I just wanted to share my excitement.
I can finally start realising a long-held dream of mine - hunting!
Last week I registered to get the hunting license - the first step!
Getting the hunting license here in Germany is expensive and takes about a year. There are compact courses available, but they are even more expensive and I cannot spare three weeks solid (never mind the money).
The course I am doing starts next May, but I was already offered to help out with doing keeping-up-work in the hunting district of the local hunting association this year in exchange for taking parts in hunts for deer, boar and varmint. Good for experience and contacts (it's a tight knit community...)!
My missus always reacted VERY allergic whenever I only touched on the subject. Lately she has come around though... Maybe the new espresso machine helped
I look forward to learn tons of new stuff, be out in the forest, and be able to share this with my three boys, something I would have loved to have as a kid but never had the chance to.
So now I am already drooling over gear, rifles, calibers, optics, and all that malarkey. This is going to be expensive!
I will update when I had my first outing!