A hunter in a foreign territory shot a wild boar from his car. He was given probation for poaching and lost his rifle

This year in February, a bream weighing more than 80 kilograms was caught between Chrást and Záběla in northern Pilsen. According to the public prosecutor, the accused man did not have a permit to hunt in someone else’s game. After killing the animal, he threw it up in the forest, and when he was about to drag it to the car, a police patrol arrived. Here he called a local nimrod to the scene, who was sitting nearby and heard the shot.

The accused hunter confessed to the police. He voluntarily gave them a repeating rifle with bullets, which he knocked down the animal. “We were driving around the forest when my friend suddenly started shouting that he had never had such a big wild pig and that he was going to shoot it. He rolled down the window, took his gun, which had night vision binoculars and a silencer, and fired one shot after the car stopped. Subsequently, he tracked down the pig and threw it out. Before he could carry him to the car, the police arrived,” said the witness.

The police were alerted by a local hunter who was waiting in the forest at the time. “I heard a muffled shot. So I looked in that direction with thermal imaging and saw a stationary vehicle, how someone was hiding a weapon from the passenger window. I called our landlord to see if any of the members of the hunting party were in the field on a reported game hunt. When he told me no, it was obvious that someone was poaching here. That’s why I called the police to the scene,” said the witness.

According to him, it was a three-year-old poodle, which was 120 centimeters long and one meter tall. The hunters estimated its value at almost 30 thousand crowns. “Shooting such a large piece of pig has another negative impact on hunting, in that larger boars also regulate the cover of females within their territories, and thus the amount of offspring produced. When the big male is missing, mating takes place unregulated and unwanted overbreeding then occurs,” explained the witness.