Hunting Wild Boar and Roebuck in Germany

Tradition plays an important role in hunting on the continent. Especially in Germany, and we're getting the full works this evening as we prepare to go after Roebuck and Wild Boar. The grail we've been invited to hunt is an ghour and a half north of East Berlin, and we're guests of Outfox Clothing. A brand being launched in the UK later this year with high tech scent reducing technology. First things first and we have to ensure all of our paperwork is in order and we know what we can and can't shoot. Roebucks and 1 year old female. Black, white boars up to 50 kilogram. Inside this impressive manor house we meet the estate owner, Erima Van Der Osten for drinks and to hear a little more about the history of the Blomberg Forest. We're quite an international group of hunters. Of course, I'm representing the UK with sporting journalist and Team WIld colleague Simon Barr. But the guys from Outfox are from all over Europe. We hunt as a team, we win as a team and we lose, if we don't succeed but we all are one team and this is a special atmosphere we have here and I wish all of us a lot of success and that you don't forget this weekend. Cheers. We now split up and head off to our stands. There are over 100 in this woodland. It's a muggy evening, and the mosquitoes are on the hunt too. Mosquitoes are the size of horses here, I think we're going to get eaten alive, but hopefully this Oufox Ergotarn layer will take away my smell so I don't smell quite so tasty. For this type of hunting I've brought along a rifle set up I believe will work well in this environment. So this is my Ruger Gunsite Scout, it's in .308 calibre and I'm shooting 185 grain Lapua Mega ammunition. It's a bit heavy for .308, but it's a fantastic round. On top of it I've got a Zeiss 2-8x42 Duralyte which is one of their entry level scopes. Now we're going to be shooting pretty close up here, up close and personal. And this Gunsite Scout has a 16 and a 1/2 inch barrel, laminate stock and nice recoil pad. So those 185 grain Lapua are not going to cause me to many problems. Phenomenal rifle. Very pointable, perfect for Roebuck on the move. Our high-seat is not actually that high. And the close cover means the animals will have to be even closer for me to get a clear shot. And we're going to have to keep very still and very quiet. It's a really flat, calm evening, there's almost no wind at all. So I'm going to have to be very, very quiet. The trees in front of us aren't much...maybe 20, 25 yards away, so distance isn't going to be an issue. But movement is, any Roebuck or Boar coming through here will be able to see the slightest of movements,so we 've got to be careful. The evening is very warm and muggy so we should see some movement, but I've go about three hours to wait, so fingers crossed. The Outfox clothing I'm wearing this evening has military heritage and the hunting suits are designed to stop the animal from scenting you, even if you're approaching with the wind. In the first time in the history of hunting that the hunters don't take care about the wind. Because again, the wind push your odours, but these odours are kept in these filters. So for all sort of people, hunters or also camera man who like to make some good pictures. When he wind is turning, that's not an enemy any more, with Outfox you can really go and hunt in every kind of condition, and this is really a new era of hunting. We're losing the light fast, but we finally get some movement. However, it's a mature doe, I doff my cap and she walks on. When we get back to the court yard some of the hunters have had better luck than me. Simon has shot a buck and a Wild Boar, however his boar ran on, but Simon is confident it was hit hard, and the decision is made to go and take a look for it with Anton the Uberteckle. 100 yards from the high seat Simon shows Cai and Anton the spot where the boar was hit, there's no blood but Anton is on the case. Cai encourages the little hound and we're taken through thick cover. We come to a hollow where the boar probably rested up during the day and there's a flash of disappointment the trail might have gone cold. But Anton is on it again. So it's dead, we got it! What a good dog. Perfect. Perfect Anton. Simon my friend. I was worried for a moment. The shot was fine. Perfect, in the ten. You have to believe in the dog. Fantastic Dog. This is quite a good animal. But you see it made more than 200 yards, hundred metre, hundred yards. With no blood. No blood. Why was it important to try and come out this evening? And not wait til the morning? Because Simon said that he 100 per cent sure that he hit the Wild Boar perfectly with a perfect shot and we like to protect the meat. Because after one hour it's damaged. And because this hunter is a very experienced hunter I believed in him, that he said Cai you can believe in me it's a perfect shot, and that gave me the trust to do it. But normally it's dangerous to do it in the night because the Wild Boar can attack you, you and your dog and so on until. If it had been a huge tusker I never would have done it, but a piglet or a hogget it's OK. And you see we have no hole on the other side, it look so because this Wild Boar didn't lose any blood on the opposite side. Oh yeah, he has bled, but we didn't find it, I don't know why. Maybe it closed the hole where the bullet disappeared from the body. And it looks like there's no blood brushing on here You see it here, how high it has been and we had no blood control, but you see the dock. I was able to watch the animal for maybe five minutes before I pulled the trigger. So I was very, very confident, firstly that it was male, secondly I was very stable and the shot was good. Maybe 150 grain bullets might have something to do with the fact there hasn't been a big exit wound and lots of blood for a trail, maybe I should have been using slightly larger calibre but you know .308 has killed it but it hasn't given us the big blood trail. But it goes to show that you have to have a good dog to follow these things up and the dog was straight on to it, there was no question. It went straight to a bed where it had been sleeping and then it came straight to where it finally died. Which, you know, was probably a zigzag a hundred yards away from where I shot it, But through quite thick cover. Very good result, Cai, how heavy do you think it is? Maybe 50-60 kilos? This. no, approximately 50 kilos? But a brilliant animal. Less than 50, 45. Let's have a bet, shall we have a bet? OK. So I'm saying 49 kilos. OK, then we have won it, it's less. If you take out the fillets Steffan we win this bet. We get the boar back to the larder and the all-important weigh in. Simon guestimate was pretty good the boar is actually over 50 kilos. 55. It's a great start to our European hunting trip. If you want to know more about the Waldgut-Blumberg estate visit Waldgut-Blumberg.com and if you want to know more about Outfox Clothing go to www.outfox-wear.com.