Hunting & Fishing Eastern Europe hunt

[SkunkWurks]

This is a fallow buck I harvested in this year in southern Hungary near Croatia. The vet aged it at 13 years. It was awarded a gold medal by the CIC. I used a CZ in 8 x 57 with Schmidt & Bender glass. I believe the projectile was 220 grains. I was on the sticks a long time and it was snowing sideways. He was about 80 yards from us with a lot of trees between us. I was afraid to try to get closer because I had a photographer, a journalist, and a forest manager in tow. Deer of a lifetime. U.S Customs confiscated all my stuff when I tried to re-enter the States. I had to hire a Customs Broker to work with the DHS, U.S Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and the FL Fish and Wildlife to get my stuff released. Not fun.











A few weeks later I made my way up to north western Hungary near Austria to go sheep hunting in the mountains. Lots of snow, lots of ice, lots of rock. I don't like heights. I shot this joker on the next mountain with a Winchester Mod 70 in .243. He was pushing a large group of ewes and imature males. He fell off the ledge. Not sure if he died from the shot or from the fall. Took us 2.5 hours to get to him........ He was broomed-off on both sides but we believe he was 10 years old. He was awarded a silver medal by the CIC.





-SW

 

[Delta4-3]

Go to imgur.com and set up an account and that will let you imbed the pics in your post. Looking forward to seeing them!

 

[SkunkWurks]

thanks.

 

[GBTX01]

Beautiful animals. What did Customs give you a hard time about? Could it be avoided in the future? Thanks for the pictures.

 

[piglatinhater]

Gorgeous animals!

 

[mdesign]

Those are very neat trophies...I travel a lot in Europe and have see many deer but never anything of that quality. Would love to have a mount like that for my office!

 

[SkunkWurks]

Thanks for looking guys. GBTX01, I arrived in Miami on a flight from London. The Customs agents down there didn't know the rules well ......nor the English language. I had done everything correctly. I had all the necessary paperwork and the trophys were prepared per customs entry requirements. They screwed up. I didn't want to get too hot over it because they can make things disappear or get damaged very easily. Better to let them quarantine them in a bonded warehouse and let my lawyer deal with it after I flew out of there. I spent three months over there to get these guys I wasn't going to lose them. We ate them and a fallow doe I shot at camp. They were wonderful.

 

[SkunkWurks]

This is the bullet we recovered from the fallow buck.....

 

[SkunkWurks]

Now is a great time to head overseas to hunt Hungary and Poland. Ya'll should give it a shot.

 

[hiddenmongoose]

fantastic fallow ,unusual palmations starting very high up

 

[Bobo3020]

Awesome hunt! Crazy his rack was still strong at 13.

 

[SkunkWurks]

Hey Bobo, the fallows live past 15 years. This old boy was probably at the top and gonna go backwards next year. He wasn't with the bucks fighting for does, he was alone way up on a mountainside feeding. He was trying to get food to make it through the winter. The younger bucks were down in valleys fighting for girls. This fellow was not interested in any of that. I passed on a lot of bucks before I took him. I spotted him from far off and when I got up the mountain and within a 100 yards it was very clear that he was the one.