Gday Dolgin
To answer your question on how we say congratulations, we mostly just say Well Done.
What does blagor mean ?
How have you guys been going lately, have you shot any deer?.
Cheers Hound Hunter.
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Gday Dolgin
To answer your question on how we say congratulations, we mostly just say Well Done.
What does blagor mean ?
How have you guys been going lately, have you shot any deer?.
Cheers Hound Hunter.
Here are a few photos from yesterday's hunt, the dogs worked well and we ended up getting a young doe.
The lucky hunter is Manny (His first deer).
It was a long carry out about 1.5 km.
Cheers Hound Hunter.
Here are a few photo's from the hunt we had on Monday, we ended up with a doe but a couple of the guys missed a good stag and i also missed a spiker :icon_redface:.
Check out the magazine in the photo's.
Here are a few photos of Leon's Sambar Stag back from the Taxidermist.
It's hard to translate well. English - Slovene dictionary says "wellfare" for blagor, so together, it would mean "Hunter's Wellfare". But in our language it sounds like some kind of congratulations.Citat:
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It's interesting to see animals and dogs from other countries, in that case from other continent. Can you shortly explain some major things about sambar?
What kind of dogs did you use in that hunt and how did you use them?
For Me it is also specially to see Lovec Magazine next to you! I wonder where did you get that? Do you get it in Australia?
Hound Hunter it is alway nice too se picters and huntings reports from you!
Regards!
Thank's for the explanation ZR7 as i have never heard that word in Slovenian.
What make's the Sambar deer so hard to hunt is their unpredictibility. Unlike most other deer species they do not all cast (loose) their antler's at the same time. Also they do not breed at the same time, they can have fawn's at any time of the year. Sambar also can have a very large home range (area). In all our hunt's we only use Bloodhound's and Beagle's to hunt Sambar deer as our hunting law's alllow. The way we use the hounds to hunt is to try and find fresh deer track's to start them on as the hound's are trained to voice (bark) on Scent (smell).If we can not find fresh print's i will let them out and walk them around the bush (forest) in areas where i know deer like to be and most times they find their own. Then it is just a matter of staying well ahead of the hunt and try to get a shot at the deer.
Where in Slovenia is PIG VALLEY or is that a secret?. :icon_lol:
Gday Ganges No they do not sell the Lovec magazine in Australia, my father who is pictured holding the magazine has a cousin in Logatec who has organized to have it sent to him every month. It is a very good magazine, Very good photo's only wish i could read the language better.
I have noticed that not many of you guy's have your trophie's mounted, but rather have skull mount's. Are there not many people in Slovenia that do this job. (Taxidermist's) ?.
Here are a couple of photo's of a stag Harry shot while out stalking yesterday morning, his brother Arthur is pictured holding the stag. I should have gone with them :icon_cry:.
Hey!
Your father has a cousin in Logatec? Really? That's the neighbour hounting area, so it's just a few kilometers from where I am! if you ever come to our beautifull country You are more then welcome!
Hello!Citat:
I have noticed that not many of you guy's have your trophie's mounted, but rather have skull mount's. Are there not many people in Slovenia that do this job. (Taxidermist's) ?.
There are enough of Taxidermists in Slovenia,but it is all a matter of $$$ (one cost oround 150-200€),a matter of space (women dont like graveyards in our homes:icon_evil:-thats what I hear every time) and a matter of tradition! Do you give every trophy to taxidermist? What are the costs? If so,you must have a giant "hunters room"!
Greetings
Gday Brakir thank's for the welcome, i would love to visit Slovenia again some day. Hopefully one day.:icon_biggrin:
I am not sure exactly but i think my father's cousin is from Horjul (sorry about the spelling) which i think is very close to Logatec. I will find out.
If any of you guy's ever think of coming to Melbourne let me know, i would be happy to take anyone out on a hunt. There is always something to hunt in Australia.
In Horjul we have clay pigeon shooting range.... It's really a small world...
Hello Dolgin
I only asked about the taxidermist's because i have noticed many of the photo's of some excellent trophie's (Gams & Srnjak) that have had just their head's cut off. The guy that mounted Leon's Sambar stag charges $750 dollars AUS. The last one i had done was a full body mount Hog deer stag that cost $2000 AUS.
