So, it is that time of year again and me and my friend were lucky enough to get hunting licenses for reindeers in the Nordfjella region.

The hunt there this year is very special, as the whole reindeer tribe of around 2000 animals is due to be culled due to CWD. It's being done in three phases. First the normal hunting season has been expanded with a month and a half (which is the part we're doing), then government hunting teams will be hunting the animals all winter, adn finally they will try to corall the animals into enclosures to be slaughtered. Not a good situation, but we can't afford any risk CWD spreads to the bigger reindeer tribes.

Anyways, we went up there for a couple of days, with one day of hunting. Didn't manage to find any reindeers (just lots of sheep, some grouses and lemmings (and no, they didn't go "oh no!" and explode)).

Very nice pics, I envy you still having snow LOL. As useful as they for noise reduction and hearing protection, it's still a little strange seeing suppressed rifles being used for hunting. Only criminals use them here, you know

Nice pics, but what is CWD?

Good stuff MadDog; good stuff.

Chronic wasting disease, a disease of mule deer, whitetailed deer, elk, moose.....

Ah, thanks Krazi!

Thank Google ice.

I'd say 80-90 percent of hunters here use supressors for rifle hunting.

They were illegal here in Sweden for a long while too.
You could get a permit if you had a hearing impairment though, so you wouldn't damage what hearing you had left.
So once you'd fired enough rounds to damage your hearing, you could get a supressor!
Saner minds finally prevailed though.
But I think it's still illegal for .22, cause they'd be almost silent with a supressor if you used them in a forest.