Franz gets his equipment ready at the base camp. His Suzuki Jimny is a very popular hunt truck in Germany. 17,000 Euros new.
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Sunrise in the valley.
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Franz spots Gams with his spotting scope
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Can you spot the Gams? Its about 1 pixel large in this photo, in nearly the exact center of the picture.
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Loren at the moment fo firing his rifle, takes a shot at a Gams
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Loren took a very nice Jahrling Gams. It was a 220 yard shot uphill, which plays hell with ballistics of your cartridge.
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Down the valley back to the farmhouse (upper right of the meadow) where we started.
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3 Gams laughing at us from above (this is a zoomed photo). The one on the left is a mature female, with horns going higher than her ear tips.
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Traversing the slopes. I really wrenched my left knee on some wet grass and rocks. The slopes are high-angle, and the grass is slippery. I never thought I would want to walk over rocks instead of grass, but at least you got traction.
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Looking back to where I took the shot
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My Gams. I took her at 200 yards with a Marlin lever-action .308MX rifle.
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Gams-in-a-bag
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Walking back to the farmhouse. Franz for scale. He made hunting in the hills (Gebirgsjaeger) seem effortless.
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Firewood doubles as insulation for the farmhouse. The windows have little pockets framed out so that they don't get covered by the firewood. It gets cold in the mountains, even in September.
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My gams weighed 24 kg (53 lbs) dressed, so about 35 kg (77 pounds) live weight.
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The Spitzingsee
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Leaving Spitzingsee, towards Valepp
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That afternoon, I sat in a stand closer to Bayerische Zell
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Jet contrails merge in the sky
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My stand was bt 1km from the Austrian border. The sign reads "1 kilometer to the national border, bicycling forbidden"
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