Capercallie/Black Grouse - Winter Stalk
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Jonas Wande, Owner & Founder
Sweden
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Response time: within a day
More about us
Our company was established in 2021 and operates in 1 territory.
- My name is Jonas Wande, who together with my hunter wife, Elvira Wande. I was born in the mid 80's and have been hunting myself since my legs carried me and shot my first bird at the age of 7. Since then, hunting has been the main part of my life. Although forest bird hunting is an invincible favorite, large parts of the hunting year also consist of hunting deer, moose, beaver, hare, marten, sea birds and badger. In short, all the game that moves in the forests of northern Sweden. We do most of the hunts together with our eminent hunting dogs. Our ambition is that our hunting dogs should not be characterized by a single game, but that they - as we say - should be "all-round dogs". Sometimes, however, we leave the forests of northern Sweden to hunt deer or pigs to the south of Sweden.
- Game management is an important part of hunting life, where we believe it is just as important to place salt stones and winter feeding, as to conduct predator control to maintain a good game population. During the winter, we therefore devote a lot of time to trapping as a local form of game management, which mainly consists of traps for marten and fox snares.
- Our ambition is therefore to help you who want to become a hunter with your journey towards a hunting degree, but also to help you as an already experienced hunter to further develop your skills or join a hunting experience in the forests of Norrland.
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About this hunt
WHAT TO EXPECT? From november we winter stalk the capercallie with rifles when they sit in the top of the trees. Temperatures can vary from 0 to -30 degrees, in order to stay warm we skii and stay active. This type of hunt is a challenging hunt where we skii or go with snow shoes for several kilometers per day. It requires that the hunter is in good physical condition. This is the opposite of the ”sit-and-wait-hunt”. The average shooting distances vary between 150 – 200 meters. However the shots are often calm and with shooting support from padded snow. The vital impact is small on a capercallie/black grouse, and the shot have to be precise due to the long distances. Capercallie/black grouse winter stalking is considered as one of the most difficult game to hunt. The birds have sharp vision and hearing, and once spotted, you have to carefully sneak towards them until they’re in range. The capercallie is the real king of the swedish forest. A capercallie/black grouse shot by winter stalking is equivalent with the trophy of a bullmoose – therefore many hunters choose to convert their carefully shot birds into a trophy through a taxidermist. WHAT TO EAT? We cook lunch and dinner outdoors over an open fire, in order to achieve a true wilderness experience. Such as swedish "palt" or swedish "köttbullar" made out of moose, grilled over muurikka, or sausages barbecued over an open fire. If we have a succesful hunting day, we cook what we have shot for dinner. On our mid-hunt breaks, we enjoy swedish fika. Some other of our swedish specials you’ll have to try is the swedish caviar, the swedish sausage “falukorv”, clouderry jam on swedish pancakes, smoked reindeer crème cheese on the breakfast sandwiches, lingonberry jam & juice, swedens famous mixed candy and ofcourse – slicing cheese with a cheese slicer. All the food, drinks and alcoholic beverages are included in the daily fee.
Guided
(Difficult trip)
Rifle Hunting
Stalking
Hunting season: 1 Feb 2023 - 15 Feb 2024
Best time for hunting: 14 Jan 2024 - 15 Feb 2024
Success rate
No guarantees of shooting a bird is to be set - Capercallie/black grouse winter stalking is considered as one of the most difficult game to hunt. The birds have sharp vision and hearing, and once spotted, you have to carefully sneak towards them until they’re in range.The capercallie is the real king of the swedish forest. A capercallie/black grouse shot by winter stalking is equivalent with the trophy of a bullmoose – therefore many hunters choose to convert their carefully shot birds into a trophy through a taxidermist.
OTC Tag available
Where you will hunt
Territory
We operate different hunting areas depending on the season and species.
Fence type: Not fenced
Territory size: over 100 000 ha
Languages spoken by staff: English Finnish
Structure by elevation
Plains: 40%
Hills: 60%
Structure by landscape
Forest: 100%
Entertainment services
Clay shooting Shooting range Fishing
Where you will stay
Tent cabin
On our multi-day hunts, we offer overnight accommodation next to the hunting area in our mobile tent cabin, which is heated with a diesel stove. There you sleep well in one of the sleeping mats with the sleeping bag - if you don't want another accommodation option in the form of, for example, a rental cabin. We usually cook the dinners on the multi-day hunts at Muurikka and at lunches something grilled is usually enjoyed over the fire at the break.
How to get there
We can pick you at at Lulea airport or one of the local hotels.
Nearest airport: Lulea
Distance from airport: 10 km
Transfer from airport: Yes
Distance from railway: 8
Transfer from railway: Yes
Other information
Gun rental: Yes
Vaccination required: No
Terms
Price Includes
- Accommodation
- Transport on territory
- Transfer from/to airport
- Guiding by PH
- Hunting license
- Gun permits
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Beverages/soft drinks
- Alcoholic drinks
Cancellation
- Deposit fee (20%): 20% of the total amount are due to be payed within 5 days from the booking date.
- Final payment (80%): The remaining 80% of the total amount are due to be payed 30 days before the hunting date.
- No rate reduction or extra days will be given if hunters leave before the conclusion of the booked hunt, or if they do not arrive on the arranged hunting dates. We warmly recommend you buy a trip cancellation insurance, in the event that you cannot make your trip due to sickness, injury, birth, marriage or any other unforseen problem. Refunds are not to be made on the grounds of these circumstanses, whereby we recomment you book your trip with an cancellation insurance. An insurance of your hunting trip also protects you from loss of hunting equipment or damaged good, and provides medical benefits and emergency coverage during your hunting trip.
Price DOES NOT include
- Laundry
- Gratuities
- Gun rental
- Field trophy preparation
- Trophy measurement
- Insurance
- Ammunition
Wounding
- If a guest hunter ends up wounding any animal, it is tradition to pay a fair amount to the bounty hunter. Although while conducting bird hunting - we have our hunting dogs to search for the wounded bird.
Price Includes
- Accommodation
- Transport on territory
- Transfer from/to airport
- Guiding by PH
- Hunting license
- Gun permits
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Beverages/soft drinks
- Alcoholic drinks
Price DOES NOT include
- Laundry
- Gratuities
- Gun rental
- Field trophy preparation
- Trophy measurement
- Insurance
- Ammunition
Cancellation
- Deposit fee (20%): 20% of the total amount are due to be payed within 5 days from the booking date.
- Final payment (80%): The remaining 80% of the total amount are due to be payed 30 days before the hunting date.
- No rate reduction or extra days will be given if hunters leave before the conclusion of the booked hunt, or if they do not arrive on the arranged hunting dates. We warmly recommend you buy a trip cancellation insurance, in the event that you cannot make your trip due to sickness, injury, birth, marriage or any other unforseen problem. Refunds are not to be made on the grounds of these circumstanses, whereby we recomment you book your trip with an cancellation insurance. An insurance of your hunting trip also protects you from loss of hunting equipment or damaged good, and provides medical benefits and emergency coverage during your hunting trip.
Wounding
- If a guest hunter ends up wounding any animal, it is tradition to pay a fair amount to the bounty hunter. Although while conducting bird hunting - we have our hunting dogs to search for the wounded bird.
Payment
Deposit
Final payment
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