar shooting. Scope is a Zeiss Aimpoint 2.5-10x50.Brian was not a novice. He had came out with Peter Carr to the same estate on a driven boar hunt in 2006. “I also use the .30-06 on red and sika – and it has even be
 
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040.jpg Jack Boyd retrieves a fox on Count Erbach's estate in Bavaria, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBoarshooting is half skill, half addiction. A good shot can make an almost impossible situation go right. He or she will be ready to fling the rifle to their shoulder and shoot in the split second it takes for a boar to cross a ride. Or if the boar is at a difficult angle for a shot, they will turn it by shooting in front of it.Who goes on these boar shoots from the UK? “You get the regulars,” says Peter Carr, the sporting agent in charge of our group and regular contributor to Sporting Rifle, “but two-thirds of shooters who come with me are new to it.“What it is with British clients is they are all driven bird shots and they want to try this. But it’s often not what they expect. I prefer it when stalkers come out here.“This is totally different to pheasant shooting. It’s more like a fox drive with a Welsh gun pack.”We were in Bavaria for two days’ driven boar – one small day on Count Erbach’s estate and a big day on Baron von Mayrhofen’s land. The party consisted of three groups of friends from Northumberland and Derbyshire. Most were new to boarshooting.Brian Scott had most of the sport in the British party. He shot four boar and a fox on the first “knockabout” day. He also hit a keiler – a large male boar – that was finished off by the next gun. Brian is a good shot. He is a Foresty Commission wildlife ranger at Kielder Forest and part of his job is culling 250 roe deer a year. He has been with the Forestry Commission for four years. Before that, he was a keeper/stalker on an estate in Banffshire. He has stalked all six of the UK’s deer species plus wild goat and a British wild boar in Scotland. He is using a Blaser R93 in .30-06, which he bought specifically for boar shooting. Scope is a Zeiss Aimpoint 2.5-10x50.Brian was not a novice. He had came out with Peter Carr to the same estate on a driven boar hunt in 2006. “I also use the .30-06 on red and sika – and it h
 
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035.jpg End of day, after shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was difficult when yo
 
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033.jpg Dan Muse, with a Blaser R93 with .300 Win barrel shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your
 
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027.jpg Oops missed! A wild boarshooter in Croatia shows where the bullet went, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was
 
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026.jpg Boarshooting in Croatia, Phil Lever from Dorset was using a scope he had bought specially for this trip. It is like an open scope and has a red dot projected on to a screen inside the scope to give you your zero. The clever bit is that it adjusts parallax error for you. The dot moves as you move your head. This scope is made by EO Tech. “It’s like shooting a shotgun,” says Phil, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety
 
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024.jpg Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was difficult when you could see you had shot a boar th
 
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008.jpg Boarshooter Otto Astrachewsky and his nine-year-old daughter Paulina on Baron von Mayrhofen's estate in Bavaria, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBoarshooting is half skill, half addiction. A good shot can make an almost impossible situation go right. He or she will be ready to fling the rifle to their shoulder and shoot in the split second it takes for a boar to cross a ride. Or if the boar is at a difficult angle for a shot, they will turn it by shooting in front of it.Who goes on these boar shoots from the UK? “You get the regulars,” says Peter Carr, the sporting agent in charge of our group and regular contributor to Sporting Rifle, “but two-thirds of shooters who come with me are new to it.“What it is with British clients is they are all driven bird shots and they want to try this. But it’s often not what they expect. I prefer it when stalkers come out here.“This is totally different to pheasant shooting. It’s more like a fox drive with a Welsh gun pack.”We were in Bavaria for two days’ driven boar – one small day on Count Erbach’s estate and a big day on Baron von Mayrhofen’s land. The party consisted of three groups of friends from Northumberland and Derbyshire. Most were new to boarshooting.Brian Scott had most of the sport in the British party. He shot four boar and a fox on the first “knockabout” day. He also hit a keiler – a large male boar – that was finished off by the next gun. Brian is a good shot. He is a Foresty Commission wildlife ranger at Kielder Forest and part of his job is culling 250 roe deer a year. He has been with the Forestry Commission for four years. Before that, he was a keeper/stalker on an estate in Banffshire. He has stalked all six of the UK’s deer species plus wild goat and a British wild boar in Scotland. He is using a Blaser R93 in .30-06, which he bought specifically for boar shooting. Scope is a Zeiss Aimpoint 2.5-10x50.Brian was not a novice. He had came out with Peter Carr to the same estate on a driven boar hunt in 2006.
 
