Jagd and Hund Dortmund Hunting Show 2025

[Mojave]

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.

 

[RockAndSage]

Cool summary, sounds like it was a very interesting time.

 

[IdahoElk]

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.

Where in Austria, for what species?

 

[Mojave]

Roe deer, I am waiting to hear if they are going to accept my booking for a non-trophy ibex. They have to see what game counts look like in April. .

 

[grfox92]

Roe deer, I am waiting to hear if they are going to accept my booking for a non-trophy ibex. They have to see what game counts look like in April. .

What does hunting look like within Germany?

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[Mojave]

What does hunting look like within Germany?

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It is a complete 180 from what you probably imagine.

Most hunters are part of a lease. The lease land actually belongs to either a city, county, state or the federal government. There are also some private leases for large land owners, usually princes that have retained ownership of the land.

Leases are for the year, and are generally about $1000-3000 and include both game that must be shot, and in the case of cheaper leases some work that must be done. These $1000-3000 sometimes cheaper sometimes more leases include roe deer and wild boar and maybe small game if available.

There are also big game leases that included red deer, chamois, mouflon, sika deer and fallow deer depending on the location. These are usually $10,000-30,000 per person.

Most big game hunting areas also sell individual hunts for the big game species. Some only sell individual hunts and then manage wildlife by driven hunts for female species and pigs.

Most hunting areas also have driven hunts to control wild boar numbers, and often other big game or female species.

Tourist hunting in Germany is not unheard of but challenging to find. Other European nations around us have way more tourism hunting.

 

[grfox92]

Interesting. I was going to ask if non residents can hunt sounds like it wouldn't be easy.

Thanks for the write up.

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[Mojave]

There are very limited tourism hunting opportunities in Germany. It depends on what you are looking for, I guess.

Hunting on your own, as someone that does not possess a German hunting license and have been through the German hunting course would be fairly impossible, if that is what you are asking. The most monumental challenge would be bringing in your own rifle, I would think this is impossible. I will send you a PM with some booking agents.

If you are looking for hunts in the rest of mainland Europe that is easy. It is important to book through a European agent or the European outfitter themselves where possible.

Agents at Safari club and the sheep show are selling hunts in the same hunting area I hunt in Slovenia for 200% mark up.

 

[Swamp Fox]

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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. [...]

German or Canadian hookers?

It's an important distinction:

Dirndl and stockings, or tuque and snowshoes?

 

[Mojave]

I don't actually know, they didn't say anything. They just sat there and smiled.