Whoaaa!

The beautiful early-spring weather has brought the local red stags back for bathing, wallowing, and cooling off . . .

The silver poplar’s second life on the hunting ground A few weeks ago a windstorm swept through the area. The damage was dramatic: one of the larger, heavily one-sided silver poplars snapped in two. A trunk over 80 cm near the base, still over 60 cm in diameter above the break — this was no…

Feeding time is coming . . . The local appointed gamekeeper regularly checks and maintains the feeders. Next I’m planning to sit out in April, provided the feeders are being regularly visited by the game. It would be really great if this secluded, undisturbed feeder, for which the stand was built with such excellent features,…

Tonight these two hogs ruled the old bowhunting feeder. Of course, I was at my new stand, where there was hardly any movement.

09.12.2025 At night, shortly before midnight, I managed to make a shot on a piglet standing about 24 meters away, and the sounder of 11 piglets — no sow among them — barely flinched at the dull sound of the bow shot. As it turned out later, the sight was set to 22.5 meters, not…