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... "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away .." Copyright Old Testament I had 2 outings in the eastern province of Austria, once a haven for small game, as a guest, in both places just wild,non-reared small game only. One of these 2 shoots a world-class pigeon shoot in the 1990's and the early 200x's. Today: It has been a walk with a gun in the hand, not worthwile to be there. ... At one of the 1990's pigeon outings then there has been a new guest, who told us that he has taken lessons with the Austrian parcours champion, thinking this would enable him to "plough with the goat". Within half an hour he became very humble and increasingly nervous as he had bagged one bird to 15 shots. ... About at the same time as my 2 outings an e-mail by the deputy regional hunting kapo complaining about the catastrophic low levels of small game. I answered its you who is responsible for that mess, no answer. What does not cease to amaze me is this obsessive, religious indoctrination of the antis, politicians who listen to them together with defensive and teethless hunting reps to recreate a pseudo-wilderness in an overpopulated,agro-industrialised and predator-protected country. .. After 56 years of continued Austrian hunting licenses I have decided to discontinue and I told this so to the hunting rep. I will just take the one from Czechia, in hunting terms a very pragmatic country. They abandoned steel-shot for water-fowl , as they found out it is "Aasjägerei", the meat due to the rusting steel-pellets within short not edible and finally they dont have white-headed eagles feeding on lead-poisoned water-fowl. .... And I have an invitation to a duck shoot in Pakistan for october. The invitation is from a wealthy clan-chief to his private estate in the Indus-valley. I had the pleasure to get to know him in Vienna. He even asked me if he should send me the ticket. What a man. .... With a drama in the family and me turning 80 within few days I have come to realize there may be not only a last hunting season but also that "every day is a precious one". As the kids dont hunt it is time to return things to the market.The things are called sidelock-ejector, the embodiment of beauty, craftmanship and functional longevity, which I had the pleasure to handle and forward as custodian to someone for further pleasure and use. My late friend Dr.HW in a similar depressive situation told that he wants the barrels of his pair of Holland selfopeners - at the moment once more on the market - as kandlestick, the nr. 1 right to the coffin and the nr.2 left of it. Its time to cease with the lamento, the complacent cynicism and switch out with the rhyming sentence "Eat and drink its later than you think" or more appropriately "Hunt and drink its later than you think".
Weidmannsheit DI. Felix Neuberger
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..Die Kugel und der Rubel rollt... In a previous post I said RIP to the bygone greenies and more recently its time to cease with my cynicism. But life goes on and news continue to appear, so I will comment on recent developments in a dry manner. The young greenie who revolted intifada-like had been sacked by the greenie-establishment. So for the last election she joined the commie-party ( yes, this still exists) but without any chance for a MP job. So she has to return to the hotel-mamma, the mamma herself a greenie MP in a regional parliament. A greenie-silverback has been eliminated in a democratic pre-election for a sure MP-seat, so he left the party, founded a name-list-party (bearing his name) and succeeded to be elected. But he seems to be a rogue when drunk so he fell prey to the me-too wave which flooded also across the Austrian border. He did not take the seat in the parliament ( for the time being). The head of the greenies, by profession a lady-lawyer, resigned before the last election. She had vanished then for nearly a year and has reemerged now.She got an exec job in the gambling concern, in greenie terms the evil-empire. As the photo of her job announcement tells she is under medical treatment, I will refrain from any further comment, just say "Die Kugel rollt". Our previous finance-ministre, by learned profession a furniture-discounter and hobby-winemaker, hardly in office ,needed 3 milliseconds to increase the asset taxes by 20% despite being from the blackie-party. He reemerged now,on the photo the contrary of a chap under medical treatment, telling to the world that he got a consultant job at the Russian gas utility, that means he is on the payroll of Wladimir Wladimirowitch P., in short "Der Rubel rollt". A former PM had an underdog job in the workers-chamber before becoming politician. During his time he made the fatal mistake to neglect the leftie-Praetorianer-Garde, i.e. Trade Unionists. He is now lobbyist/consultant to/into a former soviet republic, the press told how many millions he is making. In short "Der Rubel rollt". Or lets take a look to our beloved teutonic neighbours. Their former PM , the gregarious G.Sch., a personal friend of Wladimir Wladimirowitsch P. has also a job in a Russian enterprise. In short "Der Rubel rollt". One can not expect that all these chaps will become "Bettelmönche in der grauen Kutte" once their political jobs are lost. What comes to my mind is this sermo of a Russian bizman/mafioso(?): "Show me the westerner whom I can not buy"! Simple answer: THE POPE AMEN .. FN .. Postscriptum: How to explain to the Polish apple-farmer that he can not export his apples to Russia due to the embargo and all these chaps can provide their services to the kingdom of the neo-czar.
