One feels the regulations themselves are adequate, but those to whom they apply are often inadequate. Despite quite a lengthy training period, most fatal and non-fatal accidents seem to be a consequence of chasseurs not observing current rules and basic good practice.
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Substitute ‘chasseurs’ for motorists, the construction industry, farming to name just 3.
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The hunting season is only three weeks old and already two hunters are dead - one shot by an as yet unidentified fellow chasseur, while the other tripped and shot himself.
There were only six killed in the whole of the previous season!
Im just reading about a hunter in our vilage tripped and shot himself … wait … no, he tripped and gave himself a helluva fright.
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Why should we have to keep our heads down,they shouldn,t be anywhere near normal people and their properties.
Darwinism in action!
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Ahn eight year old boy died after a firearm accident on a farm in Cumbria.
Bad gun protocol, if you are not sure don’t shoot.
But nevertheless they do, time and time again.
Only this morning I overtook a hunter who was trundling along at 60kph in a battered short wheel base Pajero with a cage of dogs in the back; immediately he accelerated and stayed on my back bumper for several kilometres, until our routes diverged. Presumably that angry man was shortly afterwards going to get out of his car and start wandering around with a gun…
So what has that got to do with not following gun protocol?
Quite a lot I would have thought, try a bit harder and you might get the point I was making.
IOW there’s nothing wrong with the actual protocol, it’s the trigger happy macho idiots who ignore it.
Hopefully you can work the rest out yourself…
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On a well run chasse everyone is reminded at the commence of the rules as protocols, If not the chasse should be stopped.
Again, that’s like the protocols, all very well, but the reality doesn’t always correspond to the actuality of what occurs.
Secondly the punishment for serious contraventions is far too light.
Even if someone is killed, the consequences will be a fine or a suspension of licence rather than jail.
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It corresponds to the 2 French chasses and the one Swiss one I participate in.
I often give the briefing and I have a very uncomplimentary surnom .
If there is anything you can do to keep the number of people shot in France each hunting season down, Paulispin, with your experience in Switzerland and France then please do it.
I would generally not be frightened to walk in the countryside suitably attired in Switzerland in hunting season, but I am afraid in France.
As I am not a French citizen, yet, I have no influence.
Once granted my British nationality will be returned as I can only hold 2 nationalities.
Maybe you’ve had no experience of what for many of us who live in the country come across as “the chasse” - it’s not “run” by anybody. A man in a white van with dogs in the back comes out from town in his fancy new camouflage outfit with the new gun he bought this summer, parks on the verge down by the stream, wanders across the sunflower and wheat fields that have been harvested (stubble easier than ploughed mud) dogs running wild because they’ve been in cages for 6 months, The man sometimes has a horn which he bleats mournfully when his dogs won’t come back, or he’s yelling at them every two minutes. This is repeated every Saturday afternoon, all day Sunday and Wednesday afternoon throughout “our” valley. There is nothing remotely “well-run” about the guys that are firing off their guns round us. It’s amazing there aren’t more of them killing each other, especially when they are back out at 4pm on a Sunday after a good lunch.
What you have described round here is called a “battu” and happens once/twice a season when there is an organised shoot for boar. Then the men wear red gillets and notices are put up on the roads. For the rest of the time, there isn’t sight or sound of a “protocol”, anything but.
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I do. The chasse is run by the President of the chasse. The chasse dates are controlled by the département as well as the number to be shot. All taken need to be tagged. Maybe you need to talk to the Police de l’environnement?
You’re joking! 
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No I am not.