I've written a few posts through the years on my hunting experiences in Germany when I was stationed there in 1966-67 and how I met a fireman on post that was German and who also hunted. I was very fortunate in that I was able to hunt on his father's property. It started as a friendly bet because I told him that I had a .410 in the arms room and he said what was I going to hunt with that. Well I got the chance to hunt quite a few times and this one time I will never forget, reflecting back to what KY Jon said about sportsman like conduct, we were hunting a sugar beet field and the dogs suddently rushed to a fallen Roe buck that was wounded, The father and son called their dogs off and the father took out maybe a stilleto or something sharp and put it in the back of the bucks head and it died immediately, he then took a clump of grass and put in in the deer's mouth and I neve quite understood that until the son told me it was so that the deer would not go hungry on it's journey to the after-life. I understand that is a ritual in most of Europe. It shows how they respect wild life. That was 57 years ago and remember like it was yesterday.
