A walkabout grousehunt

[KimE 487]

This year we decided to do a backpack grousehunt on three persons with two dogs. We had to pack and carry all dogfood, dogstuff, food for us self, ammo and two mountain tents for a five days roundtrip. The first afternoon before the huntingseason started we hiked up on the fell to have a good start the first morning, as the weather forcast had said it beguinn to rain then we had reached our first camp place. We had a very rainy and windy first night it it was still raining in the morning and lasted til noon.

 

[KimE 487]

In the morning we went out and hunted without backpacks around a small lake and some marshlands we got a fiew birds. After lunch we packed up and hunted/hiked our way to the second camp place at the stream Lievasjokka.

[KimE 487]

Hunting with backpacks on through the second hunting day, we didn`t get many birds the dogs had it difficult to find them, the day were saved by the sunny weather and a terrain neasy enough to walk through.

[KimE 487]

Dinner with some moose meat, grouse and mushrooms. Sunset about 21.15

 

[KimE 487]

Third hunting day still a very nice weather. Rain deers around the tents the GWPs are trained to not react on them.

 

[KimE 487]

[KimE 487]

Hunting day four are a bit shorter as one of the dogs has got a limp and the other runs on 50% capacity because its tired, we walk to our cars instead of camping one night more.

[hily 379]

Thanks for posting something different and great photos showing the ground you hunt.

Do you have to get permission to hunt this land ?.

[KimE 487]

I buy a 1 day permit.

[Stavross 15,199]

Wow, the land you hunt is stunning, you must feel very lucky to be in such a beautiful place

[Ooops 6]

Awesome, I'd love to do some thing like that. Please post more of the same when you do them

What tents & packs were you using?
Do you need to take any precautions or do anything different when having a dog in the tent with you?

[KimE 487]

Yes I love to be in the scandinavian alps nothing beats what feeling of freedom.

I had a Helsport Nordmarkka 2 and the others had a Bergans Romsdal 3 , for dogs you need a bit thicker material in the sleeping mat. For backpacks i used a Haglöfs Nejd65 and my brother used a Arcteryx bora80.

[Ooops 6]

On 31/08/2021 at 00:22, KimE said:

Yes I love to be in the scandinavian alps nothing beats what feeling of freedom.

I had a Helsport Nordmarkka 2 and the others had a Bergans Romsdal 3 , for dogs you need a bit thicker material in the sleeping mat. For backpacks i used a Haglöfs Nejd65 and my brother used a Arcteryx bora80.

Lots of top tips there, many thanks.

Do you have to protect the floor of the tents from nails?

[KimE 487]

We didn`t use any additional protection on the tent floor my brother are using an Exped sleeping mat he has used for several years with dogs without problem. You may get more wear on your gear with dogs but so far these dogs behaved really well and were so tired after a hunting day they lay down most of the time in the tent.

[shovel leaner 7,650]

Only just found this post . Thanks for sharing. I loved the photos , beautiful landscape , and an interesting hunt . Keep them coming, it’s always good to see how things are done in other countries . The grouse numbers here are poor . A number of factors to blame . But there probably won’t be the surplus numbers for shooting for a couple of years .