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Remain ever stalwart & always keep your pencil sharp there Felix & Happy Easter to you & yours.
Cheers,
Raimey rse
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... Und der Rubel rollt und hört nicht auf zu rollen.... Dr. W. Sch. , narrowlipped, with Napoleonic size and self-esteem, tricky and versatility/worldchampion emerged now- he is a polit-retiree- and told to the world that he is on the payroll of Wladimir-Wladimirowitsch-P. He has been PM of a short-lived blackie/bluie (neo-liberal) government in the 200x's. His blackie party made only the 3.place in the election and despite this loss he managed to become the PM. I have not yet seen anyone who could emulate him in such endeavour. He emerged now like phoenix from the neo-liberal ashes. Why ashes ? One needs just to read the non-fake-press. One from his co's/buddies jailed, another to enter jail in may, another one with GPS-controlled house-arrest (no woodcock nor roebuck season this year), a couple of others at court to proove they did not take part in multiple/monstrous kickback cases .... As this develops into a non-ending OT-story I will conclude with 2 sermos. Sermo No.1 from the Austrian emperor FJ I. (this is the Habsburg-chap who declared war onto Serbia, which triggered WW I, and not only his "god-given" empire got lost but also all their estates/fortunes, incl. the war-bonds of my maternal ancestors.) A man for a minister-job has been proposed to him. His question: "Hat er was ?" Why your majesty is asking ? His answer: "Wenn er was hat braucht er nicht zu stehlen". Sermo No.2 from a taxi-driver on one of my last business-trips from the hotel in Prague to the airport in the late 1990's. My question: "Wie lebt es sich nun in der Demokratie". His price-less Schwejkiad answer. "No schauen Sie, die Kommunisten haben 40 Jahre lang regiert und haben gestohlen, jetzt regieren sie nur 4 Jahre, die stehlen 10 mal so viel wie die Kommunisten." ... Weidmannsheil und Lovu zdar ... FN ...
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Here is an update from old Europe on Austria's 1st world problem, the re-introduction of the wolf. It is gaining continous momentum. As predicted the mufflon in the state-owned army-training area "Allentsteig" is gone - So what - The next possible prey there would/could be the red-deer calf. - So what - But the wolf is an intelligent animal and found out that there is an easy-prey-animal in the neigbourhood - private not-state-owned land - which does not need to be chased down, the sheep. Fences are not an obstacle for this predator. So from multiple press sources, 31 sheep killed and message from today in the boulevard the last sheep of one of these sheep farmers is gone. - So no longer "So what" Even the leftie state TV could no longer ignore it. The local authorities had to react- "Es hat alles seinen bürokratischen Gang" - and issued an order to all the "Jagdleiter" in the 2 affected districts allowing/advising them to use "Vergrämungsmassnahmen" versus this EU-protected animal. They are allowed/advised to shoot into the air or use rubber-pellets. If this does not help then there would be a research-project to identify the bad-killer-wolfes. .. I am wondering how long it will take till an outrageous asterix of a sheep-farmer/hunter will be put into court because it turned out that he did not stick to the old triple-S-poacher rule ("Sehen/Schiessen/Silentium") and misloaded his double-barreled-shotgun with buckshot instead of the free-rubber-load. As usual in life its always games people play. So one should not wonder that a chap from one of these holy animal protection/diversity communities told to the world that its the sheep farmers who have to take care of the protection of their animals. .. Weidmannsheil FN ..
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Felix, you have a very clear view on what you write. In Belgium we also have now again wolfs and as you can think they are also protected like in Austria. I am very curious to se what happend in a near future. Cheers, continue writing, I read them all, Marc.
