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Would this concern you or am I overreacting?
FH tells me today that he is tentatively going boar hunting on September 17. He has shot guns 4 times in his life - 3 times with rifles and handguns at a shooting range and once a bazooka thing in Cambodia (big tourist attraction, I guess). He is going with two guys, neither of which speak English. His Russian is not very good, so basically they will not be able to communicate very well.
So obviously I'm concerned. Is this just because of my reading Game of Thrones so recently, or would you guys be worried in this situation? I don't really know that much about hunting, but this makes me nervous and sounds stupid given his inexperience and inability to talk to the people he is going with. Am I overreacting?
ETA: In case it comes off this way, I'm not asking to see if I should say "don't go" or whatever, as I don't really feel like he needs my permission... I'm just wondering if my fear is normal or not and also looking to see if anyone can share hunting and/or gun wisdom with me. My gut reaction is that hunting nowadays is purely some stupid macho thing and I'm sure there is more to it than that.
Re: Would this concern you or am I overreacting?
I'm not a fan of guns and I definitely think if they're going to be used, it should be done safely. If he's not experienced then I can't imagine why he would go hunting for something so dangerous!
DH loves target shooting so we've gone a couple times at his parents house in his friend's backyard. It's fun but I still hate being around guns, it just seems so stupid. So yes, I'd be pretty worried!!
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How did your H find the two guys to go hunting with?
ETA: I wouldn't be worried about H going hunting and he doesn't have gun experience either. I was just wondering if those guys were guides or something?
It's our driver and his brother. Apparently they go hunting every spring and fall.
FH tells me "It's going to be so much fun, I'll take lots of pictures," "I'm going to bring back bacon" and "I'm embracing our frontier lifestyle." Comments like that are what scare me. Worry about the freaking gun, not taking a picture and this is not little house on the prairie!
Ok, this is what I know about boar hunting in Germany. It?s frequently done as a "treibjagd" which means chasing hunt...basically all the dudes with guns stand at the edge of the forest while the chasers and dogs go running through the woods ringing bells and driving the boar out into the clearing where the dudes with the guns wait. Is this the kind of hunt they?ve asked your DH to go on?
Wild boar are dangerous beasts, so I?d not be too keen on my husband going on one regardless of his hunting experience, so no, I don?t think your overreacting on this one!
wow. That sounds really wild. Who does the chasing??
Neither of us have any details, but I highly doubt it's that organized of a process; this is Turkmenistan after all. People have had shoving fights over getting a SIM card.
Supposedly he is going to sit up in a tree and shoot at the boar. My FH is not the most of athletic of dudes, so that may end up being the biggest problem. But I'm envisioning a bad shot, a pissed off boar and FH up in a tree with a gun.
Ahhh, I'd be scared too!
My godparents are hunters (literally everything, they used "drag" me from continent to continent while they hunted the specialties of the land). We were once on a ranch in South Africa (big game hunting) and the other hunters that week were Russian. All the hunters were good hunters, knew how to shoot, etc...but besides that they were bit insane. They brought their own guns (which is pretty rare) and they drank lots of vodka, even while hunting. The lodge we stayed had a standard rate that included unlimited food and alcohol. The owners of the lodge told us once the Russians had left that they were the only guests that the lodge lost money on due to the excessive spending on vodka. They had to buy out all of the vodka in the local Spar to keep up. The Russians would drink a few shots at breakfast (4:30 AM, pre hunt) and some more while hunting.
Not to scare you insanely, just make sure the two other guys know what they're doing and understand hunting safely and that there is no alcohol involved! I'd be freaked out though
Let me preface my answer by saying that I grew up in a family in the midwest that hunted (to the point where my dad used to take hunting trips to Canada and Alaska with friends to go after Caribou, etc.). H, on the other hand, has never shot anything in his life.
That would freak me out. Boars aren't friendly animals and have been known to charge. If you don't know what you're doing you can end up very hurt. Your first time hunting should not be for something like boar. Also, it should not be with two guys with whom you cannot communicate. I would be worried if my dad was going boar hunting--and he has about 40 years of experience. If H wanted to go--Hell no.
Hmmm, yeah, that would freak me out. Maybe point out that there's plenty of wild boar in Tuscany, no need to get your own
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If it eases your mind at all, my completely nonathletic, non-he-man H survived his one and only hunting trip (deer in Ireland led by a German hunt-master) and decided it wasn't for him. Go figure, once you shoot the deer it gets kind of... graphic. Anyway, he liked that he had the experience, but is in hurry to go playing with wild game and guns again!
Oh the worst part-- since H actually shot the deer, the hunt-master gave him the pelt. Yeah. H promptly stored it at his parents house for a number of years. We went down for a visit right after we got engaged and his Mom's like, 'hey, congrats oh and lot what you get!' No, the pelt didn't make it back to DC much less IT.