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It has been my initial intention to embed this into the Kalezkiana/Neuber post, but I have finally decided to put it into a separate post. I have returned yesterday from a pheasant shoot near the Czech town of Hodonin. I go there now for 4 years, before that Hungary, the last 2 drives with fast and high flying birds, alltogether a paid but private arrangement. I hunt since 51 years in Czech republic, Slovakia (before one country Czechoslovakia ) What's new in these 51 years - REPEAT 51 YEARS - I have been controlled for the first time by the police - in situ, before the shooting started. As I arrived as first one I had he first control. Two police-ladies, all very correct, one speaking English, I opened my 2 guncases, number of the guns checked, alco test, all ok. To be precise, there are a total of 5 documents to be checked. Is this worth any comment/post? One may assume that all Austrian hunters in Czechia are drunkards, who need at least half a bottle of pinot noir to quiet their trembling trigger finger, but this if off any reality. So why then, all of a sudden , and now.
I accompanied my father during the Russian occupation in the 1950's on his hunt, no control .... The "Krassnaja armada" treated - after the invasion was over - shotguns as a chose negligeable.
I observe as quoted in the headline a creeping Orwellian infiltration , bureaucratisation, anti-gun, anti-hunt mainstream backed up by hunting reps who behave as being "inconvenient to live". I got a Remington-autoloader hunting/gun license denial end 1990's.Preceeded to it, a schoolboy shot his teacher with a handgun of this father. I got a denial of access to the proofrecords of the Vienna proofhouse recently . It's all state/office secret. Brussels has a proposal in petto to prohibit all shotgun autoloader because Paris/Bataclan attack was with AK47. I call this Bataclan-logic. My guns on the European gunlicense are automatically transfered/copied onto the central gun registration. To be clear these are not AK47 nor AR15, just a bloody old Purdey from 1902. Even it would have been inherited from my great-grandfather , which is not the case, it would be there. And guess where the central server for this data base is: You got it, it is in the finance ministry. Since few weeks all our bank accounts are "public domain". I have nothing to hide, but there is a feeling of creeping Orwellian infiltration/transparency. I have lived 5 years in France and had many collegues from the Levante. One thing I have learned from these descendants of the Phonicians is "A Levantine never lies, he tells you only half of the truth". What bothers me is this paid journaille which tells only half of the truth, the anti-story. Being pragmatic and solution oriented, I have a proposal to counter this anti-gun/anti-hunting "Evangelium" by finding high-profile/non-paid folks who are sincere and honest to tell along this Levantine wisdom the SECOND half of the truth. Cynicism is the privilege of age, so here comes my proposal.
Donald Dallas's great book on the definitive history of Purdey's has on page 217 a Purdey label picture with the appointments gun-&cartridge maker to the queen, gunmaker to the duke of Edinburgh and finally gun-&cartridge maker to the Charlie prince. I assume that all of this is true and appropriate. Three high profile English people , real hunters, sincere and not depending on any ad income wearing baseball caps with the Purdey script on it. What about a video-clip showing the Lisbeth-queen at famous Warter Priory shoot with 3 dead cock-pheasants in the air, shot with a matched trio of Purdeys, and the Charlie-prince acting as her loader. This could be a long overdue update to the outdated Lord Ripon stories. The Edinburgh prince behind just observing, filming and commanding her brace of ugly pet-dogs to retrieve the fallen birds. In pre-brexit times a family idyll of subtle English-Imperial nobleness.
When I worked in Paris I have been living in a western suburb. When I told the name of the town/village to an English gundealer he asked me if I had the privilege to shoot with Francois Mitterand Le Grand. I have not been aware that the former French president had a non-public shoot there. So what about another high-profile this time French person, Francois Le Grand, having 2 dead red-legged French partridges in the air at Marly-Le-Roi, all cleanly shot with a matched pair of genuine French Darne's and with his unimitable French grandezza.
More south, this was a disaster. The European northener politicians always tell that the southerners are broke. Despite that the king of one of these coutries went to an elephant shoot. A PR disaster,not because he shot an elephant, but he was accompanied by his mistress, and that in a catholic country. And unbelievably for a king, he excused himself to the public for having been accompanied.
Concerning another southern country, il magnifico SB, has disappeared from the public as a "Werbeträger". I am wondering if he did any dove shooting with his Maroccan girlie there.
Now to Germany: There is nothing known of alma mater AM. And it's not recommendable, as it could be counter argument of the advocatus diaboli at her beatification. And German history is disgusting, as I have seen/heard of German guns/rifles at least 10-times as much as could have been handled by this notorious "Reichsjägermeister" with the famous green side-stripes on his trousers.
Now what remains for us commoners. We are all missing the HUNTING-ASTERIXs who stand up and fight and fight and never give up ....