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Over here, I had a discussion with a Game Warden about the NY DEC claim that there are no mountain lions in NY. So, i said if there are none, if I shoot one, it's only a imaginary animal. NO<NO<NO! We call it shoot, shovel, and shut up.... maybe auf Deutch, it's shiessen, gruben und halt's mal???
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Yes:Schießen, graben und Maul halten!!! Gunwolf
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I just stumbled upon this thread, read it, and became very thirsty for a strong beer. Cheers, all
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..Finally, Thanks-to-God, the last blank/unexplored/unknown area/spot in Austria's Orwellian landscape is going to be explored/closed within short. What is that ? The up-to-now unregistered vintage shotguns have to be registered , i.e. the present group D (shotguns) will vanish and will be treated like rifles (group C). "Registrierung Flinten-Altbestand". We are told that this is in line with "EU-Waffenrichtlinie" ex Brussels. .... At the invasion of the Russian army in april 1945 all weapons were confiscated,piled with others, burnt and the remaining iron dumped into the nearby trench. This happened also to the shotguns of my father, who has been still at war when the Russian army entered my parental village. But once the invasion was over, shotguns were free: REPEAT: SHOTGUNS UNDER RUSSIAN OCCUPATION FROM 1945 TO 1955 WERE FREE, NO REGISTRATION, NO CONFISCATION, NO LOOTING, NO :"DAWAJ TOWARISCH TWOJU PUSCHKU". Once the game-depleted fields from war-time recovered, my father bought a rather simple "Hammerless" from Just/Ferlach,16/65,non-ejector,in post-WW II-quality. He then hunted with it, sometimes even along Russian soldiers, who had gentleman-like behaviour. I started to hunt with it, hunted with it till I fell prey to the "London-Best" madness, and still have this gun. Market-value: One "Erinnerungs-Euro". So after 70 years I have to REGISTER it, the RUSSIANS did not care about it, the EU does. There is also my "Russian " Purdey, ex Russian count A.A.Bioncourt, built 1889, a jewel of English shotgun-iana. He had donated the other 598 weapons he owned to a Moscow museum. Also this needs to be registered. ... The Austrian authorities play on "transparency", we do what EU is telling us to do. Who is this "EU" in Brussels ? When I look on these folks who represent there Austria, these are not the "Best-of-the-breed" of politicians. Rather from 3rd-tier, who got their "Verpflegungsjob" in Brussels. To show/proof their existence they invent pseudo/dummy exercises like this vintage-gun-registration. Its also these EU folks in Brussels who messed it up in the relationship with the Brits, leading to the Brexit-votum and its final end, the Brexit. They simply mismanaged it, it's their political "Supergau", no sensorium for "Live-and-let-live". (And it has not been the personal feud between the two Eton-cowboys, the then-PM Cameron and his opponent ,the Want-to-be-PM Johnson, this is rather a simplified tabloid-merry-tale). I have full sympathy for the British buccaneers for their Brexit, for not wanting to be ruled by this sclerotic and incompetent Brussels-gang. I regret that they leave.. .. I understand that the single country which will not implement this registration stupidity is - how can it be otherwise - our Schwejkiad neighbours from Czechia. In their honour I close with their hunt-greetings Lovu zdar ..Felix Neuberger.. Postscriptum 1: Europe's summa-cum-laude-reddie country is Sweden. They have the most stringent gunlaw. Despite that, their PM O. Palme has been shot in open street in 1886, till today not known by whom and why .
Postscriptum 2: The overall documentation of gun-ownership then opens the possibility for a "Guni-Leak" and/or state-owned "Matched-pair" facility. Both versions could operate on a service-fee bases, another creation of state-revenue and public-sector-jobs.
Postscriptum 3: Finally, lets be positive, pragmatic and look at the chances/opportunities lying ahead of us. Changes like that always flush/wash up to the market up to now hidden guns. Springer's Erben with their auction will wellcome this development. So may be in 50 years, when one of my grandsons, following my hunting tracks, bags his first speckle-belly goose in the Hortobagy marches in Hungary and being asked: "Which gun did you use today", his answer could well be: "Its the vintage Purdey, which my grandfather has bought when Europe implemented the Orwellian shotgun control". .. Amen
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