Like most here, I have started to dutifully put in my credit card details every year and hope for a lightning bolt of good luck/ wait my turn for the next 30 years.
My wife is from Finland and her uncle is a very committed hunter in Finland, so she did ask me -- why are you bothering? I checked, and indeed, Finland harvests 50k moose a year (perhaps 4x as much as all of the US, including Alaska), and from some googling, it looks like it'd be cheaper to hunt a moose in Finland, even after flights, than to put in for Moose hunting points across US states for the next 5-10 years. And you get to go this fall, rather than in 15-20 years.
I didn't find anything by searching for Finland or Sweden in this forum, so my question here:
The biggest miss for me is that the US does not let you import *any* meat from the EU![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
[All the same applies to Sweden, except even more moose [really, the plural should be meese] harvested]
My wife is from Finland and her uncle is a very committed hunter in Finland, so she did ask me -- why are you bothering? I checked, and indeed, Finland harvests 50k moose a year (perhaps 4x as much as all of the US, including Alaska), and from some googling, it looks like it'd be cheaper to hunt a moose in Finland, even after flights, than to put in for Moose hunting points across US states for the next 5-10 years. And you get to go this fall, rather than in 15-20 years.
I didn't find anything by searching for Finland or Sweden in this forum, so my question here:
- what am I missing? I will talk to my uncle-in-law a bit more in detail soon, but he doesn't know anything about the 'coming-in-from-abroad' side. He is only familiar with the rules from his perspective.
- If I am not missing anything, how is this not a more well-trodden path?
The biggest miss for me is that the US does not let you import *any* meat from the EU
[All the same applies to Sweden, except even more moose [really, the plural should be meese] harvested]