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This is going so well in the Africa thread I thought I'd put one here.

Looking for some pictures of wildlife, historic pics, history, scenic, just about whatever.

So many countries and places I'd like to visit someday. For now I thought it wouldbe fun to share here. Help chase the cabin fever.


Looking forward to some great photos and stories.

Thanks in advance.

RAS2

now don't everyone post at once! take your time! grins

Didn't take here. I guess ther is just nothing to see in Europe.

i have lots of pics i'll have to take pics of with a digi camera to post em.
gimme a while and i'll post some.

That was mean...

Funny though!

My last trip to Bavaria in July '08 with my now x-wife,I was staking out a small field looking for Reh. Thunderstorm passed nearby and this was next. What I thought was cool is this was at almost 10 PM, just getting dark.


Here's a colorful Euro-Trout. This gin-clear spring was loaded with these.


Always liked Kallmunz, Bavaria...

Went to Bosnia in March, 2nd time for me, 4th for the wife. The town is Medjudgorgde, a holy place for Catholics. Always wanted to see a castle, could have spent all day there

These people spend some serious $ on headstones, but one headstone might have 8 family members. The grave is a vault that can fit lots of folks A bunch of Muslims evidently, we saw lots of mosques. Most of the shelling damage has been repaired, but they shot the schiitt outta the place.

What I should have shot pics of were the women! Tall, slender, raven-haired beauties.

Maybe it's just me but as an english speaking American I found the signs interesting.

eine gute fahrt!


Blumen selberpflucken Lepuschitz!

Hi RAS2, some pictures of old world where, as you know, nothing interesting exist...I have hundred of them from all over Europe..
First some from the south part of Corsica





then some from the Wetzlar town in Germany where the Zeiss company is...and one of the shooting cinema (almost 30 in Germany)

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then some my dirty town of Marseille which look immaculate under the fresh snow; just click on the link. Have a good day.
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Cape Wrath, Scotland
Qualified the USS Sullivans's 5" guns and dropped the British equivilant to our GBUs (500 pound bombs) from British Tornados. Also got to ride in a Lynx out to the HMS Southampton. That was a fun 2 weeks.

Also chased red stag and European partridge, which looked just like a spruce grouse to me. I also spent alot of time at the bar. I want to go hunt Europe some day.

are you sure this is one of our Euro "brown" trouts ?

Looks like a "Salvelinus fontinalis" (I think it's known as a "brook trout" OSLT in English), a North-American specie imported and acclimated in European lakes and some rivers.

Here's a lookout tower, in the mountains near Valencia, Spain, in Beceite Ibex country-



And here's a really good Beceite Ibex, taken a few miles away-

Very nice Biceite, Bighorn!

Tu as raison GV. You're right GV there's a lot of such trout in France too.

Saumon de fontaine ? I caught two of them in my life, one in Belgium, the other one in Quebec (I believe it was with the same fly , it can't be american and european originated at the same time.

GV, it was indeed a Brookie.
I fish for natives here and was quite surprised to catch them in Europe.

My borrowed rig...


Looks like a damp place...

If you fish the American way, you catch American fishes Sorry I didn't understand you were joking.

Unfortunately european anglers, at least the continental ones, always favored quantity (and strike too 'cause our brown trouts are very shy, very selective, hard to catch and fight lightly compared to the American ones) to natural quality, so they used to release trouts more than taking care of the rivers, and so they hitted the point they started to acclimate various species in rivers and lakes, especially American ones. You can fish rainbows, cristivomers (lake trouts ?), brookies, even golden-yellow trouts if you want

At least we still have quality rivers with true native brown trouts, mostly away from tourists and suburbans. Not enough to match my taste

After fishing, back to hunt in Europe. This year was busy for me but i hunted a lot. Want to share some of my trip with you if you like.

first: after gam in the french Alpes Maritimes, above the Mediterranean sea:




Gam shot with a Kimber Montana 243 with 95 Nosler Partition handload
Then there was that isard, same as gam, but a little bit smaller leaving in Pyr�n�es Mountains border between France and Spain

My job drove me in Portugal were i got chance to test the new Merkel RX Helix rifle and took this good red deer and nice boar



hunted also in Germany, in Thuringia, not far the well known town of Suhl, on public land and forest. Shot a roe after short stalk.
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Then during the snow storm that paralysed Europe in december was in Poland to make a reportage about driven hunt but weather and Murphy's law saw me stalking boars at moonlight under snow. Not to bad a punition...
These two boars were taken with the Guide Blaser 8x68S and his hunting clothes, all my stuff being lost between Bruxelles and Berlin...
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This one is not in Europe, sorry about that, but Australia's Arnhem Land.
A nasty wild boar shot with the .50Alaskan custom after he tried to charge me.
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Hope you like the pictures as i liked these hunts.