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015.jpg Northumberland roestalker and foxshooter Ken Story shooting from a standing position using a bipod for acuracy. Shooter is well camouflaged and using a tree for cover, 3456 x 2304
 
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021.jpg Charlie Jacoby stalking roe in Somerset. Using a Sauer 202 in .308. 3456 x 2304
 
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025.jpg Loading the Sauer 202 magazine, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLERoe does: 202 testSweet and Sauer source of funJust as the roebuck season turned into the roe doe season, Charlie Jacoby got to test the Sauer 202 with synthetic stock. Here’s what he thoughtHow do they know? One of the farms next to where I live in Somerset rises sharply up towards common land covered in woods and stuffed with roebucks. Throughout the roebuck season, I would trudge wearily up towards that land with the occasionally lucky chance of seeing and shooting a buck. On my way there, I would pass a few small copses where the roe does that lived there with this year’s young would show themselves in confident nonchalance. So rare that my encounters with bucks that I comforted myself that, come 1 November when does become legal and bucks go out of season, I would be filling my freezer. That 1 November coincided with the arrival of the new 202 Sauer synthetic stock model, with Trijicon 2.5-10x56 scope: the perfect rifle to do the business in the cold and wet weather of late autumn. I unwrapped it and took it to the flattish piece of ground referred to over-grandly as the Sporting Rifle range. The last eight of a dozen Sako Gameheads into the black spot on the cardboard box later and we are ready to go. Even with the near “field” conditions of the Sporting Rifle range – i.e. shooting prone on uneven ground – the rifle was achieving sub 1MoA accuracy. I would expect to pay more than the £XXX cost of this rifle and scope set-up for better accuracy. I would send it back too the shop if I achieved less (or take a few shooting lessons). With our hills rolling around us in the way they do, I am seldom more than 100 yards from the necessary backstop.It was nearly dark when I started zeroing the set-up. The Trijicon took this in its stride. The scope drew more than enough light until the last rays of sun had disappeared. And even then it gave a clearer picture than the binoculars I was carrying. Its i
 
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041.jpg Clifford Hillier from London with Ruger No 1 in .243 and Bushnell Elite scope. He stalks fallow and roe in Hampshire, 2304 x 3456
 
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045.jpg Paul Douglas of Hertfordshire with Sako 75 in .30-06 calibre. He has a Schmidt and Bender 8x56 scope. Usually stalks roe, muntjac fallow and chinese water deer.2304 x 3456
 
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067.jpg Northumberland foxshooter and roestalker Ken Story's Sako Finnlight in .308 with Gerhardt Nickel Supra 3-10x52 scope, 2154 x 2304
 