Weidmannsheil DI Felix Neuberger
PS: Shame on me as I have forgotten my homecountry Austria. Since half a year we have no president, problem is no one is missing him. Reputedly grandees of Austria's "Rotes Imperium" also are hunting. Mafia like omerta. I am wondering of whom these grown up chaps are afraid. There can be only one high-profile "Werbeträger" of an anti-anti campaign , this is obviously our worldfamous "Niki Nationale". So his present headgear - a signal-red baseball cap with his gambler-ad-message on it, stuff normally in use by beaters - has to be replaced by a proper outfit. This could be a reed-green hunting cap with the logo of "Burgenländischer Landesjagdverband", complemented by my personal present to him ,a bespoke Pannonian hunting suit by/from the local Croatian taylor. The tweed for it at his choice from the K & K court supplier Jungmann & Neffe opposite the Vienna Opera. All of that the necessary outfit to show him properly in a video clip when bagging his first speckle-belly goose east of the Neusiedler-See. I would borrow him fee-free for this adventure my vintage pigeon gun built by another K & K court supplier, Johann Springer's Erben from Vienna.
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felix, Waidmannsdanke Mike
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In the spring of 1970, I went on a driven boar hunt in Bulgaria as a member of a German hunting party. I was the only American in the group. We flew into Sofia and breezed through customs shepherded by our Bulgarian host.
There was no inspection of weapons, no inquiry about licenses, no difficulty whatsoever. We were all herded into the airport bar, and the host asked what we would like to drink, beer or cognac. I am not much of a beer drinker, so I asked for cognac. To my surprise, I was handed a tumbler filled to the brim. We were then herded out onto the tarmac, where we were to board our plane for the flight to the hunting site. I saw why we had been fortified with liquor.
The plane was an ancient tail-dragger, a sort of Russian version of the DC-3. We boarded the plane, carrying guns and ammunition and luggage and seated ourselves and then were greeted by the smiling pilot, who marched past us up the slanting passageway to the cockpit, where he closed the door and locked himself in.
We flew to the hunting site near the Black Sea uneventfully and were escorted to the hunting accommodations, which consisted of a group of cabins obviously used by sea-side vacationers. The next morning we were taken by bus to the hunting site, accompanied by the beaters who were to conduct the drive, who made themselves noticeable on the bus by an overwhelming scent of garlic.
I was carrying my brand new ZKK 602 BRNO in .375 H&H, and was concerned about the reverse safety on it. I had been practicing on the running boar range at my local club in Germany, and thought I would be able to handle a shot, but I was concerned about remembering how to take the safety off.
I finally decided to go ahead and take the safety off beforehand, so as not to be confused when something appeared. Sure enough, when two Ueberlaeufer (yearlings) ran across my field of view, I threw the rifle to my shoulder and put the safety back on in the process. That was my only chance at Schwarzwild (wild boar) for the whole hunt.
I did make a successful running shot on a fox, which I gave to the beaters. They were overjoyed, since the government paid a bounty on foxes, which they could turn into beer.
At the end of the second day, my closest neighbor, an elderly Swiss gentleman, wounded a pig, and I offered to follow it up for him. I walked about fifty yards into the undergrowth, when it jumped up in front of me, and I executed the equivalent of a low house seven skeet shot, which put it down for the count.
One of the other hunters, a butcher by trade, came over and rolled up his sleeves. He proceeded to field dress the hog without getting so much as a drop of blood on his person. Quite impressive.
On the final day, we reversed the procedure with the Russian DC-3 and the Sofia airport, and soon found ourselves back in Germany. Never during the entire trip was my rifle examined or I questioned about a license or permit. As a Devisenbringer (hard currency carrier), I was exempt from the normal rules.
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Creeping Orwellian infiltration 1.1 2.1 & manifesto 2.0 3.0 - WIP Infiltration 2.1 We have finally a president elect. No, I am not speaking of DT and his Slovenian beauty and his collections of mad dogs. No, I am speaking of the president elect of Tu Felix Austria. We needed 3 turns. So finally he is here, Prof Dr Dr hc AvB, which tells that at least he learned some trade. And the final confrontation between him and his contender was quite simply a shabby emulation of the wild-west show of DT versus HC. There exists in zoology the term of metamorphosis, an discipline applied in insect science. This applies also for the ho.. politicus Austriacus (The latin word for human being gets censored here..). I understand AvB started as commie, then became a socialist, then a greenie and in the election he was sold as an "independant". In terms of colour i.e. dark-red,red,green and finally grey (which by definition is "missing colour"), Finally the United Austrian Political Kingdom has been supporting him , so he won. Immediately after the win he made a pitch and telling he wants to be the president of all Austrian. I am still waiting since 70 years for a president elect who has the honesty and gut to tell the folks who did not elect him "and those of you who did not elect me fu.. off". But he seems to be a decent character. When looking on the billboards near the big shopping mall south of Vienna on this unshaved and un-botoxed face, one may get the idea this is a Romanian clochard happily smiling because he got an asylum-bed for the night. Why and here in this forum a comment on this chap, quite simply , when he was the head of the holy Austrian greenies, he told to the world that rearing pheasants just to shoot them is not ethical and he does not support it. He is simply the incarnation of the supreme anti-apostle and now president of the state. Hunter/emperor Franz Josef I will roll over in his sarcophagus in the Kapuzinergruft when he realizes what chap will take seat at his desk in Vienna's downtown palace Hofburg 100 years after he had passed away. Austria bags 65000 pheasants per year (assume half of this figure are reared and released birds ), AND rears,kills and eats 77 MILLION poultry (females only), 77 MILLION minus 50 of male poultry are immediately killed because economically not justifiable and recycled into the feeding/crop chain. The minus 50 are the happy 50 males poultry who are allowed to have a happy more 4 weeks than the females to live in the bio-active ad campaign of the monopolistic retailer. Obviously all of that is ethical. The next official act of him will be on january 1,2018 when he wishes all Austrians a happy new year 2018.
