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NorthHeart:
Raut- great information. Hunting somewhere like Finland sounds fun. How would a non resident go about making the contact with a landowner there? One that might charge a fair price to hunt on their land, as opposed to a full on guide service where a guide helps get you get on an animal?
rautasarvi:
There are companies in Finland who offers commercial hunts. Some have land of their own and some organize places for customer. Game to hunt is based on the animals in these areas. I think roedeer-hunts are at the moment the most popular as a visitor hunts for bowhunters. In some places also beaver. There are usually all kind of stuff including these kind of commercial hunts and the taxes are based on services.
Hunting clubs are, I think, the easiest and best way to get hunt in Finland. Asking possibilities to come hunt as a visitor, goes simply that you first contact some club and ask if there is a possibility to come hunting.
At the moment hunting clubs visitor hunts are the only way for a visitor to get hunt whitetaildeers. Thats simply because the need of the solid lands size. For whitetaildeer, there needs to be 500hectars solid area before itīs possible to get licenses. For moose this area needs to be 1000hectars. Thats because the size of the animal population is then better to see and its then possible to make also very effective hunting so that the population stays strong and healthy. Clubs usuallly have rent thousands of hectars of lands. Our club for example have about 7000hectars lands to hunt. Also we are a part of 7clubs system and for example lynx-hunting can be done in this whole area (about 40 000hectars). Also we got our whitetail and moose licenses for this whole area and then clubs shares these licenses for each club based on how much there are animals in certain area. Our club gets usually about 200licenses for whitetail deer each season. That usually makes about 350 deers.(fawn is 1/2 license and adult doe or buck is one license).
Clubs buys licenses from ministry and then some of the licenses(if there are enough licenses) can be sell to visitors also.
In state lands there are not so large populations of whitetaildeers that it could be possible for state to sell whitetail-licenses for these lands. Whitetaildeer population is growing all the time and I think in few years there will be enough whitetails in state lands also.
Clubs are taxing differently. In some clubs(like my club for example) itīs possible for members to have visitor by themselves to hunt fox, badger and raccoon dog. And thats totally free! There are a limit of three visitor at the time with one club member.
Little game like rabbits and birds etc costs are 5euros/day and itīs possible to hunt as many little game as you can get.
One year visitor license for all little game is 100euros and that needs a permission from hunting clubs government.
CrescentWalk:
--- Quote from: bradsmith2010 on November 11, 2017, 03:37:53 pm ---there are guys that shoot a well made wood bow as well as the laminated bows,, so there is alot to be said for that,,
look at the scores of the field archers before fiberglass,,,, you may shoot the bob lee better ,,,,,, all wood bows are not made equal,, and if there is something to be said bout fiberglass bows that would be on another forum,, :)
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I actually shoot a selfbow better than modern laminates. The selfbow's that I have made thus far have a slower cast which means that my arrow point is not pointing at the dirt when I'm taking shot's within 30 paces or so. They are also smoother on the draw (less stack) and are custom fitted for me personally.
I like a nice slow bow that can shoot a heavy arrow when shooting close distances. For longer distances a faster bow is better because the fletching has more time to correct the flight of the arrow. At close distances a fast bow can lead to some really erratic misses and poor arrow flight in my personal experience.
That being said, while these shooting exam's are good in that you can get a general idea of an archers grouping accuracy. I have personally found that my one shot accuracy is far greater than my grouping accuracy.
If I really bear down and put all of my attention on the spot and take special care to hit my spot I can hit a good shot when it count's. Some people might shoot tight groups but might buckle under pressure.
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