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078.jpg Remington 700, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEKeith Varley’s foxing rifle started life as a 22-250 Remington 700. A friend of his had it for target shooting and liked its groups, so he sent it down to Norman Clark Gunsmith for some customisation. Norman Clark converted it to 6mm PPC, put on a Shilen trigger and a barrel by Border Barrels, glass bedded into the stock. Then the friend found an even better rifle, so sold this one to Keith. “I would have had a Jewell trigger but the Shilen trigger is what Norman did,” says Keith.The set-up includes a Nightforce 8-32x56 scope with ladder reticle instead of mil-dot and a sidewheel adjustment. Keith explains: “There’s a lot of woodland where I shoot. You get foxes creeping around. You will see an eye; you have checked it’s a fox not a roe deer. The beauty of this scope is you can zoom in from the back and adjust the focus on the sidewheel.“With a Swarovski scope, you daren’t do that, because if you start fiddling with the focus/zoom at the front, you can lose the fox. The only problem with the Nightforce scope is its pop-up lens protectors, which swivel when you zoom in.”The rifle has a Harris bipod. Keith likes the heavier bipods but prefers shooting off a bag when using the car bonnet as a rest.He also has a monopod near the butt of the rifle, which he grips with his left hand when he takes a shot. “I was brought up to believe that the less contact I have with the gun the better,” he says.“I’ve got quite a lot of money tied up in the rifle and scope but, if I’m doing a job, I’ve got to do it well. Every shot I take, I put a rod through it.”He doesn’t use a moderator on this gun because the extra weight would make it feel awkward but he has a Reflex T8 on his other gun – a Mannlicher .243 Rem he bought for deer. He says he has a friend who worked in forestry and went deaf because he used an unmoderated rifle. Scope on that is a 6-18x50 Swarovski on Mannlicher snap-on mounts. He also owns a .22 Hornet.“I don’t think
 
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014.jpg A roebuck in a roe sack, 2304 x 3456
 
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034.jpg End of day, after shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was difficult when yo
 
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038.jpg A discarded boar snout at end of day, after shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg.
 
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037.jpg Ian Ferguson, at end of day, after shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was
 
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036.jpg End of day, after shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was difficult when yo
 
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039.jpg Sporting agent Peter Carr retrieves a boar on Count Erbach's estate in Bavaria, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBoarshooting is half skill, half addiction. A good shot can make an almost impossible situation go right. He or she will be ready to fling the rifle to their shoulder and shoot in the split second it takes for a boar to cross a ride. Or if the boar is at a difficult angle for a shot, they will turn it by shooting in front of it.Who goes on these boar shoots from the UK? “You get the regulars,” says Peter Carr, the sporting agent in charge of our group and regular contributor to Sporting Rifle, “but two-thirds of shooters who come with me are new to it.“What it is with British clients is they are all driven bird shots and they want to try this. But it’s often not what they expect. I prefer it when stalkers come out here.“This is totally different to pheasant shooting. It’s more like a fox drive with a Welsh gun pack.”We were in Bavaria for two days’ driven boar – one small day on Count Erbach’s estate and a big day on Baron von Mayrhofen’s land. The party consisted of three groups of friends from Northumberland and Derbyshire. Most were new to boarshooting.Brian Scott had most of the sport in the British party. He shot four boar and a fox on the first “knockabout” day. He also hit a keiler – a large male boar – that was finished off by the next gun. Brian is a good shot. He is a Foresty Commission wildlife ranger at Kielder Forest and part of his job is culling 250 roe deer a year. He has been with the Forestry Commission for four years. Before that, he was a keeper/stalker on an estate in Banffshire. He has stalked all six of the UK’s deer species plus wild goat and a British wild boar in Scotland. He is using a Blaser R93 in .30-06, which he bought specifically for boar shooting. Scope is a Zeiss Aimpoint 2.5-10x50.Brian was not a novice. He had came out with Peter Carr to the same estate on a driven boar hunt in 2006. “I also use the .30-06 on red an
 
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032.jpg Dan Muse, with a Blaser R93 with .300 Win barrel shooting driven Croatian wild boar, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your
 
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031.jpg Croatian wild boar drive, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting, you stay on your peg. This was difficult when you could see you had shot a b
 
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030.jpg Ian Ferguson finds some ordnance, left-over from the war, while in Croatian on a wild boar shoot. This shell case was in the hotel, being used as a litter bin, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the ho
 
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029.jpg Charlie Jacoby with wild boar he shot in Croatia. Driven day organised by UK sporting agent Lasarotta, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental hornblowing ceremony where the headkeeper welcomes the shooters and reminds everyone of the safety rules, we set off into the hills.Safety rules dominate boar shooting. Nobody, after all, is ever “peppered” by a rifle bullet. The three main rules on the Croatian hunts were:- Shooting starts with three blasts on the horn and ends with one blast on the horn- During shooting,
 
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