[Music]
Think of visiting the Czech Republic and most people think of Prague: Wenceslas Square,
Old Town Square, the lovely Charles Bridge over the Vltava, the Cathedral of St Vitus.
But I promise you the countryside is even more beautiful.
My name is Michaela, I am Czech, and I am out in the countryside every day.
I live near Prague.
But today I am in České Budějovice looking for wild boar.
It’s another day, another morning in a forest, and we are just about to walk to a spot where
possibly we could see some wild boar.
So, we have got to be quiet, and walk slowly, and we will see what will happen.
Wish us luck!
After a few minutes I reach a highseat and settle down in it.
The birdsong is awesome.
Wild boar are so shy, this is the best way to hunt them in the summer.
Well the morning hunt wasn’t successful- we did not see anything - but this is hunting
so we keep going.
The next day, I want to try for a roebuck.
We are just in a tree stand, me and my cameraman.
We have a horrible sun.
It is shining straight into our eyes.
There is an old deer, so we will wait.
If he comes closer then we will shoot him.
Because it is an old one.
Unlike the shy wild boar, we see plenty of deer.
But they are super wary too.
It seems like he has gone.
A doe that is peacefully grazing in front of us suddenly looks up and straight at us.
She knows there is something there.
She can’t scent us or see us, but the slightest sound is enough to make her nervous.
We hold very, very still, and soon her head goes down and she is grazing again.
At last my buck shows up.
Getting on to him is more of a struggle for my cameraman than me.
[Gunshot]
We got out first roe deer.
Phew - yeah.
[Laughs]
Got him.
[Laughs]
Awesome.
Awesome!
I am really pleased and walk over with my stalker and my camera team to find him.
You can see why it was so difficult for all of us to keep quiet.
This deer is, like, five or six years old.
You can see beautiful antlers.
It is a really, really nice buck.
We are quite formal in the Czech Republic and we really like tradition.
The stalker performs a ceremony he does with every deer successfully hunted on this land.
So if you are wondering what we are doing - what this branch means - it is the last
honour, which we do here in Central Europe.
Our tradition - and it is, like, a last honour for game.
So, this is what we do - we honour game with a last meal - we call it 'the last meal' - and
it’s a tradition of Central Europe.
Another one goes into my hat and it means I was successful today.
I was a successful hunter, and I can leave it until I go to sleep, and if I go somewhere,
other hunters can see I was successful because they will see the branches in my hat.
That is why.
Now I am officially a successful hunter for today.
Awesome.
It has been a wonderful day.
I am lucky enough to travel all over the world hunting but the Czech Republic is still my
favourite place.
We were in an area.
We tried to walk and stalk.
We chased away one nice buck.
Then we decided to sit for a while and we got this awesome deer.
So a perfect evening, I think.
If you would like to find out more about hunting in my country, you can find the TopJagd company
who gave me this awesome buck.
And if you want to find out more about me, go to my website MichaelkasHunting.com