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rautasarvi:
Nice shooting! And great to see your interest about Finnish bow shooting test.
Here are the rules for Finnish bow shooting test;
3 arrows in 180 seconds from 18 meters into a 23cm circle. Target is just a light circle with no bullseye or anything else.
In same event you can try max 5 times. Bow must be at least 40,5 pounds. (180Newton)
All bowtypes are legal except crossbows, which are not legal in hunting in Finland.
Every try costs 20€ (24,09 USD)

Itīs actually quite hard to even see the circle from 18 meters. We are trying to get this official target to change more bow friendly. This light circle is same as is use with rifle shooting test.
Also primitive bowers and other have criticize the shooting distance because itīs way too much compared to real hunting distances.
There needs to be at least two official supervisors who approve the exam. Im also official shooting test supervisor(rifle and bow), but of course I can not accept my own test.

Many have said to me that they usually can shoot 3 arrows in 23cm circle while shootin at home. In shooting test there comes quite a lot of pressures; supervisors are watching all the time and usually there are other watching too. Also that every missed arrow costs you 20 euros, is not relaxing feeling at all.. =D

The firs video is a video I made almost exactly two years ago. In that time deer legalizing for bow was not in law yet and the shooting test was still under work and talks were that the distance will be 20 meters and the circle will be 20cm wide.
(First there are some talks about bow and hunting and also criticizing the exam to be made just for compound bowers etc, at the end of the video I shoot)

The second video about year ago where the dimension and target are the same as the exam today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPM_Gx_Zbdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YZ_e7yf3aU

Strelets:
Hello Rautasarvi,
Are non-residents of Finland allowed to take the test and get a licence to bowhunt in Finland?

rautasarvi:

--- Quote from: Strelets on January 31, 2018, 10:21:57 am ---Hello Rautasarvi,
Are non-residents of Finland allowed to take the test and get a licence to bowhunt in Finland?

--- End quote ---

Strelets, sorry I didnt notice Your question earlier, so here You go;

Foreign people can hunt in Finland as any finnish people. There are few things you need;
You need to have hunting license in your own country. You first send a copy of your own hunting license and the official workwr from game-care-organization will order you a finnish license. After you have get this license, you are exactly in the same position as any finnish hunter. License costs the same as it costs to finnish hunters 33euros and itīs for one year.
Also you need to have a permission to hunt in certain area. In Finland the right to hunt is based on land owning. Landowner can rent this right and most lands are rent to hunting clubs. So best way to hunt is to ask hunting permission from hunting clubs. Small game is normally very cheap to hunt or even free.
If you want to hunt whitetaildeer, roedeer or wildboar, you need to have shooting test done. If you have made similar shooting test for these animals in some other country you donīt need to shoot this test in Finland.  Even my opinion is that if you hunt with primitive bow, you shoot the test also with primitive bow, itīs obvious that itīll be better for foreign hunter to shoot this test with compoud bow even he hunts with primitive bow. Itīs really difficult test for primitive bow and it would be a huge disappointment if someone makes a lot of work to come here to hunt and then fail this test.. So itīs possible to shoot this test with any bow. At the moment Im the only person who has pass this test with primitive bow. And my opinion about this test is, that it has been made purely for compoud bows. I even know some people have think that this is the way to get rid of traditional bows from hunting bigger game. Iīll make them disappointed again and again..  >:D
So itīs not difficult at all for foreign people to hunt in Finland. Defenetly best way is to get in contact with some finnish hunter who will be the contact person. He can find out if there is possibilities to give a visitor permission for foreign hunter and also he can handle the lisence.

Strelets:
Thank you Rautasarvi,

I agree that it is a difficult test. With a wooden longbow, wooden arrows and no sights I estimate my chance of getting all three arrows in the circle would be about 25%. However, if allowed up to five attempts then the probability of my passing on at least one attempt would be about 76%; it might cost me 100 Euros though. However, if I used a modern recurve with stabiliser and sight then I would probably pass the test at the first attempt.

rautasarvi:
Forgot to mention:
Whitetaildeer neefs license to hunt but its posible to hunt whitetails as a visitor, as I explained on topic "hunting pics 2017".
Wildboar is "free game" and I bet you can go and hunt wildboar in Finland just with a very small costs or even for free. Wildboar population is growing and we try to do everything that it will not grow too much. Still there is no single one wildboar kill with bow. Hunting wildboar with bow became legal in autumn last year.
Roedeer is also "freegame". Places where the population is big, its easy and cheap to hunt as a visitor. Actually there are quite often organizared hunts all over Finland which are specially for bowhunters.
In my area there is quite little population of roedeers and we usually make a decision that wisitors are not allowed to hunt roedeers. We shot just few roedeers/year.

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