Hunting Croatia

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Has anyone ever hunted in Croatia?

Rates for Chamois seem relatively cheap, and it looks like a unique environment to hunt them in?

Battue is a much lower rate than Germany/France, but I do not see any trophy fees in addition to the day rate, maybe some hidden costs?

Some friends went there on their honeymoon and it seemed really nice, apparently much lower cost in general than Central Europe with good food and interesting history and landscapes

Any stories? Suggestions for similar destinations for more budget friendly battue style and European mountain hunting?
 
The Croats have a wide range of large animals to consider hunting.

Would I go there? Lingering hard feelings for me from their civil war and the international community's obligation to get involved.
 
croatia is not the place for chamois: they introduced them for foreign hunters in titos time on some islands ...

had few issues in 2000 at the croat border but that is just me and will never set my foot again in that country ...

battues and hidden costs in ex eastern europe countries: lol it cant happen ...

wish you good luck in your tasks.

there are many countries where you can find real chamois all over europe and one destination not very well known is: france ... you can get 2 different species: alpine and pyrenees.
 
But do you get to hunt them by the Adriatic and spend the night in the arms of a beautiful Croatian woman?

Asking for a friend

If we get 20 CGN members we can book a battue for a very reasonable rate :D

Do you know anything about hunting in Slovenia Phil? Real Chamois in the mountains?

Austrian/French rates are not so bad if you don’t shoot a big one.

~6k to hunt in the mountains in Macedonia with no sliding scale. 4 days. Could get a similar deal in Austria
 
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i went before the wars in croatia every summer. i hunted in slovenija never in croatia.b

yes slovenija is great for chamois but very expensive... austria is great i hunted roe close to the borders in hoff that was offering hunt but i hunted roe deer from my grand dad property in slovenija. he was given unlimited shoot of wild boars as well and one bear a year. moufflon and chamois were too high for us lol and red deer was maybe once every three year.

it is hard to picture what you will meet in those countries but adventure is part of life. if i had to go for battue huntings it will be poland. croatia is not well organised and not ready for handling that many hunters but that is just my opinions ...
 
Beautiful and diverse countryside. Saw plenty of deer, mouflon, and chamois while there with UNPROFOR but can't bring myself to go back again nor put any tax money into the government after the denial of atrocities during the civil war, followed by threats against members of 2PPCLI.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Beautiful and diverse countryside. Saw plenty of deer, mouflon, and chamois while there with UNPROFOR but can't bring myself to go back again nor put any tax money into the government after the denial of atrocities during the civil war, followed by threats against members of 2PPCLI.
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Aside from all that, which is fair enough, all it ever took for me to never even consider hunting there, is one good look at the land mines maps.

Beautiful country, if they bulldozed it into a pile and burnt everything, it would go a long ways towards solving at least a part of the area's problems.
 
trevj said:
Aside from all that, which is fair enough, all it ever took for me to never even consider hunting there, is one good look at the land mine maps.

Beautiful country, if they bulldozed it into a pile and burnt everything, it would go a long ways towards solving at least a part of the area's problems.
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The IEBL was the last active combat sector. So I'd stay away from any internal borders and areas with names remembered from the news. The humanitarian demining companies and programs have had a good go for 20 years, but that doesn't change much when the battles and positions have been forgotten or overgrown.
 
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The IEBL was the last active combat sector. So I'd stay away from any internal borders and areas with names remembered from the news. The humanitarian demining companies and programs have had a good go for 20 years, but that doesn't change much when the battles and positions have been forgotten or overgrown.
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I think that right after "don't step off the hard pack", we got told that under the absolute best conditions, you are never quite sure if every one was picked up. Given the mines they were using, that means the odd guy or gal losing a leg, for going on over a hundred years...

And then, there is always the farmer who has a spat with his neighbor, and mines the guy's pasture for him...Friend of mine, a WO in the Strats, got to deal with one of those. Which led us to discussing, among other things, if the mass of wool on those sheep acts as a silencer, and if so, do we need to glue a chicken onto the back of every sheep, so the feathers will mark the spot of the explosion! :)

Pretty countryside. But I won't be vacationing there any time in this life!
 
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