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Loyal Reader from Germany

October 14th, 2005 David King - King's Outdoor World

I received this email from one of our loyal Hunting Illustrated readers over in Germany. I thought I would share his story. It sounds like he has a very cool rifle.

Dear Sirs,

I´m a german hunter an I like to read about hunting in USA. That´s the reason why I have a subscription your Hunting Illustrated magazine since two years now.

I´ve read from your photo contest and I want to take part of it. But there is one problem for me. It´s not possible for me to get your camo colothes in Germany. I´ve got from you the camo cap and you can see at the picture, your camo cap works also in Germany. I´ve shot this stag on 08-08-05. In our area, we have a lot of wild boars and at that morning I was sitting in a valley with wheatfields and waited of them. At 5:30 am I saw a wild boar, when it comed out of the wheat, but it passed only a small way and then it was not possible to see it again. I´ve heared it grunt and eating wheat, but I couldn´t shoot. At 6:30 am I wanted to go home, because I was hungry and wanted to have breakfast.

Before I left my tree, I tooked my binocular and viewed the valley again. Suddenly I saw a stag in a distance of 250 m. He came in my direction. I changed my binocular with my telescope and I obsverwed him. After a reduction from the distance to 150 m, I changed again. My telescope with my gun, and I shot the stag. I have a old handmade austrian gun, made in Ferlach. Ferlach is a small town and is very famous for a lot of gunmakers. My gun is older than 50 years and she works perfect. It´s a gun with two barrels. I can shot a bullet in calibre 7mm x 65mm (165 gr) and a second one 5,6mm x 50mm (63 gr), and I using a Swarovski 3 - 12 x 56 riflescope with redpoint. (I need the redpoint for wild boar hunting in the night). This stag was four years old and his weight was 150 kg.

In the second picture you see my two suns which helped me, to bring him out. It was a great moment.

Dear Sirs, I hope, my English is not to bad, and you can use the story for one of the next edition. It´ll be nice, if I have a chance at your photo contest and to win a free subscription or one of the other things.

If you have more interest on hunting informations and hunting storys from Germany, let me know it.

With best regards,
Joachim Graeff

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