German Boar Hunting video
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"Running boar" target shooting is popular in Europa, Scandinavia, and elsewhere. The corresponding live hunting version is popular as well in the form of driven boar shooting. YouTube is full of this kind of thing.
Franz-Albrecht is a great shot on the driven boar. In that video he uses a, Sauer 202 in 270. In the later videos he uses a Merkel Helix.
I love driven boar shooting, to me its one of the most exciting hunt forms you can do.
We are lucky in Scandinavia in that we have lots of moving target ranges. I shoot the running boar and moose range at least once a fortnight and just recently have been doing it every weekend. In Germany and now Sweden we have shooting cinema's . These are indoor 25mtr ranges where you shoot with live ammunition at a projected films of real animals. At the shot the film stops and a red dot shows where you have hit the target. Great fun but not for those who are afraid about getting their barrels to hot.
I like to think that my shooting skills are on a par with Franz-Albrecht But then i wake up and find i was only dreaming
I've got 2 hunting trips booked in January for driven red deer and boar in Hungary. Must practice more.
I love driven boar shooting, to me its one of the most exciting hunt forms you can do.
We are lucky in Scandinavia in that we have lots of moving target ranges. I shoot the running boar and moose range at least once a fortnight and just recently have been doing it every weekend. In Germany and now Sweden we have shooting cinema's . These are indoor 25mtr ranges where you shoot with live ammunition at a projected films of real animals. At the shot the film stops and a red dot shows where you have hit the target. Great fun but not for those who are afraid about getting their barrels to hot.
I like to think that my shooting skills are on a par with Franz-Albrecht But then i wake up and find i was only dreaming
I've got 2 hunting trips booked in January for driven red deer and boar in Hungary. Must practice more.
FL-NC
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He's shooting multiple moving targets from an offhand position, sometimes at considerable distance and using a zero magnification sight. It appears he is very adept at using the tracking as well as trapping (ambush) techniques. Yes, he's good.
rbernie
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He knows how to run the bolt; none of this 'take the shot and drop the rifle to see how it went'.
Looking at his video's most of the shots are 50mtrs or less. He does shoot a small pig at 80mtrs in one video. I shoot with a Aimpoint 900L or a Meopta 1-4x22 K dot when I'm shooting driven game with my Mauser. I have a Khales
1.1-4x24 CSX on my double rifle. I always shoot with both eyes open like shooting a shotgun. The both eyes open takes a bit of getting used too but makes picking up the target much easier. I've been shooting the running boar target down the range with the scope on my heavy barreled Anschutz set on its lowest 2.5 magnification. It makes shooting the fast target much easier with the both eyes open technique.
I don't think no matter how much i practice that i will ever be up to Franz- Albrechts standard
Speedo66
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Unusual to see someone hunting with muffs, but the number of shots he seems to be taking it makes a lot of sense.
Phenomenal shot, I have a feeling there's a lot of pork in his diet.
Phenomenal shot, I have a feeling there's a lot of pork in his diet.
Sauer made a few copies of the rifle Franz-Albrecht is using in the video. They had a couple on the racks at my LGS. They looked like a nice bit of kit. When i picked up one, nice rifle that it was, it just didn't feel right to me.
I've a couple of friends who shoot driven boar with the Merkel Helix and they rate that rifle very highly. The Merkel Helix is what the Browning Maral should have been.
I've a couple of friends who shoot driven boar with the Merkel Helix and they rate that rifle very highly. The Merkel Helix is what the Browning Maral should have been.
Bull Nutria
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Franz-Albrecht is he a professional rifleman or what? I been around awhile and haven't seen shooting like that with a high powered rifle. Does he work for Sauer or Aimpoint. whatever the case he is outstanding rifleman!!
very impressed!!
Bull
very impressed!!
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Legionnaire
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I've seen that. Impressed by how quickly he works the bolt. Follow through is impressive, too; he holds form until he is sure.
Franz-Albrecht has been connected to Aimpoint for many year. I don't know if he's employed or sponsored by them. In later videos he seems to shoot a Merkel Helix so perhaps he's sponsored by Merkel now.
SoonerMedic
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I would LOVE to bow hunt for a nice red deer buck some day. I think Hungary is one of the only European countries that allows bow hunting. I could be wrong though.
I think your right about Hungary and bow hunting. You can bow hunt in Denmark but I'm not sure if you can hunt anything larger than a roe deer with a bow. Sweden, In the near future it will be possible to hunt with a bow. I read in one of our hunting magazines that all game will be allowed. Quite surprised at that. Of course being Sweden a bow test will have to be past before you can hunt.
Hungary has some of the best quality red deer in the world. To shoot a quality red stag would cost a lot of money. We will only be shooting hinds on the driven hunts.
Welcome to the realm of european hunting. He's definitely good but by no means exceptional, taking 3-4 boars from a running group of 8-10 at a (near) perfect hit ratio is relatively common. This is something many hunters do year after year and practise quite a bit with moving (track/rail setup) targets.
They just lifted the ban on bow hunting medium game in Finland last year. I didn't have time to hone my very rusty archery skills before the season ended so this fall marks the first whitetail bow hunt for me in quite a while. I'd still recommend Hungary for red reed, the stags we've taken there over the years have been nothing short of awesome.
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