... Manifesto 3.0 .. With this basis there are ample possiblities to extend the green empire by simple bio-dynamic warfare. Here is a blueprint. All the Austrian birds of prey are proteced, incl. the absolute killer bird Rohrweihe (lat. circus aeruginosis ), gliding 1-2 m above ground and killing everything which moves. What about a poacher in the Carpat mountains, not too far from the Austrian border, for a small amount of Euro he will catch a wolf-litter plus a dozen of adult wolfes, if necessary put them under narcotics and export those into Austria's absolute wild area , the "Truppenübungsplatz of Allensteig". Then release them once awakened from the narcotics, photographed by helpfully assisting organisations, proofing there is a genuine indigenous/homeborn/homegrown wolf population which is in need for a state-controlled protection. And the Austrian TV will proudly have a clip-show in its Universum/Geo on Austria's newly returned once extinct animals. A sensation by itself instead of the 365'th zebra kill by a jumping lioness. Now, what then: The first animals to disappear from this Austrian wilderness are the moufflons, followed by red dear.... finally no animals to hunt, no need for hunters to go there... Ultima ratio: No animals, no hunter ... Manifesto 4.0 When the greenies entered the Viennese local government, one of their first task has been to paint some foothpaths in GREEN - no joke - but I believe they have ceased this project now as it looked to much stalinistic. I propose here a more intellectual approach in adapting some Austrian literature. Lets do some rephrasing: First: The Austrian hymn has to be rephrased from "Heimat grosser Söhne " to "Heimat grosser Grüne" Second: The fairy tale "Rotkäppchen und der Wolf" will be rephrased to "Grünkäppchen und der Wolf". .. Tu Felix Austria ...
PS: There is always a need for a postscriptum. Few days ago ,by pure chance, I got into the 5th drive of a hare shoot in an area where I hunted 50 years ago.The "Jagdleiter" has been my bordboy in bygone days. Their total bag on this day has been 115 hares and 4 pheasants. Their yearly bag is about 20 % of the bag we made 50 years ago. It is the agro-industrialisation and use-of-chemistry which brought this decline. What bothers me are these greenies incl their militant- anti-muscle, a bunch of shabby hypocrites, who use this economic development as "Trittbrettfahrer" to profile themselves for an overpaid MP or other political job. Shame on them...
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the greenies should all wear aluminum foil pointy anti-cyber warfare hats...because the Russians can't hack your brain if they can't find it....
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Manifesto 5.0 We do not only have a president-elect but also a first-lady-elect. He married his long-time mistress shortly before he told he will nominate for the election. A simple political calculus as Austria is a catholic country and a marriage is an atout. THE Austrian society highlight is the socalled OPERA-ball. An event where all the A,B,C etc promis gather incl the Z-promis, i.e. the anti-opera-ball-gang on the street demonstrating against the event. ... 1st issue to resolve There is an interview of this couple-elect by a soft-rinsed leftie-journalist in which she admitted that she did also demonstrate against this opera ball in her younger years. So the next opera ball she will join her husband into the IMPERIAL box INSIDE the opera building and look upon all the A,B,C etc promis dancing below her. Her husband has a retired former president of the supreme court as legal consultant. I am wondering what this chap or the maitre-de-protocol will recommend her. Will she take a bottle of state-supplied champagne and descend to her former gang-cofighters on the street and have a drink with them or will the gang join the first couple in the imperial box inside the building for a drink there ? What career jump from a Z-level promi to an A-level promi in this country. ... 2nd issue to resolve The first couple has as summer residence the former imperial hunting - repeat IMPERIAL HUNTING - mansion in the province of Styria. Now, will then her former Z-gang reemerge in this Styrian place and will she celebrate with them by dancing the greenie-goblin dance or will in stalinistic style the all-mighty special police force Cobra hermetically barricade the spot to ensure their unspoiled vacation. How many milli-seconds will this new fake-imperial couple need to remove any hunting sign of this imperial vintage hunting place...
What unsurpassable and absolute perversion in Tu Felix Austria ...
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Felix, perhaps you will be saved by their innate hypocrisy.
Much like their attendance at the ball, perhaps a few days at the Imperial hunting lodge will allow them to see the error of their ways, find they enjoy hunting and quietly drop their opposition to it.
But I doubt it. Good luck!
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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My sympathies. It apppears that Austria is now governed by the Clintons...
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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Considering the opponent and the quite grotesque process of the election, I feel things could be worse.
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Do you know where the small mining town named Lucky-- is in NW Czechoslavia?
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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