Dont worry about the women Dolgin, as Leon said "if his girlfriend doesnt like it she knows were the front door is".:BangHead:
If the room is not big enough build a new room. :beer:
Cheers Hound Hunter
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it she knows were the front door is".
If the room is not big enough build a new room.
Hound hunter,a question!
I have noticed on one of the pictures (the one with the doe and the bottle :icon_twisted:and the hound) that the dog is equiped with GPS(? i think). Do you practice that allot?
Pig valley is only a joke. Today. Two years ago it was cautionsness.Citat:
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This forum was a revolution against old leadership of Slovenial hunting association. We are proud of helping thing changes a bit. But here are still few things we have to fight for. Long story.:icon_twisted:
Gday Dolgin
The tracking collar's that i have on my hound's are not GPS but they emit a radio freqency that i can track very accuratly. It does take alot of practice to be able to understand and read the signal, but i would not run a hound without one.
Year's ago we would lose hound's for day's ,week's and even month's and sometimes never get them back at all. They have saved me much time and money over the last 12 year's and i have never lost a single hound since.
Hello Hound hunter
I´we read a lot about telemetry collars that you use, but i can´t find a dealer who will send it to slovenia. If you hawe some contacts or web site for ordering please share it whit us. How much they cost in Australia.
http://www.trackerradio.com/hunting-...stem/index.asp
Gday Mrki this is a website for Tracker you can try them they might be of some assistance to you.
The problem with the Australian made systems are that the collars are a sealed unit and have to be sent back to the manafacturer to be re-batteried.
I have 2 different radio telemetry tracking systems, one is an Australian made product called Bio Telemetry Tracking which just uses a ICOM receiver with a large antenna, it is very accurate but the antenna is a bit awkward to walk around the bush with. The other is the Tracker Maxima unit which is very handy in the bush as it is only small when folded up.
The Tracker Maxima unit is made in Finland but it is not cheap, i tried to buy it over the internet from Finland and America but they would not sell it to me and kept refering me back to their dealer in Australia.
If there is not a Tracker dealer in Slovenia you may be able to buy it over the internet but you have to make sure of legal requirements for Frequency Bands
In Australia the legal frequency band is 151.000 - 157.000 for the collars.
I hope this has been of some assistance to you Mrki, i will let you know of the cost as i can not exactly remember at the moment, but they were not cheap.
If anyone has any Questions just ask and i will try to help.
Regards Hound Hunter
Thank you for info. i have contacted them and i´m waiting for answer.Price for the collars are from 125$ to 165$.
A few photo's from my trip up the bush.
I caught and released over 40 Mountain Brown Trout yesterday, kept about a dozen for a feed.
Most of our Mountain Stream's and River's hold good numbers of Trout, but they do not grow to a large size as in some of our bigger River's.
Cheers Hound Hunter
Njami, njami :icon_lol:
:icon_exclaim: Your right Veper they were very yummy, with a nice garden salad and chips.
......and pinot, chardonay or malvazija :icon_wink::icon_lol:.
Haa Ha. No just a cold can of Coka Cola for me, dont really drink much these day's.!!!!
Maybe a nice Chardonay would of gone down well.!!!!!! :icon_biggrin:
Must buy a nice bottle for next time.!! :icon_wink:
:beer: Hound Hunter :icon_confused: :icon_twisted:
Gday again guy's,
Saturday was our opening of the hound hunting season for Sambar deer.
Unfortunately there seems to not be any respect or ethics amongst hound hunting crews here in Victoria any more and we had to compete for land to hunt. There were 4 other hound hunting crews in close proximity to us and we were limited in the area that was available to hunt.
Fortunately we were the only hound crew that were successful and managed to harvest a doe which was shot by Harry with a .375 H&H.
Hopefully the other hound crews move on soon and we can get back to the business of hunting and training the young hounds.!
Here are a few photos of the very heavy and well conditioned doe and the hard work getting her out of the bush, which was made a little easier with the help of my winch and a very long rope.
Cheers Hound Hunter :beer:
Congratulations
Well done :icon_biggrin:. Keep on touch with us,
Prskač
Thank's guys.!!!
No problem Prskae, i will do my best to keep you guys up to date with our hunting progress.!! :icon_wink:
Just packing the 4wd now and loading the hounds, getting ready to drive to the mountains tomorrow morning.!
Hopefully i will have something to share again when we get back.!! :icon_biggrin:
LP
Hound Hunter.
