DENMARK 



By baron O. REEDTZ-THOTT 



^^ HOOTING in Denmark is not in a condition particularly to 

 *^-^ attract foreign sportsmen to the country. The result is, as a 

 rule, insignificant in comparison with what can be 



bag-o-ed in other countries. The principal shootino- ° ^"^ 



*^ . Rights, 



season falls in autumn, at a time when most sports- 

 men are engaged with the sport of their own country. Lastly, 

 the shooting rights are not favourable to foreigners. The fact is, 

 that these shootino- rio^hts follow the riohts of holdino- and cannot 

 for any length of time be separated from the rights of ownership, 

 each peasant, whether owner or tenant of his property, having the 

 right of shooting on the property he tills, unless a special arrangement 

 has been concluded. It is possible to rent the shooting, and when 

 the peasant farms are sold, or allotted, from the large estates, an 

 arrangement is often made by which the peasant cedes his rights 

 of shooting against a reduction of the yearly rent or of the interest 

 on the mortgage. Separated, however, from these larger properties, 

 the shooting is not worth much ; and, even among Danish sportsmen, 

 it is not very common to rent such shooting, as they prefer rather to 

 go to Sweden, or even, in some cases, to Hungary or Albania. 



The best shooting in Denmark, as in most cultiv^ated countries, 

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