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It has been my initial intention to embed this into the
Kalezkiana/Neuber post, but I have finally decided to put
it into a separate post.
I have returned yesterday from a pheasant shoot near the
Czech town of Hodonin. I go there now for 4 years, before
that Hungary, the last 2 drives with fast and high flying
birds, alltogether a paid but private arrangement.
I hunt since 51 years in Czech republic, Slovakia (before
one country Czechoslovakia )
What's new in these 51 years - REPEAT 51 YEARS - I have been
controlled for the first time by the police - in situ,
before the shooting started. As I arrived as first one
I had he first control.
Two police-ladies, all very correct, one speaking English,
I opened my 2 guncases, number of the guns checked, alco
test, all ok.
To be precise, there are a total of 5 documents to be
checked.
Is this worth any comment/post?
One may assume that all Austrian hunters in Czechia are
drunkards, who need at least half a bottle of pinot noir
to quiet their trembling trigger finger, but this if off
any reality.
So why then, all of a sudden , and now.

I accompanied my father during the Russian occupation
in the 1950's on his hunt, no control ....
The "Krassnaja armada" treated - after the invasion was
over - shotguns as a chose negligeable.

I observe as quoted in the headline a creeping Orwellian
infiltration , bureaucratisation, anti-gun, anti-hunt
mainstream backed up by hunting reps who behave as being
"inconvenient to live".
I got a Remington-autoloader hunting/gun license denial
end 1990's.Preceeded to it, a schoolboy shot his teacher
with a handgun of this father.
I got a denial of access to the proofrecords of the
Vienna proofhouse recently . It's all state/office secret.
Brussels has a proposal in petto to prohibit all
shotgun autoloader because Paris/Bataclan attack was
with AK47. I call this Bataclan-logic.
My guns on the European gunlicense are automatically
transfered/copied onto the central gun registration.
To be clear these are not AK47 nor AR15, just a bloody
old Purdey from 1902. Even it would have been inherited
from my great-grandfather , which is not the case, it
would be there.
And guess where the central server for this data base
is: You got it, it is in the finance ministry.
Since few weeks all our bank accounts are "public domain".
I have nothing to hide, but there is a feeling of creeping
Orwellian infiltration/transparency.
I have lived 5 years in France and had many collegues from the
Levante. One thing I have learned from these descendants of the
Phonicians is "A Levantine never lies, he tells you only
half of the truth".
What bothers me is this paid journaille which tells only
half of the truth, the anti-story.
Being pragmatic and solution oriented,
I have a proposal to counter this anti-gun/anti-hunting
"Evangelium" by finding high-profile/non-paid folks who
are sincere and honest to tell along this Levantine wisdom
the SECOND half of the truth.
Cynicism is the privilege of age,
so here comes my proposal.

Donald Dallas's great book on the definitive history of
Purdey's has on page 217 a Purdey label picture with
the appointments gun-&cartridge maker to the queen, gunmaker to the duke of Edinburgh and finally gun-&cartridge maker
to the Charlie prince. I assume that all of this is true and
appropriate.
Three high profile English people , real hunters, sincere
and not depending on any ad income wearing baseball
caps with the Purdey script on it.
What about a video-clip showing the Lisbeth-queen at famous
Warter Priory shoot with
3 dead cock-pheasants in the air, shot with a matched trio of
Purdeys, and the Charlie-prince acting as her
loader. This could be a long overdue update to the outdated
Lord Ripon stories.
The Edinburgh prince behind just observing, filming
and commanding her brace of ugly pet-dogs to retrieve
the fallen birds.
In pre-brexit times a family idyll of subtle English-Imperial nobleness.

When I worked in Paris I have been living in a western
suburb. When I told the name of the town/village to an
English gundealer he asked me if I had the privilege
to shoot with Francois Mitterand Le Grand. I have not
been aware that the former French president had a non-public shoot there.
So what about another high-profile this time French person,
Francois Le Grand, having 2 dead red-legged French partridges in the air at Marly-Le-Roi, all cleanly shot with a matched pair of genuine French Darne's and with his unimitable
French grandezza.

More south, this was a disaster. The European
northener politicians always tell that the southerners are
broke. Despite that the king of one of these coutries
went to an elephant shoot.
A PR disaster,not because he shot an elephant, but he
was accompanied by his mistress, and that in a catholic
country. And unbelievably for a king, he excused himself
to the public for having been accompanied.

Concerning another southern country, il magnifico SB,
has disappeared from the public as a "Werbetr�ger".
I am wondering if he did any dove shooting with his
Maroccan girlie there.

Now to Germany:
There is nothing known of alma mater AM.
And it's not recommendable, as it could be counter argument
of the advocatus diaboli at her beatification.
And German history is
disgusting, as I have seen/heard of German guns/rifles
at least 10-times as much as
could have been handled by this notorious "Reichsj�germeister"
with the famous green side-stripes on his trousers.

Now what remains for us commoners. We are all missing the
HUNTING-ASTERIXs who stand up and fight and fight and never give up ....

Weidmannsheil
DI Felix Neuberger

PS: Shame on me as I have forgotten my homecountry Austria.
Since half a year we have no president, problem is
no one is missing him.
Reputedly grandees of Austria's "Rotes Imperium" also
are hunting. Mafia like omerta. I am wondering of whom these grown up chaps are afraid.
There can be only one high-profile "Werbetr�ger" of an
anti-anti campaign , this is obviously our worldfamous
"Niki Nationale".
So his present headgear - a signal-red baseball cap with his
gambler-ad-message on it, stuff normally in use by beaters - has to be replaced by a proper outfit. This could be a reed-green hunting cap with the logo of "Burgenl�ndischer Landesjagdverband", complemented by my personal present to
him ,a bespoke Pannonian hunting suit by/from the local Croatian taylor. The tweed for it at his choice from the
K & K court supplier Jungmann & Neffe opposite the Vienna
Opera.
All of that the necessary outfit to show him
properly in a video clip when bagging his first speckle-belly
goose east of the Neusiedler-See.
I would borrow him fee-free for this adventure my vintage pigeon gun built by another
K & K court supplier, Johann Springer's Erben from Vienna.