Flintlock fallow deer hunt in Hungary 

Hunting is about conservation and harvesting local, organic, free range food. Traditions are for people that just want to kill something beautiful just for the sake.

@@Spruce-Bug can 't it be both?

@@cccz0937 if it's not predator management or for meat in the freezer, it's poaching as far as I'm concerned. A Hunter ought to care about the wellbeing of the habitat of all local species, not just game. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

@@Spruce-Bug Hunting is in a way important so that people will feel responsible for wildlife and nature conservation. Hunting traditions is nothing more than the thin layer of glue that keeps hunters adhering to the ancient / pre-christian Noble Hunters Laws, so that hunters can be held responsible for wildlife and nature conservation. Don't get me wrong, I know of people who cram a branch in the deer's mouth and call their kill clean while trampling over most Waidligkeit (sportsmanship/woodsmanship). And I also disagree with those Europeans who consider American hunters butchers as they lack traditions or culture around hunting (although I abhor Americans trying to copy European hunting traditions, as their soil, through their ethnic/native Americans, already has shown them the way). But the nice thing of traditions and rituals is that they are easily passed down (through education and peer/group pressure) and give a sense of gravity to 'wildlife conservation & predator management'.

@@YaoiMastah As I said, hunting traditions are for people who want to kill something just for the sake of it. Which is what you just said. For the rest of the conservationists and land stewards, including many first nations people, it's for local and free range food. 3 deer, 3 turkey, maybe a bear of you're lucky, and I don't have to go to the grocery store for the rest of the year. It has very little to do with tradition. I'm just calling a spade, a spade.

I mean, tradition is relative, but I agree.

Hi Matt! :-D

where I live it's encouraged you can go hunting a few months earlier in the season if you use a bow and arrow or flintlock rifle

And giving the fallen game that respect !

How do you mean by, "I didn't need to kill to sustain my own life". Does that mean you turned vegetarian? I'm just curious.

@@hellotheremyolfriend I did become a vegetarian for about fifteen years but I live at almost 9000ft in a very cold climate and found that I couldn't consume enough calories to stay warm and function physically at a high level without eating meat so I went back to meat eating. I think elk and buffalo are the best because of no cholesterol but shooting an elk was more meat than I could eat in a year so it was another incentive to stop hunting (besides all the slobs in the woods). I do believe though that everyone that eats meat should, at least once in their life, kill, field dress, butcher and eat the meat they consume so that they learn that something has to die so they can live. It doesn't just come on a styrofoam plate. Too many urban dwellers are too far removed from the land which, I believe is one of the fundamental problems with modern living in general and lack of care for the land and the planet.

@@populustremula7496 I agree with the part that a lot of us are too removed from the land, and that field dressing/hunting would probably reconnect a lot of us to the land and make sure healthier in mind and body.

Not really

But close

agreed, this is the best one yet :)

Couldn't say it better self. When hunting as a hobby, it is not necessary to do it in the easiest and most pleasent way. Succeeding using old style equipment, makes you connect better to the past, and proofs your hunting skills. There's way too many gadgets helping the hunter these days. I believe them to increase the distance between man and nature. Not a good thing in my mind.

Where in the Adirondacks, im from northern warren county. never thought i would see another person from the bark eater mountains

When things are to easy contempt slips in.

I grew up the same. Hunting for me, my father, and grandfather was a deeply personal thing. The forest and mountains is pretty much our church or as dad would say the true place to be closer to god, and since it's his place it needs to be treated with respect.

Congratulations!

Nice

Waidmannsheil! 📯🌿

I have an admiration for the German/European hunting traditions as well. Good on you for teaching them here in America. Waidmannsheil.

The tradition is awesome. I also like that there were tears after the shot. I was in Hungary autumn 2019, and it had some beautiful landscapes. Hungary was so screwed by the Soviets, yet it is such a distinctive place.

Except for 2:53

I agree with most of what you’ve said here. But I also think the US has a different hunting culture altogether. There are some people attached to traditions passed down to them, but a good amount of hunters here don’t hold themselves to anything but specifically what’s legal and not necessarily what’s ethical. I think if we redefined what constitutes a primitive weapon at this point it would lead to a lot of unethical kills on animals that would otherwise be harvested cleanly. I can really appreciate these European traditions, though. It feels like the way harvesting an animal should be treated.

@@christiancorbitt5309 yes, different culture for sure, but I still feel primitive weapon should be just that

I am fortunate to live in Pennsylvania where we have a late primitive season Flintlock only orange is not required so traditional garb is good I still wear an orange knit hat but I love that season it is real hunting

@@edbennett7574 our primitive weapon is before gun season. Long seasons for gun. Nov 16 till Feb 10

@@independentthinker8930 what state and do you have to run a patched round ball?

Hungary has very few wolves, and even those descend from the Tatras abd Carpathians, and are not really native here. There is no need to hunt them, and indeed they are protected by law. You have to remember that Europe is rather densly inhabited, and its forests have been cultivated for literal millenia.

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 That's true.

God forbid a person be excited they got their quarry.

The greatest threat to wildlife is development and encroaching human population. Modern hunting is highly regulated. In North America, hunting is credited for the quick return of wildlife where it had been nearly wiped out during the settlement period.

Whitetail have a similar lifespan. They just don’t get to live that long in the states!

@@flintandball6093 👍 true

What do you use for hogs?

They are about the same size

with the exceptions of Giant Eland, Moose, Elk, and Red Deer; most species of deer are about the same size. Those afore mentioned species must still have a bit of that "Irish Elk" genetics at play.

Thanks for the good words Stefan!

Very well said! Thanks!

I aimed for the neck, but lower.

These traditions are not solely Hungarian. I believe they're Central/Northern European, as we have the same rituals in The Netherlands.

Native Americans also thanked the game for helping to feed the hunter's family and tribe. And almost everything was used in some productive way.

@@YaoiMastah So do the old school Germans.

I think IFG has it!

@@capandball Thank you!

That's not so everywhere in the US. I live in Wisconsin, and muzzleloader season is after modern gun season. Bow season starts in October, ends at about New Year's Day. All gun deer seasons require everyone in the field to wear blaze orange or neon pink for visibility. Bow season used to close during gun seasons, but doesn't anymore, but it is subject to visibility clothing rules.

Hi Miguel, I agree with you, the PRB can do the job under 70 meters, probably longer. By the way the 300 grain REAL has nearly just as bad BC as the PRB. Not much difference at all. I will have to check their performance with my ballistic radar.

@@capandball Hi Balázs. Yes, it would be very good if you made a video shooting with your Pedersoli flintlock Jaeger and a percussion Hawken Rocky Mountain, also 54 caliber. Shooting both with a patch and spherical bullet, at 50, 75 and 100 meters, at blocks of ballistic gel , and thus check speed and penetration for hunting. In Spain I am trying to create a hobby and interest in hunting with muzzleloading rifles and shotguns, as it is more ecological. I also have the percussion shotgun, Gallyon model, from Investarm, and I go hunting small game with it. And you know that with the '54 and '58 Hawken rifles they hunted bears and bison in the Rockies (with spherical bullets). Your channel on ancient guns of the Far-West is the best in Europe. A friendly greeting from Spain.

Here I am shooting on the field, in Oviedo, with my '58 Hawken Mountain. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6Uxd3U8zkv0.html

@@hawkenriflesWhere in Spain are you. I've seen some beatiful places in Cantabria but restrictions are unlike here in the US.

@@Angelum_Band Well, I am in Asturias, near Cantabria. That is, to the West of Cantabria about 80 miles. Greetings.