Hunting Germany

[Andy L]

I had the pleasure of spending a short time in camp with a German fellow last week. It was his first time in the states and his english was broken somewhat, but we communicated well, with some patience. Nice fellow.

I could not believe what you have to go through to go hunting in Germany. He showed me the book that you must study and take tests out of to get a license. It was unreal. He said it takes some up to a year to get a hunting license!! No going to Wally World and forkin over 20 bucks. Then, you have to qualify, it sounded like some pretty strict qualifying, with your weapons on the range!!

Then, he went through what all you had to do to get a place to hunt. Then, if you are lucky enough to get a license, place to hunt and actually kill an animal, you may not get to keep your game!! This is nuts!

I can see some good things. It would weed out ALOT of people that have no place hunting in the first place, but it seemed to me like it was a bit overboard. We talked about it quite a bit and it seems that maybe we could learn something from the Germans, but at the same time, maybe they could learn a bit from us too.

Pretty interesting.

Andy