Colombacci: from the "stage" in the Po Valley - Not only field hunting north of the Po; recently some Tuscan pioneers, with the strength of an experience gained from generation to generation, have also exported the glorious tradition of hunting pigeons from the stage, a strong dish of the hunting tradition of our central regions, to the Po Valley.
Hunting facilities, those aimed at scrutinizing the pre-alpine horizon, which are reminiscent in all respects of the older brothers set up in the holm oak, pine and oak woods of the Tyrrhenian side of the Peninsula, but which at these northern latitudes are inevitably transposed into a context natural that has nothing to do with what is customary to frame the autumn hunt for our beloved flyer of the October skies.
Stray hunt: roll to believe - Sometimes it happens that you have to decide in a few moments whether or not to risk a shot. It happens when a wild is on the edge of probability, in that no man's land that is both a mental and a physical place: therefore, the surprise of the sighting could be followed by a shot with an uncertain outcome. How does it work, then, when only our hunting instinct binds us to the eared, who goes away undisturbed?
Wild boar hunting: dogs, wild boar, harness - In wild boar hunts there are particular hunts that remain indelibly etched in the minds of all participants. Jokes full of incredible emotions, of situations at the limit, where the wild ones dictate the law putting the hounds and harnesses to the hardest test. In short, days where you need dogs and hunters of those with a capital "C".
Management: monitoring woodcocks - the following story is the minimum diary of an afternoon at the end of March on the Umbrian-Tuscan-Marche Apennines where. Party in good company to survey woodcocks, without the anxiety of shooting, I certainly appreciated the work of the dogs more and discovered many small and big secrets
Dreaming of August: anomalous roe deer - With friends and colleagues, we regularly frequent the same hunting areas, in every season of the year. Some, however, think that we are out of our minds because we don't just talk about "roe deer", but we baptize each garment with name and surname, season after season and at any time of the year. This highly personal classification, which is based on the characteristics and anomalies of the stage, but also on expressions and behaviors, has no scientific or statistical value, but represents a rather significant sample of what we do not find in zoology books.
Aquatic hunting: the great lakes of Northern Italy - The great lakes of Northern Italy are a particular environment. Maggiore, Como / Lecco, Varese, Iseo and Garda are the main ones but also others, minor in surface but certainly not in quality and beauty, such as Vivero, Orta, Comabbio, Monate, Pusiano, Annone, Frassino etc. they are a wonderful corollary to the Po Valley Alpine landscape.
In the kitchen: venison tartar - For lovers of raw meat, here is a recipe, originally from the Veneto, destined to set summer tables. A fresh dish for the most sophisticated palates that allows you to savor the popular ungulate in a new and light way.
Diana in art: Cecconi, painter of hunting and animalier art - Eugenio Cecconi was and is one of the most admired and appreciated painters who lived in the second half of the 800th and early 900th centuries. He was born on 8 September 1842 in Livorno, on the very day that this city solemnly honors the Madonna of the sanctuary of Montenero, considered by all to be their protector.
Hunting residences: the royal palace of Caserta - Complex of "regal" proportions, placed on land initially purchased by the sovereign as a hunting reserve, was built by Luigi Vanvitelli who designed it on the model of the palace of Versailles. The result is an admirable architectural masterpiece declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco with a covered area of 44.000 square meters and an extraordinary park that extends as far as the eye can see for over three kilometers between fountains, statues and waterfalls.
Abroad: Balkan quail. - For those who want to resume the season with a few shots already on the conscience, for those who can't wait, for those who want to test that puppy who has shown some good attitude but still has to pass the definitive exam, for those who wants to have a few days of hunting together with a nice swim in the sea, for those who do not accept to spend their holidays only planting tomatoes in the country house, for those who want to stay three days in the company of friends and their auxiliary without spending much ... for all of them all that remains is a nice quail trip.
Strap-on epistles: a team effort - Just so dear friends, for this time it is not the Queen of the woods who is the protagonist of our service but the shaggy King of the bush. The animal protagonist of wonderful jokes that, unlike our usual raids, carried out in silence and solitude, is hunted by a plethora of hunters, each with its role and its story to tell.
Exa 2010: travel and clothes in the name of hunting - In the last issue we reviewed the innovations that emerged in Brescia from the sectors: weapons, ammunition and optics. But Exa, as usual, was a great showcase for much more. Here we go to see what was boiling in the pot to the voices: tourism, fashion, technical accessories
Rifles: Franchi Raptor, technique and class - Franchi is synonymous with semi-auto and in the tradition new models are developed with the current technologies of the gas and inertial grip, looking for the minimum weight and a class that appears evident when you put your hand to the speargun.
Rifles: Fausti Express, the elegant hunter - It is not just a range completion. ? a shotgun conceived for its function and designed for driven hunts, but capable of many hunts.
Bullet ammunition: three ad hoc cartridges for 7,62x39mm - In the last ten years the technology applied to the production of hunting ammunition for bullet hunting has been able to offer new products and new parameters such as to be able to rewrite the Big Book of Hunting ballistics
Tales of hunting: why Sanremo was Sanremo - The memory of a carefree and now distant youth is the setting for a strange adventure that happened in the famous shooting range of the Ligurian town. A story of other times, between fleeting loves and deceptions, which still deserves to be told.
Cinofilia: Pointer Club, a new government - On Saturday 8 May, in Modena, the Assembly of the Members of the Pointer Club of Italy convened expressly for the appointment of its new Board: this occasion was really important because the Club came from a somewhat particular and relative period the suspension, by the ENCI, of its President Pino Della Torre. The turnout was considerable and 511 were voted out of a total of members, in 2009 about 850.
Exegesis of a myth: bloodhound, a dog behind a nose -? always difficult to approach a myth. The risk of falling into the obvious or into rhetoric is really higher than you might think. And the bloodhound, a myth it really is. A living legend, a "cult dog", which still fascinates and fascinates today as it did ten centuries ago ...
Hunter's Library: Fowler's Handbook - The "Bird's Book" constitutes, after the famous work by Alberto Bacchi Della Lega "Hunts and customs of forest birds", edited by Lapi for the first time in 1892, the resumption of the treatment of this topic which until the 700th century , and since time immemorial, he had had the good fortune to find interpreters such as Giovan Pietro Olina from Novara or Antonio Tirabosco from Verona or Vincenzo Tanara from Bologna, just for three examples.