Hej på er norrmän:)!

good luck. here is your chance to be real emissaries  
for traditional bowhunters!

Margly, you mentioned that the 3D shoot had a lot of uphill and downhill shots.  By that, I take it to mean that you weren't shooing in tunnels or on the water!  That's about the only time I wasn't going uphill or downhill when I was in Norway.  That's not to say I don't want to come back though.  Norway is breathtaking in its beauty.  Perhaps I'll look some of you guys up when I'm there in about 3 years on a woodturning cruise up the west coast.  Take care, keep shooting, and good luck with hunting both in Norway and Finland.

That is incredible news for you guys! I hope that you get to hunt your home country for the rest of your days. Good luck with everything!

I was in the Marine Corps unit that went to Norway every winter.  We were treated well by those wonderful, hearty people.  Nice to have you here

QuoteOriginally posted by Dave Worden:
Margly, you mentioned that the 3D shoot had a lot of uphill and downhill shots.  By that, I take it to mean that you weren't shooing in tunnels or on the water!  That's about the only time I wasn't going uphill or downhill when I was in Norway.  That's not to say I don't want to come back though.  Norway is breathtaking in its beauty.  Perhaps I'll look some of you guys up when I'm there in about 3 years on a woodturning cruise up the west coast.  Take care, keep shooting, and good luck with hunting both in Norway and Finland.

Glad you liked Norway  

If you ever visit my part of the world please let me know    
In a couple of years we might go bowhunting together here in Norway      

QuoteOriginally posted by Roadkill:
I was in the Marine Corps unit that went to Norway every winter.  We were treated well by those wonderful, hearty people.  Nice to have you here

Back in the days when I was in the army ( TOW)
We did a lot of winter training with the US marines up in the north of Norway.
We had a lot of freezing and fun together    

Sorry, but I have to tamp down the enthusiasm I am responsible for generating.

It turns out that the proposed three-year trial will require approval from both the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment and Norway's parliament, as a statute currently requires the use of a firearm in hunting. It's estimated that it will take a couple of years to get all that in place.

Keep pushing.  Maybe  a letter writing campaign from outside Norway would help? Or maybe Hurt?  Hope it works out for you.  Thanks for sharing the picture from your shoot!  Always like to hear from across the pond!

Greetings from Germany,

good to see some guys from the Old World at Tradgang too.
May be we could meet at the Danish Open in Summer?

Best,
Vincent

For what it's worth, in Ontario Canada, a bow IS a firearm for the purposes of the Fish and Game Act.

Norway is about to take another step towards approving bowhunting. A scientific test shoot will be done at a red deer research center this fall, if approval is secured from an animal research committee. The purpose of the test is to compare results between bows and rifles. If the results are acceptable, the next step would be a pilot hunting season. I'm pretty sure they're still going to restrict this to compounds however, at least for the time being.

(Note: These are what in North America we call "elk" or sometimes "wapiti". Europeans use "elk" for what we call "moose" and "red deer" for the animal most closely related to our "elk".

Lykke til alle buejegerne der borte!

  Opnar for jakt med pil og boge

One more tradganger from Norway checking in.

Skål!

Very Nice!

Good job guys!  I knew a couple of Norwegians in Ft. Worth in 1991.  Per and Livar. Really nice guys.  That's my Norwegian story......

That's a great looking tribe right there!!!!  

Good luck with getting bowhunting legalized!


Here I am dragging out a doe I arrowed behind the house a few years back with my Norwegian friends Ole and Angar (Fjord drafts).  They didn't bat an eye when I hooked the deer.  I might be just a LITTLE bit over powered for this job, though!

Ryan


 

That is a fun image to see. I'll be calling you if I get a NH moose permit.           (There are folks in these parts who make their teams available for such work, but I don't know of any Fjord Horses doing that here yet.)

This thread has got me going time to get somepickled herring on buttered kanecka bread. My grandfather had a place on lake vatern.