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Driven Wild Boar
DRIVEN WILD BOAR
A keiler, or mature male boar, can weigh more than 200kg and reach speeds in excess of 30mph, making for exciting sport when driven (battues) towards waiting guns.
A keiler, mature male boar, often weigh 200kg and run at 30mph, making for exciting sport.
References:
1 EFSA Journal - Wiley Online Library (16 May 2024) - epidemiological report:
Epidemiological analysis of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the European Union during 2023.
We hunt two types of boar on private estates and state forestry land; the central European boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) and the larger subspecies Carpathian boar (Sus scrofa attila), native to Hungary and the Balkans.
These strong and resilient animals find ideal living conditions in a variety of forest habitats, interwoven with clearings and forest paths, which makes for ideal hunting conditions.
Our European driven wild boar hunting takes place in the winter months of October to February in Croatia and Serbia, where we organise 2, 3 or 4 day itineraries, for teams of between 10 and 15 guns/rifles, based on an 'overage' and 'underage' bag payment scale rate!
SEASON: November to January.
Organisation
Over the years our experience with obtaining detailed and factual information on hunting trips to Eastern Europe has been somewhat varied - therefore we now only deal with trusted friends and operators, and host trips ourselves.
Further, we only organise boar hunting itineraries for complete teams to ensure social harmony, shooting safely and logistical agreement on bag 'overage' and 'underage' payment!
AVAILABILITY & OPTIONS
For further information, please give us a call on...+44 (0) 20 7233 7798
Alternatively, please leave us a time on our Contact Us page, and we will call you.
DRIVEN WILD BOAR SHOOTING
Heated Clothing
Heated hunting clothing can be very beneficial and can make your hunt more enjoyable!
As endothermic (warm-blooded) animals, humans maintain a relatively consistent interior temperature regardless of the exterior temperature. That sounds simple, but our bodies are constantly having to create, hold, and release heat to maintain our roughly 98.6-degree internal temperature. In cold environments, we undergo vasoconstriction (constricting blood vessels), which channel blood to the core of the body, and this is followed by shivering. By rapidly contracting muscles, shivering generates heat to combat the cold and maintain homeostasis. Once the body begins losing heat more quickly than it can be replaced, hypothermia sets in.
The goal of heated hunting clothing is to prevent the body from losing excessive heat in cold temperatures. By insulating the body and providing a heat source, our heated garments prevent cold temperatures from robbing us and be very effective at maintaining of core body heat.
Please see Heated Clothing.
African Swine Fever (ASF)
ASF is an infectious and highly fatal disease affecting wild and domestic swine, which is unstoppably spreading worldwide. In Europe, wild boars are one of the main drivers of spread, transmission, and maintenance of the disease.
The virus is harmless to humans, but it causes significant socio-economic disruption in many countries.
In 2023, 14 EU Member States were affected by African swine fever (ASF), including Croatia and Sweden where ASF emerged (wild boar outbreaks only) and Greece where ASF re‐emerged after being free since 2021.
A 10% increase in the number of notified outbreaks in wild boar was observed in the EU in comparison with 2022. 1
Management
Management attitudes and methods to wild boar populations seem to vary from region to region but when properly managed wild boar populations can contribute to the local economy, especially in regions where agriculture is less significant and there is less potential for conflicts.
In these regions with limited agricultural activities or in fenced areas without agricultural activities the population growth can be controlled and the access to food can be better regulated.
Detailed management research makes for interesting reading; due to the high reproductive potential of wild boars the effect of harvesting is relatively small - up to 90% of all female wild boars can reproduce within a single season; in short, in high populations, reducing juvenile survival will have the largest effect on population numbers.