An interview with Daniele Stival: the importance of moving within the rules - Following the refusal of the TAR of Veneto to accept the appeal of the Lac regarding hunting in derogation, Diana went to interview the regional councilor for hunting Daniele Stival, creator of the resolution that allowed the Venetian hunters to return to undermine some species of small migratory birdlife
The law in the sights: live calls - Hunting with live calls has represented, for several years now, one of the main targets of environmentalist associations moved by the aim, not difficult to guess, of decreeing its extinction. Even apart from them, however, the examination of the events that have taken place in the last thirty years attests how on various fronts work has been done to reduce the times, methods and species that can be hunted.
Hunting notebook: Po hares and Lodi hares - A different notebook than usual, as the writer did not participate in the deeds that are narrated but which were nevertheless faithfully reported to him by some of his friends, direct protagonists of the same
Hunting in the mountains: the ibex in winter - When meters of snow cover the meadows at high altitude, the ibex descend low. Artificial foraging is not needed. The "general" winter does not represent a problem for the majestic ungulate, which Nature has equipped with legs and hooves able to walk the rocky walls like no other mountain animal can.
Migratory hunt: wood pigeons in winter - By now the wood pigeon in our latitudes has become a wild for all seasons and identifying its hunting exclusively with that practiced during the phase of the autumn migration is an anachronistic thing to say the least
Selection hunting in the Livorno area: those gourmet fallow deer on the Bolgherese area - For the "pure selectors", for those hunters who have made bullet hunting their only hunting practice - option letter D - the opportunities to carry out restraining interventions on very particular and normally off-limits terrain are not rare. And it is precisely following a particular containment operation against the deer species that my friend Andrea Paperini, former president of the URCA labronica, decided to tell me this "candid" story
Boar breeds: the reasons of the heart - The wild boar is the last frontier of the Italian big game. Its sharp fangs are steeped in the blood of many valiant dogs, and its iron mantle has endured the stinging and sometimes ferocious bites of these. It is a representation in which the actors are the same as always, who repeat the same script by changing the lines as if by magic, and also the plot is unchanged over the centuries, yet every time fresh, different, fascinating.
Feather hunting in Sweden: from grouse to geese - Around the world hunting has stopped in Sweden. In a fairytale setting, between heather and blueberries, this European nation has staged a natural spectacle of great charm. We met the most representative wild animals of these latitudes, from ptarmigan to black grouse, from grouse to large Canadian geese, in a rather demanding type of hunting for hunters, dogs and guns.
Hunting abroad: Romania, one learns by traveling - Ten of us land at Bucharest airport with the desire to experience a great hunting adventure. The initial goal: wild boar hunting, but then gradually we had the opportunity to hunt various other species and above all to make contact with a territory rich in game and truly fascinating
From the companies: two days in Barbialla with Swarovsky - In addition to hunting, we had the opportunity to try the Swarovsky riflescopes mounted on Emmesport rifles for shots up to 500 meters, and the charm of night shooting combined with the Condor viewers
Caesar Guerini express Trophy: Trophy plus 8 × 57 JRS Mauser winning combination - The emerging Gardonese company Caesar Guerini offers a vast production made with the most up-to-date technologies. Low costs and guarantee of a product of total reliability in step with the tastes and desires of a large clientele
Rizzini Artemis and Omnium: spoiled for choice - Two over-and-under items proposed by Battista Rizzini, a specialist in the sector. The Gardonese company in question offers smooth and rifled barrels in different configurations, various calibers and always a receiver assembly suitable for the cartridge used. We propose a 20/76 and a 36/76, two choices for sporty and interesting forms of hunting
Leica Trinovid 10 × 25: a still valid product - Even though the Ultravid was presented, the Trinovid continues to be present in the Leica catalog. It costs less, it is excellent and for some characteristics it is even preferable
Spyderco Bushcraft: in the open air! - Designed according to the needs indicated by real woodcutters, it is a knife for all outdoor activities where you need to get by having only one tool available, including hunting
Competitive dog lovers: Lem, European Champion and World Champion - Very young subject (three years old) he won the 2010 continental practical hunting setter title in Austria. Good blood does not lie: he is the son of Kapo
Competitive dog lovers: how are the work trials organized? We often talk about work tests: for pointing dogs, followed, search, specialist tests and so on. Have you ever wondered what is behind all these events, how should they be organized, what are the characters that make these events possible? Let's see it together and we will understand better why they are attributed the very important task of pointing out, not suggesting, the best reproducers, whether male or female.
The Hunter's Library: "The dog in action or the tests on the ground" - Angelo Vecchio, who often signed himself with the pseudonym of "Vieux", is one of the Noble Fathers - together with Ferdinand Delor de Ferrabouc - of our cinegetic literature: his first work, the "Manual of the amateur and the breeder of cane "edited by Hoepli in 1896, a prelude to the very important treatise" Il cane. World breeds, Breeding, Training, Diseases and remedies "that the same Publisher proposed to readers in 1897, obtaining an extraordinary success with the public underlined by the reissues of 1904, 1912 and 1920." Vieux "also collaborated with various magazines and was a draftsman and illustrator - always in the cinegetic field - of recognized skill