TR: The gourmet trip. (long)

On 12/3/03 11:25 AM, in article , "Roger Ohlund"
wrote:

"William Claspy" wrote in message
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The total sum of ptarmigans shot during the trip was to
become exactly 100.

What do you do with that many birds? I mean, did you take them all home
with you to eat, or do you leave them there for the scavenger animals?

We took them all home.

Excellent!

Bill (whose great grandparents left Dalarna in the 1870's...)

Hey there, shouldn't you consider a visit??

Hence my comment about spending the morning on Orbitz... :-)

Bill

"DaveMohnsen" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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The Gourmet trip.

Hi Roger,
Neat trip report. I like the format, with the Dinner stuff included. We
have Ptarmigan here in Colorado, but I have never hunted them. ( a few
years ago here the daily limit was 3 birds, and the total birds one could
have in possession at any time was 6)
I'm envious of the trip. That would be a once in a lifetime trip for me.
..
.heh . .heh . . . but won't happen.
Like the pics. The picture of the dog alone is stunning. It is something
that is publishable.
Thanks for sharing.

And thanks for the kind comment. I did not only shoot ptarmigan, but also
shot three rolls of film.
The dog picture is my own favorite.
I use a Nikon F90x and a 35-70 f2.8D Nikkor lens or a 80-200 f2.8D Nikkor
lens with it.
Ever since buying this equipment I've started to be extra aware of the fact
that lousy pictures would be due to me and not the equipment.
I've contacted a couple of Swedish and English FF-magazines to hear whether
or not they'd like me to write an article or two but up to now I've not had
that much success. However, I don't really care all that much, I use writing
as some kind of pastime and/or relaxation therapy so the publishing idea is
of no matter. And the editor of my own web site isn't all that picky about
what he publishes ;-)

/Roger

"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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(If you don't feel like clicking on all the links for the pictures just go
to the website at the end of this post and click on TR:s for the web
version)

Astonishing landscape views and really nice hunting pictures!
Just the kind of trip for me! Some day...

Thanks, Roger!

OsmoJ

Roger Ohlund wrote:


/Roger
Guess what race the dog is!?!


Irish Setter?

Willi

"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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"William Claspy" wrote in message
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I can't stop looking at those pictures! Are the bushes with such
beautiful
fall color on them the berry bushes? Cloudberry and lingon? Gosh.

Blueberry bushes, they look like that after the first nights with freezing
temperatures.

I've got a question though that just struck me. I'm not a hunter, so
bear
with me, and I'm not trying to start an argument. Just a question from
someone with no experience in that sport:

The total sum of ptarmigans shot during the trip was to
become exactly 100.

What do you do with that many birds? I mean, did you take them all home
with you to eat, or do you leave them there for the scavenger animals?

We took them all home. I shot 17 of those, not as good as the other guys
with the shotgun (they have both competed shooting trap).
Andreas sells his birds to people that cannot go there hunting and a
restaurant in London, he might save 10 for himself but not much more.
What Jimmy did with his birds I haven't got a clue about.....

Fascinating that such a tremendous population of birds can be maintained
where hunters can legally sell their game. Here in Wisconsin, and in most,
if not all, of the U.S. (as far as I know) such practices are strictly
forbidden and violations are met with very severe fines and even jail time.
All this for good reason; more than one species (passenger pigeons come
readily to mind) were driven to extinction by market hunting, and numerous
others (bison, for example) to the brink. Were the practice still allowed
here, Bubba would exterminate anything and everything even remotely
edible......not to mention many other things that aren't. We are nothing,
if not effective killers.

A most interesting addendum to one of the cruelest trip reports ever posted
to ROFF.

Wolfgang
who, in all likelihood, will never get to go to such a magical place.

Wolfgang wrote:

Fascinating that such a tremendous population of birds can be maintained
where hunters can legally sell their game. Here in Wisconsin, and in most,
if not all, of the U.S. (as far as I know) such practices are strictly
forbidden and violations are met with very severe fines and even jail time.

The practice is strictly forbidden in Idaho, and enforced to the extent
possible.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"Willi" wrote in message
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Roger Ohlund wrote:


/Roger
Guess what race the dog is!?!


Irish Setter?


Nope!

Good guess though.
It is a Gordon setter that was born completely brown.

/Roger

Great photos, Roger.

After two years travelling across Africa and Asia, during which I
survived bullets, knives, unknown amoebas, hepititis, and crazy Arabs
trying to kill me in a dungeon in Cairo, I wanted to breathe some cool
air and drink clear water, but instead of going back to Canada, I went
to Scandanavia in the summer of 1970. Denmark was a good taste, but
Northern Sweden and Norway: I had forgotten the blue beauty of the
lands on the road from Sweden to Rana. When I saw your first photo, I
was sure I had camped near that place, taken there by two blond Lapp
girls, who fed me berries they called "eutrom?" Somewhere I have a
crude sketch of the place. The colors were the same in August when the
light was long and the night freezing. The photo haunts me, a memory
of youth and granite and skygods wielding terrible hammers. A hard
beauty frosts the high land on the road to Rana, restoring men's souls
before grinding them to dust.

Cheers,

Bob

Bob wrote:
... When I saw your first photo, I
was sure I had camped near that place, taken there by two blond Lapp
girls, who fed me berries ...

... A hard
beauty frosts the high land on the road to Rana, restoring men's souls
before grinding them to dust.

You'll get no sympathy from me. You shoulda been satisfied with ONE
blonde Lapp girl.

;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Bob" wrote in message
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Great photos, Roger.

After two years travelling across Africa and Asia, during which I
survived bullets, knives, unknown amoebas, hepititis, and crazy Arabs
trying to kill me in a dungeon in Cairo, I wanted to breathe some cool
air and drink clear water, but instead of going back to Canada, I went
to Scandanavia in the summer of 1970. Denmark was a good taste, but
Northern Sweden and Norway: I had forgotten the blue beauty of the
lands on the road from Sweden to Rana. When I saw your first photo, I
was sure I had camped near that place, taken there by two blond Lapp
girls,

She was a Swedish native! Trust me, there are no blond lapp girls......
Descendants form settlers, or hunters.

who fed me berries they called "eutrom?"

You must have one hell of a memory. It is not "eutrom" but "hjortron" aka
cloudberries.

Somewhere I have a
crude sketch of the place. The colors were the same in August when the
light was long and the night freezing.

Actually, the landscape on those pictures.......there is more of it up there
than the size of England.

The photo haunts me, a memory
of youth and granite and skygods wielding terrible hammers. A hard
beauty frosts the high land on the road to Rana, restoring men's souls
before grinding them to dust.

Cheers,

Bob

Well Bob, you and I share a feeling..........

/Roger