Tomorow is also in SLo. 1st day of hunting for roe deer:icon_lol: Dober pogled..
Gday, again guy's
This weekend we were successful in taking a large bodied Sambar stag, our first stag for the season. :limona:
We also shot another Sambar doe last week, but i am still waiting for some of the guys to email me some of the photos as i did not have the opportunity to take any photos myself.
Here are a few photos of myself and the lucky shooter Manny with Axle and the stag.!
Manny took this stag (his first) with a 30,06 on the run with 2 well placed bullets through the shoulder and it still managed to run a further 200 metres before going down, Axle and Little Sally (Beagle) were about 3 minutes behind this stag but were chasing him for over an hour.
A few more hunts and the hounds should be much fitter and hunting realy well.
I will post some better photos of the whole crew and stag when i get them, as i lost my digital camera somewhere in the bush earlier in the day. :icon_redface:
Congratulation (Lovski Blagor) to all the forum members who have taken a Srnjak this season .!!! :beer:
And i wish all the members who are yet to take one, all the best and good luck.!!! :icon_wink:
Dober pogled
Hound Hunter :beer:
Here are a few more group photos of our first stag of the season.!
Cheers Hound Hunter.
Hvala, lovski hvala in seveda tudi tebi čestitke k dobremu plenu in lepemu lovu!Citat:
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It's interesting to see pictures of a prey, we don't know here in Slovenija.
First picture has an ideal composition to be make by hand from some artist, or to be remake by paintshopping in sepia tool.Citat:
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Here are a few photos from Saturdays hunt.
We walked and searched hard to find a start for the hounds as it is still very dry, as you can see in the photos, eventually we got a start for the hounds and they chased this small Sambar stag for about half an hour before Manny #2 shot this stag ( also his first Sambar ).
The hounds are hunting well and starting to get fitter and it is looking like we will have a good season.
We only need more rain now to make the ground softer and so the deer leave more scent for the hounds to follow.!
We also now have enough meat from these 2 stags, so that we can get some Krajnski sausages made. :icon_lol:
Cheers Hound Hunter :beer:
Lovski hvala and thank's for the congratulations ZR7.!!Citat:
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I hope you don't mind me posting photos on your forum, as all the the hunting and wildlife photos the guys post are of great interest to me also, I enjoy logging onto the forum and seeing all the terrific photos of your game animals and wildlife.!!!!
You are also correct in saying the photo would look good in sepia, I will have to print some in sepia for the hunting room. :icon_wink:
Cheers Hound Hunter :beer:
We are happy to have members like you in our forum.Citat:
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We also enjoy in loking photos from other places and discovering other kinds of hunting manners.
So we expect more photos from "down under":icon_wink::icon_lol:
LP
Gday again guys,
Saturday we finally had a little rain and the conditions were exellent for hunting, and after all the guys were set into their positions Leon an I walked 5 hounds on leeds into the forest along some old and very slippery logging trails, falling over many times and getting dragged along the ground by the now very fit and strong hounds. :icon_redface:
When we arrived at the area that i thought should have a few deer we found much fresh deer prints, the hounds were released and started cold trailing immediately, after about 1 minute the were voicing hard and had the deer going. The deer gave them a good run around running back over his old scent lines trying to get the hounds off his scent.
After about 35 minutes the deer decided to try to make his escape out of this valley and ran into young James, who i had positioned on a old water course that i knew the deer liked to run and with 1 shot from his .338 Winchester Magnum at a range of 3 meters 15 year old James had his first Sambar Deer, a young spikey stag.!! :icon_biggrin:
All 5 hounds were only 5 meters behind this spikey, so the season is looking even better and hopefully we will get some bailups again this season.
I also had a few oppertunitys to shoot a young stag in velvet, but decided not to shoot him as it was a bit close to some farm houses and i would rather chase him with the hounds next time and give him a chance to escape.! :icon_biggrin:
Here are a few photos of young James and his first ever Sambar and the crew.!
Cheers Hound Hunter :beer:
Even Axle the hound Congratulated James by shaking his hand.!!!! :icon_lol:
Here are a few more photos of the hard work getting the spikey out of the valley.
Young James did a terrific job carrying out the back legs from his first Sambar, only wish his father could have also been there to share in this happy occasion.!
Cheers Hound Hunter.
PS: Thank's again ZR7, hopefully i will have more photos to share again when we hunt next weekend.! :icon_wink: