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I spent last Friday at Jagd and Hund in Dortmund, Germany. Here are my thoughts.
Show is in 8 or 9 separate buildings on the same show grounds. They are all 15-20,000 square feet. One is an indoor basket ball arena.
Each building "mostly" has separate type of companies.
They are with a few exceptions:
1. Outfitters
2. ammo, rifle, and scope manufactuers
3. A food hall where both prepared and pre-made (salami and cheeses) are on offer. Plus sandwiches, hamburgers, schnitzel, and of course beer and wine.
4. Hunting fashion, art and such
5. Hunting clothing direct to consumer with some this is what is new from big companies like Harkila and Deer Hunter
6. ATV's trucks and hunting stands
7. Dogs and dog stuff and organizations for hunting dogs
8. Fishing
I think prices went up on everything. Even European hunts and African hunts that were the stalwart of cheap by comparison were up.
There were at least 15-20% less outfitters. There was an entire empty aisle.
Canadian hunts are up at least another 5-20% off of last year. Most mountain goats were $25,000 in BC, a few were $32,000. I didn't see any Yukon guys or Alaska guys. The two Newfoundland moose outfitters wanted $15,000 for a moose.
There was a line of Alberta outfitters, 4 or 5 in a row with honest to goodness booth babes dressed like full hookers in each booth.
Russia was there, 2-3 outfitters. Didn't talk to them.
Lots of Eastern Europe and African outfitters. Saw my first black owned and Chinese owned African safari companies at a show.
My local gunsmith knows everyone and I got to pick brains of quite a few engineers from Leica, Blaser and Lapua. Lapua gave me a box of their new solid copper bullet in 6.5mm.
I am booked for Austria, Slovenia and Germany for 2025. So I got to hang out with some of the outfitters and have a beer.
A high note was that there was a hunting protest up in Northern Germany, and there were 24,000 hunters at the protest to fight against some new law. So the Friday was super empty. I would have felt comfortable walking the floor with my young daughters. This is not normally the case at these shows, just way too many people.
Show is in 8 or 9 separate buildings on the same show grounds. They are all 15-20,000 square feet. One is an indoor basket ball arena.
Each building "mostly" has separate type of companies.
They are with a few exceptions:
1. Outfitters
2. ammo, rifle, and scope manufactuers
3. A food hall where both prepared and pre-made (salami and cheeses) are on offer. Plus sandwiches, hamburgers, schnitzel, and of course beer and wine.
4. Hunting fashion, art and such
5. Hunting clothing direct to consumer with some this is what is new from big companies like Harkila and Deer Hunter
6. ATV's trucks and hunting stands
7. Dogs and dog stuff and organizations for hunting dogs
8. Fishing
I think prices went up on everything. Even European hunts and African hunts that were the stalwart of cheap by comparison were up.
There were at least 15-20% less outfitters. There was an entire empty aisle.
Canadian hunts are up at least another 5-20% off of last year. Most mountain goats were $25,000 in BC, a few were $32,000. I didn't see any Yukon guys or Alaska guys. The two Newfoundland moose outfitters wanted $15,000 for a moose.
There was a line of Alberta outfitters, 4 or 5 in a row with honest to goodness booth babes dressed like full hookers in each booth.
Russia was there, 2-3 outfitters. Didn't talk to them.
Lots of Eastern Europe and African outfitters. Saw my first black owned and Chinese owned African safari companies at a show.
My local gunsmith knows everyone and I got to pick brains of quite a few engineers from Leica, Blaser and Lapua. Lapua gave me a box of their new solid copper bullet in 6.5mm.
I am booked for Austria, Slovenia and Germany for 2025. So I got to hang out with some of the outfitters and have a beer.
A high note was that there was a hunting protest up in Northern Germany, and there were 24,000 hunters at the protest to fight against some new law. So the Friday was super empty. I would have felt comfortable walking the floor with my young daughters. This is not normally the case at these shows, just way too many people.
